Udo Kruschwitz - Selected Publications

Monographs

• Kruschwitz, U. "Intelligent Document Retrieval: Exploiting Markup Structure". Volume 17 of The Information Retrieval Series, Springer, 2005.
  

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Poesio, M., U. Kruschwitz, J. Chamberlain, L. Robaldo and L. Ducceschi. "Phrase Detectives: Utilizing Collective Intelligence for Internet-Scale Language Resource Creation ". ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. (To appear).

• Clark, M., Y. Kim, U. Kruschwitz, D. Song, M-D. Albakour, S. Dignum, U. Cervino Beresi, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Automatically Structuring Domain Knowledge from Text: an Overview of Current Research". Information Processing and Management (IP&M). 2011 (In press) (Preprint)

• Kruschwitz, U., M-D. Albakour, J. Niu, J. Leveling, N. Nanas, Y. Kim, D. Song, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Moving Towards Adaptive Search in Digital Libraries". In Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, volume 6699 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 41-60. Springer. 2011. (Preprint)

• El-Haj, M., U. Kruschwitz and C. Fox. "Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarisation for Arabic". In Human Language Technology: LTC 2009, Revised Selected Papers, volume 6562 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 490-499. Springer, 2011. (Preprint on request)

• Poesio, M., N. Diewald, M. Stührenberg, J. Chamberlain, D. Jettka, D. Goecke, and U. Kruschwitz. "Markup Infrastructure for the Anaphoric Bank: Supporting Web Collaboration". In A. Mehler, K.-U. Kühnberger, H. Lobin, H. Lüngen, A. Storrer, and A. Witt, editors, Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text-Technological Data Structures, volume 370 of Studies in Computational Intelligence. pages 175-195. Springer, 2011.

• Russell-Rose, T, U. Kruschwitz and A. MacFarlane "Future Searching". ITNow, 53(1): 14-15, January 2011.

• Kruschwitz, U., N. Webb and R. Sutcliffe "Query Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search". In B.J. Jansen, A. Spink and I. Taksa (eds.): Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis, pages 389-416. Hershey, PA: IGI, 2008.

• Sutcliffe, R.F.E., J. Steinberger, U. Kruschwitz, M.A. Kabadjov and M. Poesio "Identifying Novel Information using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006". Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4730, pages 541-549. © Springer, 2007. (Working notes version: PDF)

• Kruschwitz, U., S. Musgrave, D. O'Neill, J. Gekas and H. Mann "Integrating data for learning disabilities service providers - are the barriers and solutions technical or organisational?". Informatics in Primary Care, 14(3): 175-181, 2006.

• Kruschwitz, U. and H. Al-Bakour "Users Want More Sophisticated Search Assistants - Results of a Task-Based Evaluation". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 56(13): 1377-1393, August 2005 (Preprint: Postscript version here / PDF version here)

• Kruschwitz, U. "An Adaptable Search System for Collections of Partially Structured Documents". IEEE Intelligent Systems, 18(4): 44-52, July/August 2003.

• De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb. "The YPA - An Assistant for Classified Directory Enquiries";. In B. Azvine, N. Azarmi and D. Nauck (eds.): Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing: Prospects, Tools and Applications, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (State of the Art Survey) 1804, pages 239-258. © Springer Verlag, 2000. (PDF version here)

• De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Neal, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb. "YPA - An Intelligent Directory Enquiry Assistant". BT Technology Journal, 16(3): 145-155, 1998. (PDF version here)

Proceedings (Ed.)

• Gurrin, C., Y. He, G. Kazai, U. Kruschwitz, S. Little, T. Roelleke, S. Rüger, and K. van Rijsbergen, editors. "Advances in Information Retrieval, 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 28-31, 2010". Proceedings, volume 5993 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2010.

• Sutcliffe, R., U. Kruschwitz, and T. Mandl, editors. " Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Web Logs and Question Answering (WLQA2010)."ELRA, 2010.

• De Roeck, A., D. Song, and U. Kruschwitz, editors. " Proceedings of the BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing", electronic Workshop Proceedings in Computing (eWiC), 2008. BCS.

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Aker, A., M. El-Haj, M-D.Albakour and U. Kruschwitz. "Assessing Crowdsourcing Quality through Objective Tasks". In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, 2012. (Forthcoming)

• Damljanovic, D., U. Kruschwitz, M-D.Albakour, J. Petrak and M. Lupu. "Applying Random Indexing to Structured Data to Find Contextually Similar Words". In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, 2012. (Forthcoming)

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, N. Nanas, B. Neville, D. Lungley and M. Fasli. "University of Essex at the TREC 2011 Session Track". In Proceedings of the Twentieth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2011), NIST, 2012.

