Formed in October 2015, the IRIS research group is a team composed by 7 tenured faculty members and about 20 students enrolled in PhD and master programs. Our research deals with complex, heterogeneous, and evolving data and tackles two directions: Information retrieval (IR) and Information synthesis (IS).
Information Retrieval
Retrieval model, contextual retrieval
Information Synthesis
Aggregated search, scientometrics, data mining
Applications
Social, Medical
Evaluation
Benchmarks: TREC, CLEF, INEX
Data
Text (structured or not), network data