Ari Pirkola, docent, researcher, PhD
                Academy of Finland

               University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media

Research Interests

Publications


FIRE Research Group 



Current Project

My research area is  Information Retrieval.
In a current project, we are developing a specialized search system.  The key idea is to crawl from the Web quality documents (i.e., pages) dealing with a specific topic. The first implementation is available here. The system is focused on climate change - hence the name CliCS - Climate Change Search. Our project plan involves building a larger quality-based Web search system dealing with many globally significant topics, such as human genome, genetic engineering, and wind power.








ari.pirkola@uta.fi