Abstract An Investigation on a Community’s Web Search Variability (2008)
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
Users ’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s information needs. In...
High-temperature AlN interlayer for crack-free AlGaN growth on GaN (2008)
Wang, Jianteng, Wang, Hui, Jin, Ruiqin, Jiang, Desheng, Zhu, Jianjun, ...
This paper presents a study of the transformation of high-temperature AlN (HT-AlN) interlayer (IL) and its effect on the strain relaxation of Al0.25Ga0.75N/HT-AlN/GaN. The HT-AlN IL capped with...
Evaluation of a Query-biased Document Summarisation Approach for the Question Ansnwering Task (2008)
Mingfang Wu, Ross Wilkinson, Cécile Paris
This paper presents an approach on a querybiased document summarisation and an evaluation of the use of such an approach for question answering tasks. We observed a significant difference in the...
1 Ad-hoc Task 1.1 Background (2008)
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Sam Kimberley, Corinna Ng, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, ...
The focus of our work in TREC 8 has again been on the retrieval of documents using arbitrary passages. This year the system has been re ned to include variable sized passages and pivot normalisation....
The RMITCSIRO Ad Hoc, QA, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8 (2007)
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Sam Kimberley, Corinna Ng, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, ...
this document is counted #that is when Score3 #p; t# is greater than zero for passage p in a document#. It turns out that most query terms end up with high f t values because of the approximate...
Question-driven Classification of Retrieved Documents (2007)
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson
Many existing information access systems deliver ranked lists of documents in response to users' queries. Some systems also endeavour to represent some of the various types of relationships that...
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences (2007)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, James Thom, Trystan Upstill, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
web and interactive. This year's Web track participation was a preliminary exploration of forms of evidence which might be useful for named page finding and topic distillation. For this reason,...
4Technologies for Electronic Documents CS1RO Mathematical and Information Sciences (2007)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, James Thom, Trystan Upstilp, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
This year, the CSIRO teams participated and completed runs in two tracks: web and interactive. Our web track participation was a preliminary exploration of forms of evidence which might be useful for...
TREC12 Web Track at CSIRO (2007)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Alistair Mclean, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
Combining Structured Corporate Data and Document Content to Improve Expertise Finding (2005)
McLean, Alistair, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie
In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content....
Context in Enterprise Search and Delivery (2005)
David Hawking Ccile, David Hawking, Cécile Paris, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Csiro Ict Centre
this paper we look at how context can help when finding information in the enterprise
Abstract. It has long been a tradition of evaluating information retrieval systems with very simple user models and very simple tasks: the task is to retrieve relevant documents to a user need...
Evaluation of a Query-biased Document Summarisation Approach for the Question Ansnwering Task (2004)
Mingfang Wu, Ross Wilkinson, Cécile Paris
This paper presents an approach on a querybiased document summarisation and an evaluation of the use of such an approach for question answering tasks. We observed a significant difference in the...
Myriad: An Architecture for Contextualized Information Retrieval and Delivery (2004)
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Keith V, Er Linden, Matthew Post, Shijian Lu
Abstract. Users ’ information needs are largely driven by the context in which they make their decisions. This context is dynamic. It includes the users ’ characteristics, their current domain of...
Myriad: An Architecture for Contextualized Information Retrieval and Delivery (2004)
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Keith V, Er Linden, Matthew Post, Shijian Lu
Abstract. Users ’ information needs are largely driven by the context in which they make their decisions. This context is dynamic. It includes the users ’ characteristics, their current domain of...
Enterprise PeopleFinder: Combining Evidence from Web Pages and Corporate Data (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wu, Mingfang
The main source of competitive advantage of an organization is its knowledge assets and its learning capacity. We argue that finding knowledge in an organization is not just about finding documents,...
Combining Structured Corporate Data and Document Content to Improve Expertise Finding (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie
In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content....
Combining Structured Corporate Data and Document Content to Improve Expertise Finding (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie
In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content....
Enterprise PeopleFinder: Combining Evidence from Web Pages and Corporate Data (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wu, Mingfang
The main source of competitive advantage of an organization is its knowledge assets and its learning capacity. We argue that finding knowledge in an organization is not just about finding documents,...
Paris, Cécile, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wan, Stephen, Wilkins, Peter, Wilkinson, Ross
Increasingly, people find information about corporations through their web sites, as opposed to reading printed brochures. Typically, the only tools they have to find that information is searching...
Paris, Cécile, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wan, Stephen, Wilkins, Peter, Wilkinson, Ross
Increasingly, people find information about corporations through their web sites, as opposed to reading printed brochures. Typically, the only tools they have to find that information is searching...
Enterprise PeopleFinder: Combining Evidence from Web Pages and Corporate Data (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wu, Mingfang
The main source of competitive advantage of an organization is its knowledge assets and its learning capacity. We argue that finding knowledge in an organization is not just about finding documents,...
