Paul D. Clough, BEng (York) PhD (Sheffield) PGCertHE (Sheffield)

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Information School (formerly the Department of Information Studies) in the faculty of Social Science University of Sheffield, UK. I am a member of the Information Retrieval (IR) Group

I am currently Scientific Director of an EU-funded project called PATHS (Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces), I have an AHRC-funded studentship available on recommender systems for library with OCLC Inc. and I am co-organiser of the TREC 2011 Session Track

Teaching interests: information storage and retrieval; information systems modelling; database design; electronic publishing; digital multimedia.

Research interests: information storage and retrieval, particularly multilingual searching of texts and images; evaluation of retrieval systems; natural language processing; corpus linguistics and text reuse.