My research investigates how to improve medical systematic review creation with Information Retrieval. My research focuses on developing methods to assist information specialists in creating more effective queries in shorter periods of time. To do this, I am investigating automatic methods of query formulation, refinement, visualisation, and understandability.
For an overview of my research during my PhD, please visit the systematic reviews project page. Below is a list of publications I have authored. Please see the link to my Google scholar page above for a more comprehensive list.
Projects
Publications (65)
2026
3 publications- A Pipeline to Bootstrap the Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for the Automation of Systematic Reviews in Computer Science
The 1st Workshop on Retrieval Augmented Generation for Report Generation · 2026
- An Open SERP Mining Infrastructure for the Archive Query Log
Lecture notes in computer science · 2026
- UP2DATE: Shared Task on Systematic Review Updates
International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access 2026 · 2026
2025
20 publications- Overview of Touché 2025: Argumentation Systems
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Corpus Subsampling: Estimating the Effectiveness of Neural Retrieval Models on Large Corpora
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-ranking with Cross-Encoders
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation
2025
- Corpora performance prediction
QPP++ 2025 · 2025
- TIREx Tracker: The Information Retrieval Experiment Tracker
2025
- AutoBool: An Reinforcement-Learning trained LLM for Effective Automated Boolean Query Generation for Systematic Reviews
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00005 · 2025
- DenseReviewer: A Screening Prioritisation Tool for Systematic Review Based on Dense Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Reassessing Large Language Model Boolean Query Generation for Systematic Reviews
2025
- Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA24) at SIGIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum 59 (1), 1-23 · 2025
- Information retrieval for climate impact
arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01162 · 2025
- Learning Effective Representations for Retrieval Using Self-Distillation with Adaptive Relevance Margins
2025
- Web-Scale Retrieval Experimentation with chatnoir-pyterrier
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- AiReview: An Open Platform for Accelerating Systematic Reviews with LLMs
2025
- From Topology to Retrieval: Decoding Embedding Spaces with Unified Signatures
arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22150 · 2025
- Investigating Counterclaims in Causality Extraction from Text
ArXiv.org · 2025
- Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs
ArXiv.org · 2025
- User Simulation in Practice: Lessons Learned from Three Shared Tasks
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2025
- Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections
2025
2024
9 publications- Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
2024
- Zero-Shot Generative Large Language Models for Systematic Review Screening Automation
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
- Webis at TREC 2024: biomedical generative retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, and tip-of-the-tongue tracks
33th International Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2024), NIST Special · 2024
- Leveraging Cochrane Systematic Literature Reviews for Prospective Evaluation of Large Language Models.
ALTARS@ ecir · 2024
- Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework
2024
- Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2024
- Revisiting Query Variation Robustness of Transformer Models
2024
- Ranking Generated Answers: On the Agreement of Retrieval Models with Humans on Consumer Health Questions
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024
- Teaching information retrieval with a shared task across universities: first steps and findings
LWDA 2024: Lernen, Wissen, Daten, Analysen, 23–25 September 2024, Würzburg · 2024
2023
8 publications- Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search?
2023
- Beyond CO2 Emissions: The Overlooked Impact of Water Consumption of Information Retrieval Models
2023
- The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives
2023
- Generating Natural Language Queries for More Effective Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation
2023
- Smooth Operators for Effective Systematic Review Queries
2023
- Towards a unified model of scholarly argumentation (Dagstuhl Seminar 22432)
Dagstuhl Reports 12 (10), 175-206 · 2023
- pybool_ir: A Toolkit for Domain-Specific Search Experiments
2023
- Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-Oriented Teaching
2023
2022
8 publications- Reduce, reuse, recycle: Green information retrieval research
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and · 2022
- From little things big things grow: A collection with seed studies for medical systematic review literature search
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and · 2022
- Automated MeSH term suggestion for effective query formulation in systematic reviews literature search
Intelligent Systems with Applications · 2022
- Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritisation in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search
2022
- The impact of query refinement on systematic review literature search: A query log analysis
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of · 2022
- Seed-Driven Document Ranking for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- Guiding Neural Entity Alignment with Compatibility
2022
- Towards a Unified Model of Scholarly Argumentation
2022
2021
5 publications- Big Brother: A Drop-In Website Interaction Logging Service
2021
- PECAN: A Platform for Searching Chat Conversations
2021
- ActiveEA: Active Learning for Neural Entity Alignment
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
- MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search
Australasian Document Computing Symposium · 2021
- Query Automation for Systematic Reviews
The University of Queensland · 2021
2020
6 publications- Automatic Boolean Query Formulation for Systematic Review Literature Search
2020
- A comparison of automatic Boolean query formulation for systematic reviews
Information Retrieval · 2020
- A Computational Approach for Objectively Derived Systematic Review Search Strategies
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
- Systematic Review Automation Tools for End-to-End Query Formulation
2020
- You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: Rank Fusion applied to Coordination Level Matching for Ranking in Systematic Reviews
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
- Sampling Query Variations for Learning to Rank to Improve Automatic Boolean Query Generation in Systematic Reviews
2020
2019
6 publications- Trectools: an open-source python library for information retrieval practitioners involved in trec-like campaigns
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and · 2019
- Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search
2019
- Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2019
Lecture notes in computer science · 2019
- Causality Discovery with Domain Knowledge for Drug-Drug Interactions Discovery
Lecture notes in computer science · 2019
- Automatic search strategy reformulation interface for systematic reviews
Proceedings of the 2019 Cochrane Colloquium · 2019
- Ielab at the open-source IR replicability challenge 2019
Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2019