Publications - James A. Thom

Journal articles

  1. "Entity ranking in Wikipedia: utilising categories, links and topic difficulty prediction", J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, A.-M. Vercoustre, and V. Naumovski, Information Retrieval, ISSN: 1386-4564 (Print) 1573-7659 (Online), Vol. 13, No. 5, October 2010, pp. 568-600. doi:10.1007/s10791-009-9125-9

  2. "Requirements-oriented methodology for evaluating ontologies?", J. Yu, J.A. Thom, and A. Tam, Information Systems Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization, ISSN: 0306-4379, Vol. 34, No. 8, December 2009, pp. 686-711. doi:10.1016/j.is.2009.04.002

  3. "Correctness-Aware High-Level Functional Matching Approaches For Semantic Web Services", I. Elgedawy, Z. Tari, and J.A. Thom, ACM Transactions on the Web, ISSN: 1559-1131, Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, Article 12, April 2008. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1346337.1346240

  4. "Modeling Human Judgment of Digital Imagery for Multimedia Retrieval", T. Volkmer, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, ISSN: 1520-9210, Special Issue on Semantic Image and Video Indexing in Broad Domains, Vol. 9, No. 5, August 2007, pp. 967-974. doi:10.1109/TMM.2007.900153

  5. "Hybrid XML Retrieval: Combining Information Retrieval and a Native XML Database", J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, and A.-M. Vercoustre, Information Retrieval, ISSN: 1386-4564 (Print) 1573-7659 (Online), Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005, pp. 571-600. doi:10.1007/s10791-005-0748-1

  6. "Collection Selection for Managed Distributed Document Databases", D. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Information Processing and Management, ISSN: 0306-4573, Vol. 40, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 527-546. doi:10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00008-6

  7. "Relevance judgments for assessing recall", P. Wallis and J.A. Thom, Information Processing and Management, ISSN: 0306-4573, Vol 32, No 3, May 1996, pp. 273-286. doi:10.1016/0306-4573(95)00061-5

  8. "Atlas: A Nested Relational Database System for Text Applications", R. Sacks-Davis, A. Kent, K. Ramamohanarao, J. Thom, and J. Zobel, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ISSN 1041-4347, Vol 7, No 3, June 1995, pp. 454-470. doi:10.1109/69.390250

  9. "A Model for Word Clustering", J.A. Thom and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, ISSN: 1532-2882, Vol. 43, Issue 9, October 1992, pp.616-627. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199210)43:9<616::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-A

  10. "TQL: a nested relational query language" J.A. Thom, A.J. Kent, and R. Sacks-Davis, Australian Computer Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, May 1991, pp.53-65.

  11. "The NU-Prolog Deductive Database System", K. Ramamohanarao, J. Shepherd, I. Balbin, G. Port, L. Naish, J. Thom, J. Zobel, and P. Dart, IEEE Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 10-19. Also appeared in: Prolog and databases, P.M.D. Gray and R.J. Lucas (eds), Ellis Horwood, Chichester, England, 1988, pp. 212-250. http://sites.computer.org/debull/87DEC-CD.pdf

  12. "Privacy Principles - Tacit Assumptions Under Threat", J.A. Thom and P.G. Thorne, Journal of Law and Information Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1986, pp. 68-82.

  13. "Partial Match Retrieval Using Hashing and Descriptors", K. Ramamohanarao, J.W. Lloyd, and J.A. Thom, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1983, pp. 552-576. doi:10.1145/319996.320006

  14. "Privacy Legislation and the Right of Access", J.A. Thom and P.G. Thorne, Australian Computer Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, November 1983, pp. 145-150.

Refereed Conference papers

  1. "Evaluating Semantic Browsers for Consuming Linked Data", F. Alahmari, J.A. Thom, L. Magee, and W. Wong, Proceedings 23nd Australasian Database Conference (ADC), Melbourne, 2012 (to appear).

  2. "Enforcing Strictness in Integration of Dimensions: Beyond Instance Matching", D. Riazati, J.A. Thom, and X. Zhang, ACM Fourteenth International Workshop On Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2011), (to appear).

