Associate Professor Bevan Koopman
Principal Research Fellow
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Journal Articles
Nicolson, Aaron, Dowling, Jason, Anderson, Doug and Koopman, Bevan (2024). Longitudinal data and a semantic similarity reward for chest X-ray report generation. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 50 101585, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.imu.2024.101585
Jimmy, Zuccon, Guido and Koopman, Bevan (2018). Payoffs and pitfalls in using knowledge-bases for consumer health search. Information Retrieval Journal, 22 (3-4), 350-394. doi: 10.1007/s10791-018-9344-z
Conference Papers
Zhuang, Shengyao, Koopman, Bevan, Chu, Xiaoran and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Understanding and Mitigating the Threat of Vec2Text to Dense Retrieval Systems. 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Tokyo, Japan, 9-12 December 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3673791.3698414
Sabei, Ismail, Galal, Mahmoud, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Searching in Professional Instant Messaging Applications: User Behaviour, Intent, and Pain-points. 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Tokyo, Japan, 9-12 December 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3673791.3698417
Zhuang, Shengyao, Ma, Xueguang, Koopman, Bevan, Lin, Jimmy and Zuccon, Guido (2024). PromptReps: prompting large language models to generate dense and sparse representations for zero-shot document retrieval. 29th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, FL USA, 12-16 November 2024. Stroudsberg, PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.250
Zuccon, Guido, Koopman, Bevan and Shaik, Razia (2023). ChatGPT hallucinates when attributing answers. SIGIR-AP 2023 - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625329
Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Dr ChatGPT tell me what I want to hear: how different prompts impact health answer correctness. EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-10 December 2023. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.928
Zhuang, Shengyao, Liu, Bing, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Open-source large language models are strong zero-shot query likelihood models for document ranking. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6-10 December 2023. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.590
Hunter, Jane, Schroeter, Ronald, Koopman, Bevan and Henderson, Michael (2004). Using the Semantic Grid to Build Bridges between Museums and Indigenous Communities. Global Grid Forum: Semantic Grid Applications Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6-10 June, 2004.
Hunter, Jane, Koopman, Bevan and Sledge, Jane (2003). Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management. Museums and the Web 2003, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2003.
Data Collection
Li, Hang, Zuccon, Guido, Koopman, Bevan and Mourad, Ahmed (2022). Agvaluate. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/0160dc7