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...
An Experiment in Light Workflow (2008)
Stewart Baillie, Anthony Bennett, Anne-marie Vercoustre, Ross Wilkinson
Workflow tools have been successfully applied to automate work in many situations where the work is well regulated, there is a stable pattern of work, and there is a sufficiently high volume or...
Stefanie Kethers, Peter Lamb, Shijian Lu, Cécile Paris, Ross Wilkinson, Kathleen Griffiths
Mental health is designated an Australian health priority and is recognized as the third largest source of Australia’s disease burden, after cardiovascular disease and cancer. In particular,...
Towards Measuring the Cost of Changing Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (2008)
Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris, Ross Wilkinson
Abstract. As applications evolve over time, it becomes increasingly desirable to be able to adapt a system, enabling it to handle situations in different ways and to handle new situations. We refer...
Towards Measuring the Cost of Changing Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (2008)
Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris, Ross Wilkinson
Abstract. As applications evolve over time, it becomes increasingly desirable to be able to adapt a system, enabling it to handle situations in different ways and to handle new situations. We refer...
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...
Held At Sigir, François Paradis, Ross Wilkinson, Csiro Australia, Csiro Australia, Mark S, ...
Proceedings of the
TREC12 Web Track at CSIRO (2007)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Alistair Mclean, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu
Pearce, Zoe J. (ed.), Wilkinson, Ross (Conference Chair)
On behalf of the Conference Organising committee I am pleased to introduce the Proceedings of the first ever combined Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of...
Pearce, Zoe J. (ed.), Wilkinson, Ross (Conference Chair)
On behalf of the Conference Organising committee I am pleased to introducethe Proceedings of the first ever combined Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of...
Pearce, Zoe J. (ed.), Wilkinson, Ross (Conference Chair)
On behalf of the Conference Organising committee I am pleased to introduce the Proceedings of the first ever combined Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of...
Alison Cawsey, Silvana Quaglini, Ross Wilkinson, Ross Wilkinson Csi
Held in conjuction with UM 2007
A metadata collection technique for documents in WinFS (2005)
Dekeyser, Stijn, Kay, Judy, Turpin, Andrew, Wilkinson, Ross
[Conclusions]: Proposes a generic technique to capture rich metadata for documents in the context of WinFS.The technique is based on sound relational theory and extends current "File Save As" GUI...
A metadata collection technique for documents in WinFS (2005)
Dekeyser, Stijn, Kay, Judy, Turpin, Andrew, Wilkinson, Ross
[Conclusions]: Proposes a generic technique to capture rich metadata for documents in the context of WinFS.The technique is based on sound relational theory and extends current "File Save As" GUI...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Experiments in spoken document retrieval using phoneme n-grams (2000)
Corinna Ng, Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel
In spoken document retrieval, speech recognition is applied to a collection to obtain either words or subword units, such as phonemes, that can be matched against queries. We have explored retrieval...
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...
Automatic link generation (1999)
Ross Wilkinson, Alan F. Smeaton
In order to access any kind of stored information, one may store it at a specific location, and in the case of electronic information this could be a file name or a Web address. If the location is...
Proceedings of the Workshop on the Reuse of Web based Information (1998)
Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wilkinson, Ross, Milosavljevic, Maria
These are the Proceeding of theWorkshop on the Reuse of Web Information that was held in conjunction with the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, 14 April 19998.
Proceedings of the Workshop on the Reuse of Web based Information (1998)
Vercoustre, Anne-Marie, Wilkinson, Ross, Milosavljevic, Maria
These are the Proceeding of theWorkshop on the Reuse of Web Information that was held in conjunction with the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, 14 April 19998.
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.
Proceedings of the Workshop on the Reuse of Webbased Information (1998)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Maria Milosavljevic, Ross Wilkinson (eds.), Ross Wilkinson
: A search engine can index a concept that appears entirely on a single page. But concepts can span several pages. For instance, a page on trees may be linked to a page on lecture notes for a data...
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...
Using Combination of Evidence for Term Expansion (1997)
Jonathan Furner, School Of Information, Media Studies, R. Wilkinson, Ross Wilkinson
©Copyright in this paper belongs to the author(s) Published in collaboration with the
Cross-language Retrieval In English and Vietnamese (1997)
Van Be Hai, Hai Nguyen, Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel
A cross-lingual Vietnamese-English retrieval system should enable Vietnamese speakers to retrieve documents written in English, and likewise English speakers should be able to retrieve documents...
Chinese Document Retrieval at TREC-6 (1997)
This report concentrates solely on the Chinese track. 2 Chinese Language In the Chinese language each character represents at least a complete syllable, rather than a letter as in other languages....
The MDS Experiments for TREC5 (1996)
Marcin Kaszkiel, Phil Vines, Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel
Introduction The Multimedia Database Systems (MDS) group at RMIT is investigating many aspects of information retrieval of relevance to TREC. Current work includes combination of evidence,...
Efficient retrieval of partial documents (1995)
Allstair Moffat, Ron Sacks-davis, Ross Wilkinson, I Justin Zobel
Information systems usually retrieve whole documents as answers to queries. However, it may in some circumstances be more appropriate to retrieve parts of documents. These parts could be formed by...
Efficient retrieval of partial documents (1995)
Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Ross Wilkinson, Ron Sacks-davis
Abstract Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficulties for...
Comparison of Fragmentation Schemes for Document Retrieval (1995)
Information systems usually rank whole documents to identify which are answers. However, it may in some circumstances be more appropriate to rank fragments to identify which documents are answers. We...
Similarity Measures for Short Queries (1995)
Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel, Ron Sacks-davis
Ad-hoc queries are usually short, of perhaps two to ten terms. However, in previous rounds of TREC we have concentrated on obtaining optimal performance for the long TREC topics. In this paper we...
Retrieval of Partial Documents (1994)
Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-davis, Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel
Introduction Provision of answers to informally phrased questions is a central part of information retrieval. These answers traditionally take the form of documents retrieved from a text database,...
An Sgml-Based Hypertext Information Retrieval System (1991)
Anthony Botham, Michael Fuller, Eric Mackie, Ron Sacks-davis, Ross Wilkinson
In order to view and retrieve information from a large document collection, the structure of the collection should be taken into account. Information retrieval systems traditionally deal with large...
Semigroups in a topos and structure theory in inverse semigroups (1982)
Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Mathematics. Abstract: p.iii. Another copy on MICROFICHE H24/543. Typescript. Bibliography: p.100-102.
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...