Paul Thomas

2026

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On the Use of LLMs for Relevance Labelling.
Marwah Alaofi|Paul Thomas|Falk Scholer|Mark Sanderson
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2026 Volume 44 Issue 4

2025

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Report from the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2025).
Johanne R. Trippas|J. Shane Culpepper|Mohammad Aliannejadi|James Allan|Enrique Amigó|Jaime Arguello|Leif Azzopardi|Peter Bailey|Jamie Callan|Rob Capra|Nick Craswell|W. Bruce Croft|Jeff Dalton|Gianluca Demartini|Laura Dietz|Zhicheng Dou|Carsten Eickhoff|Michael D. Ekstrand|Nicola Ferro|Norbert Fuhr|Dorota Glowacka|Faegheh Hasibi|Danula Hettiachchi|Rosie Jones|Jaap Kamps|Noriko Kando|Sarvnaz Karimi|Makoto P. Kato|Bevan Koopman|Yiqun Liu|Chenglong Ma|Joel Mackenzie|Maria Maistro|Jiaxin Mao|Dana McKay|Bhaskar Mitra|Stefano Mizzaro|Alistair Moffat|Josiane Mothe|Iadh Ounis|Lida Rashidi|Yongli Ren|Mark Sanderson|Rodrygo L. T. Santos|Falk Scholer|Chirag Shah|Laurianne Sitbon|Ian Soboroff|Damiano Spina|Paul Thomas|Julián Urbano|Arjen P. de Vries|Ryen White|Abby Yuan|Hamed Zamani|Oleg Zendel|Min Zhang|Shengyao Zhuang|Justin Zobel|Guido Zuccon
SIGIR Forum 2025 Volume 59 Issue 1
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Demographically-Inspired Query Variants Using an LLM.
Marwah Alaofi|Nicola Ferro|Paul Thomas|Falk Scholer|Mark Sanderson
Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 18 July 2025
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Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI.
Gianluca Demartini|Claudia Hauff|Matthew Lease|Stefano Mizzaro|Kevin Roitero|Mark Sanderson|Falk Scholer|Chirag Shah|Damiano Spina|Paul Thomas|Arjen P. de Vries|Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 18 July 2025
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LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR.
Clemencia Siro|Hossein A. Rahmani|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Nick Craswell|Charles L. A. Clarke|Guglielmo Faggioli|Bhaskar Mitra|Paul Thomas|Emine Yilmaz
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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System Comparison Using Automated Generation of Relevance Judgements in Multiple Languages.
Paul Thomas|Douglas W. Oard|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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LLM4Eval@WSDM 2025: Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval.
Hossein A. Rahmani|Clemencia Siro|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Nick Craswell|Charles L. A. Clarke|Guglielmo Faggioli|Bhaskar Mitra|Paul Thomas|Emine Yilmaz
Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2025, Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025
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SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval.
Hossein A. Rahmani|Xi Wang|Emine Yilmaz|Nick Craswell|Bhaskar Mitra|Paul Thomas
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025 - 2 May 2025

2024

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Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024.
Alexander Frummet|Andrea Papenmeier|Maik Fröbe|Johannes Kiesel|Vaibhav Adlakha|Norbert Braunschweiler|Mateusz Dubiel|Satanu Ghosh|Marcel Gohsen|Christin Kreutz|Milad Momeni|Markus Nilles|Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal|Abbas Pirmoradi|Paul Thomas|Johanne R. Trippas|Ines Zelch|Oleg Zendel
SIGIR Forum 2024 Volume 58 Issue 1
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Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
Hossein A. Rahmani|Clemencia Siro|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Nick Craswell|Charles L. A. Clarke|Guglielmo Faggioli|Bhaskar Mitra|Paul Thomas|Emine Yilmaz
SIGIR Forum 2024 Volume 58 Issue 2
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Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing.
Oleg Zendel|J. Shane Culpepper|Falk Scholer|Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2024, Sheffield, United Kingdom, March 10-14, 2024
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What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation.
Paul Thomas|Gabriella Kazai|Nick Craswell|Seth Spielman
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Large Language Models can Accurately Predict Searcher Preferences.
Paul Thomas|Seth Spielman|Nick Craswell|Bhaskar Mitra
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR.
Hossein A. Rahmani|Clemencia Siro|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Nick Craswell|Charles L. A. Clarke|Guglielmo Faggioli|Bhaskar Mitra|Paul Thomas|Emine Yilmaz
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024

