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- affiliation: Microsoft, Australia
- affiliation (former): CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j13]Alexander Frummet, Andrea Papenmeier, Maik Fröbe, Johannes Kiesel, Vaibhav Adlakha, Norbert Braunschweiler, Mateusz Dubiel, Satanu Ghosh, Marcel Gohsen, Christin Kreutz, Milad Momeni, Markus Nilles, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Abbas Pirmoradi, Paul Thomas, Johanne R. Trippas, Ines Zelch, Oleg Zendel:
Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024. SIGIR Forum 58(1): 1-12 (2024) - [c76]Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing. CHIIR 2024: 340-345 - [c75]Hossein A. Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L. A. Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli:
LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments. LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2024: 1-3 - [c74]Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell, Seth Spielman:
What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation. SIGIR 2024: 282-292 - [c73]Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra:
Large Language Models can Accurately Predict Searcher Preferences. SIGIR 2024: 1930-1940 - [c72]Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz:
LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR. SIGIR 2024: 3040-3043 - [e3]Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz:
Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) co-located with 10th International Conference on Online Publishing (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, July 18, 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3752, CEUR-WS.org 2024 [contents] - [i7]Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz:
Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024. CoRR abs/2408.05388 (2024) - [i6]Hossein A. Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L. A. Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli:
LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments. CoRR abs/2408.08896 (2024) - [i5]Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas:
SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval. CoRR abs/2408.16312 (2024) - 2023
- [c71]Chirag Shah, Ryen White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas J. Belkin:
Taking Search to Task. CHIIR 2023: 1-13 - [c70]Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Can Generative LLMs Create Query Variants for Test Collections? An Exploratory Study. SIGIR 2023: 1869-1873 - [i4]Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas J. Belkin:
Taking Search to Task. CoRR abs/2301.05046 (2023) - [i3]Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra:
Large language models can accurately predict searcher preferences. CoRR abs/2309.10621 (2023) - 2022
- [c69]Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen White, Nick Craswell:
The Crowd is Made of People: Observations from Large-Scale Crowd Labelling. CHIIR 2022: 25-35 - [c68]Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko:
Search Interfaces for Biomedical Searching: How do Gaze, User Perception, Search Behaviour and Search Performance Relate? CHIIR 2022: 78-89 - [c67]Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Mark Michael Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras, Paul Thomas:
Third Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2022). CHIIR 2022: 374-376 - [c66]Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi:
A Flexible Framework for Offline Effectiveness Metrics. SIGIR 2022: 578-587 - 2021
- [j12]Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon:
Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021. SIGIR Forum 55(1): 6:1-6:22 (2021) - [j11]Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, Shuo Zhang:
Report on the 1st simulation for information retrieval workshop (Sim4IR 2021) at SIGIR 2021. SIGIR Forum 55(2): 10:1-10:16 (2021) - [j10]Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell:
Theories of Conversation for Conversational IR. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 39(4): 39:1-39:23 (2021) - [c65]Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon:
User Models, Metrics and Measures of Search: A Tutorial on the C/W/L Evaluation Framework. CHIIR 2021: 347-348 - [c64]Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search. CIKM 2021: 16-26 - [c63]Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Kael Rowan, Mary Czerwinski:
Do Affective Cues Validate Behavioural Metrics for Search? SIGIR 2021: 1544-1553 - [c62]Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, Shuo Zhang:
Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation. SIGIR 2021: 2697-2698 - [e2]Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith:
CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021. ACM 2021, ISBN 978-1-4503-8055-3 [contents] - [i2]Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search. CoRR abs/2109.05955 (2021) - 2020
- [b1]David Hawking, Bodo Billerbeck, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2020, ISBN 978-3-031-01195-5 - [j9]Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon:
Towards a model for spoken conversational search. Inf. Process. Manag. 57(2): 102162 (2020) - [j8]Paul Thomas, Bodo Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White:
Investigating Searchers' Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 38(1): 10:1-10:25 (2020) - [c61]Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages. CHIIR 2020: 213-222 - [c60]Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Damiano Spina, Hideo Joho:
Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20): Full-day Workshop at CHIIR 2020. CHIIR 2020: 492-494 - [c59]Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell:
Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent. SIGIR 2020: 1171-1180
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c58]Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas:
Data Sets for Spoken Conversational Search. BIIRRR@CHIIR 2019: 14-18 - [c57]Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
The Emotion Profile of Web Search. SIGIR 2019: 1097-1100 - [c56]Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat:
cwl_eval: An Evaluation Tool for Information Retrieval. SIGIR 2019: 1321-1324 - [c55]Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon:
Building Economic Models and Measures of Search. SIGIR 2019: 1401-1402 - [e1]Gianluca Demartini, Paul Thomas:
Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2019, Sydney, Australia, December 5-6, 2019. ACM 2019, ISBN 978-1-4503-7766-9 [contents] - [i1]Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon:
Towards a Model for Spoken Conversational Search. CoRR abs/1910.13166 (2019) - 2018
- [c54]Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell:
Better Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings. ADCS 2018: 1:1-1:8 - [c53]Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark:
Style and Alignment in Information-Seeking Conversation. CHIIR 2018: 42-51 - [c52]Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell:
Measuring the Utility of Search Engine Result Pages: An Information Foraging Based Measure. SIGIR 2018: 605-614 - 2017
- [j7]Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Incorporating User Expectations and Behavior into the Measurement of Search Effectiveness. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 35(3): 24:1-24:38 (2017) - [c51]Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat:
Tasks, Queries, and Rankers in Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction. ADCS 2017: 11:1-11:4 - [c50]Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon:
What Snippet Size is Needed in Mobile Web Search? CHIIR 2017: 97-106 - [c49]Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell:
Multimodal analysis of vocal collaborative search: a public corpus and results. ICMI 2017: 456-463 - [c48]Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Retrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations. SIGIR 2017: 395-404 - 2016
- [j6]Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon:
Understanding eye movements on mobile devices for better presentation of search results. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 67(11): 2607-2619 (2016) - [c47]Paul Thomas, Heather O'Brien, Tom Rowlands:
Measuring Engagement with Online Forms. CHIIR 2016: 325-328 - [c46]Heather L. O'Brien, Nicola Ferro, Hideo Joho, Dirk Lewandowski, Paul Thomas, Keith van Rijsbergen:
System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016). CHIIR 2016: 337-340 - [c45]Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon:
Pagination versus Scrolling in Mobile Web Search. CIKM 2016: 751-760 - [c44]Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability. SIGIR 2016: 725-728 - 2015
- [j5]Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon:
Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior and performance in web search on large and small screens. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 66(3): 526-544 (2015) - [c43]Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
INST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation. ADCS 2015: 5:1-5:4 - [c42]Paul Thomas, Rollin M. Omari, Tom Rowlands:
Towards Searching Amongst Tables. ADCS 2015: 8:1-8:4 - [c41]Liyuan Zhou, David Hawking, Paul Thomas:
Text segmentation and Chinese site search. ADCS 2015: 11:1-11:4 - [c40]Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer:
Towards Nuanced System Evaluation Based on Implicit User Expectations. AIRS 2015: 332-344 - [c39]Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey:
Pooled Evaluation Over Query Variations: Users are as Diverse as Systems. CIKM 2015: 1759-1762 - [c38]Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
User Variability and IR System Evaluation. SIGIR 2015: 625-634 - [c37]Timothy Jones, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson:
Features of Disagreement Between Retrieval Effectiveness Measures. SIGIR 2015: 847-850 - 2014
- [j4]Paul Thomas:
Using Interaction Data to Explain Difficulty Navigating Online. ACM Trans. Web 8(4): 24:1-24:41 (2014) - [c36]Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Assessing the Cognitive Complexity of Information Needs. ADCS 2014: 97 - [c35]Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer:
Modeling decision points in user search behavior. IIiX 2014: 239-242 - [c34]Paul Thomas, David Lovell:
Compositional data analysis (CoDA) approaches to distance in information retrieval. SIGIR 2014: 991-994 - [c33]Adriel Dean-Hall, Charles L. A. Clarke, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thomas, Ellen M. Voorhees:
Overview of the TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion Track. TREC 2014 - 2013
- [c32]PengFei (Vincent) Li, Paul Thomas, David Hawking:
Merging algorithms for enterprise search. ADCS 2013: 42-49 - [c31]Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas:
Choices in batch information retrieval evaluation. ADCS 2013: 74-81 - [c30]Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat:
What Users Do: The Eyes Have It. AIRS 2013: 416-427 - [c29]Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer:
Users versus models: what observation tells us about effectiveness metrics. CIKM 2013: 659-668 - [c28]Arlind Kopliku, Paul Thomas, Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris:
Filtering and Ranking for Social Media Monitoring. CORIA 2013: 383-398 - [c27]Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat:
Fading Away: Dilution and User Behaviour. EuroHCIR 2013: 3-6 - [c26]Adriel Dean-Hall, Charles L. A. Clarke, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thomas:
Evaluating Contextual Suggestion. EVIA@NTCIR 2013 - [c25]Adriel Dean-Hall, Charles L. A. Clarke, Nicole Simone, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thomas, Ellen M. Voorhees:
Overview of the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. TREC 2013 - 2012
- [j3]Paul Thomas:
To what problem is distributed information retrieval the solution? J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 63(7): 1471-1476 (2012) - [c24]Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon:
Comparing scanning behaviour in web search on small and large screens. ADCS 2012: 25-30 - [c23]Paul Thomas:
Explaining difficulty navigating a website using page view data. ADCS 2012: 31-38 - [c22]Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas:
Models and metrics: IR evaluation as a user process. ADCS 2012: 47-54 - [c21]Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Jan-Felix Schmakeit, Tom Gedeon:
Do Users Benefit from Controlled Vocabularies in Search Interfaces? EuroHCIR 2012: 71-74 - [c20]Cécile Paris, Paul Thomas, Stephen Wan:
Differences in Language and Style Between Two Social Media Communities. ICWSM 2012 - [c19]Adriel Dean-Hall, Charles L. A. Clarke, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thomas, Ellen M. Voorhees:
Overview of the TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track. TREC 2012 - [c18]David N. Milne, Paul Thomas, Cécile Paris:
Finding, Weighting and Describing Venues: CSIRO at the 2012 TREC Contextual Suggestion Track. TREC 2012 - [c17]Jie Yin, Nalin Narang, Paul Thomas, Cécile Paris:
Unifying Local and Global Agreement and Disagreement Classification in Online Debates. WASSA@ACL 2012: 61-69 - 2011
- [c16]Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana:
Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines. CIKM 2011: 2113-2116 - [c15]Paul Thomas, Timothy Jones, David Hawking:
What deliberately degrading search quality tells us about discount functions. SIGIR 2011: 1107-1108 - 2010
- [j2]Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Paul Thomas:
Focused and aggregated search: a perspective from natural language generation. Inf. Retr. 13(5): 434-459 (2010) - [c14]Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi:
Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search. ECIR 2010: 607-610 - [c13]Paul Thomas, Katherine Noack, Cécile Paris:
Evaluating interfaces for government metasearch. IIiX 2010: 65-74
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j1]Paul Thomas, David Hawking:
Server selection methods in personal metasearch: a comparative empirical study. Inf. Retr. 12(5): 581-604 (2009) - [c12]Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi:
SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection. SIGIR 2009: 419-426 - [c11]Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas:
Effective query expansion for federated search. SIGIR 2009: 427-434 - [c10]Krisztian Balog, Arjen P. de Vries, Pavel Serdyukov, Paul Thomas, Thijs Westerveld:
Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track. TREC 2009 - 2008
- [c9]Paul Thomas, David Hawking:
Experiences evaluating personal metasearch. IIiX 2008: 136-138 - [c8]Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, Emine Yilmaz:
Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter. SIGIR 2008: 667-674 - [c7]Paul Thomas:
Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes. SIGIR 2008: 839-840 - [c6]Krisztian Balog, Ian Soboroff, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Arjen P. de Vries:
Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track. TREC 2008 - 2007
- [c5]Paul Thomas, David Hawking:
Evaluating sampling methods for uncooperative collections. SIGIR 2007: 503-510 - [c4]Paul Thomas, Tom Rowlands:
Estimating the value of automatic disambiguation. SIGIR 2007: 719-720 - 2006
- [c3]Paul Thomas, David Hawking:
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context. CIKM 2006: 94-101 - 2005
- [c2]David Hawking, Paul Thomas:
Server selection methods in hybrid portal search. SIGIR 2005: 75-82 - [c1]Mingfang Wu, David Hawking, Paul Thomas:
TREC 14 Enterprise Track at CSIRO and ANU. TREC 2005
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