Finnish Information Retrieval Expert Group (FIRE)

 FIRE is a group of Finnish researchers and post-graduate students in Information Retrieval. FIRE members pursue basic and applied research on all aspects of information storage and retrieval, including bibliographic, text and multimedia databases, database design and reorganization, and document management. Much of FIRE's empirical research is based on the test collections (both text and picture documents) at the Information Retrieval Lab of the Department. FIRE organizes informal research meetings and seminar. FIRE is open to researchers and post-graduate students interested in IR. For further information about the group and its activities, contact Prof. Jaana Kekäläinen.