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MR WILLIAM WEBBER



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Email:
Homepage: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~wew/index.html
Work: 83441323
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Information retrieval evaluation Australia
Distributed information retrieval engines Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Research

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Mandarin Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Melbourne 01-Dec-1992
Graduate Diploma in Computer Science Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 30-Jun-1997
Master of Engineering Science University of Melbourne 01-Jul-2007

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member ACM Association of Computer Machinery member, also of SIGIR 01-Mar-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?


    Year: 2009
    Event name: SIGIR 09
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    Page numbers: 692-693
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

  • Relative Significance is Insufficient: Baselines Matter Too


    Year: 2009
    Event name: SIGIR 09
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop onthe Future of IR Evaluation
    Page numbers: 25-26
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

  • Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias


    Year: 2009
    Event name: SIGIR 09
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    Page numbers: 444-451
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Precision-At-Ten Considered Redundant


    Year: 2008
    Event name: ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Page numbers: 695-696
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Score Standardization for Inter-Collection Comparison of Retrieval Systems
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Page numbers: 51-58
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Statistical Power in Retrieval Experimentation
    Year: 2008
    Event name: CIKM'08 - ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    Page numbers: 571-580
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Score Standardization for Robust Comparison of Retrieval Systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Strategic System Comparisons via Targeted Relevance Judgements
    Year: 2007
    Event name: SIGIR '07 - 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    Page numbers: 375-382
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • The University of Melbourne in the Million Query Track of TREC 2007
    Year: 2007
    Event name: TREC 2007
    Conference Publication: Proc. 2007 Text Retrieval Conference
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology(Gaithersburg)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • In Search of Reliable Retrieval Experiments
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 26-33
    Publisher: School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney(Sydney)
    Author(s):
  • Space-Limited Ranked Query Evaluation Using Adaptive Pruning
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
    Conference Publication: Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2005
    Volume: 3806
    Page numbers: 470-477
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):
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