• Adeyanju, I., F. M. Nardini, M-D. Albakour, D. Song and U. Kruschwitz. "RGU-ISTI-Essex at TREC 2011 Session Track". In Proceedings of the Twentieth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2011), NIST, 2012.

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, N. Nanas, I. Adeyanju, D. Song, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Analysis of query reformulations in a search engine of a local web site". In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), Barcelona, 2012. (Forthcoming) (Preprint on request)

• Lungley, D., U. Kruschwitz, and D. Song. "Learning adaptive domain models from click data to bootstrap interactive web search". In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), Barcelona, 2012. (Forthcoming) (Preprint on request)

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, I. Adeyanju, D. Song, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Enriching Query Flow Graphs with Click Information". In Proceedings of the 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), volume 7097 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 193-204, Dubai, 2011. (Preprint on request)

• El-Haj, M., U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. "Exploring Clustering for Multi-document Arabic Summarisation". In Proceedings of the 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), volume 7097 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 550-561, Dubai, 2011. (Preprint on request)

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, N. Nanas, D. Song, M. Fasli and A. De Roeck. "Exploring Ant Colony Optimisation for Adaptive Interactive Search". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Bertinoro, 2011. (Preprint on request)

• Saad, S. Z. and U. Kruschwitz. "Applying Web Usage Mining for Adaptive Intranet Navigation". In Proceedings of the 2nd Information Retrieval Facility Conference, volume 6653 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2011. (Preprint)

• Adindla, S. and U. Kruschwitz. "Combining the Best of Two Worlds: NLP and IR for Intranet Search". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'11), Lyon, 2011. (Preprint on request)

• Albakour, M-D. and U. Kruschwitz. "University of Essex at LogCLEF 2011: Studying Query Refinement". In CLEF 2011 Labs and Workshop, Notebook Papers, 2011.

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, J. Niu, and M. Fasli. "University of Essex at the TREC 2010 Session Track". In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2010), NIST, 2011.

• Albakour, M-D., N. Nanas, Kruschwitz, U., M. Fasli, Y. Kim, D. Song, and A. De Roeck. "AutoEval: An Evaluation Methodology for Evaluating Query Suggestions Using Query Logs". In Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'11), volume 6611 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 605-610. Springer, 2011. (Preprint)

• Lungley, D., M.-D. Albakour, and U. Kruschwitz. "The Use of Domain Modelling to Improve Performance Over a Query Session". In Proceedings of the ECIR Workshop on Information Retrieval over Query Sessions, 2011.

• Dignum, S., U. Kruschwitz, M. Fasli, Y. Kim, D. Song, U. Cervino, and A. De Roeck. "Incorporating Seasonality into Search Suggestions Derived from Intranet Query Logs". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'10), Toronto, 2010.

• Nanas, N., U. Kruschwitz, M-D. Albakour, M. Fasli, D. Song, Y. Kim, U. Cervino, and A. De Roeck. "A Methodology for Simulated Experiments in Interactive Search". In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Simulation of Interaction (SimInt), Geneva, 2010.

• Albakour, M-D., U. Kruschwitz, and S. Lucas. "Sentence-level attachment prediction". In Proceedings of the 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference, volume 6107 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 6-19, Vienna, 2010. Springer.

• Gurrin, C., Y. He, G. Kazai, U. Kruschwitz, S. Little, T. Roelleke, S. Rüger, and K. van Rijsbergen. "Recent developments in information retrieval". In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'10), volume 5993 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1-9. Springer, 2010.

• El-Haj, M., U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. "Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries". In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Semitic Languages, pages 36-39, Valletta, Malta, 2010.

• Sutcliffe, R, U. Kruschwitz, and T. Mandl. "Web Logs and Question Answering". In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Web Logs and Question Answering (WLQA2010), pages 1-7, Valletta, Malta, 2010.

• Sutcliffe, R., K. White, and U. Kruschwitz. "Named Entity Recognition in an Intranet Query Log". In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Semitic Languages, pages 43-49, Valletta, Malta, 2010.

• Kruschwitz, U., J. Chamberlain, and M. Poesio. "(Linguistic) Science Through Web Collaboration in the ANAWIKI Project". In Proceedings of WebSci'09, Athens, 2009.

• Lungley, D. and U. Kruschwitz. "Automatically maintained domain knowledge: Initial findings". In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09), pages 739-743, Toulouse, 2009.

• Chamberlain, J., U. Kruschwitz, and M. Poesio. "Constructing An Anaphorically Annotated Corpus With Non-Experts: Assessing The Quality Of Collaborative Annotations". In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on: The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Singapore, 2009.

