Some Thoughts on Failure
Analysis for Noisy
John Tait
About John Tait
John Tait obtained a Ph.D. from the
University of Cambridge in 1983 for a thesis entitled “Automatic Summarising of
English Text”. He subsequently followed a career in industry, mainly working on
problems of large scale information retrieval and management, before taking up
a post at the University of Sunderland in 1991, where he eventually became
Professor of Intelligent Information Systems and Associate Dean of Computing
And Technology, as well as leading the University of Sunderland Information
Retrieval Group. In September 2007 he took up the post of Chief Scientific
Officer of the Information Retrieval Facility, a not-for-profit foundation
dedicated to promoting research in large scale information retrieval. He has been joint programme committee chairs
for two recent relevant workshops: “iNeWS
07 - Improving Non-English Web Searching” at ACM SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam; and the ACL/COLING 2006 Workshop “CLIIR: How can Computational
Linguistics Improve Information Retrieval” in
Sydney, Australia. John is a past Programme Committee chair of the ACM SIGIR conference
(2005), past General Chair of the
European Conference on Information Retrieval (2004), an Associate Editor of ACM
Transaction on Information Systems and has published over 90 refereed
conference and journal papers. His current research focuses on problems of
retrieving still and moving images and on patent retrieval.
