Andreas Nürnberger has been a professor at the Faculty for
Informatics at the Magdeburg University in Germany since 2007.
He does research in the fields of adaptivity, context in search
engines, data mining and soft computing methods among others.
Andreas Nürnberger has earlier been a visiting professor at
the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, and a post.doc. at
Berkeley University.
Focusing on search behaviour
Andreas Nürnberger gave a lecture at IVA on the 23rd
of November. The lecture was titled "Interactive Exploration of
Media Collections: Supporting Users by Adaptive Structuring and
Visualization" and addressed how user behaviour can be studied
and how this can be used to support the user in a easier process of
information retrieval. By creating an adative system that is
capable of reorganising the information based on to the
behaviour of the user, the process of information retrieval can be
improved. These matters are being worked on in the research group
DKE (Data Knowledge Engineering Group), that Andreas Nürnberger is
a member of.
Although on a busy schedule, Andreas Nürnberger found the time
for an interview with Insight about his visit at IVA:
What made you decide to come to RSLIS?
"You do a lot of research on information retrieval
and organization here. And I know Birger Larsen from MUMIA. I have
met him before and it's mainly because of this. Right now, we are
working on personalized information access - that's one of the
directions of the working group."
What will you be doing while you're here?
"We are basically discussing what we would like to
continue with as part of this project. We are thinking of open
issues and open problems, mainly in the field of personalized
information access. We're also thinking about possible scenarios
for research proposals. And of course, we are hoping to establish
some exchange of students on different levels."
What are you hoping to get out of your stay?
"I hope to get some new ideas and possible scenarios
for further collaboration. I think it's interesting that you have a
slightly different perspective on the field of information access
and retrieval than computer scientists. So we are providing all the
technologies and maybe the methods to organize all this
information. That is probably better handled by people who need
such tools. It's also quite interesting to see what you are
currently working on here, as you do a lot of up-to-date
research."