Professor Kalervo Järvelin

University of Tampere
School of Information Sciences
JÄRVELIN, Kalervo,

D.Soc.Sci., Professor, Vice Dean
University of Tampere, School of Information Sciences

Research Interests
Selected publications
Editorial Boards and Program Committees
Current Interests and Links

Date of last update:

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Contacts

Mobile: +358505479062
tel. : +358-3-3171794 (home)
Fax: +358-3-35516560
E-mail: "kalervo.jarvelin" "@" "uta.fi"

Away from office : 20.08 - 24.08.12; 17.09-21.09.12; 8.10.-12.10.12.

Research interests

information seeking and retrieval
IR evaluation methods
interactive and task-based IR
cross-language IR
informetrics

If you are interested in research evaluation through the Discounted Cumulated Impact index (see JASIST) 59(9): 1433-1440 (DOI: 10.1002/asi.20847), you can download DCI software at the DCI Download Site.

Publications

The full list of publications is available as a separate document.

Find the book:

Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K. (2005). The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 1-4020-3850-X. For more information on this book: Click here.

Selected publications in 2010-2012:

1. Ahlgren, P. & Järvelin, K. (2010). Measuring Impact of 12 Information Scientists Using the DCI index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 61(7): 1424-1439. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21333 Preprint.

2. Jämsen, J. & Niemi, T. & Järvelin, K. (2009). Derived types in semantic association discovery. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 35: 213-244. Online July 2, 2009. DOI 10.1007/s10844-009-0094-7

3. Loponen, A. & Järvelin, K. (2010). A Dictionary- and Corpus-Independent Statistical Lemmatiser for Information Retrieval in Low-Resource Languages. In: Agosti, M. & al. (Eds.), Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, Proceedings of the International Conference in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy, September 2010. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 3-14. Preprint.

4. Kumpulainen, S. & Järvelin, K. (2010). Information Interaction in Molecular Medicine: Integrated Use of Multiple Channels. In: Belkin, N. & al. (Eds.), Proc. of the Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX 2010), New Brunswick, NJ, August 2010. New York, NY: ACM, pp. 95-104. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0247-0. (Best paper award, IIiX’10) Preprint.

5. Järvelin, K. & Ingwersen, P. (2010). User-oriented and cognitive models of information retrieval. In: Bates, MJ. & Maack, MN. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (ELIS), 3rd Ed, 1:1, pp. 5521-5534. London, UK: Taylor & Francis.

6. Paik, J.H. & Mitra, M. & Parui, K.S. & Järvelin, K. (2011). GRAS : An Effective and Efficient Stemming Algorithm for Information Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 29(4): article 3.

7. Niemi, T. & Junkkari, M. & Järvelin, K. (2011). Concept-based query language approach to enterprise information systems. Enterprise Information Systems 2011. DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2011.598241 Online 17 Aug, 2011.

8. Järvelin, K. (2011). Evaluation. In: Ruthven, I. & Kelly, D. (eds.), Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval. London, UK: Facet Publishing, pp. 113-138. ISBN: 978-1-85604-707-4

9. Baskaya, F. & Keskustalo, H. & Järvelin, K. (2011). Simulating Simple and Fallible Relevance Feedback. In: Clough, P, & al. (Eds.), Proc. of the 33th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, April 2011. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 6611, pp. 593–604.

10. Saarikoski, J., Laurikkala, J., Järvelin, K., & Juhola, M. (2011). Self-Organising Maps in Document Classification: A Comparison with Six Machine Learning Methods. Dobnikar, A., Lotri?, U. & Šter, B. (Eds.): ICANNGA 2011, Part I. Heidelberg: Springer, LNCS 6593, pp. 260–269.

11. Järvelin, K. (2011). IR Research: Systems, Interaction, Evaluation and Theories. ACM SIGIR Forum 45(2): 17-31. Online

12. Kettunen, K.& Paik, J. & Pal, D. & Järvelin, K. (2011). Frequent Case Generation in Ad Hoc Retrieval of the Indian Languages. Working Notes of the Forum of Information Retrieval Evaluation Conference (FIRE’2011), Mumbai, Dec 2-4, 2011. 6 pages.

13. Saastamoinen, M. & Kumpulainen, S. & Järvelin, K. (2012). Task Complexity and Information Searching in Administrative Tasks Revisited. In: Fuhr, N. & al. (Eds.), Proc. of the 4th Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX 2012), Nijmegen, NL, August 2012. New York, NY: ACM, pp. xxx-xxx. (to appear)

14. Baskaya, F. & Keskustalo, H. & Järvelin, K. (2012). Time Drives Interaction: Simulating Sessions in Diverse Searching Environments. In: Callan, J., Maarek, Y. & Sanderson, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 12), Portland, 12-16 August 2012. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 97-106.

15. Saarikoski, J, & Laurikkala, J. & Järvelin, K. & Siermala, M. & Juhola, M (2012). Dimensionality reduction in text classification using scatter method. Int. J. Data Mining, Modelling and Management xx (xx): xx-xx. Accepted for publication.

16. Kumpulainen, S. & Järvelin, K. (2012). Barriers to Task-based Information Access in Molecular Medicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 63(1): 86-97. DOI:10.1002/asi.21672

The archive of the FIRE Research Group contains many downloadable documents. Please find them there!

Editorial Boards and Program Committees

Associate Editor, Information Processing & Management (USA) (2008-).
Program Committee Member or often at the ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR). Link to SIGIR 2012 here.

Current Interests and Links

My current work is related to the following projects and efforts.