Publications

I am the author of Writing for Computer Science, Second edition, (Springer, 2004). This text concerns the doing and describing of research in computer science.

The following papers by Justin Zobel have appeared in a refereed journal or conference. To get a copy of a paper where the full text is not available through the web site, email me with the title you are interested in.

Some of these papers are also available through the SEG paper repository .

Journal papers

• "A pipelined architecture for distributed text query evaluation", A. Moffat, W. Webber, J. Zobel, and R. Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval Journal. To appear.
• "Does topic metadata help with search?", D. Hawking and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(5):613-628, 2007. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compression techniques for fast external sorting", J. Yiannis and J. Zobel, The VLDB International Journal on Very Large Databases, 16(2):269-291, 2007. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient and effective plagiarism detection for large code repositories", S. Burrows, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and J. Zobel, Software-Practice & Experience, 37(2):151-175, 2007. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex.
• "Cache-efficient string sorting using copying", R. Sinha, D. Ring, and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, volume 11, 2006, article 1.2. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex.
• "Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, F. Scholer, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Information Processing & Management, 43(1):169-180, 2007. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Methodologies for evaluation of note-based music retrieval systems", A.L. Uitdenbogerd, A. Chattaraj, and J. Zobel, Journal of Computing: Special Cluster on Music and Computation, 18(3):339-347, 2006. Bibtex.
• "Inverted files for text search engines", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, ACM Computing Surveys, 38(2):1-56, 2006. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient discovery of co-derivative documents via duplicate text detection", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 31:595-609, 2006. (Expanded version of 2004 SPIRE paper.) Full text. Bibtex.
• "Techniques for efficient query expansion", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 31:573-584, 2006. (Expanded version of 2004 SPIRE paper.) Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient online index maintenance for text retrieval systems", N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, Information Processing & Management, 42(4):916-933, July 2006. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Detection of video sequences using compact signatures", T. Hoad and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 24(1):1-50, 2006. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Chinese OOV term detection and translation in Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval", Y. Zhang, P. Vines, and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 4(2):57-77, 2005. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Using random sampling to build approximate tries for efficient string sorting", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, volume 10, 2005, article 2.10. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Recommended reading for IR research students", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and D. Hawking, SIGIR Forum, 39(2), December 2005. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Searchable words on the web", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, International Journal of Digital Libraries. 5(2):99-105, 2005. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Cache-conscious sorting of large sets of strings with dynamic tries", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. Vol. 9, 2004. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Fast phrase querying with multiple indexes", H.E. Williams, J. Zobel, and D. Bahle, ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 22(4):573-594, 2004. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "An architecture for effective music information retrieval", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 55(12):1053-1057, 2004. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Collection selection for managed distributed document databases", D. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Information Processing & Management. 40:527-546, 2004. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient single-pass index construction for text databases", S. Heinz and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(8):713-729, 2003. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Methods for identifying versioned and plagiarised documents", T.C. Hoad and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 54(3):203-215, 2003. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Burst tries: a fast, efficient data structure for string keys", S. Heinz, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20(2):192-223, 2002. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Managing student plagiarism in large academic departments", J. Zobel and M. Hamilton, Australian Universities Review. 45(2):23-30, 2002. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Indexing and retrieval for genomic databases", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 14(1):63-78, 2002. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "In-memory hash tables for accumulating text vocabularies", J. Zobel, S. Heinz, and H.E. Williams, Information Processing Letters, 80(6):271-277, December 2001. