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Research Publications of the Search Engine Group from 2003 to 2008 (Show all SEG publications)

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Journal articles
  1. I.S.H. Suyoto, A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and F. Scholer, ``Searching musical audio using symbolic queries'' , IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(2), 273--381, 2008. Abstract
  2. M. Cameron, H.E. Williams, and A. Cannane, ``A Deterministic Finite Automaton for Faster Protein Hit Detection in BLAST'' , Journal of Computational Biology, 13(4), 965-978, 2006. Abstract Adobe PDF
  3. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, A. Chattaraj, and J. Zobel, ``Methodologies for Evaluation of Note-Based Music-Retrieval Systems'' , INFORMS Journal of Computing, 18(3), , 2006.
  4. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and I.S.H. Suyoto, ``Microtonal Matching with MTRI'' , Computing in Musicology, 14(), 171--180, 2006. Abstract
  5. N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, ``Efficient online index maintenance for text retrieval systems'' , Information Processing & Management, 42(4), 916-933, 2006. Adobe PDF
  6. M. Cameron, and H.E. Williams, ``Comparing Compressed Sequences for Faster Nucleotide BLAST Searches'' , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. To appear. Abstract Adobe PDF
  7. H.E. Williams, ``Introduction to the Special Section on Genomic Information Retrieval'' , ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 23(1), 1-2, 2005.
  8. Y. Zhang, P. Vines, and J. Zobel, ``Chinese OOV Translation and Post-translation Query Expansion in Chinese-English Cross-language Information'' , ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 4(2), 57-77, 2005. Abstract
  9. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and J. Zobel, ``An architecture for effective music information retrieval'' , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(12), 1053-1057, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  10. F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, and A. Turpin, ``Query Association Surrogates for Web Search'' , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(7), 637-650, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  11. H.E. Williams, J. Zobel, and D. Bahle, ``Fast Phrase Querying with Combined Indexes'' , ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 22(4), 573-594, 2004. Abstract PostScript
  12. D.J. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, ``Collection selection for managed distributed document databases'' , Information Processing & Management, (40), 527-546, 2004. Abstract
  13. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``International Conference on Music Information Retrieval 2003 (review)'' , Computer Music Journal, 28(2), 83-85, 2004.
  14. M. Cameron, H.E. Williams, and A. Cannane, ``Improved Gapped Alignment in BLAST'' , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 1(3), 116-129, 2004. Abstract
  15. H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, ``Searchable Words on the Web'' , International Journal of Digital Libraries. To appear. Abstract PostScript
  16. T.C. Hoad, and J. Zobel, ``Methods for identifying versioned and plagiarised documents'' , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(3), 203-215, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  17. S. Heinz, and J. Zobel, ``Efficient single-pass index construction for text databases'' , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(8), 713-729, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  18. J. Yiannis, and J. Zobel, ``Compression techniques for fast external sorting'' , VLDB International Journal on Very Large Databases. To appear. Abstract
Refereed Conference Proceedings
  1. I.S.H. Suyoto, A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and F. Scholer, ``Effective retrieval of polyphonic audio with polyphonic symbolic queries'' , Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Augsburg, Germany, 105--114, 2007. Abstract Adobe PDF
  2. Milad Shokouhi, F. Scholer, and J. Zobel, ``Sample Sizes for Query Probing in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval'' , In Xiaofang Zhou, Jianzhong Li, Heng Tao Shen, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Yanchun Zhang, Proceedings of The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 06), Hurbin, China, 63-57, 2006.
  3. Y. Zhang, K. Wu, J-F. Gao, and P. Vines, ``Automatic Acquisition of Chinese–English Parallel Corpus from the Web'' , Proc. European Conference on Information Retrieval, London, United Kingdom, To appear., 2006.
  4. Y. Bernstein, and M. Cameron, ``Fast Discovery of Similar Sequences in Large Genomic Collections'' , In M. Lalmas et. al., Proc. European Conference on Information Retrieval, London, UK, 432-443, 2006. Abstract Adobe PDF
  5. M. Cameron, Y. Bernstein, and H.E. Williams, ``Clustering Near-Identical Sequences for Fast Homology Search'' , In A. Apostolico et al., Proc. International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology RECOMB, Venice, Italy, 175-189, 2006. Abstract Adobe PDF
  6. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Web Readability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning'' , In L. Cavedon and I. Zukerman, Proc. Australasian Language Technology Workshop, , 99--106, 2006. Abstract Adobe PDF
  7. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Gender, Conversation Style, Schemas and Policy'' , In J.Fisher, Proc. Australian Women in IT Conference, , , 2006. Abstract Adobe PDF
  8. S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, H.E. Williams, J.A. Thom, and T. Volkmer, ``Video Cut Detection using Frame Windows'' , Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference. To appear. Abstract
  9. J. Asian, H.E. Williams, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, ``Stemming Indonesian'' , Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference. To appear. Abstract
  10. I.S.H. Suyoto, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Effectiveness of note duration information for music retrieval'' , In L. Zhou, B.C. Ooi, and X. Meng, Proc. International Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Beijing, China, 265--275, 2005. Abstract Adobe PDF
  11. Y. Zhang, and P. Vines, ``Using the Web for Translation Disambiguation (RMIT University at NTCIR-5 Chinese-English CLIR)'' , Proc. NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, 69-74, 2005.