  3. "Training a Named Entity Recognizer on the Web", D. Urbansky, D. Schuster, A. Schill, and J.A. Thom, The 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2011), A. Bouguettaya, M. Hauswirth, L. Liu (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6997, Springer, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 87-100. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24434-6_7

  4. "Matching Star Schemas", D. Riazati and J.A. Thom, Database and Expert Systems Applications: Proceedings 22nd International Conference, DEXA 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, Part II, A. Hameurlain, S.W. Liddle, K.-D. Schewe, X. Zhou (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6861, Springer, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 428-438. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23091-2_36

  5. "Overview of the INEX 2010 Web Service Discovery Track", J.A. Thom and C. Wu, Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval 9th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2010 Vugh, The Netherlands, December 13-15, 2010. Revised Selected Papers, S. Geva, J. Kaamps, R. Schenkel, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6932, Springer, 2011, pp. 332-335. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23577-1_31

  6. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Visual Summaries for Web Search", H.A. Maqbali, F. Scholer, J.A. Thom, and M. Wu, The Fifteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, December 10, 2010, pp. 36-43. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/adcs2010/proceedings/pdf/paper%2013.pdf

  7. "Criteria that have an effect on users while making image relevance judgements", R.A. Hamid and J.A. Thom, The Fifteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, December 10, 2010, pp. 76-83. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/adcs2010/proceedings/pdf/paper%202.pdf

  8. "Inferring Aggregation Hierarchies For Integration of Data Marts", D. Riazati, J. A. Thom, and X. Zhang, Database and Expert Systems Applications: Proceedings 21th International Conference, DEXA 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, Part II, P.G. Bringas, A. Hameurlain, and G. Quirchmayr (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6262, Springer, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 96-110. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15251-1_7

  9. "How consistent are human judgments of whether an open resource is educational material?", M.C. Harris, J.A. Thom, and F. Scholer, Database Technologies 2010: Proceedings of the Twenty-first Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2010), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 104, H.T. Shen and A. Bouguettaya (editors), Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010, pp 9-18. Vol104.pdf

  10. "Overview of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track", S. Geva, J. Kamps, M. Lethonen, R. Schenkel, J.A. Thom, and A. Trotman, Focused Retrieval and Evaluation 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009 Brisbane, Australia, December 7-9, 2009. Revised and Selected Papers, S. Geva, J. Kaamps, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6203, Springer, 2010, pp. 4-25. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14556-8_4

  11. "Presenting Query Aspects to Support Exploratory Search", M. Wu, A. Turpin, S. Puglisi, F. Scholer, and J.A. Thom, User Interfaces 2010: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2010), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 106, C. Lutteroth and P. Calder (editors), Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010, pp. 27-36 (sic) (by index) or pp. 23-32 (as actually numbered). Vol106.pdf

  12. "Do Users Find Looking at Text More Useful than Visual Representations? A Comparison of Three Search Result Interfaces", H.A. Maqbali, F. Scholer, J.A. Thom, and M. Wu, The Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, December 4, 2009, pp. 35-42. http://es.csiro.au/adcs2009/proceedings/oral-presentation/05-almaqbali.pdf

  13. "User Interaction with Novel Web Search Interfaces", H.A. Maqbali, F. Scholer, J.A. Thom, and M. Wu, OZCHI'09: Proceedings of the 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 November 23-27, 2009, pp 301-304.

  14. "Entity Extraction from the Web with WebKnox", D. Urbansky, M. Feldmann, J.A. Thom, and A. Schill, Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering - 2: Proceedings of the 6th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference - AWIC'2009, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 2009, V. Snasel, P.S. Szczepaniak, A. Abraham, and J. Kacprzyk (editors), Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Vol. 67, Springer, 2010, pp. 209-218. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10687-3_20

  15. "The Impact of Query Length and Document Length on Book Search Effectiveness", M. Wu, F. Scholer, and J.A. Thom, Advances in Focused Retrieval: 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2008 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 15-18, 2008. Revised and Selected papers, S. Geva, J. Kamps, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5631, Springer, September, 2009, pp. 172-178. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03761-0

  16. "Cost and Benefit Analysis of Mediated Enterprise Search", M. Wu, J.A. Thom, A. Turpin, and R. Wilkinson, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, Texas, June 15-19, 2009, pp. 267-276. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1555400.1555445

  17. "Combination of Documents Features Based on Simulated Click-through Data", A.M. Zareh Bidoki and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5478, Springer, 2009, pp. 538-545. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7

  18. "WebKnox: Web knowledge extraction", D. Urbansky, J.A. Thom, and M. Feldmann, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Hobart, Australia, December 8, 2008, pp. 27-34. http://es.csiro.au/adcs2008/proceedings/p05-urbansky.pdf

