Speaker: Prof. Ophir Frider
                  Department of Computer Science
                  Illinois Institute of Technology
                  Chicago, IL.
                  Email: ophir@ir.iit.edu
                  http://www.ir.iit.edu

Title: On Scalable Information Retrieval Systems

Date and Time: Monday, November 3, 2003 at 2:00 p.m.
Place: 175 Coates

Abstract:

Implementing scalable information retrieval systems requires the design and development of efficient methods to ingest data from multiple sources, search an retrieve results from both English and foreign language document collections and from collections comprising of multiple data types, harness high performance computer technology, and accurately answer user questions. Some recent efforts related to the development of scalable information retrieval systems are described. Particular emphasis is placed on those efforts that were adopted into commercial use.