TerrierTeam

Terrier 4.0, the next version of the open source IR platform from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) has been released on 18th June 2014. Terrier 4.0 represents a major update over the pre...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2014/06/terrier-ir-platform-v40-released_19.html

This is the second post in a two-part series addressing our recent research in learning to rank. While the previous blog post addressed the role of the sample within learning to rank, and its ...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2013/03/learning-to-rank-research-using-terrier_26.html

A couple of weeks ago I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow . The thesis, entitled “Explicit web search result diversificati...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2013/03/explicit-web-search-result.html

This is the first of two blog posts addressing some of our recent research in learning to rank. In particular, in recent years, the information retrieval (IR) field has experienced a paradigm sh...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2013/03/learning-to-rank-research-using-terrier.html

Some of our readers are probably aware of our new project SMART, which aims to develop a new technology for the real-time indexing and retrieval of sensor and social streams. This three-year pr...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2012/07/smart-open-source-framework-for.html

We will be taking part in the SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval . In particular, we have published a paper on the Terrier open source information retrieval platform , deta...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-puppy-to-maturity-experiences-in.html

The TerrierTeam will be well represented at SIGIR 2012 this year with a full paper, four posters, a demonstration and a workshop, covering a wide range of disciplines within the field of infor...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2012/06/efficiency-effectiveness-medical-search.html

TerrierTeam is currently expanding its outreach into social and sensor-based search systems as part of the ongoing SMART EU-funded project (FP7 287583). SMART aims to develop an open source  s...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2012/06/smart-way-to-search-your-city.html

Today, we are proud to announce a brand new release of Terrier , our state-of-the-art open source information retrieval platform. Terrier 3.5 represents a significant update over its previous ver...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2011/06/terrier-35-released.html

Last week, a few of us attended ECIR 2011 in Dublin. The conference was a resounding success both in terms of its program and organisation. Compared to last year, the event was very well attend...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2011/04/ecir-2011-ddr-2011-in-dublin.html

Back from another successful TREC conference on the NIST campus. 2010 is a transition year, with the end of old tracks and the proposition of new ones. Indeed, TREC is moving with the times, loo...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/11/trec-2010-roundup.html

I'm back from Toronto, where a few of us attended the CIKM 2010 conference last week. On Friday, I presented our paper on "Selectively diversifying Web search results" , a joint work with Craig ...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/11/cikm-2010-in-toronto-on-canada.html

SIGIR 2010 has just started in Geneva. From the TerrierTeam , Richard and myself are attending. On Monday, Richard presented his PhD topic, Leveraging User-generated Content for News Searc...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/07/terrier-team-at-sigir-2010-in-geneva.html

Thanks to Sérgio Nunes who alerted us to this ranking by Microsoft Academic Search of the Top Authors in Information Retrieval , in the past 5 years. According to this recent ranking , two...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-authors-in-information-retrieval.html

I am back from the sunny Raleigh, NC, USA . Besides the nice weather, I had a great time last week attending the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010) , where I presented our p...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/05/www-2010-in-raleigh-nc-usa.html

The 9th International RIAO Conference has started in Paris, France (28-30 April, 2010). It is unfortunate that it is being held concurrently with WWW 2010 in Raleigh. The first RIAO confere...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/04/riao-2010-in-paris-france.html

Last week, five of us attended the ECIR 2010 conference in Milton Keynes . The conference was fairly well-organised, although it markedly lacked the lustre of the prev ious three editions of th...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/04/ecir-2010-in-milton-keynes-report.html

Firstly, we have a new website for Terrier: http://terrier.org Also, we have just released Terrier 3.0! This is a major update to Terrier, including: support for indexing WARC collections (s...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/03/terrier-30-released.html

The TREC Blog track will be continuing in 2010. In
 2009, 
the
 Blog 
track 
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 been
 markedly 
revamped
, addressing 
more
 refined
 Blog 
search 
scenarios
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http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2010/02/trec-blog-track-2010_23.html

AcademTech is a Computing Science-specific expert search engine based on the Terrier IR Platform . Persons working at Computing Science departments in Scottish Universities are considered as ca...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/08/academtech-faceted-people-search.html

A short update from SIGIR09 to announce our recently published work on expert search. This should hopefully be the first of a series of a few posts about SIGIR this year. In On Perfect Docum...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/07/sigir-2009-expert-search-from-glasgow.html

We are delighted that our bid to host the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011) in Glasgow has been successful. After the highly successful ESSIR 2007 and ECIR ...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/06/cikm-2011-in-glasgow.html

We have just released a draft of the guidelines for the TREC 2009 Blog track. Compared to previous years, the Blog track 2009 aims to investigate more refined and complex search scenarios. I...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/04/trec-blog-track-2009.html

We are pleased to announce that the Blogs08 collection is now ready for distribution. As announced before, Blogs08 is one order of magnitude bigger than Blogs06, and samples the blogosphere from...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogs08-collection-released.html

Following up from my successful defence , I'm pleased to announce that my thesis, titled The Voting Model for People Search is now available online. My thesis proposes the Voting Model for v...

http://terrierteam.blogspot.com/2009/03/craigs-thesis-available.html