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DR NICOLA STOKES



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~nstokes/
Work: 41282
Room: 613
Level: 06
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing Text Summarisation, Text Segmentation, Topic Clustering, Geospatial Information Retrieval, Ireland, Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Ireland University College Dublin Research
Ireland Dublin City University Research
United States University of Massachusetts Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
PhD University College Dublin 17-Nov-2004
BSc University College Dublin 17-Nov-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) STAIRS Conference Best Paper Award 11-Sep-2002

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

Journal Articles

  • Exploring criteria for successful query expansion in the genomic domain


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Information Retrieval
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 17-50
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  • UniPrime2: a web service providing easier Universal  Primer design


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Nucleic Acids Research
    Volume: 269
    Page numbers: 1-5
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  • Exploring criteria for successful query expansion in the genomic data
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Information Retrieval
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 17-50
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • An empirical study of the effects of NLP components on Geographic IR performance
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 247-264
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Investigating Statistical Techniques for Sentence-Level Event Classification


    Year: 2008
    Event name: The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008)
    Conference Publication: The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(Pennsylvania)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • NICTA's Update and Question-based Summarisation Systems at DUC 2007


    Year: 2007
    Event name: DUC 2007: Document Understanding Conference
    Conference Publication: DUC 2007: Document Understanding Conference
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology(Gaithersburg)
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  • Entity-based Relevance Feedback for Genomic List Answer Retrieval
    Year: 2007
    Event name: TREC 2007
    Conference Publication: Proc. 2007 Text Retrieval Conference
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology(Gaithersburg)
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  • Exploring Abbreviation Expansion for Genomic Information Retrieval
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ALTA 2007 - Australasian Language Technology Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007
    Page numbers: 100-108
    Publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association(Melbourne)
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  • Exploring Extensions to Machine Learning-based Gene Normalisation
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ALTA 2007 - Australasian Language Technology Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007
    Page numbers: 143-145
    Publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Identifying semantic equivalence for multi-document summarisation
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Artificial Intelligence Review
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 55-65
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • UCD IIRG Approach to the Textual Entailment Challenge


    Year: 2005
    Event name: PASCAL
    Conference Publication: PASCAL: Proceedings of the First Challenge Workshop, Recognizing Textual Entailment
    Page numbers: 53-56
    Publisher: Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning(London)
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  • Multi-Document Summarisation and the PASCAL Textual Entailment Challenge
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005
    Page numbers: 215-223
    Publisher: Australasian Language Technology Association(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • SeLeCT: a lexical cohesion based news story segmentation system


    Year: 2004
    Journal: AI Communications: the European journal on artificial intelligence
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-12
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