Najava predavanja: Martin Rajman "Some of the current research projects at the EPFL Center for Global Computing: the Internet Patrolling project, and the D-rank project"

Sažetak predavanja:

The goal of the talk is to present two of the ongoing research projects carried out at the EPFL Center for Global Computing (http://globalcomputing.epfl.ch) under the speaker's supervision, the Internet Patrolling project, and the D-rank project.

- The Internet Patrolling project:

The International Counterfeiting Coalition estimates that counterfeiting caused over $600 billion losses to companies worldwide in 2006. The Swiss economy alone suffered in that year $1.6 bilion losses. All the institutions involved in the control and prosecution of counterfeiting agree that the number of cases and their economic relevance has rocketed up in the last years, mainly due to the use of the internet to distribute the counterfeited products. In this context, the Internet Patrolling Project aims at providing a tool to automatically extract as much information as possible from several Internet resources, in order to identify and initiate legal actions against counterfeiters affecting their business.

- The D-rank project:

Document ranking for scientific publications involves a variety of specialized resources (e.g. author or citation indexes) that are usually difficult to use within standard general purpose search engines that usually operate on large-scale heterogeneous document collections for which the required specialized resources are not always available for all the documents present in the collections. Integrating such resources into specialized information retrieval engines is therefore important to cope with community-specific user expectations that strongly influence the perception of relevance within the considered community. In this perspective, the D-rank project aims at extending the notion of ranking with various methods exploiting different types of bibliographic knowledge that represent a crucial resource for measuring the relevance of scientific publications.

Kratka biografija:

Since 1996, M. Rajman is senior scientist at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of EPFL, the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, where he is in charge of the of the development of a research and teaching activity in the general domain of Natural Language Processing. His research work focuses on Vector Semantics, Probabilistic Syntax, Distributed Information Retrieval, and Dialogue based Multimodal Interfaces.

Since 2003, M. Rajman has also been appointed as Director of the EPFL Center for Global Computing (CGC), an association of research groups and laboratories of the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences aiming at fostering interdisciplinary research in the general area of Internet computing and distributed systems.