Publications

Google Scholar publications information for Falk Scholer

• Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin, and Mark Sanderson.
  Quantifying test collection quality based on the consistency of relevance judgements.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 1063-1072, Beijing, China, 2011.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Justin Zobel, and Falk Scholer.
  Quantifying the impact of concept recognition on biomedical information retrieval.
  Information Processing and Management, 48:94-106, 2011.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Machine transliteration survey.
  ACM Computing Surveys, 43(3):1 - 46, 2011.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Topic distillation with query-dependent link connections and page characteristics.
  ACM Transactions on the Web, 5(2):1-25, 2011.
  
  
• Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer.
  User performance versus precision measures for simple web search tasks.
  In Human Communication Science: A Compendium, pages 107-123. The ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science, 2011.
  
  
• Sadegh Kharazmi, Falk Scholer, and Mingfang Wu.
  RMIT university at TREC 2010: Session track.
  In The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, MD, 2011. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Relatively relevant: Assessor shift in document judgements.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 60-67, Melbourne, Australia, 2010.
  
  
• Lorena Leal Bando, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Constructing query-biased summaries: a comparison of human and system generated snippets.
  In Proceeding of the third symposium on Information interaction in context (IIiX'10), pages 195-204, New Brunswick, NJ, 2010.
  
  
• Hilal Ali Al Maqbali, Falk Scholer, James Thom, and Mingfang Wu.
  Evaluating the effectiveness of visual summaries for web search.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 36-43, Melbourne, Australia, 2010.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Stefan Pohl, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon, and Justin Zobel.
  Boolean versus ranked querying for biomedical systematic reviews.
  BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1):58, 2010.
  
  
• William Webber, Douglas Oard, Falk Scholer, and Bruce Hedin.
  Assessor error in stratified evaluation.
  In Proceedings of the ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 571-580, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
  
  
• Minfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Simon Puglisi, Falk Scholer, and James Thom.
  Presenting query semantics to support user interaction in exploratory search.
  In Proc. Australian User Interface Conference 2010, pages 27-36, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.
  
  
• Michael C. Harris, James A. Thom, and Falk Scholer.
  How consistent are human judgments of whether an open resource is educational material?
  In Australasian Database Conference, pages 9-18, 2010.
  
  
• David Newman, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Eric Huang, Sarvnaz Karimi, David Martinez, Falk Scholer, and Justin Zobel.
  Visualizing search results and document collections using topic maps.
  Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 8(2-3):169-175, 2010.
  
  
• Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Kalervo Järvelin, Mingfang Wu, and J. Shane Culpepper.
  Including summaries in system evaluation.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 508-515, Boston, MA, 2009.
  
  
• Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin.
  Metric and relevance mismatch in retrieval evaluation.
  In The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), pages 50-62, Sapporo, Japan, 2009.
  
  
• Falk Scholer and Steven Garcia.
  A case for improved evaluation of query difficulty prediction.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 640-641, Boston, MA, 2009.
  
  
• Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer.
  Using simple agreement to reconcile batch and user information retrieval experiments.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 51-58, Sydney, Australia, 2009.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Justin Zobel, Stefan Pohl, and Falk Scholer.
  The challenge of high recall in biomedical systematic search.
  In ACM Third International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics, pages 89-92, Hong Kong, 2009.
  
  
• Hilal Ali Al Maqbali, Falk Scholer, James Thom, and Mingfang Wu.
  User interaction with novel web search interfaces.
  In 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
  
  
• Hilal Ali Al Maqbali, Falk Scholer, James Thom, and Mingfang Wu.
  Do users find looking at text more useful than visual representations? a comparison of three search result interfaces.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 35-42, Sydney, Australia, 2009.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, and James A. Thom.
  The impact of query length and document length on book search effectiveness.
  In Advances in Focused Retrieval, pages 172-178, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2009.
  
  
• Ying Zhang, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  RMIT university at TREC 2008: Legal track.
  In The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaithersburg, MD, 2009. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Yohannes Tsegay, Falk Scholer, and Simon Puglisi.
  RMIT university at TREC 2008: Relevance feedback track.
  In The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaithersburg, MD, 2009. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, and Steven Garcia.
  RMIT university at TREC 2008: Enterprise track.
  In The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaithersburg, MD, 2009. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin, and Mingfang Wu.
  Measuring user relevance criteria.
  In The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008), pages 47-56, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
  
  
• Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin.
  Relevance thresholds in system evaluations.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 693-694, Singapore, Singapore, 2008.
  
  
• Iman S. H. Suyoto, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, and Falk Scholer.
  Searching musical audio using symbolic queries.
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(2):372-381, 2008.
  
