IR@GSI

October 2016: We are organizing a CLEF 2017 Workshop on Early Risk Detection!. More info here
October 2016: David E. Losada gave an invited talk in IBEROMAT 2016: "Multi-Armed Bandits for Information Retrieval Evaluation"
September 2016: CONFERENCE: "Sentiment Analysis Beyond Bag of Words". Prof. Dr. Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada). Date/Time: 28th September 2016 at 12:00. Place: CITIUS
June 2016: José M. González Chenlo got the SERI award to the best PhD thesis on Information Retrieval (2014-2016)!
June 2016: Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) is visiting us in September!
Summer 2015: David E. Losada spends the summer in Lugano doing a joint research project with Fabio Crestani
September 2014: José M. González Chenlo gets his doctorate!
September 2014: PhD Viva: "Exploiting multiple sources of evidence for opinion search in the Web". José M. González Chenlo. Date/Time: 12th September 2014 at 11:30. Place: CITIUS
September 2014: CONFERENCE: "A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions". Prof. Dr. Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano, Switzerland). Date/Time: 12th September 2014 at 10:00. Place: CITIUS
June 2013: CONFERENCE: "Automatic Discourse Analysis and its applications in the area of Natural Language Processing". Dr. Iria da Cunha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain). Date/time: 28th June 2013 at 12:00. Place: CITIUS
July 2012: CONFERENCE: "Information Retrieval in Context". Dr. Fabio Crestani (Univ. Lugano). Date/time: 20th July 2012 at 12:00. Place: Departamento de Electrónica e Computación
June 2012: CONFERENCE: "Beyond document retrieval using semantic annotations". Dr. Roi Blanco González (Yahoo! Labs Barcelona). Date/time: 22nd June 2012 at 11:30. Place: Departamento de Electrónica e Computación
January 2012: RedEmprendia Search Engine released.
November 2011: David E. Losada awarded as ACM Senior Member. The grade of Senior Member of ACM is an award that "recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated and performance that stands out from its peers".
November 2011: David E. Losada gave a keynote talk in SMUC 2011: "The challenge of understanding the flow of sentiments in social media documents".
November 2011: Jose M. Chenlo presented in CIKM 2011 our full paper entitled "Effective and Efficient Polarity Estimation in Blogs based on Sentence-Level Evidence".
October 2011: CONFERENCE: "Task-based benchmark for IR research". Dr. Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen). Date/time: 4th October 2011 at 11:00. Place: Departamento de Electrónica e Computación
July 2011: Dave Elsweiler presented in SIGIR 2011 our full paper entitled "Seeding Simulated Queries with User-study Data for Personal Search Evaluation".
May 2011: Ronald Teijeira Fernández PhD viva will be held in the ETSE assembly room, on May 20th, 2011 at 11:30.
February 2011: DeDoS released
February 2011: Ronald T. Fernández has finished his PhD thesis entitled "Improving Search Effectiveness in Sentence Retrieval and Novelty Detection". Tentative date for his PhD viva: May 20th
November 2010: David E. Losada joins MUMIA (FP7 Action COST): Multilingual and multifaceted interactive information access.
November 2010: News about O!Search in Profesionales Digitales.
October 2010: O!Search and SIP released.
October 2010: Industry-University Workshop organized by the Galician Network on Natural Language Processing & Information Retrieval.
February 2010: 1st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval coming soon!.
October 2009: Industry-University Workshop organized by the Galician Network on Natural Language Processing & Information Retrieval.
October 2009: CONFERENCE: “Cross-applications between Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval”. Dr. Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich. Date/time: 15th October 2009 at 16:30. Location: auditorium of ETSE.
July 2009: The four members of IR@GSI are travelling to Boston to participate in ACM SIGIR.
June 2009: IR@GSI submitted some runs to CLEF-IP09 track. The main task in this track is to find patent documents that constitute prior art to a given patent.
June 2009: Az Azrinudin Alidin, a PhD student from the University of Lugano, visited us from the 1st of June to the 7th of June