University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: October 2020

Guest Lecture: Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks

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Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks Guest Speaker: Yue Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science Date/Time: Nov 17 at 3 p.m., Central Time Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96378926598?pwd=NkNuRjJ3M2FyQlNmT0hzNjBpc2tMZz09 In professional search tasks such as precision medicine literature search, a query often involves multiple aspects. To assess …

New Faculty Profile: Dr. Jiepu Jiang

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Jiepu Jiang comes to the iSchool with and MS in Information Science from Wuhan University and a PhD n Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims at understanding, evaluating, and enhancing search systems and conversational systems (e.g., Siri, Cortana, and Alexa) using behavioral data. His work has addressed the challenges …

Corey Jackson wins awards for best paper

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Corey B. Jackson, the Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow at the iSchool, won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award as part of the 2020 CSCW conference (Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). The paper is titled “Shifting forms of Engagement: Volunteer Learning in Online Citizen Science.” Dr. Jackson also received an …

New Faculty Profile: Dr. Corey Jackson

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Dr. Corey Jackson joined the iSchool as a Postdoctoral Scholar this fall and will stay on as a faculty member in Fall 2021. Dr. Jackson earned an M.S. in Library and Information Science at the Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University. Could you please describe your …