1. An Open Source Environment to construct Information Services for Children

2. Motivation for the Project Inspired by art.17 of the convention on the Rights of the Child Create a world-wide child-friendly Information Retrieval System Assist children in learning, education and networking Project Coordinator: University of Twente

3. PuppyIR is… Information Services Retrieval for children Opinion mining for children Expert finding for children Summarization for children Multi-lingual / translation Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures) Aggregated documents Blogsearch for children Information filtering / Adult filtering Question Answering for children Interface Childfriendly interface Query handling and (re)formulation Browsing Interactive Media Design Matching Age classification Language processing (age, complexity, query) Topic classification Modality Reasoning / Children Semantics Collaboration (group relevance decision) Devices Mobile devices Location based services Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012

4. PuppyIR is… Information Services Retrieval for children Opinion mining for children Expert finding for children Summarization for children Multi-lingual / translation Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures) Aggregated documents Blogsearch for children Information filtering / Adult filtering Question Answering for children Interface Childfriendly interface Query handling and (re)formulation Browsing Interactive Media Design Matching Age classification Language processing (age, complexity, query) Topic classification Modality Reasoning / Children Semantics Collaboration (group relevance decision) Devices Mobile devices Location based services Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012

5. PuppyIR is… Information Services Retrieval for children Opinion mining for children Expert finding for children Summarization for children Multi-lingual / translation Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures) Aggregated documents Blogsearch for children Information filtering / Adult filtering Question Answering for children Interface Childfriendly interface Query handling and (re)formulation Browsing Interactive Media Design Matching Age classification Language processing (age, complexity, query) Topic classification Modality Reasoning / Children Semantics Collaboration (group relevance decision) Devices Mobile devices Location based services Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012

6. PuppyIR is… Information Services Retrieval for children Opinion mining for children Expert finding for children Summarization for children Multi-lingual / translation Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures) Aggregated documents Blogsearch for children Information filtering / Adult filtering Question Answering for children Interface Childfriendly interface Query handling and (re)formulation Browsing Interactive Media Design Matching Age classification Language processing (age, complexity, query) Topic classification Modality Reasoning / Children Semantics Collaboration (group relevance decision) Devices Mobile devices Location based services Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012

7. PuppyIR is… Information Services Retrieval for children Opinion mining for children Expert finding for children Summarization for children Multi-lingual / translation Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures) Aggregated documents Blogsearch for children Information filtering / Adult filtering Question Answering for children Interface Childfriendly interface Query handling and (re)formulation Browsing Interactive Media Design Matching Age classification Language processing (age, complexity, query) Topic classification Modality Reasoning / Children Semantics Collaboration (group relevance decision) Devices Mobile devices Location based services Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012

8. Children are very creative and open-minded Children are highly sensitive to emotion Children express their information needs differently from adults Children are particularly exposed to unsolicited material Information Services for use by children They need information services designed specifically for them! Delft Technical University University of Strathclyde University of Glasgow Atos Origin

9. PuppyIR will construct an open source framework for rapid development of information services Open Source IR Child-focused Child-friendly Catholic University of Leuven EMMA Kinderzeikenhuis AMC University of Twente

10. The PuppyIR Consortium http://www.puppyir.eu

11. Contacts for PuppyIR Franciska de Jong (project coordinator) Universiteit Twente Phone: +31 53 4894193 Email: f.m.g.dejong@utwente.nlf.m.g.dejong@utwente.nl http://www.puppyir.eu Paul Moore Atos Research & Innovation Phone: +34 91 214 5552 Email: paul.moore@atosresearch.eupaul.moore@atosresearch.eu