Research Interests
Human interaction with information, interactive information
retrieval, tailored information delivery, evaluation method, document clustering and classification
Publications
M. Wu, D. Hawking, F.Scholer and A. Turpin.
Using Anchor Text for Homepage and Topic Distillation Search Tasks.
Journal of American Society Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Accepted on 4 Jan. 2012.
M. Wu, F. Scholer and A. Turpin.
Topic Distillation with Query-Dependent Link Connections and Page Characteristics.
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). May 2011. Pages 6:1-6:25
M. Wu, A. Turpin, S. Puglisi, F. Scholer and J.A. Thom.
Presenting Query Aspects to Support Exploratory Search.
The Australasian User Interface Conference, Brisbane, Australia, January 2010, pp.27-36. Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, James Thom, Andrew Turpin and Ross Wilkinson.
Cost and Benefit Analysis of Mediated Enterprise Search.
ACM Joint Conference of Digital Library (JCDL), June 15-19 2009, Austin USA, pp.267-276. Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer and James Thom.
The Impact of Query Length and Document Length on Book Search Effectiveness.
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. Full Paper (pdf)
A. Turpin, F. Scholer, K. Jarvelin, M. Wu and J.S. Culpepper.
Including Summaries in System Evaluations. Proc. 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2009), Boston, MA, July 2009. pp.508-515. Full Paper (pdf)
X. Zhang and Z. Zhou and M. Wu.
Positive, Negative, or Mixed? Mining Blogs for Opinions.
The Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS2009), Sydney, Australia, December 2009, pp.141-144. Winner of Best Short Paper. Full Paper (pdf)
H. A. Maqbali, F. Scholer, J. Thom and M. Wu.
Do Users Find Looking at Text More Useful than Visual Representations? A Comparison of Three Search Research Interfaces.
The Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS2009), Sdyney, Australia, December 2009, pp.35-42
H. A. Maqbali, F. Scholer, J. Thom and M. Wu.
User Interaction with Novel Web Search Interfaces.
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 2009, pp.23-27
Mingfang Wu and Falk Scholer.
RMIT University at TREC 2008: Entperprise Track.
In The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaitherburg, 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), Tokyo, Japan, December 2008
R. McArthur, P. Thomas, A. Turpin and M. Wu. (Eds)
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS2008).
Published by RMIT School of Computer Science and Information Technology, December 2008. ISBN 13978-1-921426-21-6.
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin.
User Preference Choices for Complex Question Answering.
SIGIR 2008 Poster, July 2008, Singapore, pp.719-720. Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin and Justin Zobel.
Aggregated Click-through Data in a Homogeneous User Community.
SIGIR 2008 Poster, July 2008, Singapore, pp.731-732. Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin and Justin Zobel.
An Investigation on a Community's Web Search Variability.
In Proc. Australian Computer Science Conference 2008, Woollongong, Australia, January 2008. pp.117-126. Winner of Best Paper Award.
Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Simon Puglisi and Halil Ali.
RMIT University at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay and
Ross Wilkinson.
TREC 2007 ciQA track at RMIT and CSIRO.
The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
A. Spink, A. Turpin and M. Wu (Eds.).
Proc. 12th Australasian Document Computing Symposium. School of Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT University December 2007. ISBN 978-0-646-48437-2.
Mingfang Wu, Paul Thomas and David Hawking.
TREC 14 Enterprise Track at CSIRO and ANU
In Proceedings of TREC-2005.
David Hawking, Cecile Paris, Ross Wilkinson, and Mingfang Wu.
Context in Enterprise Search and Delivery. In Proceedings of
ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX).
Full Paper (pdf)
Shijian Lu, Cecile Paris, and Mingfang Wu.
Document Modelling for Customised Information Delivery.
In Proceedings of The Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2005), Sydney, December, 2005.
Cecile Paris, Andrew Lampert, Shijian Lu, and Mingfang Wu
EDKMS (Tailored Documents: Enhancing Dynamic Knowledge Management Service): Using the Tailored Document Environment.
CSIRO Report No. 05/036, Commerical-in-Confidence, February 2005
Cecile Paris, Andrew Lampert, Shijian Lu, and Mingfang Wu
EDKMS (Tailored Documents: Enhancing Dynamic Knowledge Management Service): Tailored Documents.
CSIRO Report No. 05/034, Commerical-in-Confidence, February 2005
Cecile Paris, Andrew Lampert, Shijian Lu, and Mingfang Wu
EDKMS (Tailored Documents: Enhancing Dynamic Knowledge Management Service): The Constructor: a User's Guide.
CSIRO Report No. 05/035, Commerical-in-Confidence, February 2005
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Muh-Chyun Tang,
Ross Wilkinson, Yuelin Li, Hyuk-Jin Lee and Nicholas J. Belkin.
Human versus Machine in the Topic Distillation Task, in
The 27th SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, pp. 385-392, July 25th-29th 2004,
Sheffield, UK. Full Paper (pdf)
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Keith Vander Linden, Matthew Post,
and Shijian Lu. Myriad: An Architecture for Contextualized
Information Retrieval and Delivery, in AH2004: International
Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. pp.
205-214,
August 23-26, The Netherlands. Full Paper (pdf)
Ross Wilkinson and Mingfang Wu.
Evaluation Experiments and
Experience from the Perspective of Interactive Information
Retrieval, in Third Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of
Adaptive Systems, in conjunction with AH2004. pp.221-230. August 23-26, The
Netherlands.
Full Paper (pdf)
N. Colineau, C. Paris and M. Wu (2004). Actionable
Information Delivery. In Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle (RSTI – RIA),
Special Issue on Tailored Information Delivery, 18(4), pp. 549-576.
Mingfang Wu, Ross Wilkinson and Cecile Paris.
