The University of Sheffield
Information School

Information Retrieval Research Group: Staff Listing

Academic Staff

Name Research Interests
Professor Elaine Toms (Head of Research Group)
Professor Nigel Ford Information storage and retrieval; artificial intelligence and expert systems; libraries and learning; audio-visual librarianship; academic librarianship; the psychology of human information processing; computer-assisted learning.
Dr Paul Clough (senior lecturer) Information storage and retrieval, particularly multilingual searching of texts and images; evaluation of retrieval systems; and natural language processing for advanced information retrieval.
Dr Robert Villa (lecturer) Interactive Information retrieval, in particular interactive image and video retrieval; supporting complex search tasks; collaborative search; and the evaluation of information retrieval systems.