2023

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Taking Search to Task.
Chirag Shah|Ryen White|Paul Thomas|Bhaskar Mitra|Shawon Sarkar|Nicholas J. Belkin
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2023, Austin, TX, USA, March 19-23, 2023
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Using Language Models for Relevance Labelling.
Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 17th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, NTCIR 2023, Tokyo, Japan, December 12-15, 2023
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Responsible Information Access: Fairness, Harmlessness, Sustainability, and More.
Tetsuya Sakai|Haruka Maeda|Paul Thomas|Mark Sanderson
Proceedings of the 17th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, NTCIR 2023, Tokyo, Japan, December 12-15, 2023
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Can Generative LLMs Create Query Variants for Test Collections? An Exploratory Study.
Marwah Alaofi|Luke Gallagher|Mark Sanderson|Falk Scholer|Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2022

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The Crowd is Made of People: Observations from Large-Scale Crowd Labelling.
Paul Thomas|Gabriella Kazai|Ryen White|Nick Craswell
CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Regensburg, Germany, March 14 - 18, 2022
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Third Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2022).
Toine Bogers|Maria Gäde|Mark Michael Hall|Marijn Koolen|Vivien Petras|Paul Thomas
CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Regensburg, Germany, March 14 - 18, 2022
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Search Interfaces for Biomedical Searching: How do Gaze, User Perception, Search Behaviour and Search Performance Relate?
Ying-Hsang Liu|Paul Thomas|Tom Gedeon|Nicolay Rusnachenko
CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Regensburg, Germany, March 14 - 18, 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

2021

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CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) 2021
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Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021.
Damiano Spina|Johanne R. Trippas|Paul Thomas|Hideo Joho|Katriina Byström|Leigh Clark|Nick Craswell|Mary Czerwinski|David Elsweiler|Alexander Frummet|Souvick Ghosh|Johannes Kiesel|Irene Lopatovska|Daniel McDuff|Selina Meyer|Ahmed Mourad|Paul Owoicho|Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal|Daniel Russell|Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum 2021 Volume 55 Issue 1
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Report on the 1st simulation for information retrieval workshop (Sim4IR 2021) at SIGIR 2021.
Krisztian Balog|David Maxwell|Paul Thomas|Shuo Zhang
SIGIR Forum 2021 Volume 55 Issue 2
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Theories of Conversation for Conversational IR.
Paul Thomas|Mary Czerwinski|Daniel McDuff|Nick Craswell
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2021 Volume 39 Issue 4
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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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Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search.
Mohammad Aliannejadi|Leif Azzopardi|Hamed Zamani|Evangelos Kanoulas|Paul Thomas|Nick Craswell
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021
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Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation.
Krisztian Balog|David Maxwell|Paul Thomas|Shuo Zhang
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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Do Affective Cues Validate Behavioural Metrics for Search?
Daniel McDuff|Paul Thomas|Nick Craswell|Kael Rowan|Mary Czerwinski
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

2020

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Investigating Searchers' Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations.
Paul Thomas|Bodo Billerbeck|Nick Craswell|Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2020 Volume 38 Issue 1
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Towards a model for spoken conversational search.
Johanne R. Trippas|Damiano Spina|Paul Thomas|Mark Sanderson|Hideo Joho|Lawrence Cavedon
Information Processing and Management 2020 Volume 57 Issue 2
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Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages.
Leif Azzopardi|Ryen W. White|Paul Thomas|Nick Craswell
CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 14-18, 2020.
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Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20): Full-day Workshop at CHIIR 2020.
Johanne R. Trippas|Paul Thomas|Damiano Spina|Hideo Joho
CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 14-18, 2020.
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Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent.
Paul Thomas|Daniel McDuff|Mary Czerwinski|Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

2019

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Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2019, Sydney, Australia, December 5-6, 2019.
Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS) 2019
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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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The Emotion Profile of Web Search.
Gabriella Kazai|Paul Thomas|Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019.

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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Style and Alignment in Information-Seeking Conversation.
Paul Thomas|Mary Czerwinski|Daniel McDuff|Nick Craswell|Gloria Mark
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2018, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, March 11-15, 2018
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Measuring the Utility of Search Engine Result Pages: An Information Foraging Based Measure.
Leif Azzopardi|Paul Thomas|Nick Craswell
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 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
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2017 Volume 35 Issue 3
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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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What Snippet Size is Needed in Mobile Web Search?
Jaewon Kim|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana|Tom Gedeon|Hwan-Jin Yoon
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2017, Oslo, Norway, March 7-11, 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

2016

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Understanding eye movements on mobile devices for better presentation of search results.
Jaewon Kim|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana|Tom Gedeon|Hwan-Jin Yoon
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2016 Volume 67 Issue 11
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System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016).
Heather L. O'Brien|Nicola Ferro|Hideo Joho|Dirk Lewandowski|Paul Thomas|Keith van Rijsbergen
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2016, Carrboro, North Carolina, USA, March 13-17, 2016
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Measuring Engagement with Online Forms.
Paul Thomas|Heather O'Brien|Tom Rowlands
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2016, Carrboro, North Carolina, USA, March 13-17, 2016
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Pagination versus Scrolling in Mobile Web Search.
Jaewon Kim|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana|Tom Gedeon|Hwan-Jin Yoon
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 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

2015

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Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior and performance in web search on large and small screens.
Jaewon Kim|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana|Tom Gedeon|Hwan-Jin Yoon
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2015 Volume 66 Issue 3
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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 Searching Amongst Tables.
Paul Thomas|Rollin M. Omari|Tom Rowlands
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2015, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, December 8-9, 2015
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Text segmentation and Chinese site search.
Liyuan Zhou|David Hawking|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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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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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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Features of Disagreement Between Retrieval Effectiveness Measures.
Timothy Jones|Paul Thomas|Falk Scholer|Mark Sanderson
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

2014

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Using Interaction Data to Explain Difficulty Navigating Online.
Paul Thomas
ACM Transactions on the Web 2014 Volume 8 Issue 4
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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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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
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Compositional data analysis (CoDA) approaches to distance in information retrieval.
Paul Thomas|David Lovell
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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Overview of the TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Adriel Dean-Hall|Charles L. A. Clarke|Jaap Kamps|Paul Thomas|Ellen M. Voorhees
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-21, 2014

2013

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Merging algorithms for enterprise search.
PengFei (Vincent) Li|Paul Thomas|David Hawking
The Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '13, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 5-6, 2013
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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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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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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
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Filtering and Ranking for Social Media Monitoring.
Arlind Kopliku|Paul Thomas|Stephen Wan|Cécile Paris
CORIA 2013 - Conférence en Recherche d'Infomations et Applications - 10th French Information Retrieval Conference, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, April 3-5, 2013.
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Overview of the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Adriel Dean-Hall|Charles L. A. Clarke|Nicole Simone|Jaap Kamps|Paul Thomas|Ellen M. Voorhees
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013

2012

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To what problem is distributed information retrieval the solution?
Paul Thomas
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2012 Volume 63 Issue 7
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Comparing scanning behaviour in web search on small and large screens.
Jaewon Kim|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana|Tom Gedeon
The Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '12, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 5-6, 2012
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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
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Explaining difficulty navigating a website using page view data.
Paul Thomas
The Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS '12, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 5-6, 2012
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Overview of the TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Adriel Dean-Hall|Charles L. A. Clarke|Jaap Kamps|Paul Thomas|Ellen M. Voorhees
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012
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Searching and Filtering Tweets: CSIRO at the TREC 2012 Microblog Track.
Sarvnaz Karimi|Jie Yin|Paul Thomas
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012
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Finding, Weighting and Describing Venues: CSIRO at the 2012 TREC Contextual Suggestion Track.
David N. Milne|Paul Thomas|Cécile Paris
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012

2011

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Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines.
Timothy Jones|David Hawking|Paul Thomas|Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011
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What deliberately degrading search quality tells us about discount functions.
Paul Thomas|Timothy Jones|David Hawking
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

2010

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Focused and aggregated search: a perspective from natural language generation.
Cécile Paris|Stephen Wan|Paul Thomas
Discover Computing 2010 Volume 13 Issue 5
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Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search.
Paul Thomas|Milad Shokouhi
Advances in Information Retrieval, 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 28-31, 2010. Proceedings
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Evaluating interfaces for government metasearch.
Paul Thomas|Katherine Noack|Cécile Paris
Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, August 18-21, 2010

2009

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Server selection methods in personal metasearch: a comparative empirical study.
Paul Thomas|David Hawking
Discover Computing 2009 Volume 12 Issue 5
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Effective query expansion for federated search.
Milad Shokouhi|Leif Azzopardi|Paul Thomas
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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SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection.
Paul Thomas|Milad Shokouhi
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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Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track.
Krisztian Balog|Arjen P. de Vries|Pavel Serdyukov|Paul Thomas|Thijs Westerveld
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

2008

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Experiences evaluating personal metasearch.
Paul Thomas|David Hawking
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, IIiX 2008, London, UK, October 14-17, 2008
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Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter.
Peter Bailey|Nick Craswell|Ian Soboroff|Paul Thomas|Arjen P. de Vries|Emine Yilmaz
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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Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes.
Paul Thomas
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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Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track.
Krisztian Balog|Ian Soboroff|Paul Thomas|Peter Bailey|Nick Craswell|Arjen P. de Vries
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2008

2007

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Evaluating sampling methods for uncooperative collections.
Paul Thomas|David Hawking
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
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Estimating the value of automatic disambiguation.
Paul Thomas|Tom Rowlands
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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Evaluation by comparing result sets in context.
Paul Thomas|David Hawking
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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Server selection methods in hybrid portal search.
David Hawking|Paul Thomas
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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TREC 14 Enterprise Track at CSIRO and ANU.
Mingfang Wu|David Hawking|Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005