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Information Access and Retrieval Lab (Tokinori Suzuki)
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A lab that searches official documents and historical materials to find the information people need.

AboutAbout the lab
Technology for finding information and putting it to use.
The Information Curation Lab studies the technologies and challenges involved in discovering and making use of information.
Its main themes are document retrieval for official documents, and information extraction and automated analysis of historical materials.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Information Curation Lab."
Key terms
- Information retrieval
- Technology for finding the information you want among large collections of documents and materials
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- A method in which materials found through search are given to a generative AI, which then produces text based on them
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the technologies and challenges involved in discovering and making use of information. Focusing on official documents and historical materials, it works on using information retrieval technology to find materials and on extracting information from them.
*Illustrative imageDocument retrieval for official documents
The lab studies retrieval technology for finding the materials people want among official documents. It also develops mechanisms that support searching official documents by using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
*Illustrative imageInformation extraction and automated analysis of historical materials
The lab studies technology that extracts information from historical materials and analyzes it automatically.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorTokinori Suzuki
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- Top image: “LOC Main Reading Room Highsmith” Carol M. Highsmith / Public domain (cropped)
- Document retrieval for official documents: “Hollinger box (angle view)” WilliamDenton / CC0 (cropped)
- Information extraction and automated analysis of historical materials: “Historical documents in the Swedish National archives” OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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