  19. "Overview of the INEX 2007 Entity Ranking Track", A.P. de Vries, A-M. Vercoustre, J.A. Thom, N. Craswell, and M. Lalmas, Focused Access to XML Documents 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-19, 2007. Selected Papers, N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4862, Springer, August, 2008, pp. 245-251. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4

  20. "Using Wikipedia Categories and Links in Entity Ranking", A-M. Vercoustre, J. Pehcevski, and J.A. Thom, Focused Access to XML Documents 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-19, 2007. Selected Papers, N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4862, Springer, August, 2008, pp. 321-335. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4

  21. "Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking", J. Pehcevski, A-M. Vercoustre, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, Scotland, March 30-April 3, 2008, pp. 258-269. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4956, Springer, 2008. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_25

  22. "A visual ontology query interface for content-based image retrieval", D.N.F. Awang Iskandar, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication: User Experience of ICTs, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 17-20, 2008, pp. 335-342. http://www.hft2008.org/images/paper/hft08.awangiskandar.pdf

  23. "Entity Ranking in Wikipedia", A-M. Vercoustre, J.A. Thom, and J. Pehcevski, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008, pp. 1101-1106. doi:10.1145/1363686.1363943

  24. "Drill Across & Visualization of Cubes with Non-Conformed Dimensions", D. Riazati, J.A. Thom, and X. Zhang, Proceedings of Nineteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2008), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 75, A. Fekete and X. Lin (editors), Wollongong, Australia, January, 2008, pp. 85-93. http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV75Riazati.pdf

  25. "Content-based Image Retrieval Using Image Regions as Query Examples", D.N.F. Awang Iskandar, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of Nineteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2008), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 75, A. Fekete and X. Lin (editors), Wollongong, Australia, January, 2008, pp. 38-46. http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV75AwangIskander.pdf

  26. "Use of Wikipedia Categories in Entity Ranking", J.A. Thom, A-M. Vercoustre, and J. Pehcevski, Proceedings of Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), Melbourne, Australia, December 10, 2007, pp. 56-63. http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/papers/20N.PDF

  27. "A Comparison of Evaluation Measures Given How Users Perform on Search Tasks", J.A. Thom and F. Scholer, Proceedings of Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), Melbourne, Australia, December 10, 2007, pp. 100-103. http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/papers/21N.PDF

  28. "Querying Image Ontology", D.N.F. Awang Iskander, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), Melbourne, Australia, December 10, 2007, pp. 84-87. http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/papers/24N.PDF

  29. "Ontology Evaluation Using Wikipedia Categories for Browsing", J. Yu, J.A. Thom, and A. Tam, CIKM'07 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6-8, 2007, pp. 223-232. doi:10.1145/1321440.1321474

  30. "Evaluating Focused Retrieval Tasks", J. Pehcevski and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, A. Trotman, S. Geva, and J. Kamps (editors), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 27, 2007, pp. 33-40.

  31. "Social Media Retrieval Using Image Features and Structured Text", D.N.F. Awang Iskandar, J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems, 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-20, 2006. Revised and Selected Papers, N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4518, Springer, August, 2007, pp. 358-372. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_35

  32. "Exploring Human Judgement of Digital Imagery", T.Volkmer, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, volume 62 of Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), G. Dobbie (editor), Ballarat, Australia, January 29-February 2, 2007, pp. 151-160. http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV62Volkmer.pdf http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1273767

  33. "Enhancing IT Architect capabilities: Experiences within a university subject", K. Frampton, J.A. Thom, and J. Carroll, 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, Australia, December 6-8, 2006.

  34. "Challenges Facing the Retrieval and Reuse of Learning Objects", M.C. Harris and J.A. Thom, ECDL Workshop on Learning Object Repositories as Digital Libraries: Current challenges, Alicante, Spain, September 22, 2006. http://ltcs.uned.es/wslo2006/7.pdf

  35. "Information Technology Architects: Approaching the Longer View", K. Frampton, J.A. Thom, J. Carroll, and B. Crossman, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future, K. Kaiser and T. Ryan (editors), Claremont, California, USA, April 13-15, 2006, pp. 221-229. doi:10.1145/1125170.1125225

  36. "Combining Image and Structured Text Retrieval", D.N.F. Awang Iskandar, J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 28-30, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, S. Malik, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, and N. Fuhr (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 977, Springer, June, 2006, pp. 525-539. doi:10.1007/11766278_40