• Dignum, S., Y. Kim, U. Kruschwitz, D. Song, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Moving towards Adaptive Search". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (AT4DL), Trento, 2009.

• Dignum, S., Y. Kim, U. Kruschwitz, D. Song, M. Fasli, and A. De Roeck. "Using Domain Models for Context-Rich User Logging". In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Understanding the User, Boston, 2009.

• Chamberlain, J., M. Poesio, and U. Kruschwitz. "A Demonstration Of Human Computation Using The Phrase Detectives Annotation Game". In Proceedings of the KDD 2009 Workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP2009), Paris, 2009.

• Albakour, M-D., R. Blackwell, U. Kruschwitz, and S. Lucas. "Managing Collaboration Projects using Semantic Email Search". In Proceedings of the WWW 2009 Workshop on Semantic Search, Madrid, 2009.

• Chamberlain, J., M. Poesio, and U. Kruschwitz. "A new life for a dead parrot: Incentive structures in the Phrase Detectives game". In Proceedings of the WWW 2009 Workshop on Web Incentives (WEBCENTIVES'09), Madrid, 2009.

• El-Haj, M., U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. "Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarization for Arabic". In Proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC'09), pages 365-369, Poznan, Poland, 2009.

• Chamberlain, J., M. Poesio, and U. Kruschwitz. Addressing the Resource Bottleneck to Create Large-Scale Annotated Texts. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing (STEP), Venice, 2008.

• Chamberlain, J., M. Poesio and U. Kruschwitz "Phrase Detectives - A Web-based Collaborative Annotation Game". In Proceedings of I-Semantics, Graz, 2008.

• Poesio, M., U. Kruschwitz and J. Chamberlain "ANAWIKI: Creating Anaphorically Annotated Resources Through Web Cooperation". In Proceedings of LREC'08, Marrakech, 2008. ELRA.

• Kruschwitz, U. "Automatically Acquired Domain Knowledge for ad hoc Search: Evaluation Results". In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE'03), Beijing, 2003. IEEE. (PDF version here)

• Kruschwitz, U. "Current Issues in Markup-Based Knowledge Extraction". In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access, Technical Report SS-02-09, pages 20-25. AAAI Press, 2002.

• Kruschwitz, U. "A Rapidly Acquired Domain Model Derived from Markup Structure". In Proceedings of the ESSLLI'01 Workshop on Semantic Knowledge Acquisition and Categorisation, Helsinki, 2001.

• Fasli, M. & U. Kruschwitz. "Using Implicit Relevance Feedback in a Web Search Assistant". In N. Zhong, Y. Yao, J. Liu and S. Ohsuga (eds.): Web Intelligence: Research and Development, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2198, pages 356-360. © Springer Verlag, 2001.

• Kruschwitz, U. "Dialogue for Web Search Utilizing Automatically Acquired Domain Knowledge". In V. Matousek, P. Mautner, R. Moucek and K. Tauser (eds.): Text, Speech, and Dialogue. Fourth International Conference (TSD2001), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2166, pages 365-372. © Springer Verlag, 2001.

• Kruschwitz, U. "Exploiting Structure for Intelligent Web Search". In Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, 2001. IEEE. (PDF version here)

• Kruschwitz, U. "UKSearch - Web Search with Knowledge-Rich Indices". In Proceedings of the AAAI 2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Technical Report WS-00-01, pages 41-45. AAAI Press, 2000.

• Kruschwitz, U., A. De Roeck, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb. "Extracting Semistructured Data - Lessons Learnt";. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing NLP2000: Filling the gap between theory and practice, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1835, pages 406-417. © Springer Verlag, 2000.

• Webb, N., A. De Roeck, U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner. "Evaluating a Natural Language Dialogue System: Results and Experiences,". In Proceedings of the Workshop "From Spoken Dialogue to Full Natural Interactive Dialogue - Theory, Empirical Analysis and Evaluation" (at the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2000), Athens, 2000.

• Webb, N., A. De Roeck, U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner. "Natural Language Engineering: Slot-Filling in the YPA". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces, Dialogue and Partner Modelling (at the Fachtagung für Künstliche Intelligenz KI'99), Bonn, 1999.

• Kruschwitz, U., A. De Roeck, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb. "Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES'99), pages 34-37, Adelaide, 1999. IEEE.

• De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb. "Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages". In Adjunct Conference Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International'99), pages 257-258, München, 1999.

Patents

• Steel, S., U. Kruschwitz, N. Webb, A. De Roeck, P. Scott, R. Turner, K. C. Tsui, W. Wobcke, and B. Azvine. Accessing a Semi-Structured Database, 2001. European Patent Number EP1099171, US Patent Number 7,409,381, World Patent Number WO/2000/007117.