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Self-adjusting trees in practice for large text collections", H.E. Williams, J. Zobel, and S. Heinz, Software: Practice and Experience. 31(10):925-939, August 2001. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Effective ranking with arbitrary passages", M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 54(4):344-364, 2001. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Experiments in spoken document retrieval using phonetic n-grams", C. Ng, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Speech Communication, special issue on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, 32(1-2):61-77, September 2000. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Partitioning number sequences into optimal subsequences", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 32(2):121-129, May 2000. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient passage ranking for document databases", M. Kaszkiel, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 17(4):406-439, October 1999. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compressing integers for fast file access", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, The Computer Journal, 42(3):193-201, 1999. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Inverted files versus signature files for text indexing", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and K. Ramamohanarao, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, December 1998. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compression techniques for Chinese text", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Software-Practice and Experience, 28(12):1299-1314, October 1998. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Exploring the similarity space", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, SIGIR forum 32(1):18-34, Spring 1998. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compression of nucleotide databases for fast searching", H. Williams and J. Zobel, CABIOS Computer Applications in the Biological Sciences. 13(5):549-554, October 1997. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Text compression for dynamic document databases", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and N. Sharman, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 9(2):302-313, March-April 1997. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "A formal model for representation and querying of structured documents", B. Lowe, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Journal of Systems Integration, 7(2):31-46, January 1997. Abstract. Bibtex.
• "Filtered document retrieval with frequency-sorted indexes", M. Persin, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 47(10):749-764, October 1996. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Self-indexing inverted files for fast text retrieval", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 14(4):349-379, October 1996. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Guidelines for presentation and comparison of indexing techniques", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and K. Ramamohanarao, SIGMOD Record, 25(3):10-15, October 1996. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Index organisation for multi-media database systems", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, ACM Computing Surveys, 27(4):607-609, 1995. Bibtex.
• "Database systems for structured documents", R. Sacks-Davis, T. Arnold-Moore, and J. Zobel, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 78-D(11):1335-1342, November 1995. Abstract. Bibtex.
• "The MG Retrieval System: Compressing for Space and Speed", T.C. Bell, A. Moffat, I.H. Witten, and J. Zobel, Communications of the ACM, Special Section on Digital Libraries, 38(4):41-42, April 1995. Summary. Bibtex.
• "Adding compression to a full text retrieval system", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, Software-Practice and Experience, 25(8):891-903, 1995. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "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, 7(3):454-470, June 1995. Abstract. Bibtex.
• "Efficient retrieval of partial documents". J. Zobel, A. Moffat, R. Wilkinson, and R. Sacks-Davis, Information Processing and Management, 31(3):361-377, 1995. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Finding approximate matches in large lexicons", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Software-Practice and Experience, 25(3):331-345, 1995. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compression and fast indexing for multi-gigabyte text databases", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Australian Computer Journal, 26(1):1-9, 1994. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Memory-efficient ranking", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Information Processing and Management, 30(6):733-744, 1994. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Data compression in full-text retrieval systems", T.C. Bell, A. Moffat, C.G. Nevill-Manning, I.H. Witten, and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science 44(9):508-531, 1993. Abstract. Bibtex.
• "Supporting random access in files of variable length records", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Information Processing Letters, 46(2):71-78, 1993. Bibtex
• "A model for word clustering", J.A. Thom and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 43(9):616-627, 1992. Full text. Bibtex
• "Efficient run-time type checking of typed logic programs", P.W. Dart and J. Zobel, Journal of Logic Programming, 14(1&2):31-36, 1992. Bibtex
• "Conceptual schemas applied to deductive databases", P.W. Dart and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 13(3):273-287, 1988. Bibtex

