Research Interests
- Information Retrieval
- Multilingual Information Access
- Experimental Evaluation
- Digital Libraries and Archives
- Web Technologies
Profile
Nicola Ferro is full professor in computer science at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy.
He is head of the Intelligent Interactive Information Access (IIIA) hub.
His research interests include information retrieval, its experimental evaluation, multilingual information access and digital libraries.
He was the coordinator of the CLEF evaluation initiative, which involves more than 200 research groups world-wide in large-scale IR evaluation activities.
He chairs the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
He has published more than 500 papers on information retrieval, digital libraries, and their evaluation.
He was inducted to Class 2023 of the SIGIR Academy and he was awarded the Tony Kent Strix Award in 2024.
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