My master's research is in info retrieval and text mining. I would be grateful if you could help me to select a good topic for my phd research proposal.
Maybe it could be interesting the semantic similarity between words/sentences/documents. It has many useful applications and you could develop a proposal jointly with an tangible case of study.
Great! You can use ML to feature & visualize the patterns in Healthcare systems especially related to the readiness of defending infectious diseases in third world countries.
There is a growing interest in applyling machine learning to physical sciences, e.g., data-driven turbuelcen closure modeling, sparse-based discovering of governing equations, deep learning-based predictive modeling of chaos.
You can go for, Integrating text mining with information retrieval towards designing an intelligent search engine that is discovery driven, rather than just query driven..