1. enIRaF (Marie Curie Project): enhanced information retrieval and filtering for analytical systems Ying Ding

2. Project Data Full title: Enhanced Information Retrieval and Filtering for Analytical Systems Short Title: ENIRAF Proposal number: FP6-509766 Contract number: MTKD-CT-2004-509766 Duration of the project: 48 Months Starting date: Oct 1, 2004 Total Budget: 265KEURO for the whole project

3. Goals The main goal of the project is to build new competencies of the Department in order to achieve a European level of research in information retrieval and filtering from the Internet.

4. Consortium Co-ordinator: The Poznań University of Economics (PL) Partner: –Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE), –Hogskolen i Stavanger (NO), –Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet (AT), –Kuratorium OFFISS e.V. (DE), –Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg (DE), –The University of Sheffield (UK), –University of Twente (NL)

5. Innovation The innovative concept is to join the achievements in information filtering, knowledge representation and decision support systems. Semantic Web technologies and especially the use of ontologies, are expected to enable a much higher degree of automation and scalability in performing operations pertaining to the searching and extracting information.

6. Current Status Work been done: –Host of Krzysztof Wecel from January 1, 2005 to March 31, 2005, topic: Semantic Web Technologies –Host of Witold Abramowicz from May 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005, topic: Web Services. Future work plan for DERI

7. Workplan WP1: formal models of ontologies WP2: tools for ontologies WP3: Semantic Web Technologies WP4: Filtering of personal information WP5: Decision making process WP6: Web services WP7: Semantic Web Modelling in KAON WP8: Ontologies for Information Retrieval and Filtering 1 WP9: Learning communities supported by Information Filtering WP10: Time context of information WP11: Spatial context of information WP12: Mobile information filtering WP13: Ontologies for information retrieval and filtering 2 WP14: Human language technology WP15: Ontologies for information retrieval and filtering 3 Wp16: Virtual reality enhanced filtering