Collaboration in other projects/working groups

The following is a list of projects and working groups in which Dr Ayse Goker has collaborated

• Webinos, EU-IST FP7 Integrated Project (2010 -)
  Total Budget 10 million Euros. Project includes AmbieSense Ltd (co-founded EU IST spin-out company). It will work on an open-source mobile cloud and contribute a secure platform for mobile applications to be developed once, and deployed in a variety of devices. Includes work on user context modelling.
  
  
• TeleMedicine Booth (2005)
  
  
• INEX (Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval) (2003 - 2006)
  
  
• WebCluster, Information Retrieval Group, RGU and Ubilab - Union Bank of Switzerland (1998 - 1999)
  
  
• Mira (Evaluation Frameworks for Interactive Multimedia Information Retrieval Applications) (1999)
  
  
• Okapi at TREC (ARPA sponsored Text REtrieval Conference Projects, run by NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) (1992 -1993)
  
  
• Okapi at City University London, Centre for Interactive Systems Research (1988-1992)
  Okapi was designed as an OPAC, but incorporated some general text retrieval algorithms including some based on City's work. It was used as the basis for a series of end-user experiments in relevance feedback. It was developed as an experimental (search) engine, allowing both live-user experiments and laboratory-style batch tests. At the same time, further work was being done on the theory and algorithms, to make them more effective and robust with more heterogeneous data. The most prominent result of this work was the ranking algorithm now known throughout the international information retrieval community as Okapi BM25. The City team's success in TREC competitions from TREC-3 on resulted in the wide adoption of BM25 by many research groups.