William Webber

2015

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Statistical comparisons of non-deterministic IR systems using two dimensional variance.
Gaya K. Jayasinghe|William Webber|Mark Sanderson|Lasitha Sandamali Dharmasena|J. Shane Culpepper
Information Processing and Management 2015 Volume 51 Issue 5

2014

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Improving test collection pools with machine learning.
Gaya K. Jayasinghe|William Webber|Mark Sanderson|J. Shane Culpepper
Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 27-28, 2014
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Reducing Reliance on Relevance Judgments for System Comparison by Using Expectation-Maximization.
Ning Gao|William Webber|Douglas W. Oard
Advances in Information Retrieval - 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014. Proceedings
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Extending test collection pools without manual runs.
Gaya K. Jayasinghe|William Webber|Mark Sanderson|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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Evaluating non-deterministic retrieval systems.
Gaya K. Jayasinghe|William Webber|Mark Sanderson|Lasitha Sandamali Dharmasena|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

2013

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Approximate Recall Confidence Intervals.
William Webber
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2013 Volume 31 Issue 1
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Information Retrieval for E-Discovery.
Douglas W. Oard|William Webber
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2013 Volume 7 Issue 2-3
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Towards minimizing the annotation cost of certified text classification.
Mossaab Bagdouri|William Webber|David D. Lewis|Douglas W. Oard
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013
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Document features predicting assessor disagreement.
Praveen Chandar|William Webber|Ben Carterette
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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The effect of threshold priming and need for cognition on relevance calibration and assessment.
Falk Scholer|Diane Kelly|Wan-Ching Wu|Hanseul S. Lee|William Webber
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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Sequential testing in classifier evaluation yields biased estimates of effectiveness.
William Webber|Mossaab Bagdouri|David D. Lewis|Douglas W. Oard
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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Assessor disagreement and text classifier accuracy.
William Webber|Jeremy Pickens
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013

2012

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Alternative assessor disagreement and retrieval depth.
William Webber|Praveen Chandar|Ben Carterette
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012
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Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement.
William Webber|Bryan Toth|Marjorie Desamito
The 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '12, Portland, OR, USA, August 12-16, 2012

2011

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Melboune at the TREC 2011 Legal Track.
William Webber|Phil Farrelly
Proceedings of The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2011

2010

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EVIA 2010: the third international workshop on evaluating information access.
William Webber|Tetsuya Sakai|Mark Sanderson
SIGIR Forum 2010 Volume 44 Issue 2
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A similarity measure for indefinite rankings.
William Webber|Alistair Moffat|Justin Zobel
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2010 Volume 28 Issue 4
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Assessor error in stratified evaluation.
William Webber|Douglas W. Oard|Falk Scholer|Bruce Hedin
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010
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The Melbourne Team at the TREC 2010 Legal Track.
William Webber|Falk Scholer|Mingfang Wu|Xiuzhen Zhang|Douglas W. Oard|Phil Farrelly|Sandra Potter|Steven Dick|Phill Bertolus
Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2010

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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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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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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Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias.
William Webber|Laurence Anthony F. Park
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

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
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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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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

2007

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

2005

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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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RMIT University at TREC 2005: Terabyte and Robust Track.
Yaniv Bernstein|Bodo Billerbeck|Steven Garcia|Nicholas Lester|Falk Scholer|Justin Zobel|William Webber
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

2004

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RMIT University at TREC 2004.
Bodo Billerbeck|Adam Cannane|Abhijit Chattaraj|Nicholas Lester|William Webber|Hugh E. Williams|John Yiannis|Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004