  12. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Readability of French as a Foreign Language and its Uses'' , In J. Kay and A. Turpin and R. Wilkinson, Proc. Australian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 19--25, 2005. Adobe PDF
  13. B. Yapriady, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Combining demographic data with collaborative filtering for automatic music recommendation'' , In R.Khosla and R.J.Howlett and L.C.Jain, Ninth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 201--207, 2005. Adobe PDF
  14. A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and F. Scholer, ``Stemming arabic conjunctions and prepositions'' , In Mariano P. Consens and Gonzalo Navarro, String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 206-217, 2005.
  15. P. Somerville, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Classification of Music Based on Musical Instrument Timbre'' , In S. J. Simoff and G. J. Williams and J. Galloway and I. Kolyshkina, Proceedings of the Australasian Data Mining Conference, Sydney, , 2005. Adobe PDF
  16. A. Chattaraj, and H.E. Williams, ``Variable-length Intervals in Homology Search'' , In Y.-P. P. Chen, Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 85-91, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  17. S. Garcia, H.E. Williams, and A. Cannane, ``Access-Ordered Indexes'' , In V. Estivill-Castro, Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 7-14, 2004. Abstract PostScript
  18. N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, ``In-Place versus Re-Build versus Re-Merge: Index Maintenance Strategies for Text Retrieval Systems'' , In V. Estivill-Castro, Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 15-22, 2004. Abstract PostScript
  19. B. Billerbeck, and J. Zobel, ``Questioning Query Expansion: An Examination of Behaviour and Parameters'' , In Klaus-Dieter Schewe and Hugh E. Williams, Proc. Australasian Database Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 69-76, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  20. G. Mitri, A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and V. Ciesielski, ``Automatic Music Classification Problems'' , Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference, , , 2004. PostScript
  21. T. Volkmer, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and H.E. Williams, ``Gradual Transition Detection Using Average Frame Similarity'' , Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering, Washington DC, 139, 2004.
  22. S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and H.E. Williams, ``The WebMark Course Management System'' , International Conference on Computers in Education. To appear. Abstract
  23. S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, and H.E. Williams, ``Representing Colour for Computing Image Similarity'' , In G. Kotsis, S. Bressan, D. Taniar and I.K. Ibrahim, International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS04), Jakarta, Indonesia, 677-683, 2004.
  24. A. Clare, H.E. Williams, and N. Lester, ``Scalable Multi-Relational Association Mining'' , IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Brighton, UK, 355-358, 2004. Abstract
  25. A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, ``What does it mean to 'Measure Performance'?'' , Proceedings of the WISE International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. To appear. Abstract Adobe PDF
  26. R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, ``Using random sampling to build approximate tries for efficient string sorting'' , In C.C. Ribeiro and S.L. Martins , Proceedings of the WEA International Workshop On Experimental Algorithmics. Published as LNCS 3059. Abstract
  27. J. Zobel, ``'Uni Cheats Racket': A case study in plagiarism investigation'' , In R. Lister and A. Young, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, , 357-365, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  28. P. Gruba, A. Moffat, H. Sondergaard, and J. Zobel, ``What drives curriculum change?'' , In R. Lister and A. Young, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, Dunedin, NZ, 109-117, 2004. Abstract
  29. A. Chattaraj, H.E. Williams, and A. Cannane, ``General-purpose Search Techniques for Genomic Text'' , International Conference on Genome Informatics. To appear. Abstract
  30. B. Billerbeck, and J. Zobel, ``Techniques for Efficient Query Expansion'' , In A. Apostolico and M. Melucci, String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Padova, Italy, 30--42, 2004. Abstract PostScript
  31. I.S.H. Suyoto, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Exploring microtonal matching'' , In C. L. Buyoli and R. Loureiro, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain, 224--231, 2004. Abstract Adobe PDF
  32. J. Asian, H.E. Williams, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, ``A Testbed for Indonesian Information Retrieval'' , Proc. Australian Document Computing Symposium. To appear. Abstract
  33. Y. Bernstein, and J. Zobel, `` A Scalable System for Identifying Co-Derivative Documents'' , String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), , 55-67, 2004. Abstract PostScript
  34. Y. Zhang, and P. Vines, ``Using the Web for Automated Translation Extraction in Cross-Language Information Retrieval'' , Proc. ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 162-169, 2004. Abstract
  35. Y. Zhang, and P. Vines, ``Detection and Translation of OOV Terms Prior to Query Time'' , Proc. ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 524-525, 2004. Abstract
  36. Y. Zhang, and P. Vines, ``RMIT Chinese-English CLIR at NTCIR-4'' , Proc. NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, , 2004.
