Doctor of Philosophy (PhD Information Retrieval)

Ph.D Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval group has strong expertise in structured document retrieval and business information domains. Members of our group have been at the leading edge of information retrieval research developing specialised search tools for applications including ecommerce, financial service portals, computer crime detection, as well as patient management in medical fields.Personalised recommender systems aim to help users access and retrieve relevant items from large collections, by automatically identifying products or services of likely interest based on observed evidence of the users’ preferences. For many reasons, user preferences are difficult to guess, and therefore recommender systems have a considerable variance in their success ratio in estimating the user’s tastes.