Kalervo Järvelin

Professor of Information Retrieval, 1996 to 2018, retired in 2018.

Academy Professor, Academy of Finland, 2004 - 2009.

Retired but active in rersearch, no teaching or admin responsibilities.

Expertise in information retrieval, especially evaluation of interactive information retrieval; and informetrics. 

ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award 2018 for significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval (http://sigir.org/awards/gerard-salton-awards/). Gerard Salton Award is the highest honor given by ACM SIGIR to recognize significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval.

Superviser of over 20 PhD Theses.

Development of evaluation metrics for interactive information retrieval.

The development of information science.

Computer science, information science.

Professor emeritus, 2018.

Professor of Information Retrieval, University of Tampere, 1996 - 2018.  

Academy Professor, Academy of Finland, 2004 – 2009.

Research Fellow, University of Tampere, Center for Advanced Study 2003 – 2004.

Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland, 1990 - 1991; 1994 - 1995; 2000 - 2001.

Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Tampere, 1988 -1996.

Järvelin, K. & Kekäläinen, J. (2002). Cumulated Gain-based Evaluation of IR Techniques. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS) 20(4): 422-446. 

Järvelin, K. & Kekäläinen, J. (2000). IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents. 23rd Annual Interna¬tional ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Devel-opment in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR '00), Athens, Greece, July 24-28, 2000. 

Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K. (2005). The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Dortrecht, NL: Springer. ISBN 1-4020-3850-X.

Byström, K. & Järvelin, K. (1995). Task Complexity Affects Information Seeking and Use. Information Processing & Management 31(2): 191 - 213.