RESEARCH GRANTS/PROJECTS

(1) Principal Investigator: Hybrid User Profiling and Adaptation for Personalised Search in Social Media Environment. Northern Research Partnership PhD studentship project, 2009-2012.

(2) Principal Investigator: Automatic Adaptation of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information Seeking (AutoAdapt). EPSRC (EP/F035705/1), 2008-2011, GBP 327,685. With Anne De Roeck (Co-Investigator, OU).

In partnership with University of Essex (Udo Kruschwitz). Total funding of the project: GBP 609K.

Project Website: http://autoadapt.wikidot.com/

(3) Lead Principal Investigator: Towards Context-Sensitive Information Retrieval Based on Quantum Theory: With Applications to Cross-media Search and Structured Document Access (Renaissance). EPSRC (EP/F014708/1), 2008-2011, GBP 323,703. With Stefan Rüger (Co-Investigator, OU).

In partnership with University of Glasgow (Mounia Lalmas and Keith van Rijsbergen). Total funding of the project: GBP 961,805.

Project Website: http://renaissance.dcs.gla.ac.uk/start

(4) Principal Investigator: Metadata-based Dynamic Query Interface for Cross-Searching Content Resources (DYNIQX). JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), 1-5/2008, GBP 39,972.

(5) Principal Investigator: Learning User Preferences from Collective User Behaviour in Content-based Image Search. EPSRC CASE (Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering) Program and Yahoo! Research Barcelona, 11/2007-5/2011, GBP 83,092.

(6) Principal Investigator: A Novel Module Integrating Domain Knowledge in Entity-based Search for the UIMA Framework. 2007 IBM UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Framework) Innovation Award, $24,000 USD.

(7) Co-Investigator: Platform for Search of Audio-visual Resources across Online Spaces (PHAROS). Integrated Project, European Union Sixth Framework Programme, Priority IST Call 6, #045035, Euro 8.5M (total), GBP 309K (for the Open University), 2007-2009. With Stefan Rüger (PI) and Zdenek Zdrahal (Co-I).

(8) Principal Investigator: Dimensionality Reduction for Efficient Similarity Search in High Dimensional Spaces. EPSRC Overseas Travel Grant (#EP/E037402/1), 1-3/2007, GBP 16,459. Completed (rated “outstanding”).

(9) Principal Investigator: Operationalizing the Logical Uncertainty Principle in a Language Modelling Framework for Context-based Information Retrieval. EPSRC (#EP/E002145/1), 2006-2008, GBP 163,429.

(10) Principal Investigator: A Novel Content-based Entity Relation Discovery and Semantic Search Module for the UIMA Framework. 2006 IBM UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Framework) Innovation Award, $19,000 USD.

(11) Partner Investigator: Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases. With X. Zhou, H.T. Shen, P.D. Bruza. ARC Discovery 2006-2008, #DP0663272, AU$200,000.

(12) Chief Investigator: Concept Learning and Structure Formation for Document Navigation. ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery 2003-2005, #DP0343042, AU$211,035. With P.W. Eklund, R.J. Cole, P.D. Bruza.

(13) Core Participant: ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2004-2009.

(14) Core Participant:  ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science (HCSNet), 2004-2009.

(15) Co-investigator: XML Database: Technology & Application. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Strategic Grant (overall coordinator Kam-Fai Wong). 4/2003 to 3/2006, HK$800K.