Informagus IR at the RU
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, arjenp.dev
- Prof. dr. ir. Djoerd Hiemstra: @djoerd@idf.social, 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
- Daria Alexander: Linked-In profile
- Mohanna Hoveyda: mohannahoveyda.com
- Heydar Soudani: iCIS profile
External:
- Gebre Gebremeskel: CWI profile
- Dušan Barok: UvA profile
- Thomas Schoegje: Linked-In profile
- Thorsten Krause: 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.