Conference papers

• "Searching with style: Authorship attribution in classic literature", Y. Zhao and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, G. Dobbie (ed), Ballarat, Australia, January 2007, pp. 59-68. Winner, Best Student Paper award. Full text. Bibtex
• "Distributed text retrieval from overlapping collections", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, and Y. Bernstein, Proceedings of the Australian Database Conference, J. Bailey and A. Fekete (eds), Ballarat, Australia, 2007, 141-150. Winner, Best Student Paper award. Full text. Bibtex
• "Discovery of image versions in large collections", J.J. Foo, R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multi-Media Modelling, Singapore, January 2007. T.-J. Cham, J. Cai, C. Dorai, D. Rajan, T.-S. Chua, L.-T. Chia (eds), pp. 433-442. Bibtex
• "Compact features for detection of near-duplicates in distributed retrieval", Y. Bernstein, M. Shokouhi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, F. Crestani, P. Ferragina, and M. Sanderson (eds), Glasgow, Scotland, October 2006, pp. 110-121. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex
• "Using relative entropy for authorship attribution", Y. Zhao, J. Zobel, and P. Vines, Proceedings of the AIRS Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, H.T. Ng, M.-K. Leong, M.-Y. Kan, and D. Ji (eds), Singapore, October 2006, pp. 92-105. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex
• "Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval", A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S. Dumais, E.N. Efthimiadis, D. Hawking, and K. Jarvelin (eds), Seattle, Washington, August 2006, pp. 348-355. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex
• "Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, F. Scholer, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S. Dumais, E.N. Efthimiadis, D. Hawking, and K. Jarvelin (eds), Seattle, Washington, August 2006, pp. 316-323. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex
• "The case of the duplicate documents: Measurement, search, and science" (Invited paper), J. Zobel and Y. Bernstein, Proceedings of the APWeb Asia Pacific Web Conference, LNCS 3841, X. Zhao, J. Li, H.T. Shen, M. Kitsuregawa, and Y. Zhang (eds), Harbin, China, January 2006, pp. 26-39. Full text. Bibtex
• "Sample sizes for query probing in uncooperative distributed information retrieval", M. Shokouhi, F. Scholer, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the APWeb Asia Pacific Web Conference, LNCS 3841, X. Zhao, J. Li, H.T. Shen, M. Kitsuregawa, and Y. Zhang (eds), Harbin, China, January 2006, pp. 63-75. Full text. Bibtex
• "Document expansion versus query expansion for ad-hoc retrieval", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, A. Turpin and R. Wilkinson (eds), Sydney, Australia, December 2005, pp. 34-41. Full text. Bibtex
• "Cache-conscious collision resolution in string hash tables", N. Askitis and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, M. Consens and G.~Navarro (eds), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005, pp. 91-102. LNCS 3772. Full text. Bibtex
• "Space-limited ranked query evaluation using adaptive pruning", N. Lester, A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WISE Workshop on Information Systems Engineering, M. Kitsuregawa, E. Neuhold, and A.H.H. Ngu (eds), New York, November 2005, pp. 470-477. Full text. Bibtex
• "Fast on-line index construction by geometric partitioning", N. Lester, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005. pp. 776-783. Full text. Bibtex
• "Redundant documents and search effectiveness", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005, pp. 736-743. Bibtex
• "Similarity measures for tracking information flow", D. Metzler, Y. Bernstein, W.B. Croft, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005, pp. 517-524. Bibtex
• "Effective and scalable authorship attribution using function words", Y. Zhao and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the AIRS Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, G.G. Lee, A. Yamada, H. Meng, and S.H. Myaeng (eds), Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005, pp. 174-189. LNCS 3689. Full text (publisher link) Bibtex
• "Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability", M. Sanderson and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, A. Moffat, G. Marchionini, J. Tate, R. Baeza-Yates, and N. Ziviani (eds), Salvador, Brazil, August 2005, pp. 162-169. Full text. Bibtex
• "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 Australian Document Computing Symposium, P. Bruza, A. Moffat, and A. Turpin (eds), Melbourne, Australia, December 2004, pp. 41-46. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "What does it mean to 'Measure Performance'?", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WISE International Conference on Web Information Systems, X. Zhou, S. Su, M.P. Papazoglou, M.E. Owlowska,and K. Jeffrey (eds), Springer LNCS 3306, Brisbane, Australia, November 2004, pp. 1-12. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "A scalable system for identifying co-derivative documents", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), A. Apostolico and M. Melucci (eds), Springer LNCS 3246, Padova, Italy, September 2004, pp. 55-67. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Techniques for efficient query expansion", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), A. Apostolico and M. Melucci (eds), Springer LNCS 3246, Padova, Italy, September 2004, pp. 30-42. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Using random sampling to build approximate tries for efficient string sorting", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WEA International Workshop On Experimental Algorithmics, C.C. Ribeiro and S.L. Martins (eds), Springer LNCS 3059, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, May 2004, pp. 529-544. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Questioning query expansion: an examination of behaviour and parameters", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, K.-D. Schewe and H.E. Williams (eds), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 69-76. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "'Uni Cheats Racket': A case study in plagiarism investigation", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, R. Lister and A. Young (editors), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 357-365. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "What drives curriculum change?", P. Gruba, A. Moffat, H. Sondergaard, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, R. Lister and A. Young (editors), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 109-117. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "In-place versus re-build versus re-merge: Index maintenance strategies for text retrieval systems", N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, V. Estivill-Castro (ed), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 15-22. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Query expansion using associated queries", B. Billerbeck, F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, O. Frieder, J. Hammer, S. Quershi, and L. Seligman (eds), New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2003, pp. 2-9. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "External sorting with on-the-fly compression", J. Yiannis and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases, A. James (ed), Springer LNCS 2712, Coventry, UK, July, 2003, pp. 115-130. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Efficient trie-based sorting of large sets of strings", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Adelaide, Australia, February, 2003, pp. 11-18. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Video similarity detection for digital rights management", T.C. Hoad and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Adelaide, Australia, February, 2003, pp. 237-245. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Cache-conscious sorting of large sets of strings with dynamic tries", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ALENEX Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, R. Ladner (ed), Baltimore, Maryland, January, 2003, pp. 93-105. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002, pp. 215-221. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation", F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, J. Yiannis, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002, pp. 222-229. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Music ranking techniques evaluated", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Melbourne, Australia, January, 2002, pp. 275-283. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Practical data structures for managing small sets of strings", S. Heinz and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Melbourne, Australia, January, 2002, pp. 75-84. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Compaction techniques for nextword indexes", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), Chile, November, 2001. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Optimised phrase querying and browsing in text databases", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Gold Coast, Australia, January, 2001, pp. 11-19. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "A comparison of techniques for selecting text collections", D.J. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, M. Orlowska (ed), Canberra, Australia, January 2000, pp. 28-32. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Trends in retrieval system performance", J. Zobel, H. Williams, and S. Kimberley, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, J. Edwards (ed), Canberra, Australia, January 2000, pp. 241-248. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Efficient building and querying of Asian-language text databases", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, November 1999. Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Matching techniques for large music databases", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Multimedia Conference, D. Bulterman, K. Jeffay, and H.J. Zhang (eds), Orlando, Florida, November 1999, pp. 57-66. Published by ACM Press. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Combined models for high-performance compression of large text collections", J. Zobel and H.E. Williams, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, September 1999, pp. 224-231. Published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Abstract. Full text Bibtex
• "What's next? Index structures for efficient phrase querying", H. Williams, J. Zobel, and P. Anderson, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, January 1999, pp. 141-152. Abstract. Full text Bibtex
• "Factors affecting speech retrieval", C. Ng, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, November 1998, pp. 45-50. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Manipulation of music for melody matching", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Briston, England, September 1998, pp 235-240. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "How reliable are large-scale information retrieval experiments?", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 307-314. Abstract. Full text Bibtex
• "Term-ordered query evaluation versus document-ordered query evaluation for large document databases", extended abstract, M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 343-344. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Speech Retrieval using phonemes with error correction", extended abstract, C. Ng and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 365-366. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Conflation-based comparison of stemming algorithms", M. Fuller and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Third Australian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, August 1998, pp 8-13. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Methodologies for distributed information retrieval", O. de Kretser, A. Moffat, T. Shimmin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, May 1998, pp. 66-73. Abstract. Full text Bibtex
• "Reliable research: Towards experimental standards for Computer Science", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, Western Australia, February 1998, pp 217-229. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "A framework for predictive compression of time-series data", S. Mukherjee and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, Western Australia, February 1998, pp 95-106. Abstract. Bibtex
