What

Anything Information Retrieval, really!

We develop theory and methods for scalable machine learning and information retrieval to analyze big data and address challenging problems in science and society.

Who

Staff

• Prof. dr. ir. Arjen P. de Vries: @arjen@idf.social, @arjenpdevries, arjenp.dev
• Prof. dr. ir. Djoerd Hiemstra: @djoerd@idf.social, @djoerd, djoerdhiemstra.com
• Dr. Faegheh Hasibi: @fhasibi@idf.social, @fhasibi, hasibi.com
• Dr. Harrie Oosterhuis: @HarrieOos, harrieo.github.io

PhD students

• Chris Kamphuis: www.chriskamphuis.com
• Emma Gerritse: emmagerritse.com
• Ivan Veul: WTMC profile
• Koen Dercksen: koendercksen.com
• Neghin Ghasemi: iCIS profile
• Hideaki Joko: iCIS profile
• Norman Knyazev: iCIS profile
• Tim de Jonge: iCIS profile
• Gijs Hendriksen: gijshendriksen.nl

External:

• Gebre Gebremeskel: CWI profile
• Dušan Barok: UvA profile
• Thomas Schoegje: Linked-In profile
• Daria Alexander: Linked-In profile

Guest researchers

• Mick van Hulst: Linked-In profile

Affiliated Staff

• Prof. dr. Martha Larson: @ngrams, RU profile

Info for students

Courses and opportunities for external internships are discussed at the education pages.

Activities

Ongoing research projects include:

• The Lessen Project, on conversational intelligence
• OpenWebSearch.eu, to create an open European Web Index
• AI Health Lab project MIHRacle, making electronic health records interactive and comprehensible for the patient
• Commit2Data project SQIREL-Graphs, on IR and Graph DB

Completed projects include:

• SIDN project Noga

Public repositories related to research carried out in the group:

• GeeseDB: Graph Engine for Exploration and Search over Evolving DataBases
• REL: Radboud Entity Linker
• WASP: Personal Web Archive and Search System

The local IR Reading Club and the @informagi group Twitter account.

Why Informagus?

Radboud University is situated in Nijmegen, the city Noviomagus in Roman times. Noviomagus is Celtic for ‘the new market’. And, in proper classic Latin, ‘magus’ refers to the type of magic that many associate with the outcomes of computer science research.