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2007-06-08: Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries
The 2nd International Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries will be held in Budapest (Hungary) on 20 Septemeber 2007, in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007). Event website
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January 24-25, 2008 - Padova, Italy
4th Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems Event website
December 5-7, 2007 - Pisa, Italy
Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries Event website
Lalmas, Mounia - Queen Mary University, London, UK
Research interests
My research focuses on the development and evaluation of intelligent access to interactive, heterogeneous and complex information spaces. I have worked on logical modelling for IR, where I have developed a meta-theory to formally reason about and evaluate the IR process from a theoretical perspective. This meta-theory is currently being applied to XML retrieval. I have also contributed to the application of uncertainty theories, such as Dempster-Shafer's theory of evidence, for the modelling of IR tasks in an expressive and unified manner and covering a range of domains such as Web, XML, and MPEG-7. Since 1997, I have worked on structured document retrieval, where I have developed a general model for structured document retrieval that not only captures structure, but also heterogeneous aspects from a semantic perspective. I am the co-leader of the international evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval (INEX), a large-scale project with over 50 participating organizations worldwide, where I am responsible for defining the nature of XML retrieval and access, and how it should be evaluated. INEX is part of the activities of the DELOS research cluster on Digital Library Evaluation.
Possible contributions to DELOS activities
Participate in working groups
Groups dealing with XML content, at any level (from user applications to system architecture).
Liaison to other organizations
Content owners, in particular with respect to structured and unstructured content, eventually marked up in XML.
Panels
Participate with topics on XML access, retrieval and evaluation.
Tutorials
Participate with topics on XML access, retrieval and evaluation.
Summer Schools
Organize and participate with topics on XML access, retrieval and evaluation.
Presentations
Present XML access, retrieval and evaluation, and DELOS overall activities
Coordinates
Institution
Information Retrieval(qmir.dcs.qmul.ac.uk), Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London, UK
Education Ph.D. in Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 1996. Master of Applied Science in Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 1991. Diplome d'Ingeniorat d'Etat en Informatique, Universite des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumedienne, Algiers, 1989
Work history Professor of Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, England, 2005-present. Reader in Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, England, 2001-2005. Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, England, 2001. Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, England, 1999-2000. Research Fellow (part-time), Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Research Scientist (part-time), Informatik VI, University of Dortmund, Germany, 1997-1998. Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1995-1997 (non-permanent). Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Canada, 1994-1995 (non-permanent).
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