  37. V.R. Shanks, H.E. Williams, and A. Cannane, ``Indexing for Fast Categorisation'' , In M. J. Oudshoorn, Proc. Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2003), Adelaide, Australia, 119-127, 2003. Abstract PostScript
  38. H.E. Williams, ``Genomic Information Retrieval'' , In K.-D. Scheme and X. Zhou, Proc. Australasian Database Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 27-35, 2003. Abstract PostScript
  39. J. Yiannis, and J. Zobel, ``External sorting with on-the-fly compression'' , In A. James, B. Lings, M. Younas, Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases, Coventry, UK, 115-130, 2003. Abstract PostScript
  40. R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, ``Efficient trie-based sorting of large sets of strings'' , In M. Oudshoorn, Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 11-18, 2003. Abstract PostScript
  41. T.C. Hoad, and J. Zobel, ``Video similarity detection for digital rights management'' , In M. Oudshoorn, Proc. Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 237-245, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  42. R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, ``Cache-conscious sorting of large sets of strings with dynamic tries'' , In R. Ladner, Proceedings of the ALENEX Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, Baltimore, Maryland, , 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  43. A. Fry, and H.E. Williams, ``Comparing the Overhead Requirements of Database Transaction Models'' , In Vladimir Mavrik, Werner Retschitzegger, and Olga Stuepankova, Proceedings of the International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems (DEXA), Prague, Czech Republic, 318-329, 2003. Abstract
  44. H. Ali, and H.E. Williams, ``What's changed? Measuring Document Change in Web Crawling for Search Engines'' , In M. A. Nascimento, E. Silva de Moura, and A. L. Oliveira, String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Manaus, Brazil, 28-42, 2003. Abstract
  45. B. Billerbeck, and J. Zobel, ``When Query Expansion Fails'' , In J. Callan, G. Cormack, C. Clarke, D. Hawking and A. Smeaton, Proc. ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, 387-388, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  46. B. Billerbeck, F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, ``Query Expansion using Associated Queries'' , In Ophir Frieder and Joachim Hammer and Sajda Quershi and Len Seligman, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2-9, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  47. V.R. Shanks, and H.E. Williams, ``Index Construction for Linear Categorisation'' , In K. Kalpakis, D. Grossman, S. Qureshi, and H. van Dissel, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, LA, 334-341, 2003. Abstract Adobe PDF
  48. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, and Y. W. Yap, ``Was Parsons right? An experiment in usability of music representations for melody-based music retrieval.'' , In H. H. Hoos and D. Bainbridge, Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 75-79, 2003. PostScript
  49. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Using the Web as a Source of Graded Reading Material for Language Acquisition'' , In W. Zhou and P. Nicholson and B. Corbitt and J. Fong, International Conference on Web-based Learning, Melbourne, Australia, 423-432, 2003.
  50. Y. Zhang, and P. Vines, ``Improved Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Disambiguation and Vocabulary Discovery'' , Proc. Australian Document Computing Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 3-7, 2003.
Books
  1. H.E. Williams, and D. Lane, ``Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL'' , Second Edition, O\'Reilly Media Inc., 2004.
Invited and Other Unrefereed Papers
  1. I.S.H. Suyoto, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Simple efficient n-gram indexing for effective melody retrieval'' , Proceedings of the Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, , , 2005. Abstract Adobe PDF
  2. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Doing music retrieval the hard way'' , Symposium of the International Musicological Society. Invited talk.
Unpublished
  1. I.S.H. Suyoto, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Aligning musical audio with symbols: A case study in Western classical music'' Abstract
  2. I.S.H. Suyoto, and A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Longest common subsequence techniques for aligning audio and symbolic music: A case study in Western classic music'' Abstract
  3. A.L. Uitdenbogerd, ``Variations on Local Alignment for Specific Query Types'' Abstract

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