Information Retrieval and Data Science Group at USC

The Information Retrieval and Data Science Group’s (I.R.D.S.) mission is to research and develop new methodology and open source software to analyze, ingest, process, and manage Big Data and to turn it into information. We contribute to the world’s largest and most often downloaded open source software projects, we apply tried and true techniques including content detection and analysis, crawling, deduplication, similarity, named entity recognition, construction of inverted indices, query analysis, search, relevancy and ranking, interactive query analysis, and management of large data sets. We have expertise in data collection, working with NASA, DARPA, DHS, NIH across a number of domains, Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astronomy, defense, and private industry.