search among secrets
In the field of information retrieval, we take it as our goal to help people find what they want to see. In this talk Professor Oard will argue that it is high time that we also begin to formalize our thinking about preventing people from finding things that they should not see. Back when information was scarce, we could do this just by keeping things that should not be seen out of our index. But today it is increasingly common to find important information (i.e., information that should be found) intermixed with sensitive information that needs to be protected for one reason or another (personal privacy, commercial interests, national security, etc). As with every problem that we work on, this is not a matter of all or nothing. Rather, the challenge is to balance the risks. Our first goal, therefore, must be to articulate what it would mean to succeed at a search among secrets task. We’ll begin the talk by reviewing a few search among secrets tasks, followed by a deep dive into some recent research on one such task – the protection of privileged content in civil litigation. We’ll then draw on that story to begin to lay out a structure for thinking about evaluation of information abolition, and finally we’ll conclude by articulating a few challenges that we will need to address as we tackle an increasing range of such tasks.
About the Speaker
Douglas W. Oard is a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with joint appointments in the College of Information Studies (Maryland’s iSchool) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Dr. Oard earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. His research interests center around the use of emerging technologies to support information seeking by end users, and he is co-author of Information Retrieval for e-Discovery (2013). Dr. Oard is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation Conference held in Singapore since 2015. Additional information is available at http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~oard/. |
Date/Time
Venue Type of Event |
Wednesday 25 May 2016, 6pm-7.30pm.
The British Council, 30 Napier Road Case Discussion | Networking | Panel | Site Visit | Talk & Discussion | Workshop * This talk was offered in collaboration with NTU Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information |
Resources
Here are the slides presented by Professor Oard. Click here to download.
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