Welcome to a talk by Professor Kalervo Järvelin, Tampere University, Oct. 7

Title:  Users, Interaction and Information Retrieval Research
Time:  Tuesday October 7, 13.00 – 14.00
Place: Knuth Room, SICS, Isafjordsgatan 22, Kista

Abstract:
The presentation starts by a discussion on the tradition of IR research based on the TREC approach and tries to identify its limits and pitfalls. The talk then moves on to user-oriented (cognitive) IR research and discusses its study objects and aims - evaluation of IR interaction in particular.

Brief Bio
Kalervo Järvelin (http://www.uta.fi/~likaja) is an Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland, working at the Dept. of Information Studies, University of Tampere. He holds a PhD in Information Studies (1987) from the same university. Kalervo’s research covers information seeking and retrieval, database management, and structured documents; and linguistic and conceptual methods in IR. He has authored over 200 scholarly publications and supervised fourteen doctoral dissertations. Kalervo has served the ACM SIGIR Conferences as a program committee member (1992-2005), Conference Chair (2002) and Program Co-Chair (2004, 2006). He is an Associate Editor of Information Processing and Management (USA).