This module will look at the very latest developments in information retrieval and related disciplines that are closely aligned with the core research topics of interest to the Information Science department. This is such an active area that we should have a great time discovering trends and developments -- some of which we might not even be aware of at the start of term!The focus will be on the study of research papers that have recently been published in the leading annual research conferences of the field such SIGIR, CHIIR, WSDM, ECIR, The Web Conference as well as in journals such as TOIS and JASIST.
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This module will look at recent developments in information retrieval and related disciplines that are closely aligned with the core research topics of interest to the Information Science department. The focus will be on the study of research papers that have recently been published in the leading annual research conferences of the field such SIGIR, CHIIR, WSDM, ECIR, The Web Conference as well as in journals such as TOIS and JASIST.