B08 - last change: 17-01-2007

BOBCATSSS 2008
Providing Access to Information for Everyone

Events
	OPACs' users' interface – do they need any improvements?

Piotr Malak

Piotr Malak is a research assistant at Institute of Information Science and Book Knowledge, Nicolas Copernicus University Torun (Poland), since 2001 and a member of Polish Information Processing Society. He provides, among others, authorial courses on “Knowledge and Information Management Systems”, and “Intranets”. Main interests: data mining, information retrieval and extraction, effective information and knowledge management and management information systems, artificial intelligence (automatic knowledge base expansion, expert systems), computer linguistic (automatic evaluation of digital documents informational value, linguistic rules of natural language in digital documents), computer network and web technologies.

P. M. has also given mentioned above courses as guest lectures at Universities in Ankara, and Amsterdam, soon in Vilnius, as well as an English-driven courses for Socrates/Erasmus students in Torun. Science links with ITC, holding professional titles of: MCP (70-210,290) and CNA (050-853). Main publications: 1.Malak P. (editor), Peñas I. (editor), 18th Workshop of Marie Curie Fellows Research Training in Progress. Language and the Future. Held in Engelberg-Luzern Switzerland 21-25 May 2005. (ISBN 92-79-00787-4) European Commission, Brussels 2005. 2.Malak P., Lingubot for the Library - initial case study - [in:] Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, 2nd Language & Technology Conference Proceedings (ISBN 83-7177-349-8), Poznan 2005, p. 382 – 385. 3.Malak P., Application of the evaluation of the information value of digital documents for library collection establishing, [in:] Biblioteki wobec nowych zadan, red. dr hab. E. Głowacka, Torun 2004, p. 109-128 Participant, organizer and sympathizer of BOBCATSSS since 1999.

Contact

piomk at uni dot torun dot pl