I hold a PhD (Dr.) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, which I received in 1986. I became Associate Professor in the computer science department of the University of Dortmund in 1991 and was appointed Full Professor for computer science at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2002. My current research interests are retrieval models, networked digital library architectures, user-oriented retrieval methods and the evaluation of digital libraries.

I have served as regular PC memeber of major international conferences related to information retrieval and digital libraries, such as ACM-SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR, SPIRE, ICDL, ECDL, ICADL, FQAS. I was PC chair of ECIR 2002, IR track chair of CIKM 2005 and Co-Chair of SIGIR 2007. For the German IR-group GI-FGIR, I served as Chair from 1992-2008.

I am a member of the editorial boards of the journals Information Retrieval, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, International Journal of Digital Libraries, and Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval.

BildName:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Fuhr
E-Mail:norbert.fuhr@uni-due.de
Telephone:+49 (0) 203 / 379 - 2524
Fax:+49 (0) 203 / 379 - 2549
Room:LF 135
Consulting hours: by arrangement
 

Contact person in projects


DELOS
A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6)
ALFA
Latin-America Academic Training
CAIR
Semantic Cluster Analysis in Information Retrieval
CLASSIX
Classification and Intelligent Search on Information in XML
CYCLADES
An Open Collaborative Virtual Archives Environment
DAFFODIL
Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries
DELOS
A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
ELIAS
ELIAS - Evaluating Information Access Systems (ESF Research Networking Program)
FOCUS
Focussed retrieval of structured documents
HIIR
Highly Interactive Information Retrieval
INEX
Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval
Khresmoi
Medical Information Analysis & Retrieval
LACOSTIR
LAyout, COntent and STructure in Interactive Retrieval
MIND
Resource Selection and Data Fusion for Multimedia International Digital Libraries
MUMIA
MUMIA - Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access (COST ICT Action)
Pepper
Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Complex Digital Libraries
PIRE
Probabilistic IR Engine
POLAR
Probabilistic Object-oriented Logics for Annotation-based Retrieval
RSNSR
Rule-Based Search in Text Data Bases with Nonstandard Spelling

Involved in projects


HyREX
Hyper-media Retrieval Engine for XML

Lecturer



Publications


Nils Pharo; Ragnar Nordlie; Norbert Fuhr; Thomas Beckers; Khairun Nisa Fachry (2010).
Overview of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2009)
M. Agosti; S. Berretti; G. Brettlecker; A. Del Bimbo; N. Ferro; N. Fuhr; D. Keim; C.-P. Klas; Th. Lidy; M. Norrie; P. Ranaldi; A. Rauber; H.-J. Schek; T. Schreck; H. Schuldt; B. Signer; M. Springmann (2007).
DELOS DLMS - the Integrated DELOS Digital Management System. In: DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries. , Tirrenia, Pisa (Italy).
Norbert Fuhr; Giannis Tsakonas; Trond Aalberg; Maristella Agosti; Preben Hansen; Sarantos Kapidakis; Claus-Peter Klas; Lazlo Kovas; Monica Landoni; Andras Micsik; Christos Papatheodorou; Carol Peters; Ingeborg Solvberg (2007).
Evaluation of Digital Libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) 8(1)
Mohammad Abolhassani; Norbert Fuhr; Norbert Gövert; Kai Großjohann (2002).
HyREX: Hypermedia Retrieval Engine for XML. Research Report , University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science, Dortmund, Germany
M. Lalmas; Th. R?leke; N. Fuhr (2002).
Intelligent Hypermedia Retrieval. In: P.~S. Szczepaniak; F. Segovia; L.~A. Zadeh (eds.): Intelligent Exploration of the Web
Norbert Fuhr; Norbert Gövert; Mounia Lalmas; Fabrizio Sebastiani (1999).
Categorisation tool, final prototype. Technical Report, University of Dortmund, Computer Science 6. EuroSearch deliverable 4.1, LE4-8303
Norbert Fuhr; Norbert Gövert; Mounia Lalmas; Fabrizio Sebastiani (1998).
Categorisation Specification. Technical Report, University of Dortmund, Computer Science 6. EuroSearch deliverable 4.1, LE4-8303
N. Fuhr (1996).
Extending Probabilistic Datalog. In: Proceedings 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval, Uncertainty and Logic, University of Glasgow, Department of Computing Science
T. Rölleke; N. Fuhr (1996).
Composite Documents and Uncertain Inference. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval, Uncertainty and Logic, University of Glasgow, Department of Computing Science
N. Fuhr (1989).
Optimum Polynomial Retrieval Functions. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, New York.
P. Biebricher; N. Fuhr; B. Niewelt (1986).
Der AIR-Retrievaltest. In: Automatische Indexierung zwischen Forschung und Anwendung

Talks


Norbert Fuhr (2006).
Evaluation Plans for TEL. Talk at the Joint DELOS and The European Library Technical Group Workshop, Paris
Mohammad Abolhassani; Norbert Fuhr; Saadia Malik (2003).
HyREX at INEX 2003. Talk at the INEX Workshop, Dagstuhl

Diploma, Master and Bachelor theses

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Finished diploma thesis