Paul D. Clough, BEng
(York) PhD (Sheffield) PGCertHE (Sheffield) MBCSI am a Professor at the
Information
School in the Faculty of Social Sciences
University
of Sheffield, UK. I am head of the
Information
Retrieval (IR) Group, Director of Research for the Information School and coordinator of our
MSc Data Science programme
I am currently PI for Sheffield on the EU-funded EUROPEANA DSI-2 project where we are investigating search tasks and developing an evaluation framework for
Europeana. Previously I was 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. In 2015 I was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for a project about developing a taxonomy of search sessions. I have been a member of the Steering Committee for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) since 2003.
Teaching interests:
information storage and retrieval; database
design; digital multimedia; information systems and data science.
Research interests:
information storage and retrieval, particularly multilingual searching of texts
and images; evaluation of retrieval systems; natural language processing, text reuse and plagiarism detection.
Contact Details:
Information School University of Sheffield Room 226, Regent Court,
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP UK. |
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Tel : +44 (0)
114 2222664 Fax : +44 (0) 114 2780300
mailto:
p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk
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