Projects
The ielab works on a diversity of research projects in the fields of information retrieval, data science, and health informatics. Research strengths include:
- Formal models of Information Retrieval: retrieval models, learning to rank, deep learning, user models, evaluation of information retrieval systems.
- Health Search and Health Data Science: models, systems, evaluation for tasks in consumer health search, clinical decision support, precision medicine, search for systematic review compilation, cohort selection for clinical trials.
- Domain-specific search: case law retrieval.
All Projects

AgAsk
A Question-Answering Conversational Agent for Data-Driven Growing Decisions
Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Anton van der Vegt, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
The AgAsk project is funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, under grant number UOQ2003-009RTX ($765,234.8).
Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Anton van der Vegt, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
The AgAsk project is funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, under grant number UOQ2003-009RTX ($765,234.8).

Case Law Citation Search
A search engine for legal case law.
Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon
Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon

Clara
No subtitle provided.
Anton van der Vegt, Monica Noselli, Guido Zuccon
Anton van der Vegt, Monica Noselli, Guido Zuccon

Clinical Desicion Support
No subtitle provided.
Anton van der Vegt, Guido Zuccon
Anton van der Vegt, Guido Zuccon

Consumer Health Search
No subtitle provided.
Sebastian Cross, Jimmy, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Joao Palotti
Sebastian Cross, Jimmy, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Joao Palotti

Conversational Search
No subtitle provided.
Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Anton van der Vegt, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
This research is partially funded by the AgAsk project, Grains Research and Development Corporation, under grant number UOQ2003-009RTX ($765,234.8).
Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Anton van der Vegt, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
This research is partially funded by the AgAsk project, Grains Research and Development Corporation, under grant number UOQ2003-009RTX ($765,234.8).

Federated Online Learning to Rank
No subtitle provided.
Shuyi Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon
Shuyi Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

Online Learning to Rank
No subtitle provided.
Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon
Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

QUIET
No subtitle provided.
Anton van der Vegt, Daniel Locke, Monica Noselli, Guido Zuccon
Anton van der Vegt, Daniel Locke, Monica Noselli, Guido Zuccon

Systematic Review Literature Search
Develop methods and tools for improving how experts search for literature for systematic reviews.
Xinyu Mao, Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Xinyu Mao, Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

Transformers for Information Retrieval
Transformers and Large Language Models for Information Retrieval.
Shengyao Zhuang, Hang Li, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon
Shengyao Zhuang, Hang Li, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon