2017
Ronan Cummins. Improved Query-Topic Models Using Pseudo-Relevant Polya Document Models, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Amsterdam, 2017.
Ronan Cummins. Improved Query-Topic Models Using Pseudo-Relevant Polya Document Models, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Amsterdam, 2017.
Ronan Cummins, Meng Zhang, and Ted Briscoe. Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, 2016.
Marek Rei and Ronan Cummins. Sentence Similarity Measures for Fine-Grained Estimation of Topical Relevance in Learner Essays, 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2016.
Ronan Cummins, Helen Yannakoudakis, and Ted Briscoe. Unsupervised Modeling of Topical Relevance in L2 Learner Text, 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2016.
Ronan Cummins. A Study of Retrieval Models for Long Documents and Queries in Information Retrieval, International world wide web conference (WWW), Montreal, 2016
Ronan Cummins. Improved Query Topic Models via Pseudo-Relevant Pólya Document Models, arXiv:1602.01665, 2016.
Ronan Cummins. Clinical Decision Support with the SPUD Language Model, TREC Proceedings 2015.
Helen Yannakoudakis and Ronan Cummins. Evaluating the performance of Automated Text Scoring systems, BEA workshop 2015.
Ronan Cummins, Jiaul H. Paik, Yuanhua Lv. A Pólya Urn Document Language Model for Improved Information Retrieval, Transactions of Information Systems, 2015.
Ronan Cummins. Notes on the Smoothed Polya Urn Document Language Model, 2015. (Accompanying Slides)
Ronan Cummins. Document Score Distribution Models for Query
Performance Inference and Prediction, Transactions of Information Systems, 2014.
Ke Zhou, Mounia Lalmas, Tetsuya Sakai, Ronan Cummins and Joemon M.
Jose. On the
Reliability and Intuitiveness of Aggregated Search
Metrics, ACM International Conference on Information and
Knowledge
Management (CIKM 2013), San Francisco, USA, 2013.
Ronan Cummins. A
Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval,
International
Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 29 Sept - 2
Oct 2013, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon Jose. Which
Vertical
Search Engines are Relevant? Understanding Vertical Relevance
Assessments for Web Queries, International World-Wide Web
Conference
(WWW), 13-17 May 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. A Constraint to
Automatically Regulate Document-Length Normalisation,
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), Oct 29 - Nov 2,2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (Poster).
Ronan Cummins. On
the Inference of Average Precision from Score Distributions,
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), Oct 29 - Nov 2,2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (Poster).
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon Jose. Evaluating Reward and Risk for
Vertical Selection,
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), Oct 29 - Nov 2,2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (Poster).
Ronan Cummins. Investigating
Performance Predictors Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Score
Distribution Models. 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval, Portland, 2012.
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon Jose. Evaluating Aggregated Search
Pages, 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval, Portland, 2012.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. On
Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrieval,
ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012. (Erratum)
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Martin Halvey, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon Jose. Assessing and Predicting
Vertical Intent for Web Queries, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain,
1-5 April 2012.
Ronan Cummins. Measuring
the Ability of Score Distributions to Model Relevance.
Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, Dubai, AIRS
2011.
Ronan Cummins. Predicting
Query Performance Directly from Score Distributions. Seventh
Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, Dubai, AIRS 2011.
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, and Joemon M. Jose. Evaluating Large-Scale
Distributed Vertical Search. Workshop on Large-Scale and
Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'11), Glasgow,
October, CIKM 2011.
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O'Riordan and Joemon M. Jose. Navigating the User Query
Space. Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval, Pisa, October, SPIRE 2011.
Ronan Cummins, Joemon M. Jose and Colm O'Riordan. Improved Query Performance
Prediction Using Standard Deviation. SIGIR, Beijing 2011.
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. The Limits of Retrieval
Effectiveness. ECIR European Conference on Information
Retrieval, Dublin, April, 2011.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Analysing Ranking Functions in Information Retrieval Using Constraints. In Information Extraction from the Internet. ISBN-10: 1463743998, Aug 2011.
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. Examining the Information
Retrieval Process from an Inductive Perspective. ACM CIKM
Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto,
October 26-30, 2010.
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. Learning Aggregation
Functions for Expert Search. European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, ECAI 2010, Lisbon.
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan and Mounia Lalmas. An Analysis of Learned
Proximity Functions. 9th International conference on
Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information,
RIAO 2010, Paris.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Learning in a pairwise
term-term proximity framework for information retrieval,
SIGIR 2009.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Measuring constraint
violations in information retrieval, SIGIR 2009.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. The Effect of Query Length
on Normalisation in Information Retrieval, AICS
2009.
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan. DERI at TREC 2008 Enterprise Search Track. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), NIST Special Publication, 2008.
Ronan Cummins. The Evolution and Analysis of Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval. PhD Thesis. National University of Ireland, Galway , 2008.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Using Genetic Programming
for Information Retrieval: Local and Global Query Expansion.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) London, July,
2007.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An axiomatic comparison of
learned term-weighting schemes in information retrieval: clarifications
and extensions. Artificial Intelligence Review, 2007.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An Axiomatic study of
learned weighting schemes. Learning to Rank Workshop, SIGIR
Amsterdam, July, 2007.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. A Framework for the study
of Evolved Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval.
Text based Information Retrieval, Workshop. ECAI 2006.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolved term-weighting
schemes in Information Retrieval: an analysis of the solution space.
Artificial Intelligence Review, 2006.
Ronan
Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An
analysis of the Solution Space for
Genetically Programmed Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval.
17th Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference
(AICS 2006), 2006.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving Local and Global
Weigthting Schemes for Information Retrieval. Journal of
Information Retrieval 2006.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Term-Weighting in
Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming: A three stage process.
ECAI 2006.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An evaluation of evolved
term-weighting schemes in information retrieval. Proceedings
of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge
management, CIKM, 2005.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving General
Term-Weigthting Schemes for Information Retrieval: Tests on Larger
Collections, Artificial Intelligence Review, 2005.
Ronan
Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving
Co-occurrence Based Query
Expansion Schemes in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming,
16th Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sience Conference
(AICS 2005), September 7-9, University of Ulster 2005.
Ronan Cummins. An Analysis of
Evolved Term-weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval, SIGIR Doctoral
Consortium, August 15, 2005.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving
Term-Selection Schemes for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Information
Retrieval. Technical report of Dept. of Information
Technology, NUI, Galway, Ireland, 2005.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving, Analysing
and
Improving
Global Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval.
Technical Report
of Dept. of Information Retrieval, NUI, Galway, 2004.
Ronan
Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Determining
General Term Weighting Schemes
for the Vector Space Model of Information Retrieval Using Genetic
Programming. Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive
Science, Castlebar, 2004.
Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Using
Genetic Programming to Evolve Weighting Schemes for the Vector Space
Model of Information Retrieval. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO) (LBP), Seattle, Washington, June 26-30, 2004.