Charles L. A. Clarke

Orcid: 0000-0001-8178-9194

Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, ON, Canada


According to our database1, Charles L. A. Clarke authored at least 245 papers between 1995 and 2024.

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2024
Report on the Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum, June, 2024

Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?
Commun. ACM, April, 2024

Beyond Utility: Evaluating LLM as Recommender.
CoRR, 2024

Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
CoRR, 2024

Rumour Evaluation with Very Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2024

Generative Information Retrieval Evaluation.
CoRR, 2024

A Comparison of Methods for Evaluating Generative IR.
CoRR, 2024

Towards better Human-Agent Alignment: Assessing Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications.
CoRR, 2024

LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR.
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

The First Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies, Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (EMTCIR 2024).
Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 2024

Evaluating Relative Retrieval Effectiveness with Normalized Residual Gain.
Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 2024

LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments.
Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) co-located with 10th International Conference on Online Publishing (SIGIR 2024), 2024

Assessing and Verifying Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

The Search Futures Workshop.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

KnowFIRES: A Knowledge-Graph Framework for Interpreting Retrieved Entities from Search.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

Adapting Standard Retrieval Benchmarks to Evaluate Generated Answers.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

Fréchet Distance for Offline Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems with Sparse Labels.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education.
SIGIR Forum, June, 2023

Retrieving Supporting Evidence for LLMs Generated Answers.
CoRR, 2023

Preference-Based Offline Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023

A Preference Judgment Tool for Authoritative Assessment.
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

Limitations of Open-Domain Question Answering Benchmarks for Document-level Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

Retrieving Supporting Evidence for Generative Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 2023

Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

A is for Adele: An Offline Evaluation Metric for Instant Search.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Made to Measure: A Workshop on Human-Centred metrics for information seeking.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2023

Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022
Report on the 16th Round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (NTCIR-16).
SIGIR Forum, December, 2022

Shallow pooling for sparse labels.
Inf. Retr. J., 2022

Translating Human Mobility Forecasting through Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21, 2022

WaterlooClarke at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistant Track.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2022

Human Preferences as Dueling Bandits.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

Early Stage Sparse Retrieval with Entity Linking.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022

Unsupervised Question Clarity Prediction through Retrieved Item Coherency.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022

2021
Assessing Top- Preferences.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2021

Report on the 15th round of NII testbeds and community for information access research (NTCIR-15).
SIGIR Forum, 2021

WaterlooClarke at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistant Track.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, 2021

Overview of the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, 2021

Evaluation Measures Based on Preference Graphs.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

Predicting Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-offs for Dense vs. Sparse Retrieval Strategy Selection.
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

Visualizing Searcher Gaze Patterns.
Proceedings of the CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2021

2020
Assessing top-k preferences.
CoRR, 2020

Overview of the TREC 2020 Health Misinformation Track.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2020

WaterlooClarke at the Trec 2020 Conversational Assistant Track.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2020

A Lightweight Environment for Learning Experimental IR Research Practices.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

A Mixed-Method Analysis of Text and Audio Search Interfaces with Varying Task Complexity.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020

Offline Evaluation without Gain.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020

Offline Evaluation by Maximum Similarity to an Ideal Ranking.
Proceedings of the CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020

A Think-Aloud Study to Understand Factors Affecting Online Health Search.
Proceedings of the CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2020

Made to Measure: A Workshop on Human-centred metrics for information seeking.
Proceedings of the CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2020

2019
WaterlooClarke at the TREC 2019 Conversational Assistant Track.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, 2019

Length Normalization in the Era of Neural Rankers.
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access co-located with the 14th NTCIR Conference on the Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR 2019), 2019

2018
Web Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Second Edition, 2018

A Location-Query-Browse Graph for Contextual Recommendation.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2018

Report on NTCIR-13: The Thirteenth Round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research.
SIGIR Forum, 2018

Evaluating Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Tutorial.
ACM Comput. Surv., 2018

Query Driven Algorithm Selection in Early Stage Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2018

2017
Inverted Treaps.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2017

Overview of Special Issue.
SIGIR Forum, 2017

Efficient and Effective Tail Latency Minimization in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems.
CoRR, 2017

Ten Blue Links on Mars.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2017

Preface from NTCIR-13 General Chairs.
Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference, 2017

The Positive and Negative Influence of Search Results on People's Decisions about the Efficacy of Medical Treatments.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2017

Incorporating novelty, meaning, reaction and craft into computational poetry: a negative experimental result.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Exploring Conversational Search With Humans, Assistants, and Wizards.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016
EVIA 2016: The Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access.
SIGIR Forum, 2016

Assessing efficiency-effectiveness tradeoffs in multi-stage retrieval systems without using relevance judgments.
Inf. Retr. J., 2016

Searching from Mars.
IEEE Internet Comput., 2016

The Effects of Latency Penalties in Evaluating Push Notification Systems.
CoRR, 2016

Dynamic Trade-Off Prediction in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems.
CoRR, 2016

Second Workshop on Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI'16): WSDM Workshop Summary.
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2016

Overview of the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, 2016

Privacy-Preserving IR 2016: Differential Privacy, Search, and Social Media.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

An Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Mobile Push Notifications.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Simple Dynamic Emission Strategies for Microblog Filtering.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

A Platform for Streaming Push Notifications to Mobile Assessors.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

SIGIR 2016 Workshop WebQA II: Web Question Answering Beyond Factoids.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Preface.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2016

An Easter Egg Hunting Approach to Test Collection Building in Dynamic Domains.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2016

Total Recall: Blue Sky on Mars.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2016

Evaluating digital poetry: Insights from the CAT.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016

Modeling Optimal Switching Behavior.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016

Dynamic Cutoff Prediction in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems.
Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Document Computing Symposium, 2016

2015
A Family of Rank Similarity Measures Based on Maximized Effectiveness Difference.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Total Recall Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 LiveQA Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

University of Waterloo at TREC 2015 Microblog Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

TREC 2015 Total Recall Track Overview.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Temporal Summarization Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

Overview of the TREC 2015 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Microblog Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

Impact of Surrogate Assessments on High-Recall Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

On the Reusability of Open Test Collections.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

IR Evaluation: Modeling User Behavior for Measuring Effectiveness.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Evaluating Streams of Evolving News Events.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Web Question Answering: Beyond Factoids: SIGIR 2015 Workshop.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Contextual Search and Exploration.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval, 2015

Human Competence in Creativity Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

Online Evaluation of Point-Of-Interest Recommendation Systems.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015

The Power of Contextual Suggestion.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015

Lexical Comparison Between Wikipedia and Twitter Corpora by Using Word Embeddings.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014
Location- and Query-Aware Modeling of Browsing and Click Behavior in Sponsored Search.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2014

Report on the 1st International Workshop on Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC 2014).
SIGIR Forum, 2014

University of Waterloo at TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion: Experiments with suggestion clustering.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, 2014

Overview of the TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, 2014

Assessing Contextual Suggestion.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2014

Time well spent.
Proceedings of the Fifth Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2014

Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC).
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2014

Succinct Queries for Linking and Tracking News in Social Media.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2014

2013
Fast and effective soft links.
Softw. Pract. Exp., 2013

Report on the workshop on search and exploration of x-rated information (SEXI 2013).
SIGIR Forum, 2013

Report on the SIGIR 2013 workshop on modeling user behavior for information retrieval evaluation (MUBE 2013).
SIGIR Forum, 2013

Impact of query intent and search context on clickthrough behavior in sponsored search.
Knowl. Inf. Syst., 2013

Increasing evaluation sensitivity to diversity.
Inf. Retr., 2013

Search and exploration of X-Rated information (SEXI 2013).
Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2013

Overview of the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

The impact of intent selection on diversified search evaluation.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Faster and smaller inverted indices with treaps.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

SIGIR 2013 workshop on modeling user behavior for information retrieval evaluation.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Evaluating Contextual Suggestion.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2013

Nugget-Based Computation of Graded Relevance.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2013

Time-Biased Gain.
Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2013

Classification-Based Clustering Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining, 2013

Effective measures for inter-document similarity.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

2012
Open source information petrieval: a report on the SIGIR 2012 workshop.
SIGIR Forum, 2012

2nd international workshop on diversity in document retrieval (DDR 2012).
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2012

Overview of the TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2012

Overview of the TREC 2012 Web Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2012

Frequent Itemset Mining for Query Expansion in Microblog adhoc Search.
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2012

Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Lightweight contrastive summarization for news comment mining.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Modeling user variance in time-biased gain.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Information Retrieval Symposium, 2012

The Fault, Dear Researchers, is not in Cranfield, But in our Metrics, that they are Unrealistic.
Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2012

Stochastic simulation of time-biased gain.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Modeling browsing behavior for click analysis in sponsored search.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

2011
The 1st international workshop on diversity in document retrieval.
SIGIR Forum, 2011

Report on the SIGIR workshop on "entertain me": supporting complex search tasks.
SIGIR Forum, 2011

Improving document clustering using Okapi BM25 feature weighting.
Inf. Retr., 2011

Efficient and effective spam filtering and re-ranking for large web datasets.
Inf. Retr., 2011

On the informativeness of cascade and intent-aware effectiveness measures.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2011

A comparative analysis of cascade measures for novelty and diversity.
Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2011

Overview of the TREC 2011 Web Track.
Proceedings of The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference, 2011

UWaterloo at NTCIR-9: Intent discovery with anchor text.
Proceedings of the 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, 2011

Do Subtopic Judgments Reflect Diversity?
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2011

Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2011

Clustering for semi-supervised spam filtering.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Collaboration, 2011

2010
University of Waterloo at TREC 2010: Legal Interactive.
Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2010

Overview of the TREC 2010 Web Track.
Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2010

A framework for BM25F-based XML retrieval.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

Towards a collection-based results diversification.
Proceedings of the Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur, 2010

ClueWeb09 and TREC Diversity.
Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, 2010

Characterizing large-scale use of a direct manipulation application in the wild.
Proceedings of the Graphics Interface 2010 Conference, May 31, 2010

Information Retrieval - Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines.
MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-02651-2, 2010

2009
Web Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009

Swapping documents and terms.
Inf. Retr., 2009

In the Mood to Click? Towards Inferring Receptiveness to Search Advertising.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2009

Estimating Ad Clickthrough Rate through Query Intent Analysis.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2009

Experiments with ClueWeb09: Relevance Feedback and Web Tracks.
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2009

Overview of the TREC 2009 Web Track.
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2009

Using dynamic markov compression to detect vandalism in the wikipedia.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Reciprocal rank fusion outperforms condorcet and individual rank learning methods.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Term-based commercial intent analysis.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

University of Waterloo at INEX 2009: Ad Hoc, Book, Entity Ranking, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks.
Proceedings of the Focused Retrieval and Evaluation, 2009

An Effectiveness Measure for Ambiguous and Underspecified Queries.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009

Clustering web queries.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

Characterizing commercial intent.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008
Hybrid index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists.
Inf. Retr., 2008

Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

University of Waterloo at INEX 2008: Adhoc, Book, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Focused Retrieval, 2008

2007
Meeting of the MINDS: an information retrieval research agenda.
SIGIR Forum, 2007

MultiText Legal Experiments at TREC 2007.
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007

X-Site: a workplace search tool for software engineers.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Improving retrieval accuracy by weighting document types with clickthrough data.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Comparing query logs and pseudo-relevance feedbackfor web-search query refinement.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

The influence of caption features on clickthrough patterns in web search.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Reliable information retrieval evaluation with incomplete and biased judgements.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

University of Waterloo at INEX2007: Adhoc and Link-the-Wiki Tracks.
Proceedings of the Focused Access to XML Documents, 2007

A Bayesian Approach for Learning Document Type Relevance.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2007

Index compression is good, especially for random access.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

2006
Adding Full-Text Filesystem Search to Linux.
login Usenix Mag., 2006

Index Pruning and Result Reranking: Effects on Ad-Hoc Retrieval and Named Page Finding.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

The TREC 2006 Terabyte Track.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

Term proximity scoring for ad-hoc retrieval on very large text collections.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Hybrid index maintenance for growing text collections.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, 2006

symTone: two-handed manipulation of tone reproduction curves.
Proceedings of the Graphics Interface 2006 Conference, June 7-9, 2006, Quebec, Canada, 2006

A Hybrid Approach to Index Maintenance in Dynamic Text Retrieval Systems.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2006

A document-centric approach to static index pruning in text retrieval systems.
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2006

symSpline: symmetric two-handed spline manipulation.
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

2005
The TREC terabyte retrieval track.
SIGIR Forum, 2005

Bimanual and unimanual image alignment: an evaluation of mouse-based techniques.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2005

The TREC 2005 Terabyte Track.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness in Terabyte-Scale Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

Controlling overlap in content-oriented XML retrieval.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

A Security Model for Full-Text File System Search in Multi-User Environments.
Proceedings of the FAST '05 Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2005

Waterloo Experiments for the CLEF05 SDR Track.
Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2005 Workshop co-located with the 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), 2005

Indexing time vs. query time: trade-offs in dynamic information retrieval systems.
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31, 2005

2004
Overview of the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Domain-Specific Synonym Expansion and Validation for Biomedical Information Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2004).
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

Giving Meaning to Macros.
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2004), 2004

MultiText Experiments for INEX 2004.
Proceedings of the Advances in XML Information Retrieval, 2004

Fast Computation of Lexical Affinity Models.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

Scoring missing terms in information retrieval tasks.
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004

A multi-system analysis of document and term selection for blind feedback.
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004

Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system.
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004

2003
Three-Layered Source-Code Modelling.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Meta-Models and Schemas for Reverse Engineering, 2003

Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003).
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

Passage retrieval vs. document retrieval for factoid question answering.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Frequency Estimates for Statistical Word Similarity Measures.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003

Syntactic Approximation Using Iterative Lexical Analysis.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2003), 2003

A reliable storage management layer for distributed information retrieval systems.
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003

2002
Statistical Selection of Exact Answers (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2002).
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

The impact of corpus size on question answering performance.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Relocating XML Elements from Preprocessed to Unprocessed Code.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2002), 2002

Topic-oriented collaborative crawling.
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2002

2001
Web Reinforced Question Answering (MultiTest Experiments for TREC 2001).
Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2001

Exploiting Redundancy in Question Answering.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

Information Extraction with Term Frequencies.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001

Representing and Accessing Extracted Information.
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001

2000
Shortest-substring retrieval and ranking.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2000

Passage-based query refinement (MultiText experiments for TREC-6).
Inf. Process. Manag., 2000

Relevance ranking for one to three term queries.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2000

A Functional Approach to Complex Retrieval Tasks.
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming, 2000

Question Answering by Passage Selection (MultiText Experiments for TREC-9).
Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2000

A comparative evaluation of techniques for syntactic level source code analysis.
Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000), 2000

1999
Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8).
Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, 1999

The MultiText Retrieval System (demonstration abstract).
Proceedings of the SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1999

Searching Program Source Code with a Structured Text Retrieval System (poster abstract).
Proceedings of the SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1999

Browsing and Searching Software Architectures.
Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Software Maintenance, 1999

A model independent source code repository.
Proceedings of the 1999 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, 1999

1998
An Overview of MultiText.
SIGIR Forum, 1998

Deriving Very Short Queries for High Precision and Recall (MultiText Experiments for TREC-7).
Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, 1998

Efficient Construction of Large Test Collections.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1998

Archetypal Source Code Searches: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers.
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC '98), 1998

1997
On the Use of Regular Expressions for Searching Text.
ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst., 1997

Passage-Based Refinement (MultiText Experiements for TREC-6).
Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 1997

1996
Compacting Garbage Collection can be Fast and Simple.
Softw. Pract. Exp., 1996

Interactive Substring Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC-5).
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, 1996

1995
An Algebra for Structured Text Search and a Framework for its Implementation.
Comput. J., 1995

Shortest Substring Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-4).
Proceedings of The Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 1995


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