Information Retrieval Facility

The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, was a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals in the field of information retrieval. It ceased operations in 2012.

The IRF had members in the following categories:

Maristella Agosti, Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova

Gerhard Budin, Director of the Center of Translation Studies at the University of Vienna, Director of the Department of Corpuslinguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Jamie Callan, Professor, Language Technologies Institute, CMU, Carnegie Mellon University

Yves Chiaramella, Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Joseph Fourier University

Kilnam Chon, Professor, Computer Science Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

W. Bruce Croft, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director Center for Intelligent IR University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hamish Cunningham, Research Professor, Computer Science Department University Sheffield

Norbert Fuhr, Chairman of the Scientific Board, Professor, Institute of Informatics and Interactive Systems University Duisburg-Essen

David Hawking, Science Leader, Project Leader, CSIRO ICT Centre

Noriko Kando, Professor, Software Engineering Research, Software Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Associate Dean, School of Information Systems Singapore Management University

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