Who We Are
& What We Do
Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need. The best-known IR use case are search engines - the most prominent one of course is Google. The Information Retrieval Research Group at Technische Hochschule Köln (University of Applied Sciences) is doing research and development in the fields of retrieval evaluation, digital libraries, query suggestions and bibliometrics enhanced retrieval methods.
NEWSWelcome, Andreas!
And another new face at our group. Andreas Kruff is our newest member. Welcome, Andy! Andy is a former student of our Master Digital Sciences. He will follow Timo in our DFG project RESIRE together with Norbert Fuhr’s team at Uni Duisburg. Andy is an expert in user simulations for IR evaluations and mostly interested in the questions on how to make simulations suitable for reproducible interactive IR experiments. Go for it, Andy! :-)
NEWSWelcome, Jüri!
It’s a pleasure to welcome Jüri Keller to the team. Actually, Jüri is not a new face, but he changed roles. He was a student assistant in the team since 2019 and finally finished his Master thesis a few weeks ago and is now working on the STELLA II project. A huge win for the team. Welcome on board, Jüri (again, still, … :-)