Evaluation of a Query-biased Document Summarisation Approach for the Question Answering Task.
In the Proceedings of 2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2004); Macquarie University. December 8th, 2004.
Alistair McLean, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Mingfang Wu, Enterprise
PeopleFinder: Combining Evidence from Web Pages and Corporate Data,
in The 8th Australasian Documant Computing Conference (ADCS'03),
Canberra, December, 15, 2003.
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upsill, Alistait McLean,
Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, TREC12 Web Track at CSIRO, in
In Proceeding of the 12th TREC workshop, Gaithersburg, MA, USA,
November 2003, 2003.
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Stephen Wan,
Peter Wilkins and Ross Wilkinson, An Empirical Study of the
Effect of Coherent and Tailored Document Delivery as an Interface
to Organizational Websites, in The Proceedings of the Adaptive
Hypermedia Workshop at the 2003 User Modelling Conference,
Pittsburgh, USA, June 22, 2003.
Mingfang Wu. Survey of Question Answering Technologies.
CSIRO/MIS report, 2003/87, 32p.
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, James A. Thom, Ross Wilkinson, and
Mingfang Wu, TREC11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO, in
TREC11 proceedings, Gaithersburg, MA, USA, November, 2002.
A-M. Vercoustre, J. A. Thom, A Krumpholz, I. Mathieson, P.
Wilkins, M. Wu, N. Craswell, D. Hawking, CSIRO INEX
Experiments: XML Search using PADRE, in INEX Workshop, Schloss
Dagstuhl, Germany, December 9-11, 2002.
N. Craswell, D. Hawking, A. Krumpholz, I. Mathieson, J.A. Thom,
A-M. Vercoustre, P. Wilkins, M. Wu, XML Document Retrieval with
PADRE, in 7th Australasian Document Symposium (ADCS02),
Sydney, J. Kay and J.A. Thom (eds), December, 16, 2002.
Shijian Lu, Andrew Lampert, Cécile Paris and Mingfang Wu.
TIGER: A Preliminary Investigation, CSIRO/MIS report, 2002/150.
31p.
Jörg Haake, Stefanie Kethers, Anne-Marie
Vercoustre, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Process Improvement
via XML Description, in XML Asia Pacific 2001, Sydney, Nov.,
2001.
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, and Mingfang Wu, TREC10
Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO, in TREC10 proceedings,
Gaithersburg, MA, USA, 2001.
Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Generating
Personal Travel Guides - on demand, on the fly, on the go, in
Australian NLP workshop, Sydney, Australia, April, 2001.
Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson,
Mingfang Wu, Generating Personal Travel Guides - and who wants
them?, in 8th International Conference on User Modeling,
Sonthofen, Germany, 2001.
Mingfang Wu, Ross Wilkinson, Michael Fuller, Searcher
Performance in Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 24th
Annual International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, W. Bruce
Croft, David J. Harper, Justin Zobel (eds), September, 2001.
Full Paper (pdf)
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson, Using
clustering and classification approaches in interactive retrieval,
Information Processing and Management, vol37, pp459-484, May,
2001. Full Paper (pdf)
F.Paradis, C. Paris, S. Wan,R. Wilkinson, A-M.
Vercoustre, M. Wu , Tiddler: Customised publishing based on XML
profiles and XML data sources , in Open Publishing, Sydney,
July, 2001.
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, and Ross Wilkinson, The Role of a
Judge in a User Based Retrieval Experiment, in Proceedings of
the 23rd Annual International Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval, Athens, Greece, July, 2000.
Full Paper (pdf)
D. D'Souza, M. Fuller, J. Thom, P. Vines, J. Zobel, O. de
Kretser, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, Melbourne TREC-9 Experiments,
Gaithersburg, MA, U.S.A., 13-16, November, 2000.
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson, Structured
Delivery to the Web, in AusWeb2k, Cairns, Australia, June,
2000. Winner of Best Poster Award
Ross Wilkinson, ShiJian Lu, Francois Paradis,
Cecile Paris, Stephen Wan and Mingfang Wu, Generating Personal
Travel Guides from Discourse Plans, in International
Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems,
Trento, Italy, August, 2000.
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, and Ross
Wilkinson, Question-driven Classification of Retrieved
Documents, in Proceeding of the First Australasian User
Interface Conference, Canberra, Australia, B. Thomas and J. Warren
(eds), February, 2000.
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Sam Kimberley,
Corinna Ng, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Justin Zobel, The RMIT/CSIRO
Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC8
, in TREC, Gaithersburg, MA, U.S.A., E. Voorhees and D. Harman
(eds), November, 1999.
Michael Fuller and Marcin Kaszkiel and Dongki
Kim and Corinna Ng and John Robertson and Ross Wilkinson and
Mingfang Wu and Justin Zobel, TREC 7 Ad Hoc, Speech, and
Interactive tracks at MDS/CSIRO, in The 7th Text Retrieval
Conference (TREC7), Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., D. Harman and
E. Vorhees (eds), November, 1998.
Mingfang Wu and Ross Wilkinson, Using
Document Relationships for Better Answers, in Proceeding of
the Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing, St.
Malo, France, March 29-30, 1998.
Mingfang Wu and Ross Wilkinson, Evaluation
of indexing methods for clustering, in Third Australian
Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 1998.
Mingfang Wu and Michael Fuller.
Supporting the Answering Process.
In Proceedings of the Second Australian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS97). Melbourne, Australia, 1997, pp.65-73
Mingfang Wu, David Morris and Lydia Lau.
RealConsent: A Real-time Conferencing System for Distributed Engineering Teamwork.
Groupware in Mechanical Engineering, Computers, Engineering Symposium, Houston, TX, Jan. 1996.
