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DR LAURENCE PARK



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Email:
Homepage: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lapark
Work: 83441322
Room: 23
Level: 04
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Data mining Australia
Machine learning Australia
Information retrieval Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia University of Melbourne

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science/Engineering (Hons) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1999
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 13-Mar-2004

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 01-Jan-2005
Member IEEE Member IEEE Signal Processing Society 01-Jan-2009
Member The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Member of AAEE 01-Jan-2007
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Member of IEEE 01-Jan-2000 31-Dec-2005
Member IEEE Computer Society Member of IEEE Computer Society 01-Jan-2000 31-Dec-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
EFFECTIVE WEB INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THROUGH PEER LINK ANALYSIS - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

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

  • An Analysis of Latent Semantic Term Self-Correlation
    Year: 2009
    Journal: ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-35 (Article No. 8)
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  • Efficient storage and retrieval of probabilistic latent semantic information for information retrieval
    Year: 2009
    Journal: VLDB Journal
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 141-155
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Grouped ECOC Conditional Random Fields for Prediction of Web User Behaviour
    Year: 2009
    Event name: PAKDD 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5476
    Page numbers: 757-763
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.springerlink.com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/content/d7h5001226n37231/fulltext.pdf
    URL - open access http://www.springerlink.com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/content/w852pk3t5503/front-matter.pdf

  • 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):
  • System Scoring Using Partial Prior Information
    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: 788-789
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Parameter Sensitivity in Rank-Biased Precision


    Year: 2008
    Event name: ADCS 2008 - Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 61-68
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

  • Query Expansion for the Language Modelling Framework Using the Naive Bayes Assumption


    Year: 2008
    Event name: PAKDD 2008 - the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and DataMining
    Conference Publication: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5012
    Page numbers: 681-688
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):

  • The Effect of Weighted Term Frequencies on Probabilistic Latent Semantic Term Relationships


    Year: 2008
    Event name: 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5280
    Page numbers: 63-74
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
    Author(s):
  • Error Correcting Output Coding-based Conditional Random Fields for Web Page Prediction
    Year: 2008
    Event name: WI 2008 - 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
    Page numbers: 743-746
    Publisher: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway, New Jersey)
    Author(s):
  • Web Page Prediction Based on Conditional Random Fields
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ECAI 2008 - 18th Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: European Conference on AI(Patras)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Mining web multi-resolution community-based popularity for information retrieval
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    Page numbers: 545-554
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • On the distribution of user persistence for rank-biased precision
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 17-24
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Personalized PageRank for Web Page Prediction Based on Access Time-Length and Frequency
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Web Intelligence - 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
    Page numbers: 687-690
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
    Author(s):
  • Query expansion using a collection dependent probabilistic latent semantic thesaurus
    Year: 2007
    Event name: PAKDD 2007 - the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Page numbers: 224-235
    Publisher: Springer(Berlin)
    Author(s):
    URL - restricted access http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71701-0_24

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A novel document ranking method using the Discrete Cosine Transform
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 130-135
    Publisher: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(California)
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  • A novel document retrieval method using the Discrete Wavelet Transform
    Year: 2005
    Journal: ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 267-298
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery Inc.(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Broadening Vector Space Schemes for Improving the Quality of Information Retrieval
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference
    Conference Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 3399
    Page numbers: 15-26
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Hybrid Pre-Query Term Expansion Using Latent Semantic Analysis
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Page numbers: 178-185
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
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  • Preliminary work on pre-query term expansion using latent semantic analysis
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop (PAKDD 2004)
    Conference Publication: The Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Spectral-Based Document Retrieval
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 9th Asian Computing Science Conference
    Conference Publication: Advances in Computer Science - ASIAN 2004
    Volume: 3321
    Page numbers: 407-417
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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