Research

Research Interests and Publications

I'm a member of the Search Engine Group at RMIT University.

My research interests include:

• Web and enterprise search
• Evaluation
• Interactive search and user modelling
• Retrieval models
• Query refinement and expansion
• Document summarisation
• Cross-lingual information retrieval
• Music information retrieval
• Efficient indexing

List of recent publications.

Research Supervision

Abdul Mohsen Afaf M Almalawi ("Similarity Scores and Anchor Text for Effective Query Difficulty Prediction", MBC, 2009)

Neeraj Arora ("Searching Using Bookmarks", Honours, 2007)

Jelita Asian ("Effective Techniques for Indonesian Text Retrieval", PhD, 2007)

Graham Bennett ("A Comparative Study of Language Models for Information Retrieval", MBC, 2006)

Bodo von Billerbeck ("Efficient Query Expansion", PhD, 2005)

Jasbir Dhaliwal (PhD, current)

Michael Harris ("Effective Retrieval to Support Learning", PhD, 2011)

Chris Hoobin (PhD, current)

Mujtaba Hussain ("Anticipating Search Needs in Real Time Help Desk Environments", Honours, 2008)

Sarvnaz Karimi ("Machine Transliteration of Proper Names between English and Persian", PhD, 2008)

Sadegh Kharazmi (PhD, current)

Rosette Kidwani ("Maintaining Data Cubes Under Slowly Changing Dimensions", MBR, 2007)

Lorena Leal Bando (PhD, current)

Hilal Ali Abdullah Al Maqbali (PhD, current)

Abdusalam Nwesri ("Effective Retrieval Techniques for Arabic Text", PhD, 2008)

Matthias Petri (PhD, current)

Sargol Sadeghi (PhD, current)

Milad Shokouhi ("Federated Text Retrieval from Independent Collections", PhD, 2008)

Iman Suyoto ("Cross-Domain Content-Based Retrieval of Audio Music through Transcription", PhD, 2009)

Marcel Tjandraatmadja ("Answer Consistency for Search Engines", Honours, 2005)