Authors

Dawid Weiss, PhD, the founder of the Carrot² project, is an associate professor at the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.

His research interests include text clustering, information retrieval, web mining, computational linguistics and software engineering.

His responsibilities in the Carrot² project include: project management, design and implementation of system core and components, Carrot² community support.

Stanislaw Osinski is the co-founder at Carrot Search and Software Developer at OpenX.

His research interests include search results clustering, information retrieval, text mining, user interface design and usability. He received his MSc degrees from Poznan University of Technology and The University of Sheffield.

His responsibilities in the Carrot² project include: design and implementation of the Lingo clustering algorithm and other components, Carrot² web application User Interface design, project website.

Other contributors: Karol Gołembniak, Irmina Masłowska (Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, HAOG clustering component, active since 2006), Michał Wróblewski (PUT, Poland, AHC clustering components, not active), Paweł Kowalik (PUT, Poland, Inductive search engine wrapper, not active), Steven Schockaert (University of Gent, Belgium, Fuzzy Ants clustering component, not active), Lang Ngo Chi (Warsaw University, Poland, Fuzzy Rough set clustering component, not active), Julien Nioche (DigitalPebble, UK, OpenSearch input component), Reinhard Schwab (improvements to the Lingo clustering algorithm), Sairaj Sunil (enhancements to the Lucene input component).

Carrot uses several open source projects -- we would like to thank all the contributors and supporters of free and open source software.