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Paul
Ferguson
CDVP,
Dublin City University
Email:
pferguson[at]computing.dcu.ie
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Research Activities
My research is focussed broadly in the area of information management and retrieval.
Current Project
I am currently working on an Enterprise Ireland funded Innovation partnership project with Zignals: an Irish company working in the area of online stock trading. The project is focussed on the application of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to financial blog data.
Previous Projects
- I am currently working with a group from the CDVP to develop an interactive TV system for a large electronics company.
- My PhD research was funded by Science Foundation Ireland funded Project, as part of the Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) group.
- This research deals with large scale web collections and how current retrieval techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. As well as investigating novel ways of efficiently searching large collections of documents, using minimal resources.
- As part of this research Pete Wilkins and myself developed the Físréal search engine, to handle
1.2 terabytes of data (94,500,000 web pages), from the SPIRIT collection.
- I particapated in TREC (Text REtrieval
Conference) in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mainly concentrating on the
Terabyte track, but also contributing to the CDVP's particapation in TrecVid.
- A list of my publications can be found on the CDVP's publication page
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