Ben Carterette

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
440 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

email: carteret@cis.udel.edu
phone: (302) 831-3185

office hours for Fall 2011: W 1-2, F 3:30-4:30, or by appointment. (subject to change)
Fall 2011 course: CISC889, Information Retrieval
My main research interest is in Information Retrieval, in particular new ways to optimize and evaluate the utility of IR systems beyond the traditional independent assessments of relevance, and ideally with minimal human input.

I am also interested in experimental design, statistical methods, and scientific methodology as applied to computer science in general as well as information retrieval specifically.

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Project Web Pages

Models/Measures of Novel and Diverse Search
(NSF IIS-1017026)

Recent and Upcoming Projects

ECIR 2011 Workshop on Information Retrieval Over Query Sessions

TREC 2010 Session Track

SIGIR 2010 Tutorial on Low-Cost Evaluation in Information Retrieval

Redundancy, Diversity, and Interdependent Document Relevance workshop at SIGIR 2009.

TREC Million Query Track 2009

Beyond Binary Relevance workshop at SIGIR 2008

Courses
CISC437/637 Databases, Spring 11
CISC889 Experimental CS, Spring 10
CISC637/437 Databases, Spring 10
CISC681/481 AI, Fall 09
CISC689/489 IR, Spring 09
CISC889 Topics in IR, Fall 08
 
Some Recent Publications
Reusable Test Collections Through Experimental Design, SIGIR 10
The Effect of Assessor Errors on IR System Evaluation, SIGIR 10
Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections, WSDM 10
Probabilistic Models for Facet Retrieval, CIKM 09
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking, ICTIR 09
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