Sándor Dominich (July 12, 1954 – August 13, 2008) was the

George Pólya George Pólya (; hu, Pólya György, ; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental ...

Professor of Computer Science, and the founding leader of th
Centre for Information RetrievalFaculty of Information Technology

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. Born in

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, Dominich proposed the Interaction

Information Retrieval Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...

(I2R) model based on the

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using Artificial Neural Networks. The I2R model was implemented in th
I2RMeta
Web meta-search engine, in th

medical image intranet search engine, and in th

intranet search engines. He died at the age of 54 in

Sopron Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...

in 2008. Dominich is the author of the books "Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval",

Kluwer Academic Publishers Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

, (now

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), 2001, and "The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval",

, 2008.

External links

Book CoverBook CoverResearch group homepage"Mathematical, logical, and formal methods in information retrieval: an introduction to the special issue"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 54, Issue 4 (February 2003). pgs. 281–284. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dominich, Sandor Hungarian computer scientists People from Aiud 2008 deaths 1954 births