  37. "RMIT University at INEX 2005: Ad hoc Track", J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 28-30, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, S. Malik, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, and N. Fuhr (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, Springer, June, 2006, pp. 306-320. doi:10.1007/11766278_23

  38. "HiXEval: Highlighting XML Retrieval Evaluation", J. Pehcevski and J.A. Thom, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 28-30, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, S. Malik, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, and N. Fuhr (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, Springer, June, 2006, pp. 43-57. doi:10.1007/11766278_4

  39. "Characteristics of web applications that affect usability: a review", V. Bruno, A. Tam, and J. Thom, Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: citizens online: considerations for today and the future, Canberra, Australia, November 21-25, 2005, pp. 1-4. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1108445

  40. "A High Level Functional Matching For Semantic Web Services", I. Elgedawy, Z. Tari, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12-17, 2005, pp. 115-129. doi:10.1007/11596141_10

  41. "Evaluating ontology criteria for requirements in a geographic travel domain", J. Yu, J.A. Thom, and A. Tam, Proceedings of International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), Cyprus, November 1-3, Springer LNCS 3761, 2005 pp. 1517-1534. doi:10.1007/11575801_36

  42. "Users and Assessors in the Context of INEX: Are Relevance Dimensions Relevant?", J. Pehcevski, J. Thom, and A.-M. Vercoustre, Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2005.

  43. "Hybrid XML retrieval revisited", J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and A.-M. Vercoustre, Advances in XML Information Retrieval: Third International Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 3493, May 2005, pp. 153-167. doi:10.1007/11424550_13

  44. "What capabilities do IT architects say they need?", K. Frampton, J. Carroll, and J.A. Thom, UK Academy for Information Systems Conference, March 22-24, 2005.

  45. "Video cut detection using frame windows", S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, H.E. Williams, J. Thom, and T. Volkmer, Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC-2005), Newcastle, Australia, January 31-February 3, 2005, pp. 193-200. http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV38Tahaghoghi.pdf http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1082183

  46. "Is CORI effective for collection selection? An exploration of parameters, queries, and data", D. D'Souza, J. Zobel, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, December 13, 2004, pp. 41-46.

  47. "Representing colour for computing image similarity", S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, and H.E. Williams, G. Kotsis, S. Bressan, D. Taniar and I. K. Ibrahim (eds), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS2004), Jakarta, Indonesia, September 27-29, 2004, pp. 677-683.

  48. "Enhancing content-and-structure information retrieval using a native XML database", J. Pehcevski, J. Thom, and A.-M. Vercoustre, Proceedings of the first Twente Data Management Workshop on XML Databases & Information Retrieval (TDM 2004), Enschede, The Netherlands, June 21, 2004, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series WP04-1, pp. 24-31.

  49. "Group memory based on the task information", J. Yu, J.A. Thom, and L. Alem, Coupling approaches, coupling media and coupling languages for information retrieval, Proceedings of RIAO 2004, France, April 26-28, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20060221183801/www.riao.org/Proceedings-2004/papers/0260.pdf

  50. "XML-search query language: needs and requirements", J. Pehcevski, J. Thom, and A.-M. Vercoustre, AusWeb03: Changing the Way We Work, Proceedings AUSWEB 03, The Ninth Australian World Wide Web Conference, A. Treloar and A. Ellis (eds), July 5-9, 2003, pp. 487-495.

  51. "XML Document Retrieval with PADRE", N. Craswell, D. Hawking, A. Krumpholz, I. Mathieson, J.A.Thom, A.-M. Vercoustre, P. Wilkins, and M. Wu, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 16 December 2002, pp. 79-86.

  52. "Studying the Evolution of XML Document Structures" I. Sun and J. Thom, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 16 December 2002, pp. 113-116.

  53. "Multiple Example Queries in Content-Based Image Retrieval" S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, and H. Williams, String Processing and Information Retrieval: 9th International Symposium, SPIRE 2002, Lisbon, Portugal, September 11-13, 2002. Proceedings, 2002, Springer LNCS 2476, pp. 227-240.

  54. "Are Two Pictures Better than One?", S. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, and H. Williams Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Database Conference, 2001, Maria E. Orlowska and John F. Roddick (eds), 23(2):138-144, Gold Coast, Australia, January, 2001. doi:10.1109/ADC.2001.904476

  55. "A Comparison of Techniques for Selecting Text Collections", D.J. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Database Conference, Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2000, pp. 28-32. doi:10.1109/ADC.2000.819810

  56. "Collection Selection using n-term indexing", D.J. D'Souza and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of CODAS'99, The Second International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications Wollongong, 27-28 March 1999, pp. 52-63.

