iRiS Group at University of Pittsburgh

Shuguang Han just successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Han, excellent work!!! http://www.pitt.edu/~shh69/

Congratulations Danchen Zhang's poster about "Wikipedia Based Automatic Diagnosis Prediction in Clinical Decision Support System" on winning iConference best poster award, Well done!

Congratulations to Jessica Benner for successfully defend her dissertation. Well done, Dr Benner!

Congratulate Jiepu for winning the Best Student Paper Award at CHIIR 2017. The paper can be accessed at https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&continue=/scholar%3Fhl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0,5%26scilib%3D1&citilm=1&citation_for_view=FpyCxD4AAAAJ:ysWPWRY3VgcC&hl=en&oi=p

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Congratulations to Wei for passing your final defense~! Your new title is Dr. Jeng. http://www.pitt.edu/~wej9/

How do researchers collaborate and interact via academic social web? A new book "Scholarly Collaboration on the Academic Social Web" is just arrived! Published by Morgan & Claypool, more information can be found at http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/10.2200/S00698ED1V01Y201601ICR047

Congratulations to iRiSers Dr. Daqing He and Wei!

Morgan & Claypool Publishers - Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and... Collaboration among scholars has always been recognized as a fundamental feature of scientific discovery. The ever-increasing diversity among disciplines and complexity of research problems makes it even more compelling to collaborate in order to keep up with the fast pace of innovation and advance…

Consider submitting your papers to these two SIGIR-managed conferences. at UNC Chapel Hill and near U Mass.

http://sigir.org/chiir2016/
http://ictir2015.org/

CHIIR 2016 - CHIIR 2016 Welcome to the first ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced “cheer”) which will take place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA on March 13-17, 2016.

Congratulations to Shuguang, Zhen, and Dr. He!

iRiSers' papers (Shuguang Han, Zhen Yue and Daqing He) on supporting cross-device web searches using mobile touch interactions were accepted by Journal and conference (http://umap2015.com/).

See details for their TOIS paper on http://www.pitt.edu/~shh69/tois.pdf. Their pre-print on UMAP2015 is coming soon.

UMAP15 Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster on Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey.

Congratulations on passing your dissertation defense, Dr. I-Ling Cheng! Sung-Min, Jiepu, you will be the next!

Congratulate to Spencer Goodwin for his new job. He will be working at the Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as Library/Knowledge Management Intern, providing comprehensive and innovative research data and knowledge management services to a patient-centered care team.
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/

Eskind Biomedical Library Find online resources for the Medical Center community, including journals, textbooks, databases, websites, software, and other materials. Please see the Digital Library Help section for tips on how to use this and the Acorn and PubMed search tools.

How collection descriptions influence the user's tagging behavior? Yi-ling Lin, Christoph Trattner, Peter Brusilovsky and Daqing He's paper "The impact of image descriptions on user tagging behavior: A study of the nature and functionality of crowdsourced tags" in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology is published in early view http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23292/abstract

The impact of image descriptions on user tagging behavior: A study of the nature and... Lin, Y.-l., Trattner, C., Brusilovsky, P. and He, D. (2014), The impact of image descriptions on user tagging behavior: A study of the nature and functionality of crowdsourced tags. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23292