marksanderson

Username: marksanderson

Participant details

	Network Member	Mark Sanderson
	Organisation/Institution	University of Sheffield
	Department/Centre	Information Studies Department
	Lab
	Website	http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
	Research area	Information Retrieval
	Research keywords	search engines, geographic search, cross language IR, image retrieval by captions, word sense ambiguity.

Research Interests

Mark Sanderson is a Reader at the University of Sheffield in the Information Studies Department. He is a researcher in information retrieval (IR). He has a strong interest in the evaluation of search engines, but also works in geographic search, cross language IR (CLIR), summarization, image retrieval by captions, word sense ambiguity and has also built searching systems. Mark is on the editorial board of 4 of the leading IR journals and this year was co-PC chair of ACM SIGIR 2009. He is currently an investigator on three active research projects. He teaches courses in Web search, introduction to IR as well as contributing to courses in multimedia, essay writing and information security.

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