  57. "A Fuzzy Object Query Language (FOQL) for Image Databases", S. Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 19-21 1999, pp. 117-124. doi:10.1109/DASFAA.1999.765743

  58. "Indexing Spatial Data using a Class of Linear Mapping Functions", S. Sumanasekara, M.V. Ramakrishna, and J.A. Thom, Trends in Information Technology, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, CIT'98, Bhubaneswar, India, Dec 21-23, 1998. pp. 71-76.

  59. "A fuzzy system for content based image retrieval", S. Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, August 1998, pp. 335-339.

  60. "A four layer schema for image data modeling", S. Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Database Conference, Perth, Australia, Feb 2-3, 1998, published by Springer as Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol 20, No 2, pp. 189-200.

  61. "Indexing documents for queries on structure, content and attributes", R. Sacks-Davis, T.Dao, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Media Information Base, Nara, Japan, Nov 26-28, 1997, pp. 236-245.

  62. "An indexing scheme for structured documents and its implementation", T. Dao, R. Sacks-Davis, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Melbourne, Australia, Apr 1-4, 1997, pp. 125-134.

  63. "How Good are Similarity Measures across Distributed Document Collections?", D. D'Souza and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of ADCS'96 -- Australian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, Mar 20-21, 1996, pp. 63-66.

  64. "Indexing structured text for queries on containment relationships", T. Dao, R. Sacks-Davis, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Database Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Jan 29-30, 1996, published as Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol 18, No 2, pp. 82-91.

  65. "A framework for information discovery", D. D'Souza and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Database Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Jan 29-30, 1996, published as Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol 18, No 2, pp. 21-30.

  66. "A Better Dictionary from LDOCE", P. Wallis and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, April 19-22, 1995, pp. 307-316.

  67. "The ELF data model and SGQL query language for structured document databases", T. Arnold-Moore, M. Fuller, B. Lowe, J.A. Thom, and R. Wilkinson, Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Database Conference, Glenelg, South Australia, Jan 30-31, 1995, published as Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol 17, No 2, pp. 17-26.

  68. "Enhancing Retrieval Using the Macquarie Thesaurus", J.A. Thom and P. Wallis, Proceedings of the 1st Australian Worshop on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, November 19-20, 1992, pp. 111-117.

  69. "Schema design for complex objects", J.A. Thom and K. Ramamohanarao, Research and Practical Issues in Databases: Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Database Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 3-4, 1992, pp. 66-80.

  70. "Document ranking, topic, and skew", P. Wallis, J. Zobel, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Second Japan-Australia Joint Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Iizuka City, Japan, October 2-5, 1991, pp. 325-332.

  71. "Efficiency of nested relational document database systems", J. Zobel, J. Thom, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Barcelona, Spain, September 3-6 1991, pp. 91-102.

  72. "Querying in a large hyperbase", M. Fuller, A. Kent, R. Sacks-Davis, J. Thom, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Berlin, Germany, August 21-23 1991, pp. 445-458.

  73. "An Architecture for hyperbase systems", J. Zobel, R. Wilkinson, E. Mackie, J. Thom, R. Sacks-Davis, A. Kent, and M. Fuller, Proceedings of 1st Australian Multi-Media Communications and Applications and Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July 1-2, 1991, pp. 152-161.

  74. "TQL: A post relational query language", J.A. Thom, A.J. Kent, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Far East Workshop on Future Databases, Melbourne, Australia, April 25-26, 1990.

  75. "Design Considerations for a Document Database System", R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, A.J. Kent, and K. Ramamohanarao, Proceedings of the Australian Database Research Conference, World Scientific(Singapore), Melbourne, Australia, February 1990, pp. 119-135.

  76. "An overview of the NU-Prolog deductive database system", K. Ramamohanarao, J. Shepherd, I. Balbin, G. Port, L. Naish, J. Thom, J. Zobel, and P. Dart, Proceedings of the 11th Australian Computer Science Conference, Brisbane, Australia, February 1988, pp. 204-214.

  77. "Concurrent Database Updates in Prolog", L. Naish, J.A. Thom, and K. Ramamohanarao, Logic Programming: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 25-29, 1987, pp. 178-195.

