Justin Zobel

Propagation, detection and correction of errors using the sequence database network

Benjamin Goudey, Nicholas Geard, Karin Verspoor, Justin Zobel

Journal article  |  2022  |  BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Nucleotide and protein sequences stored in public databases are the cornerstone of many bioinformatics analyses. The records conta..

Exploring automatic inconsistency detection for literature-based gene ontology annotation

Jiyu Chen, Benjamin Goudey, Justin Zobel, Nicholas Geard, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOINFORMATICS

MOTIVATION: Literature-based gene ontology annotations (GOA) are biological database records that use controlled vocabulary to uni..

When Measurement Misleads

Justin Zobel

Journal article  |  2022  |  ACM SIGIR Forum

The discipline of information retrieval (IR) has a long history of examination of how best to measure performance. In particular, ..

Measurement of clustering effectiveness for document collections

Meng Yuan, Justin Zobel, Pauline Lin

Journal article  |  2022  |  INFORMATION RETRIEVAL JOURNAL

Clustering of the contents of a document corpus is used to create sub-corpora with the intention that they are expected to consist..

Immediate Text Search on Streams Using Apoptosic Indexes

Patrick Eades, Anthony Wirth, Justin Zobel

Book Chapter  |  2022  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Applications that involve streams of documents require a mechanism for search over the newest arrivals. In this paper we explore p..

When proxy-driven learning is no better than random: The consequences of representational incompleteness.

Justin Zobel, Felisa J Vázquez-Abad, Pauline Lin

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLoS One

Machine learning is widely used for personalisation, that is, to tune systems with the aim of adapting their behaviour to the resp..

Document Clustering vs Topic Models: A Case Study

M Yuan, P Lin, J Zobel

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Document collections can be characterised in a variety of ways. Two key approaches are clustering, which partitions collections in..

Automatic consistency assurance for literature-based gene ontology annotation

Jiyu Chen, Nicholas Geard, Justin Zobel, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC BIOINFORMATICS

BACKGROUND: Literature-based gene ontology (GO) annotation is a process where expert curators use uniform expressions to describe ..

Evaluating the Predictivity of IR Experiments

Lida Rashidi, Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  SIGIR '21 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 44TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Experimental evaluation is regarded as a critical element of any research activity in Information Retrieval, and is typically used..

Recency queries with succinct representation

WL Holland, A Wirth, J Zobel

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs