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), running an AHRC-funded project on recommender systems for WorldCat.org with OCLC Inc. and I am co-organiser of the TREC 2013 Session Track. I have also recently been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for a project about developing a taxonomy of search sessions. This was written about in our Faculty newsletter.

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.