• "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, November 1997, pp 236-245. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Passage retrieval revisited", M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twentieth International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1997, pp. 178-185. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Performance in practice of string hashing functions", M.V. Ramakrishna and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997, pp. 215-223. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Collection selection via lexicon inspection", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the 1997 Australian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997, pp. 74-80. Abstract. Full text. Bibtex
• "Phonetic string matching: Lessons from information retrieval", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, August 1996, pp. 166-173. Abstract. Full text Bibtex
• "Indexing nucleotide databases for fast query evaluation", H. Williams and J. Zobel, Proceedings of Advances in Database Technology (EDBT96), Avignon, France, March 1996, pp. 275-288. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Practical compression of nucleotide databases", H. Williams and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 1996, pp. 184-192. Abstract. Bibtex
• "A formal model for databases of structured text", B. Lowe, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the DASFAA Database Systems for Advanced Applications conference, Singapore, April 1995, pp. 449-456. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Limited-memory predictive compression for Chinese text", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, Australia, February 1995, pp. 546-555. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Improved inverted file processing for large text databases", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and S. T. Klein, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, Adelaide, Australia, January 1995, pp. 162-171. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Database systems for structured documents", R. Sacks-Davis, T. Arnold-Moore, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies and Their Integration, Nara, Japan, October 1994, pp. 272-283. Bibtex
• "Fast document ranking for large scale information retrieval", M. Persin, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases, Vadstena, Sweden, June 1994, pp. 253-266. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Static compression for dynamic texts", A. Moffat, N. Sharman, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1994, pp. 126-135. Bibtex
• "Fast ranking in limited space", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Data Engineering, Houston, Texas, February 1994, pp. 428-437. Bibtex
• "Approximate string matching for large lexicons", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Computer Science Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1994, pp. 379-390. Bibtex
• "Self-indexing inverted files", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Database Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1994, pp. 79-91. Bibtex
• "Searching large lexicons for partially specified terms using compressed inverted files", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Dublin, Ireland, August 1993, pp. 290-301. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Storage management for files of dynamic records", J. Zobel, A. Moffat and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Database Conference, Brisbane, February 1993, pp. 26-38. Full text Bibtex
• "Parameterised compression for sparse bitmaps", A.~Moffat and J.~Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval, Copenhagen, Denmark, June~1992, pp.~274-285. Abstract. Bibtex
• "An efficient indexing technique for full-text database systems", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Eighteenth VLDB International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Vancouver, Canada, August 1992, pp. 352-362. Bibtex
• "Coding for compression in full-text retrieval systems", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1992, pp. 72-81. Abstract. Bibtex
• "Advanced database systems for text retrieval", keynote paper, R. Sacks-Davis, J. Zobel, and K. Ramamohanarao, Proceedings of the Third Australian Database Conference, February 1992, pp. 1-8. Bibtex
• "Retrieval of tree-structured data from disc", E. Mackie and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Third Australian Database Conference, February 1992, pp. 209-216. Bibtex
• "Hyperbase systems: A structured architecture", M.S. Fuller, R. Sacks-Davis, R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel, and E. Mackie, Proceedings of the Future Databases Conference, Kyoto, Japan, February 1992, pp. 222-230. Bibtex
• "Database systems for advanced applications", A.J. Kent, R. Sacks-Davis, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australian Computer Science Conference, January 1992, pp. 427-438. Bibtex
• "Adding compression to a full-text retrieval system", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australian Computer Science Conference, Hobart, Australia, January 1992, pp. 1077-1089. Bibtex
• "Efficiency of nested relational document database systems", J. Zobel, J.A. Thom, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Seventeenth VLDB International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Barcelona, Spain, September 1991, pp. 91-102. Bibtex
• "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, September 1991, pp. 325-332. Bibtex
• "Querying in a large hyperbase", M.S. Fuller, A.J. Kent, R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Second ICDE International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Berlin, Germany, August 1991, pp. 455-458. Bibtex
• "The NU-Prolog debugging environment", L. Naish, P.W. Dart, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Logic Programming, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1989, pp. 521-536. Bibtex
• "Derivation of polymorphic types for Prolog programs", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Logic Programming, Melbourne, Australia, May 1987, pp. 816-838. Bibtex

I am also an author of

• Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems, E. Bertino, B.C. Ooi, R. Sacks-Davis, K.-L. Tan, J. Zobel, B. Shidlovsky, and B. Catania, Kluwer, 1997.
• 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, 1998.

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