Paris, Cécile, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wan, Stephen, Wilkins, Peter, Wilkinson, Ross
Increasingly, people find information about corporations through their web sites, as opposed to reading printed brochures. Typically, the only tools they have to find that information is searching...
Combining Structured Corporate Data and Document Content to Improve Expertise Finding (2003)
Mclean, Alistair, Wu, Mingfang, Vercoustre, Anne-Marie
In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content....
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Anne-marie Vercoustre, Stephen Wan, Peter Wilkins, Ross Wilkinson
Increasingly, people find information about corporations through their web sites, as opposed to reading printed brochures. Typically, the only tools they have to find that information is searching...
TREC12 web and interactive track at CSIRO (2003)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Alistair Mclean, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Anne-marie Vercoustre, Stephen Wan, Peter Wilkins, Ross Wilkinson
Increasingly, people find information about corporations through their web sites, as opposed to reading printed brochures. Typically, the only tools they have to find that information is searching...
CSIRO INEX Experiments: XML Search using PADRE (2002)
Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Thom, James, Krumpholz, Alexander, Mathieson, Ian, Wilkins, Peter, Wu, Mingfang, ...
This paper reports on the CSIRO group's participation in INEX. We indexed documents and document fragments using PADRE, the core of CSIRO's Panoptic Enterprise Search Engine. A query translator...
CSIRO INEX Experiments: XML Search using PADRE (2002)
Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Thom, James, Krumpholz, Alexander, Mathieson, Ian, Wilkins, Peter, Wu, Mingfang, ...
This paper reports on the CSIRO group's participation in INEX. We indexed documents and document fragments using PADRE, the core of CSIRO's Panoptic Enterprise Search Engine. A query translator...
CSIRO INEX Experiments: XML Search using PADRE (2002)
Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Thom, James, Krumpholz, Alexander, Mathieson, Ian, Wilkins, Peter, Wu, Mingfang, ...
This paper reports on the CSIRO group's participation in INEX. We indexed documents and document fragments using PADRE, the core of CSIRO's Panoptic Enterprise Search Engine. A query translator...
Organization of search results for interactive question answering (2002)
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An Appropriate Unit of Retrieval Results for XML Document Retrieval (2002)
Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Workshop Programme V, Ray R. Larson, ...
Xjuru- an XML retrieval system at INEX’02
Using Clustering and Classification Approaches in Interactive Retrieval (2001)
MingFang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson
Satisfying non-trivial information needs involves collecting information from multiple resources, and synthesizing an answer that organizes that information. Traditional recall/precision-oriented...
Generating Personal Travel Guides – and who wants them (2001)
Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
Abstract. In this paper we describe a system that generates synthesized web pages as a travel guide through integrating a discourse planner with a document retrieval system. We then present our...
The Melbourne TREC-9 Experiments (2000)
Michael Fuller, James Thom, Phil Vines, Justin Zobel, Owen De Kretser, Ross Wilkinson, ...
We report results for experiments conducted in Melbourne---at CSIRO, RMIT, and The University of Melbourne---for TREC-9. We present results for the
Generating Personal Travel Guides from Discourse Plans (2000)
Ross Wilkinson, Shijian Lu, François Paradis, Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Mingfang Wu
This paper describes a system that delivers travel guides tailored to individual needs. It does so by integrating a discourse planner with a system for querying the web and generating synthesised web...
Generating Personal Travel Guides from Discourse Plans (2000)
Shijian Lu, François Paradis, Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
This paper describes a system that delivers travel guides tailored to individual needs. It does so by integrating a discourse planner with a system for querying the web and generating synthesised web...
TREC 7 Ad Hoc, Speech, and Interactive tracks at MDS/CSIRO (1998)
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Dongki Kim, Corinna Ng, John Robertson, Ross Wilkinson, ...
this paper has been partially funded by the Cooperative Research Centres Program through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Australia, and by the Australian Research Council.
TREC 7 Ad Hoc, Speech, and Interactive tracks at MDS/CSIRO (1998)
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Dongki Kim, Corinna Ng, John Robertson, Ross Wilkinson, ...
this paper has been partially funded by the Cooperative Research Centres Program through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Australia, and by the Australian Research Council.
TREC7 Ad Hoc, speech, and interactive tracks at MDS/CSIRO (1998)
Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Dongki Kim, Corinna Ng, John Robertson, Ross Wilkinson, ...
at the conference, jointly participated with newcomers CSIRO. Together we completed runs in three tracks: adhoc, interactive, and speech. 2 Ad-hoc task In TREC-5 we used document retrieval based on...
TREC10 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO
Nick Craswell David, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
Stemming and stopword elimination were not applied and sequences of letters and or digits were considered as indexable words. Words occurring in titles, metadata fields (if any), URL strings and in...
TREC11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO
Nick Craswell David, David Hawking, James Thom, Trystan Upstill, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
topics as time increases. 2. The web track 2.1. Topic distillation In topic distillation we used the following forms of evidence: . BM25 on content. Pages returned should be relevant. We indexed the...