Guest Talk "Finding the Needle in the Haystack: A Journey Through Information Access, Retrieval, and Human-Centric AI"

14/10/2025

Ingo Frommholz 

Date/Time: 22.10.2025, 12:00 

Location: D2.0.326 

Abstract 

In an era of information overload, which exists also in academia, the ability to effectively access and retrieve relevant, high-quality information is more critical than ever. The overarching goal is making information systems more intelligent, human-centric, and trustworthy. I present key developments in information retrieval (IR), including quantum-inspired approaches to model complex information needs, and interactive academic search enhanced by bibliometrics. I also explore recent advances in deep learning for authorship attribution and the role of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in bridging IR and generative AI. The talk highlights both theoretical foundations and practical applications as well as the proposal of a  'machine-in-the-loop paradigm’.

Bio 

Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz is Professor and Head of the School of Applied Data Science at Modul University Vienna, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on interactive information retrieval, quantum-inspired models, AI and deep learning, natural language processing, retrieval-augmented generation, and bibliometric-enhanced retrieval, with applications ranging from scholarly information access, digital humanities and scientometrics to cyberstalking detection. He has been Principal Investigator of major international projects such as the EU Horizon Europe OMINO project on information overload and the EU H2020 QUARTZ project on quantum-inspired information access, with a funding portfolio exceeding 5 million EUR. Ingo is Chair of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, Senior Managing Editor of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer), and serves on the steering committees of leading ACM conferences including CIKM and SIGIR-ICTIR. He has published more than 100 scholarly works, supervised and examined PhD students across Europe, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) as well as the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

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