Research

Group's research has been focused in the last years on information retrieval models; crawling and indexing techniques; efficiency on storage systems and information processing; distributed information retrieval techniques and specific tasks such as web retrieval, multimedia retrieval, document classification and clustering, summary generation, etc. Based on this research the group has developed innovative tools and software products, which are being used by companies and government.

The group has been partner in various joint projects, networks and platforms with prestigious research groups, companies and institutions at regional, national and international levels. Group's research quality is reflected by many publications in reference conferences of the field such as ACM-SIGIR, ACM-CIKM, ACM-SAC, ECIR, SPIRE, etc. and on high-impact journals such as ACM-TOIS, Information Retrieval, JASIST, Information Systems, etc. As a result of the group interest in technology transfer, the IRLab has carried out several industrial projects: NowOnWeb, a news search platform, Lexisla, a searcher for legislative information, CoruñaCorpusTool, a tool for the management of linguistic corpus, adSearch, a web advertisement search engine and mOCRa, a mobile OCR application for mobile devices and phones.

Dr. Álvaro Barreiro is the leader of IRLab. He is an ACM Senior Member, he has been member of the program committee of many top conferences in the field and has been reviewer for journals and national and European research agencies. He also has been the main researcher of several research and development projects funded by several governments and companies.

The group has among its members PhD. in Mathematics, PhD. in Computer Science and Computer Science engineers with extensive experience in research and technology transfer.