  78. "A superjoin algorithm for deductive databases", J.A. Thom, L. Naish, and K. Ramamohanarao, Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Databases, Kyoto, Japan, August 25-28, 1986, pp. 189-196. A revised and extended version appeared in Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming, J. Minker (editor), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, 1988, pp. 519-543.

Books, Book chapters, Edited Proceedings, Theses

  1. Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, J. Kay and J.A.Thom (editors), Sydney, 16 December 2002.

  2. "Information Models for Document Engineering", J.A. Thom, chapter in Information Modeling for the New Millenium, M. Rossi and K. Siau (editors), Idea Group Publishing, 2001, pp. 259-267

  3. Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections, R. Wilkinson, T. Arnold-Moore, M. Fuller, R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, and J.Zobel, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1998.

  4. Design of Document Database Systems, J.A.Thom, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1993. thom_phd.pdf

  5. Privacy Protection, Technological Change and Law Reform, J.A.Thom, MSc Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1986.

Other publications - technical reports, posters, notebook papers, unrefereed workshop papers, newsletters

  1. "Report on INEX 2010", D. Alexander, P. Arvola, T. Beckers, P. Bellot, T. Chappell, C.M. DeVries, A. Doucet, N. Fuhr, S. Geva, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, A. Tagarelli, X. Tannier, J.A. Thom, A. Trotman, J. Vainio, Q. Wang and Chen Wu, SIGIR Forum, Vol. 45, Issue 1, June 2011, pp. 2-17. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1988852.1988854

  2. "Report on INEX 2009", T. Beckers, P. Bellot, G. Demartini, L. Denoyer, C.M. De Vries, A. Doucet, K.N. Fachry, N. Fuhr, P. Gallinari, S. Geva, W.-C. Huang, T. Iofciu, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, M. Lehtonen, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, X. Tannier, M. Theobald, J.A. Thom, A. Trotman, and A.P. de Vries, SIGIR Forum, Vol. 44, Issue 1, June 2010, pp. 38-57. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1842890.1842897

  3. "RMIT University Video Retrieval Experiments at TRECVID 2006", T. Volkmer, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and J.A. Thom, TRECVID 2006 Workshop Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006.

  4. "Evaluating an Ontology with OntoClean", J. Yu, J.A. Thom, and A. Tam, Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), Sydney, Australia, 2005, p. 84.

  5. "RMIT INEX experiment: XML retrieval using Lucy/Exist", J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom, and A.-M. Vercoustre, Proceedings of 2nd INEX, 2003.

  6. "The moving query window for shot boundary detection at TREC-12", T. Volkmer, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, H.E. Williams, and J.A. Thom, TRECVID 2003 Workshop Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2003.

  7. "Shot boundary detection using the moving query window", S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, and H.E. Williams, TREC 2002 proceedings, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 19-22, 2002. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

  8. "TREC11 web and interactive tracks at CSIRO", N. Craswell, D. Hawking, J. Thom, T. Upstill, R. Wilkinson, and M. Wu, workshop paper for TREC 2002.

  9. "Melbourne TREC-9 experiments", D.J. D'Souza, M. Fuller, J.A. Thom, P. Vines, and J. Zobel, The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2000), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 13-16, 2000. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), online publication: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html

  10. "A research prototype image retrieval system", S. Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 24-28, 1998, p. 386. doi:10.1145/290941.291075

  11. Public access control to electronic information, R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Report of consultancy undertaken for Multimedia Victoria, approved by steering committee on 17 December 1997. (60 pages).

  12. "Design of indexes for structured document databases", J.A. Thom, J. Zobel, and B. Grima, CITRI technical report TR-95-8, 1995.

  13. "TQL: tutorial and user manual", J.A. Thom, A.J. Kent, and R. Sacks-Davis, Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems, Technical Report 18, 1990.

  14. "A declarative approach to database updates", J.A. Thom, Technical Report 88/1, Department of Computer Science, RMIT, 1988.

  15. "NU-Prolog reference manual, version 1.1", J.A. Thom and J. Zobel (eds), Technical Report 86/10, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1986 (revised versions appeared in 1987, 1988).

  16. "Privacy, technological change, and law reform", J.A. Thom and P.G. Thorne, Technical Report 84/9, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1984.

  17. "The MU-Prolog deductive database", L. Naish and J.A. Thom, Technical Report 83/10, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1983.

  18. "Deductive databases and the nature of personal information", J.A. Thom and P.G. Thorne, Technical Report 82/10, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, 1982.