This page contains random bits of what I do here at Davis. I'll try to keep it updated (the usual lie). No blog, no time, sorry.
Contact: oralonso at ucdavis dot edu or oralonso at gmail dot com
About the picture.
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My interests are information retrieval, temporal retrieval, text mining,
exploratory search, open source, databases, domain engineering, sensemaking,
and information visualization.
I have more than ten years of industrial experience in product design
and development, so I tend to see some problems from a different perspective.
Here is an
example.
This page contains random bits of what I do here at Davis. I'll try to keep it updated (the usual lie). No blog, no time, sorry. Contact: oralonso at ucdavis dot edu or oralonso at gmail dot com About the picture. |
News: Got a poster accepted for SIGIR 08 on Scatter/Gather with Extensions.
A bit old news: With Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research), we were organizing the workshop
"Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval" for ECIR 2008. The workshop went very well and we got lots of good feedback. Next step: a
special issue for IP&M. More later.
Last year I was at SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam, where I did demo the project. I also presented in the Industry day on sensemaking. I did participate on the ESI CHI 2007 workshop, showing my demo on exploratory search using timelines.
Publications:
As part of the research on MSR, I did a couple of prototypes (including visualization): expertise identification on open source and contributor analysis on the Apache CVS logfile. A big thanks to the Apache folks for providing me original data.
Did a short stint at SAP Research. Some relevant content:
Before that, I used to work for Oracle in the database group as part of the team responsible for the underlying information retrieval API called Oracle Text and the Secure Enterprise Search product. Other relevant work that I did: