2023

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Index-Based Batch Query Processing Revisited
Joel Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III

2022

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Anytime Ranking on Document-Ordered Indexes
Joel Mackenzie | Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat
2022 Volume 40 Issue 1

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Efficient query processing techniques for next-page retrieval
Joel Mackenzie | Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat
2022 Volume 25 Issue 1

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Can Users Predict Relative Query Effectiveness?
Oleg Zendel | Melika P. Ebrahim | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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A Flexible Framework for Offline Effectiveness Metrics
Alistair Moffat | Joel Mackenzie | Paul Thomas | Leif Azzopardi
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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Users: Can't Work With Them, Can't Work Without Them?
Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

2021

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Conferences, journals, preprints, and reviewer expectations
Alistair Moffat | Joel Mackenzie
2021 Volume 55 Issue 2

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Modeling search and session effectiveness
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Alistair Moffat
2021 Volume 58 Issue 4

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Cost-Effective Updating of Distributed Reordered Indexes
Joel Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat
ADCS '21: Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Virtual Event, Australia, 9 December 2021

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ERR is not C/W/L: Exploring the Relationship Between Expected Reciprocal Rank and Other Metrics
Leif Azzopardi | Joel Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat
ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021

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Modality Effects When Simulating User Querying Tasks
Joel Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat
ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021

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Faster Index Reordering with Bipartite Graph Partitioning
Joel Mackenzie | Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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Evaluating the Predictivity of IR Experiments
Lida Rashidi | Justin Zobel | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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User Models, Metrics and Measures of Search: A Tutorial on the C/W/L Evaluation Framework
Leif Azzopardi | Alistair Moffat | Paul Thomas | Guido Zuccon
CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021

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Different Keystrokes for Different Folks: Visualizing Crowdworker Querying Behavior
Rodger Benham | Joel Mackenzie | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021

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Bayesian System Inference on Shallow Pools
Rodger Benham | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

2020

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Large-Alphabet Semi-Static Entropy Coding Via Asymmetric Numeral Systems
Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri
2020 Volume 38 Issue 4

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Offline evaluation options for recommender systems
Rocío Cañamares | Pablo Castells | Alistair Moffat
2020 Volume 23 Issue 4

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Metrics, User Models, and Satisfaction
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Alistair Moffat
WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Houston, TX, USA, February 3-7, 2020

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Bayesian Inferential Risk Evaluation On Multiple IR Systems
Rodger Benham | Ben Carterette | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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CC-News-En: A Large English News Corpus
Joel M. Mackenzie | Rodger Benham | Matthias Petri | Johanne R. Trippas | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020

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Examining the Additivity of Top-k Query Processing Innovations
Joel M. Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020

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Generation of Synthetic Query Auto Completion Logs
Unni Krishnan | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel | Bodo Billerbeck
Advances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

2019

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Boosting Search Performance Using Query Variations
Rodger Benham | Joel M. Mackenzie | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
2019 Volume 37 Issue 4

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Abstraction of query auto completion logs for anonymity-preserving analysis
Unni Krishnan | Bodo Billerbeck | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
2019 Volume 22 Issue 5

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Fast Dictionary-Based Compression for Inverted Indexes
Giulio Ermanno Pibiri | Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019

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Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019

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Taking Risks with Confidence
Rodger Benham | Ben Carterette | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2019, Sydney, Australia, December 5-6, 2019

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On the Pluses and Minuses of Risk
Rodger Benham | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Information Retrieval Technology - 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2019, Hong Kong, November 7-9, 2019, Proceedings

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Building Economic Models and Measures of Search
Leif Azzopardi | Alistair Moffat | Paul Thomas | Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

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cwl_eval: An Evaluation Tool for Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi | Paul Thomas | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

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Accelerated Query Processing Via Similarity Score Prediction
Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat | Joel M. Mackenzie | J. Shane Culpepper | Daniel Beck
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

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Modeling User Actions in Job Search
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Advances in Information Retrieval - 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

2018

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A Preliminary Comparison of Job, Talent, and Web Search
Damiano Spina | Maria Maistro | Yongli Ren | Sargol Sadeghi | Wilson Wong | Timothy Baldwin | Lawrence Cavedon | Alistair Moffat | Mark Sanderson | Falk Scholer | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 9th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, Rome, Italy, May, 28-30, 2018

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String Processing and Information Retrieval - 25th International Symposium, SPIRE 2018, Lima, Peru, October 9-11, 2018, Proceedings

String Processing and Information Retrieval - 25th International Symposium, SPIRE 2018, Lima, Peru, October 9-11, 2018, Proceedings

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Index Compression Using Byte-Aligned ANS Coding and Two-Dimensional Contexts
Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

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RMIT at the 2018 TREC CORE Track
Rodger Benham | Luke Gallagher | Joel M. Mackenzie | Binsheng Liu | Xiaolu Lu | Falk Scholer | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2018, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-16, 2018

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Desirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics
Ameer Albahem | Damiano Spina | Falk Scholer | Alistair Moffat | Lawrence Cavedon
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 11-12, 2018

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Pairwise Crowd Judgments: Preference, Absolute, and Ratio
Ziying Yang | Alistair Moffat | Andrew Turpin
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 11-12, 2018

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Exploring Interaction Patterns in Job Search
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 11-12, 2018

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Better Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings
Paul Thomas | Alistair Moffat | Peter Bailey | Falk Scholer | Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 11-12, 2018

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A Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search
Bahar Salehi | Damiano Spina | Alistair Moffat | Sargol Sadeghi | Falk Scholer | Timothy Baldwin | Lawrence Cavedon | Mark Sanderson | Wilson Wong | Justin Zobel
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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Users, Adaptivity, and Bad Abandonment
Alistair Moffat | Alfan Farizki Wicaksono
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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Empirical Evidence for Search Effectiveness Models
Alfan Farizki Wicaksono | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

2017

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Incorporating User Expectations and Behavior into the Measurement of Search Effectiveness
Alistair Moffat | Peter Bailey | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
2017 Volume 35 Issue 3

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Efficient distributed selective search
Yubin Kim | Jamie Callan | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
2017 Volume 20 Issue 3

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Efficiency in information retrieval: introduction to special issue
David Hawking | Alistair Moffat | Andrew Trotman
2017 Volume 20 Issue 3

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Understanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation
Damiano Spina | Maria Maistro | Yongli Ren | Sargol Sadeghi | Wilson Wong | Timothy Baldwin | Lawrence Cavedon | Alistair Moffat | Mark Sanderson | Falk Scholer | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2017 Workshop On eCommerce co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, eCOM@SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan, August 11, 2017

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A Cost Model for Long-Term Compressed Data Retention
Kewen Liao | Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri | Anthony Wirth
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 6-10, 2017

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RMIT at the 2017 TREC CORE Track
Rodger Benham | Luke Gallagher | Joel M. Mackenzie | Tadele Tedla Damessie | Ruey-Cheng Chen | Falk Scholer | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-17, 2017

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Tasks, Queries, and Rankers in Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction
Paul Thomas | Falk Scholer | Peter Bailey | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 7-8, 2017

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A Taxonomy of Query Auto Completion Modes
Unni Krishnan | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 7-8, 2017

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Retrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations
Peter Bailey | Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Can Deep Effectiveness Metrics Be Evaluated Using Shallow Judgment Pools?
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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ANS-Based Index Compression
Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017, Singapore, November 06 - 10, 2017

2016

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The effect of pooling and evaluation depth on IR metrics
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
2016 Volume 19 Issue 4

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Assessing efficiency-effectiveness tradeoffs in multi-stage retrieval systems without using relevance judgments
Charles L. A. Clarke | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
2016 Volume 19 Issue 4

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What Would We Like IR Metrics to Measure?
Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, June 7-10, 2016

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Judgment Pool Effects Caused by Query Variations
Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2016, Caulfield, VIC, Australia, December 5-7, 2016

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Efficient and Effective Higher Order Proximity Modeling
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016

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How Precise Does Document Scoring Need to Be?
Ziying Yang | Alistair Moffat | Andrew Turpin
Information Retrieval Technology - 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 - December 2, 2016, Proceedings

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Modeling Relevance as a Function of Retrieval Rank
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Information Retrieval Technology - 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 - December 2, 2016, Proceedings

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Quit While Ahead: Evaluating Truncated Rankings
Fei Liu | Alistair Moffat | Timothy Baldwin | Xiuzhen Zhang
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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Load-Balancing in Distributed Selective Search
Yubin Kim | Jamie Callan | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability
Peter Bailey | Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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Effective Construction of Relative Lempel-Ziv Dictionaries
Kewen Liao | Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat | Anthony Wirth
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016, Montreal, Canada, April 11 - 15, 2016

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Does Selective Search Benefit from WAND Optimization?
Yubin Kim | Jamie Callan | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
Advances in Information Retrieval - 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

2015

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INST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Alistair Moffat | Peter Bailey | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2015, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, December 8-9, 2015

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Towards Nuanced System Evaluation Based on Implicit User Expectations
Paul Thomas | Peter Bailey | Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer
Information Retrieval Technology - 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2-4, 2015. Proceedings

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Access Time Tradeoffs in Archive Compression
Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat | P. C. Nagesh | Anthony Wirth
Information Retrieval Technology - 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2-4, 2015. Proceedings

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On the Cost of Phrase-Based Ranking
Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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User Variability and IR System Evaluation
Peter Bailey | Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Pooled Evaluation Over Query Variations: Users are as Diverse as Systems
Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas | Peter Bailey
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015

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On the Cost of Extracting Proximity Features for Term-Dependency Models
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015

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Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015

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On Identifying Phrases Using Collection Statistics
Simon Gog | Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29 - April 2, 2015. Proceedings

2014

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Strategic Pattern Search in Factor-Compressed Text
Simon Gog | Alistair Moffat | Matthias Petri
String Processing and Information Retrieval - 21st International Symposium, SPIRE 2014, Ouro Preto, Brazil, October 20-22, 2014. Proceedings

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Assessing the Cognitive Complexity of Information Needs
Alistair Moffat | Peter Bailey | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 27-28, 2014

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How Effective are Proximity Scores in Term Dependency Models?
Xiaolu Lu | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 27-28, 2014

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Graph Representations and Applications of Citation Networks
Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat | Anthony Wirth
Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 27-28, 2014

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Score-safe term-dependency processing with hybrid indexes
Matthias Petri | Alistair Moffat | J. Shane Culpepper
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014

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Modeling decision points in user search behavior
Paul Thomas | Alistair Moffat | Peter Bailey | Falk Scholer
Fifth Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX '14, Regensburg, Germany, August 26-29, 2014

2013

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Adding Compression and Blended Search to a Compact Two-Level Suffix Array
Simon Gog | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval - 20th International Symposium, SPIRE 2013, Jerusalem, Israel, October 7-9, 2013, Proceedings

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Choices in batch information retrieval evaluation
Falk Scholer | Alistair Moffat | Paul Thomas
The Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '13, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 5-6, 2013

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Exploring the magic of WAND
Matthias Petri | J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
The Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '13, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 5-6, 2013

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What Users Do: The Eyes Have It
Paul Thomas | Falk Scholer | Alistair Moffat
Information Retrieval Technology - 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2013, Singapore, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings

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Seven Numeric Properties of Effectiveness Metrics
Alistair Moffat
Information Retrieval Technology - 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2013, Singapore, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings

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Users versus models: what observation tells us about effectiveness metrics
Alistair Moffat | Paul Thomas | Falk Scholer
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

2012

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Panel on use of proprietary data
Jamie Callan | Alistair Moffat
2012 Volume 46 Issue 2

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Frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for information retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 the second strategic workshop on information retrieval in Lorne
James Allan | W. Bruce Croft | Alistair Moffat | Mark Sanderson
2012 Volume 46 Issue 1

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Models and metrics: IR evaluation as a user process
Alistair Moffat | Falk Scholer | Paul Thomas
The Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '12, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 5-6, 2012

2011

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Principles for robust evaluation infrastructure
Justin Zobel | William Webber | Mark Sanderson | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Data Infrastructures for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation, DESIRE '11, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 28, 2011

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Efficient indexing of repeated n-grams
Samuel J. Huston | Alistair Moffat | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2011, Hong Kong, China, February 9-12, 2011

2010

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A similarity measure for indefinite rankings
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
2010 Volume 28 Issue 4

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Efficient set intersection for inverted indexing
J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
2010 Volume 29 Issue 1

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Click-based evidence for decaying weight distributions in search effectiveness metrics
Yuye Zhang | Laurence Anthony F. Park | Alistair Moffat
2010 Volume 13 Issue 1

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The Effect of Pooling and Evaluation Depth on Metric Stability
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, EVIA 2010, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, June 15, 2010

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The Role of Anchor Text in ClueWeb09 Retrieval
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2010

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Score Estimation, Incomplete Judgments, and Significance Testing in IR Evaluation
Sri Devi Ravana | Alistair Moffat
Information Retrieval Technology - 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2010. Proceedings

2009

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Against recall: is it persistence, cardinality, density, coverage, or totality?
Justin Zobel | Alistair Moffat | Laurence Anthony F. Park
2009 Volume 43 Issue 1

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EvaluatIR: an online tool for evaluating and comparing IR systems
Timothy G. Armstrong | Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

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System scoring using partial prior information
Sri Devi Ravana | Laurence Anthony F. Park | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

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Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Timothy G. Armstrong | Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

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Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998
Timothy G. Armstrong | Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Measurement Techniques and Caching Effects
Stefan Pohl | Alistair Moffat
Advances in Information Retrieval, 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings

2008

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Rank-biased precision for measurement of retrieval effectiveness
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
2008 Volume 27 Issue 1

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Term Impacts as Normalized Term Frequencies for BM25 Similarity Scoring
Vo Ngoc Anh | Raymond Wan | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval, 15th International Symposium, SPIRE 2008, Melbourne, Australia, November 10-12, 2008. Proceedings

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String Processing and Information Retrieval, 15th International Symposium, SPIRE 2008, Melbourne, Australia, November 10-12, 2008. Proceedings

String Processing and Information Retrieval, 15th International Symposium, SPIRE 2008, Melbourne, Australia, November 10-12, 2008. Proceedings

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Precision-at-ten considered redundant
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel | Tetsuya Sakai
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Exploring evaluation metrics: GMAP versus MAP
Sri Devi Ravana | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Statistical power in retrieval experimentation
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008

2007

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A pipelined architecture for distributed text query evaluation
Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel | Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates
2007 Volume 10 Issue 3

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Block merging for off-line compression
Raymond Wan | Alistair Moffat
2007 Volume 58 Issue 1

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Compact Set Representation for Information Retrieval
J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval, 14th International Symposium, SPIRE 2007, Santiago, Chile, October 29-31, 2007, Proceedings

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Strategic system comparisons via targeted relevance judgments
Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007

2006

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Exploring Probabilistic Toponym Resolution for Geographical Information Retrieval
Yi Li | Alistair Moffat | Nicola Stokes | Lawrence Cavedon
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 10, 2006

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NICTA I2D2 Group at GeoCLEF 2006
Yi Li | Nicola Stokes | Lawrence Cavedon | Alistair Moffat
Working Notes for CLEF 2006 Workshop co-located with the 10th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2006), Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006

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NICTA I2D2 Group at GeoCLEF 2006
Yi Li | Nicola Stokes | Lawrence Cavedon | Alistair Moffat
Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

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Phrase-Based Pattern Matching in Compressed Text
J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval, 13th International Conference, SPIRE 2006, Glasgow, UK, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings

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Structured Index Organizations for High-Throughput Text Querying
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval, 13th International Conference, SPIRE 2006, Glasgow, UK, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings

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Melbourne University at the 2006 Terabyte Track
Vo Ngoc Anh | William Webber | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

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Pruned query evaluation using pre-computed impacts
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006

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Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Alistair Moffat | William Webber | Justin Zobel
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006

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Pruning strategies for mixed-mode querying
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006

2005

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Recommended reading for IR research students
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
2005 Volume 39 Issue 2

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Inverted Index Compression Using Word-Aligned Binary Codes
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
2005 Volume 8 Issue 1

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Word-based text compression using the Burrows-Wheeler transform
Alistair Moffat | R. Yugo Kartono Isal
2005 Volume 41 Issue 5

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Enhanced Byte Codes with Restricted Prefix Properties
J. Shane Culpepper | Alistair Moffat
String Processing and Information Retrieval, 12th International Conference, SPIRE 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2-4, 2005, Proceedings

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Melbourne University 2005: Enterprise and Terabyte Tasks
Vo Ngoc Anh | William Webber | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

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The recap system for identifying information flow
Donald Metzler | Yaniv Bernstein | W. Bruce Croft | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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Simplified similarity scoring using term ranks
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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Fast on-line index construction by geometric partitioning
Nicholas Lester | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005

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Similarity measures for tracking information flow
Donald Metzler | Yaniv Bernstein | W. Bruce Croft | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005

2004

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Melbourne University 2004: Terabyte and Web Tracks
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004

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Collection-Independent Document-Centric Impacts
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
ADCS 2004, Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, December 13, 2004

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ADCS 2004, Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, December 13, 2004

ADCS 2004, Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, December 13, 2004

2003

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Robust and Web Retrieval with Document-Centric Integral Impacts
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003

2002

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Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation Using a Common Retrieval Strategy
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002

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Vector Space Ranking: Can We Keep it Simple?
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
ADCS 2002, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, December 16, 2002

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Impact transformation: effective and efficient web retrieval
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland

2001

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Re-Store: A System for Compressing, Browsing, and Searching Large Documents (Invited Paper)
Alistair Moffat | Raymond Wan
Eighth International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2001, Laguna de San Rafael, Chile, November 13-15, 2001

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Interactive Phrase Browsing Within Compressed Text
Raymond Wan | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Vector-Space Ranking with Effective Early Termination
Vo Ngoc Anh | Owen de Kretser | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

2000

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Binary Interpolative Coding for Effective Index Compression
Alistair Moffat | Lang Stuiver
2000 Volume 3 Issue 1

1999

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Statistical Phrases for Vector-Space Information Retrieval (poster abstract)
Andrew Turpin | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 15-19, 1999, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Effective Document Presentation with a Locality-Based Similarity Heuristic
Owen de Kretser | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 15-19, 1999, Berkeley, CA, USA

1998

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Exploring the Similarity Space
Justin Zobel | Alistair Moffat
1998 Volume 32 Issue 1

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Arithmetic Coding Revisited
Alistair Moffat | Radford M. Neal | Ian H. Witten
1998 Volume 16 Issue 3

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Teraphim: An Engine for Distributed Information Retrieval
Owen de Kretser | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

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Compressed Inverted Files with Reduced Decoding Overheads
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat
SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

1996

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Self-Indexing Inverted Files for Fast Text Retrieval
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
1996 Volume 14 Issue 4

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The Design of a High Performance Information Filtering System
Timothy A. H. Bell | Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'96, August 18-22, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum)

1995

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Efficient Retrieval of Partial Documents
Justin Zobel | Alistair Moffat | Ross Wilkinson | Ron Sacks-Davis
1995 Volume 31 Issue 3

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In Situ Generation of Compressed Inverted Files
Alistair Moffat | Timothy A. H. Bell
1995 Volume 46 Issue 7

1994

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An Empirical Evaluation of Coding Methods for Multi-symbol Alphabets
Alistair Moffat | Neil Sharman | Ian H. Witten | Timothy C. Bell
1994 Volume 30 Issue 6

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Memory Efficient Ranking
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel | Ron Sacks-Davis
1994 Volume 30 Issue 6

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Information Retrieval Systems for Large Document Collections
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of The Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1994, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2-4, 1994

1993

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Data Compression in Full-Text Retrieval Systems
Timothy C. Bell | Alistair Moffat | Craig G. Nevill-Manning | Ian H. Witten | Justin Zobel
1993 Volume 44 Issue 9

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Retrieval of Partial Documents
Alistair Moffat | Ron Sacks-Davis | Ross Wilkinson | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of The Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1993, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, August 31 - September 2, 1993

1992

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Compression, Fast Indexing, and Structured Queries on a Gigabyte of Text
Alan J. Kent | Alistair Moffat | Ron Sacks-Davis | Ross Wilkinson | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of The First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1992, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 4-6, 1992

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Parameterised Compression for Sparse Bitmaps
Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 15th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21-24, 1992

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