  
• Ying Zhao, Falk Scholer, and Yohannes Tsegay.
  Effective pre-retrieval query performance prediction using similarity and variability evidence.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, pages 52-64, Glasgow, UK, 2008.
  
  
• Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, and Andrew Turpin.
  Using clicks as implicit judgments: Expectations versus observations.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, pages 28-39, Glasgow, UK, 2008.
  
  
• Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Investigating the reliability of clickthrough data for document reordering.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, pages 591-595, Glasgow, UK, 2008.
  
  
• Graham Bennett, Falk Scholer, and Alexandra Uitdenbogerd.
  A comparative study of probabilistic and language models for information retrieval.
  In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian Database Conference, pages 65-74, Wollongong, Australia, 2008.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Simon Puglisi, and Halil Ali.
  RMIT university at the TREC 2007 enterprise track.
  In The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  User preference choices for complex question answering.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 717-718, Singapore, Singapore, 2008.
  
  
• Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay, and Ross Wilkinson.
  TREC 2007 ciQA track at RMIT and CSIRO.
  In The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• James Thom and Falk Scholer.
  A comparison of evaluation measures given how users perform on search tasks.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 100-103, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.
  
  
• Ying Zhao and Falk Scholer.
  Predicting query performance for user-based search tasks.
  In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 112-115, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.
  
  
• Iman S. H. Suyoto, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, and Falk Scholer.
  Effective retrieval of polyphonic audio with polyphonic symbolic queries.
  In MIR '07: Proceedings of the international workshop on Workshop on multimedia information retrieval, pages 105-114, Augsburg, Germany, 2007.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, and Andrew Turpin.
  Collapsed consonant and vowel models: New approaches for English-Persian transliteration and back-transliteration.
  In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, pages 648-655, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, and Falk Scholer.
  Corpus effects on the evaluation of automated transliteration systems.
  In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, pages 640-647, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  
  
• Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval.
  Information Processing and Management, 43:169-180, 2007.
  
  
• Abdusalam F. Ahmad Nwesri, S. M. M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Answering English queries in automatically transcribed Arabic speech.
  In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS2007), pages 11-16, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.
  
  
• Abdusalam F. Ahmad Nwesri, S. M. M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Finding variants of out-of-vocabulary words in Arabic.
  In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources (CASL2007), pages 49-56, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
  
  
• Abdusalam F. Ahmad Nwesri, S. M. M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Finding variants of out-of-vocabulary words in Arabic.
  In Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Arabic Language Processing, Rabat, Morocco, 2007.
  
  
• Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer.
  User performance versus precision measures for simple web search tasks.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 11-18, Seattle, WA, 2006.
  
  
• Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Bodo Billerbeck, and Larry Abel.
  Examining the pseudo-standard web search engine results page.
  In Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pages 9-16, Brisbane, Australia, 2006.
  
  
• Abdusalam Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Capturing out-of-vocabulary words in Arabic text.
  In Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 258-266, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
  
  
• Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi.
  Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 316-323, Seattle, WA, 2006.
  
  
• Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, and Falk Scholer.
  English to Persian transliteration.
  In String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), pages 255-266, Glasgow, UK, 2006.
  
  
• Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, and Justin Zobel.
  Sample sizes for query probing in uncooperative distributed information retrieval.
  In Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), pages 63-75, Harbin, China, 2006.
  
  
• Steven Garcia, Nicholas Lester, Falk Scholer, and Milad Shokouhi.
  RMIT university at TREC 2006: Terabyte track.
  In The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, 2007. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Charles Clarke, Falk Scholer, and Ian Soboroff.
  The TREC 2005 terabyte track.
  In The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg, MD, 2006. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Yaniv Bernstein, Bodo Billerbeck, Steven Garcia, Nicholas Lester, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel, and William Webber.
  RMIT university at TREC 2005: Terabyte and robust track.
  In The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg, MD, 2006. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  
  
• Abdusalam Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and Falk Scholer.
  Stemming Arabic conjunctions and prepositions.
  In String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), pages 206-217, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005.
  
  
• Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, and Andrew Turpin.
  Query association surrogates for web search.
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(7):637-650, 2004.
  
  
• Falk Scholer.
  Query Association for Effective Retrieval.
  PhD thesis, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.
  
  
• Bodo Billerbeck, Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, and Justin Zobel.
  Query expansion using associated queries.
  In Proceedings of the ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 2-9, New Orleans, LA, 2003.
  
  
• Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, and Justin Zobel.
  Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 222-229, Tampere, Finland, 2002.
  
  
• Falk Scholer and Hugh E. Williams.
  Query association for effective retrieval.
  In Proceedings of the ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 324-331, McLean, VA, 2002.
  
  
• Falk Scholer.
  Data compression using feedforward autoassociator neutral networks.
  Master's thesis, University of London (UCL), London, UK, 1996.