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Journals (in reverse chronological order)

  • F. M. Choudhury, J. S. Culpepper, Z. Bao, and T. Sellis: Batch Processing of Top-k Spatial-Textual Queries. ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS), To appear. pdf
  • F. M. Choudhury, J. S. Culpepper, Z. Bao, and T. Sellis: Finding the optimal location and keywords in obstructed and unobstructed space. VLDB Journal, To appear. pdf
  • S. Wang, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, T. Sellis, and G. Cong: Reverse k Nearest Neighbor Search over Trajectories. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 30(4): pp 757-771, 2018. pdf
  • J. Li, T. Sellis, J. S. Culpepper, Z. He, C. Liu, and J. Wang. Geo-Social Influence Spanning Maximization. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 29(8): pp 1653-1666, 2017. DOI, pdf
  • Y. Kim, J. Callan, J. S. Culpepper, and A. Moffat. Efficient Distributed Selective Search Information Retrieval Journal, 20(3): pp 221-252, 2017. DOI, pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. The Effect of Pooling and Evaluation Depth on IR Metrics. Information Retrieval Journal, 19(4): pp 416-445, 2016. DOI, pdf
  • J. Li, C. Liu, J. X. Yu, Y. Chen, T. Sellis, and J. S. Culpepper. Social Summarization based on Personalized Influential Topic Search. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(7): pp 1820-1834, Jul 2016. DOI, pdf
  • C. L. A. Clarke, J. S. Culpepper, and A. Moffat. Assessing Efficiency-Effectiveness Tradeoffs in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems Without Using Relevance Judgments. Information Retrieval Journal, 19(4): pp 351-377, 2016. DOI, pdf
  • F. M. Choudhury, J. S. Culpepper, T. Sellis, and X. Cao. Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 9(6): pp 456-467, Feb 2016. DOI, pdf
  • G. K. Jayasinghe, W. Webber, M. Sanderson, L. S. Dharmasena, and J. S. Culpepper. Statistical comparisons of non-deterministic IR systems using two dimensional variance. Information Processing & Management (IPM), 51(5):pp 677-694, Sep 2015. DOI, pdf
  • S. Gog, A. Moffat, J. S. Culpepper, A. Turpin, and A. Wirth. Large-scale pattern search using reduced-space on-disk suffix arrays. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 26(8):pp 1918-1931, Aug 2014. DOI, pdf
  • S. Huston, J. S. Culpepper, and W. B. Croft. Indexing Word-Sequences for Ranked Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 32(1):pp 3-1 - 3-26, Jan 2014. DOI pdf
  • G. K. Jayasinghe, J. S. Culpepper, and P. Bertok. Efficient and Effective realtime prediction of drive-by download attacks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 38: pp 135-149, Feb 2014 DOI, pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, M. Petri, and S. J. Puglisi. Revisiting bounded context block-sorting transformations. Software Practice and Experience (SP&E), 42(8):pp 1037-1054, Aug 2012. DOI 10.1002/spe.1112, pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper and A. Moffat. Efficient set intersection for inverted indexing. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) , 29(1):1.1-1.25, Dec 2010. pdf
  • E. V. Sadanandan and S. K. Pillai and M. V. Lakshmikantham and A. D. Billimoria and J. S. Culpepper and M. P. Cava. Efficient Syntheses of the Marine Alkaloids Makaluvamine D and Discorhabdin C: The 4,6,7-Trimethoxyindole Approach. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 60(6): pp 1800-1805, 1995. pdf

Conferences (in reverse chronological order)

  • S. Huang, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, P. Zhang, and B. Zhang: A linear-time algorithm for finding induced planar subgraphs. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018) , To appear. pdf
  • H. Luo, F. M. Choudhury, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, and B. Zhang: MaxBRkNN Queries for Streaming Geo-Data. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2018) , To appear. pdf
  • J. Mackenzie, C. Macdonald, F. Scholer, J. S. Culpepper: On the Cost of Negation for Dynamic Pruning. Proceedings of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018) , To appear. pdf
  • J. Mackenzie, J. S. Culpepper, R. Blanco, M. Crane, C. L. A. Clarke, and J. Lin: Query Driven Algorithm Selection in Early Stage Retrieval. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018) , pp 396-404. pdf
  • R. Benham and J. S. Culpepper: Risk-Reward Trade-offs in Rank Fusion. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2017) , Dec 2017, pp 1.1-1.8. pdf
  • J. Mackenzie, F. Scholer, and J. S. Culpepper: Early Termination Heuristics for Score-at-a-Time Index Traversal. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2017) , Dec 2017, 8.1-8.8. pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. Can Deep Effectiveness Metrics Be Evaluated Using Shallow Judgment Pools? Proceeding of the 40th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) , Aug 2017, pp 35-44. pdf
  • R.-C. Chen, L. Gallagher, R. Blanco, and J. S. Culpepper. Efficient Cost-Aware Cascade Ranking in Multi-Stage Retrieval. Proceeding of the 40th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) , Aug 2017, pp 445-454. pdf
  • T.T. Damessie, T. P. Nghiem, F. Scholer, and J. S. Culpepper. Gauging the Quality of Relevance Assessments using Inter-Rater Agreement. Proceeding of the 40th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) , Aug 2017, pp 1089-1092. pdf
  • F. M. Choudhury, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, and T. Sellis. Monitoring the Top-m Rank Aggregation of Spatial Objects in Streaming Queries. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2017) , Apr 2017, pp 585-596. pdf
  • S. Wang, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, T. Sellis, M. Sanderson, and X. Qin. Answering Top-k Exemplar Trajectory Queries. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2017) , Apr 2017, pp 597-608. pdf
  • M. Crane, J. S. Culpepper, J. Lin, J. Mackenzie, and A. Trotman. A Comparison of Document-at-a-Time and Score-at-a-Time Evaluation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017) , pp 201-210, Feb 2017. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, C. L. A. Clarke, and J. Lin. Dynamic Cutoff Prediction in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2016) , pp 17-24, Dec 2016. pdf *** Winner of the best paper award ***
  • T. T. Damessie, F. Scholer, and J. S. Culpepper. The Influence of Topic Difficulty, Relevance Level, and Document Ordering on Relevance Judging. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2016) , pp 41-48, Dec 2016. pdf
  • S. Wang, Z. Bao, J. S. Culpepper, T. Sellis, M. Sanderson and M.-E. Yadamjav. Interactive Trip Planning Using Activity Trajectories. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2016) , pp 77-80, Dec 2016. pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. Modeling Relevance as a Function of Retrieval Rank. Proceeding of the Twelfth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2016) , pp 3-15, LNCS 9994, Nov 2016. pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. Efficient and Effective Higher Order Proximity Modeling. Proceeding of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016) , pp 21-30, Sept 2016. pdf
  • T. T. Damessie, F. Scholer, K. Jarvelin, and J. S. Culpepper. The Effect of Document Order and Topic Difficulty on Assessor Agreement. Proceeding of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016) , pp 73-76, Sept 2016. pdf
  • T. P. Nghiem, C. Ma, J. S. Culpepper, and T. Sellis. Spatial Textual Top-k Search in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks. Proceeding of the 27th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2016) , pp 69-81, Sept 2016. pdf
  • Y. Kim, J. Callan, J. S. Culpepper, and A. Moffat. Load-Balancing in Distributed Selective Search . Proceeding of the 39th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016) , pp 905-908, July 2016. pdf
  • Y. Kim, J. Callan, J. S. Culpepper, and A. Moffat. Does selective search benefit from WAND optimization? Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) , pp 145-158, March 2016. pdf
  • J. Mackenzie, F. M. Choudhury, and J. S. Culpepper. Efficient location-aware web search. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2015) , Article 4, December 2015. pdf  *** Winner of the best paper award ***
  • M. Yasukawa, J. S. Culpepper, and F. Scholer. Data fusion for Japanese term and character n-gram search. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2015) , Article 10, December 2015. pdf  *** Winner of the best paper award ***
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. On the cost of extracting proximity features for term-dependency models. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015) , pp 293-302, November 2015. pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. How effective are proximity scores in term dependency models? Proceedings of the 19th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2014) , pp 89-92 November 2014. pdf
  • G. K. Jayasinghe, W. Webber, M. Sanderson, and J. S. Culpepper. Improving test collection pools with machine learning. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2014) , pp 2-9 November 2014. pdf
  • G. K. Jayasinghe, W. Webber, M. Sanderson, and J. S. Culpepper. Extending test collection pools without manual runs. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014) , pp 915-918, July 2014. pdf
  • G. K. Jayasinghe, W. Webber, M. Sanderson, L. S. Dharmasena, and J. S. Culpepper. Evaluating non-deterministic retrieval systems. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014) , pp 911-914, July 2014. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, S. Mizzaro, M. Sanderson, and F. Scholer. TREC: Topic engineeRing ExerCise. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014) , pp 1147-1150, July 2014. pdf
  • M. Petri, A, Moffat and J. S. Culpepper. Score-safe term dependency processing with hybrid indexes. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014) , pp 899-902, July 2014. pdf
  • M. Petri, J. S. Culpepper, and A. Moffat. Exploring the Magic of WAND. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2013) , pp 58-65, December 2013. pdf
  • M. Petri and J. S. Culpepper. Efficient indexing algorithms for approximate pattern matching in text. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2012) , pp 9-16, December 2012. pdf.  *** Winner of the best paper award ***
  • S. Huston, J. S. Culpepper, and W. B. Croft. Sketch-based indexing of n-words. Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) , pp 1864-1868, October 2012. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, M. Petri, and F. Scholer. Efficient in-memory top-k document retrieval. Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012) , pp 225-234, August 2012. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, M. Yasukawa, and F. Scholer. Language independent ranked retrieval with NeWT. Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011) , pp 18-25, Dec 2011. pdf
  • M. Petri, G. Navarro, J. S. Culpepper, and S. J. Puglisi. Backwards search in context bound text transformations. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Compression, Communication and Processing (CCP 2011) , IEEE Press, pp 82-91 Jun 2011. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper, G. Navarro, S. Puglisi, A. Turpin. Top-k ranked document search in general text databases. Proceedings of the 18th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2010) Part II, LNCS 6347, pp 194-205, Sept 2010. pdf
  • A. Turpin, F. Scholer, K. Jarvelin, M. Wu, and J. S. Culpepper. Including summaries in system evaluation. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009) , July 2009. pp 508-515. pdf
  • A. Arakal, J. S. Culpepper, J. Jeffers, A. Turpin, S. Boztas, K. J. Horadam, and A. McKendrick. Entropy of the retinal template. Proceedings of the 3th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2009), June 2009. pp 1250-1259. LNCS v5558. pdf
  • A. Moffat and J. S. Culpepper. Hybrid Bitvector Index Compression. In Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), December 2007. pp 25-37. pdf
    *** Winner of the best paper award ***
  • J. S. Culpepper and A. Moffat. Compact set representation for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2007), October 2007. pp 124-135. LNCS v4726. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper and A. Moffat. Phrase-based pattern matching in compressed text. In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2006), October 2006. pp 337-345. LNCS v4209. pdf
  • J. S. Culpepper and A. Moffat. Enhanced byte codes with restricted prefix properties. In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2005), November 2005. pp 1-12. LNCS v3772. pdf

Workshops (in reverse chronological order)

  • L. Gallagher, J. Mackenzie, R. Benham, R.-C. Chen, F. Scholer, and J. S. Culpepper. RMIT at the NTCIR-13 We Want Web Task. In Proceedings of the NTCIR-13 Workshop Meeting, December 2017. pdf
  • R. Benham, L. Gallagher, J. Mackenzie, T. T. Damessie, R.-C. Chen, F. Scholer, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. RMIT at the TREC CORE Track. In Proceedings of the 26th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017), November 2017. pdf
  • J. Mackenzie, R.-C. Chen, and J. S. Culpepper. RMIT at the TREC 2016 LiveQA Track. In Proceedings of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2016), November 2016. pdf
  • R.-C. Chen, J. S. Culpepper, T. T. Damessie, T. Jones, A. Mourad K. Ong, F. Scholer, and E. Yulanti. RMIT at the TREC 2015 LiveQA Track. In Proceedings of the 24th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2015), November 2015. pdf
  • X. Lu, A. Moffat, and J. S. Culpepper. Observed volatility in effectiveness metrics. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2015 Workshop on Reproducibility, Inexplicability, and Generalizability of Results (RIGOR 2015) , Aug 2015. pdf
  • F. M. Choudhury, J. S. Culpepper, and T. Sellis. Batch processing of top-k spatial-textual queries. Proceedings of the Second International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GEORICH 2015) , Jun 2015. pdf
  • M. Yasukawa, J. S. Culpepper, and F. Scholer. Phonetic matching in Japanese. Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2012) pages 68-71, August 2012. pdf
  • M. Yasukawa, J. S. Culpepper, F. Scholer, and M. Petri. RMIT and Gunma University at NTCIR-9 GeoTime Task. In Proceedings of the NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting, December 2011. pdf
  • M. Petri, J. S. Culpepper, and F. Scholer. RMIT at TREC 2011 Microblog Track. In Proceedings of the 20th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011), November 2011. pdf

Other (in reverse chronological order)

  • Allan et al. "Reseearch Frontiers in Information Retrieval: Report from the Third Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2018)" Preprint. pdf
  • J. Allan, J. Aslam, L. Azzopardi, N. Belkin, P. Borlund, P. Bruza, J. Callan, M. Carman, C. L. A. Clarke, N. Craswell, W. B. Croft, J. S. Culpepper, F. Diaz, S. Dumais, N. Ferro, S. Geva, J. Gonzalo, D. Hawking, K. Jarvelin, G. Jones, R. Jones, J. Kamps, N. Kando, E. Kanoulas, J. Karlgren, D. Kelly, M. Lease, J. Lin, S. Mizzaro, A. Moffat, V. Murdock, D. W. Oard, M. de Rijke, T. Sakai, M. Sanderson, F. Scholer, L. Si, J. A. Thom, P. Thomas, A. Trotman, A. Turpin, A. P. de Vries, W. Webber, X. Zhang, and Y. Zhang. Frontiers, Challenges, and Opportunities for Information Retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 The Second Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne. In J. Allan, B. Croft, A. Moffat, and M. Sanderson, editors, ACM SIGIR Forum 46 (1): 2-32, 2012. pdf

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