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 Spring 2013: M 11-12am, W 1-2pm, or by appointment. (subject to change)
Spring 2013 courses: CISC437/637 (Databases, MWF 10:10-11:00am); CISC889 (Topics in IR, MW 3:35-4:50pm)
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.

cute logo Information Retrieval Lab

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Project Web Pages

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

Recent and Upcoming Projects

TREC 2012 Sessions Track, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2012

SIGIR 2012 Tutorial on Advances in Evaluation Measures, Portland, OR, USA, Aug 2012

ECIR 2012 Workshop on Information Retrieval Over Query Sessions, Barcelona, Spain, Apr 2012

TREC 2011 Sessions Track, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2011

ECIR 2011 Workshop on Information Retrieval Over Query Sessions, Dublin, Ireland, Apr 2011

Recent Courses
CISC437/637 Databases, Spring 2013
CISC889 Topics in IR, Spring 2013
CISC220 Data structures in C++, Fall 2012
CISC220 Data structures in C++, Spring 2012
CISC437/637 Databases, Spring 2012
 
Some Recent Publications
Assessor Disagreement and Document Retrieval Depth, CIKM 12
Incorporating Variability in User Behavior into Systems Based Evaluation, CIKM 12
Improving Health Records Search using Multiple Query Expansion Collections, BIBM 12
Using Preference Judgments for Novel Document Retrieval, SIGIR 12
Multiple Testing in Statistical Analysis of Systems-Based Information Retrieval Experiments, TOIS 12
 
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