The Information Engineering Lab

2020

• Anton van der Vegt and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2020. How searching under time pressure impacts clinical decision making. In Journal of the Medical Library Association.
• Anton van der Vegt and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2020. Do better search engines really equate to better clinical decisions? If not, why not?. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Mohamed A. Sharaf and Bevan Koopman. 2020. Sampling Query Variations for Learning to Rank to Improve Automatic Boolean Query Generation in Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Justin Clark. 2020. A Computational Approach for Objectively Derived Systematic Review Search Strategies. In 42nd European Conference on IR Research.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Justin Clark. 2020. Automatic Boolean Query Formulation for Systematic Review Literature Search. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2020. You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks - Rank Fusion applied to Coordination Level Matching for Ranking in Systematic Reviews. In 42nd European Conference on IR Research.
• Rischan Mafrur and Mohamed A. Sharaf and Guido Zuccon. 2020. Quality Matters: Understanding the Impact of Incomplete Data on Visualization Recommendation. In The 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA.
• Hang Li and Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2020. Systematic Review Automation Tools for End-to-End Query Formulation. In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '20).
• Shengyao Zhuang and Guido Zuccon. 2020. Counterfactual Online Learning to Rank. In 42nd European Conference on IR Research.

2019

• Anton van der Vegt and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Anthony Deacon. 2019. Impact of a Search Engine on Clinical Decisions Under Time and System Effectiveness Constraints: Research Protocol. In JMIR research protocols.
• Anton van der Vegt and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2019. Learning Inter-Sentence, Disorder-Centric, Biomedical Relationships from Medical Literature. In AMIA'19 Proceedings.
• Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit and Xue Li and Xin Zhao and Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2019. Causality Discovery with Domain Knowledge for Drug-Drug Interactions Discovery. In The 15th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Justin Clark. 2019. Automatic Search Strategy Reformulation Interface for Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of the Cochrane Colloquium 2019.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2019. Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2019.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Justin Clark. 2019. Visualising Systematic Review Search Strategies to Assist Information Specialists. In Proceedings of the Cochrane Colloquium 2019.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2019. ielab at the Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge 2019. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '19).
• Joao Palotti and Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2019. TrecTools: an open-source Python library for Information Retrieval practitioners involved in TREC-like campaigns. In Proceedings of the 42nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval.
• Aldo Lipani and David E. Losada and Guido Zuccon and Mihai Lupu. 2019. Fixed-Cost Pooling Strategies. In Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon. 2019. UQ IElab at TREC 2019 Decision Track. In TREC 2019 Decision Track.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Gianluca Demartini. 2019. Health Card Retrieval for Consumer Health Search. In Proceedings of the 28th International ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '19).
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Gianluca Demartini. 2019. Health Cards for Consumer Health Search. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '19).
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Gianluca Demartini and Bevan Koopman. 2019. Health Cards to Assist Decision Making in Consumer Health Search. In Proceedings of AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium.
• Leif Azzopardi and Alistair Moffat and Paul Thomas and Guido Zuccon. 2019. Economics models of interaction: a tutorial on modeling interaction using economics. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’19).
• Leif Azzopardi and Guido Zuccon. 2019. Economics models of interaction: a tutorial on modeling interaction using economics. In Course at CHI 2019.

2018

• Anton van der Vegt and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Peter Bruza. 2018. A task completion framework to support single-interaction IR research. In Journal of Documentation.
• Hanna Suominen and Liadh Kelly and Lorraine Goeuriot and Neveol Aurelie and Lionel Ramadier and Aude Roverse and Evangelos Kanoulas and Rene Spijker and Leif Azzopardi and Dan Li and Jimmy and Joao Palotti and Guido Zuccon. 2018. Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2018. In Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2018. searchrefiner: A Query Visualisation and Understanding Tool for Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• Harry Scells and Leif Azzopardi and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2018. Query Variation Performance Prediction for Systematic Reviews. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.
• Harry Scells and Daniel Locke and Guido Zuccon. 2018. An Information Retrieval Experiment Framework for Domain Specific Applications. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon. 2018. Generating Better Queries for Systematic Reviews. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.
• Suresh Pokaharel and Xue Li and Xin Zhao and Anoj Adhikari and Yu Li. 2018. Similarity Computing on Electronic Health Records. In PACIS 2018 Proceedings. 198.
• Joao Palotti and Guido Zuccon and Allan Hanbury. 2018. MM: A new Framework for Multidimensional Evaluation of Search Engines. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• Rischan Mafrur and Mohamed A. Sharaf and Hina A Khan. 2018. DiVE: Diversifying View Recommendation for Visual Data Exploration. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• Daniel Locke and Guido Zuccon. 2018. A Test Collection for Evaluating Legal Case Law Search. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.
• Bevan Koopman and guidio-zuccon and Anthony Nguyen and Anton Bergheim and Narelle Grayson. 2018. Extracting cancer mortality statistics from death certificates: A hybrid machine learning and rule-based approach for common and rare cancers. In Artificial intelligence in medicine.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Gianluca Demartini. 2018. On the Volatility of Commercial Search Engines and Its Impact on Information Retrieval Research. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2018. Payoffs and pitfalls in using knowledge-bases for consumer health search. In Information Retrieval Journal.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Joao Palotti and Lorraine Goeuriot and Liadh Kelly. 2018. Overview of the CLEF 2018 Consumer Health Search Task. In CLEF.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2018. QUT IElab at CLEF 2018 Consumer Health Search Task: Knowledge Base Retrieval for Consumer Health Search. In CLEF.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2018. Choices in knowledge-base retrieval for consumer health search. In European Conference on Information Retrieval.
• Lorraine Goeuriot and Gareth JF Jones and Liadh Kelly and Johannes Leveling" and Mihai Lupu" and joao-palotto and Guido Zuccon. 2018. An analysis of evaluation campaigns in ad-hoc medical information retrieval: CLEF eHealth 2013 and 2014. In Information Retrieval Journal.
• Leif Azzopardi and Guido Zuccon. 2018. Economics models of interaction: a tutorial on modeling interaction using economics. In Oxford University Press.

2017

• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Anthony Deacon and Bevan Koopman. 2017. QUT ielab at CLEF eHealth 2017 technology assisted reviews track: Initial experiments with learning to rank. In Working Notes of CLEF 2017 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Anthony Deacon and Leif Azzopardi and Shlomo Geva. 2017. Integrating the framing of clinical questions via PICO into the retrieval of medical literature for systematic reviews. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM CIKM conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• Harry Scells and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Anthony Deacon and Shlomo Geva and Leif Azzopardi. 2017. A Test Collection for Evaluating Retrieval of Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of the 40th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval.
• Daniel Locke and Guido Zuccon and Harry Scells. 2017. Automatic Query Generation from Legal Texts for Case Law Retrieval. In Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2017.
• Bevan Koopman and Liam Cripwell and Guido Zuccon. 2017. Generating Clinical Queries from Patient Narratives. In Proceedings of the 40th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2017. QUT ielab at CLEF 2017 e-Health IR Task: Knowledge Base Retrieval for Consumer Health Search. In CLEF.

2016

• Guido Zuccon. 2016. Understandability Biased Evaluation for Information Retrieval. In European Conference on Information Retrieval.
• Joao Palotti and Lorraine Goeuriot and Guido Zuccon and Allan Hanbury. 2016. Ranking Health Web Pages with Relevance and Understandability. In Proceedings of the 39th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval.
• Jimmy and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2016. Boosting titles does not generally improve retrieval effectiveness. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Document Computing Symposium.

2015

• Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Peter Bruza and Leif Azzopardi. 2015. Integrating and evaluating neural word embeddings in information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Australasian Document Computing Symposium.
• Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Joao Palotti. 2015. Diagnose This If You Can. In European Conference on Information Retrieval.

2013

• Chumphol Bunkhumpornpat and Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit. 2013. Safe Level Graph for Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Techniques. In The 13th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT).
• Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit and Chinae Thammarongtham and Robert W. Cutler and Jeerayut Chaijaruwanich. 2013. RNA secondary structure prediction using conditional random fields model. In International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.

2012

• Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman and Anthony Nguyen and Deanne Vickers and Luke Butt. 2012. Exploiting medical hierarchies for concept-based information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium.
• Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit and Chinae Thammarongtham and Jeerayut Chaijaruwanich. 2012. RNA family classification using the conditional random fields model. In Chiang Mai Journal of Science.

2011

• Supattanawaree Thipchareon and Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit and Jeerayut Chaijaruwanich. 2011. Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) using second-order the conditional random fields model. In The 3rd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development..

2010

• Guido Zuccon and Leif Azzopardi and Keith-van-Rijsbergen. 2010. The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

ielab’s core group includes Information Retrieval researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. However, the group has expanded to include researchers from the CSIRO, University of Strathclyde, Qatar Computing Research Institute and more.

Key researchers:

• Anton van der Vegt
• Bevan Koopman
• Daniel Locke