Dr Thomas Roelleke School of Eng. and Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London London E1 4NS email: thor/www@eecs.qmul.ac.uk Phone +44 20 7882 7988 Fax +44 20 8980 6533	Academic staff @ QMUL EECS Queen Mary IR @ QMUL EECS Queen Mary RIM @ QMUL EECS Internet home page @ QMUL EECS
The Probabilitic DB+IR Team at Work Thomas Roelleke: Abstraction Hany Azzam: Semantic Data Retrieval Miguel Martinez-Alvarez: Classification Logic Marco Bonzanini: Knowledge-based Summarisation Sirvan Yahyaei: Machine Translation Alumni Fred Forst: Summarisation Logic, PhD 2008 Hengzhi Wu: DB+IR Efficiency, PhD 2010 Jun Wang: Retrieval Models and Theory, PhD 2010

List of publications
Thomas Roelleke @ DBLP
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=roelleke+modelling
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=roelleke+modelling

Some downloads:

• SIGIR 2012 Tutorial: IR Models --- Foundations and Relationships description (pdf)
• TF-IDF Uncovered (IR Theory), Yahoo Labs Barcelona, January 2012 slides (pdf)

• IR Models, IR Herbstschule, Dagstuhl, September 30th slides (pdf)

• IPI ConfEx 2009 IR4IP (Information Retrieval for Intellectual Property) Tutorial. IPI ConfEx home; IPI ConfEx workshops; handout.
• Database Spektrum 2009: Information Retrieval: Concepts and Practical Considerations for Teaching a Rising Topic: Daniel Blank, Norbert Fuhr, Andreas Henrich, Thomas Mandl, Thomas Roelleke, Hinrich Schuetze, Benno Stein. article (pdf). Springer link.

• SIGIR 2008 paper: Roelleke/Wang: TF-IDF Uncovered: A Study of Theories and Probabilities. ACM portal, DBLP entry. Slides
• SIGIR 2008 WS paper: Wu/Kazai/Roelleke: Modelling Anchor Text Retrieval in Book Search. Download from workshop page.
• IR Herbstschule Schloss Dagstuhl 2008: Retrieval Models. Slides.
• Talks about the relational Bayes:
• University of Otago Slides.
• CSIRO, Canberra Slides.
• Ranking XML Querying, Dagstuhl Seminar Slides.
• Springer DB Encylopedia Entry: The Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model.

• CWI Amsterdam Dec 2007 Seminar Talk: Modelling Retrieval Models with the relational Bayes. slides (pdf).
• VLDB Journal 2007 paper: Roelleke/Wu/Wang/Azzam: Modelling Retrieval in a Probabilistic Relational Algebra with a new Operator: The relational Bayes. Springerlink portal, local download.

• Max Planck Institute Saarbruecken Oct 2006 seminar talk: On Information Retrieval Models and DB+IR. slides.
• SIGIR 2006 paper: Roelleke/Wang: A Parallel Derivation of Probabilistic Retrieval Models. ACM portal, DBLP entry.
• Barcelona Universitat Pompeu Fabrai Mar 2006 seminar talk: On the Generalisation and Logical Implementation of Retrieval Models. slides.
• IPM Journal 2006 paper: Roelleke/Tsikrika/Kazai: A General Matrix Framework for Modelling Information Retrieval. IPM download, Science Direct IPM Volume 42(1), DBLP entry.

• Glasgow IR Festival 2005 talk: On Occurrence and Informativeness Probabilities. slides.
• SIGMOD 2005 panel: DB and IR - Rethinking the great divide. slides. SIGMOD record report, Dec 2005 Volume 34(2) by Sihem Amer-Yahia.

• Foundations of Information Retrieval: EECS intranet module page
• DCS225 (DB systems): course/module page course/module notes syllabus/schedule
• Foundations of Information Retrieval 2005
• IT Programming 2005, ITEM037, access to intranet pages for students only
• ODL Project Supervision 2005
• UK ODL BSc projects:
  • Free-text search on relational databases: Develop a key-word-based approach for searching data stored in SQL databases
  • Efficient XML data management: Investigate current approaches of loading XML data to databases, measure the performance
  • Personalised travel information: Provide users with a personalised stream of travel information containung the information relevant to them
  • Personal newspaper: Build a system that exptracts from a number of information sources the news relevant to a user
  • Source Code Search: Develop a system for searching source code (can be any language, e.g. Perl, Java, C++)
• Previous years