William Webber

According to our database, William Webber authored at least 43 papers between 2004 and 2017.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of three.

2017

Effects of objective and subjective competence on the reliability of crowdsourced relevance judgments.

Parnia Samimi, Sri Devi Ravana, William Webber, Yun Sing Koh

Inf. Res., 2017

2015

Statistical comparisons of non-deterministic IR systems using two dimensional variance.

Gaya K. Jayasinghe, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, Lasitha Sandamali Dharmasena, J. Shane Culpepper

Inf. Process. Manag., 2015

2014

Evaluating non-deterministic retrieval systems.

Gaya K. Jayasinghe, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, Lasitha Sandamali Dharmasena, J. Shane Culpepper

Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Extending test collection pools without manual runs.

Gaya K. Jayasinghe, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, J. Shane Culpepper

Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Reducing Reliance on Relevance Judgments for System Comparison by Using Expectation-Maximization.

Ning Gao, William Webber, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2014

Improving test collection pools with machine learning.

Gaya K. Jayasinghe, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, J. Shane Culpepper

Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium, 2014

2013

Approximate Recall Confidence Intervals.

William Webber

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2013

Information Retrieval for E-Discovery.

Douglas W. Oard, William Webber

Found. Trends Inf. Retr., 2013

Assessor disagreement and text classifier accuracy.

William Webber, Jeremy Pickens

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Sequential testing in classifier evaluation yields biased estimates of effectiveness.

William Webber, Mossaab Bagdouri, David D. Lewis, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

The effect of threshold priming and need for cognition on relevance calibration and assessment.

Falk Scholer, Diane Kelly, Wan-Ching Wu, Hanseul S. Lee, William Webber

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Document features predicting assessor disagreement.

Praveen Chandar, William Webber, Ben Carterette

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Preface.

William Webber, Ruihua Song

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2013

Towards minimizing the annotation cost of certified text classification.

Mossaab Bagdouri, William Webber, David D. Lewis, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

2012

Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement.

William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito

Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Alternative assessor disagreement and retrieval depth.

William Webber, Praveen Chandar, Ben Carterette

Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

2011

Melboune at the TREC 2011 Legal Track.

William Webber, Phil Farrelly

Proceedings of The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference, 2011

Reports from Other Evaluation Campaigns and Panel Discussion: TREC is 20 Years Old, Where Now for Evaluation Campaigns?

Mark Sanderson, William Webber, Ian Soboroff, Gareth J. F. Jones, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Nicola Ferro, Hideo Joho

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2011

Preface.

Kazuaki Kishida, Mark Sanderson, William Webber

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2011

Principles for robust evaluation infrastructure.

Justin Zobel, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, Alistair Moffat

Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Data Infrastructures for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation, 2011

2010

Measurement in information retrieval evaluation.

William Webber

PhD thesis, 2010

A similarity measure for indefinite rankings.

William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2010

EVIA 2010: the third international workshop on evaluating information access.

William Webber, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson

SIGIR Forum, 2010

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Keyword Search.

William Webber

IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2010

The Melbourne Team at the TREC 2010 Legal Track.

William Webber, Falk Scholer, Mingfang Wu, Xiuzhen Zhang, Douglas W. Oard, Phil Farrelly, Sandra Potter, Steven Dick, Phill Bertolus

Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2010

The Effect of Pooling and Evaluation Depth on Metric Stability.

William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2010

Preface.

Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson, William Webber

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2010

Assessor error in stratified evaluation.

William Webber, Douglas W. Oard, Falk Scholer, Bruce Hedin

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

2009

Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias.

William Webber, Laurence Anthony F. Park

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

EvaluatIR: an online tool for evaluating and comparing IR systems.

Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?

Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998.

Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008

Precision-at-ten considered redundant.

William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tetsuya Sakai

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems.

William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Statistical power in retrieval experimentation.

William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

2007

A pipelined architecture for distributed text query evaluation.

Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates

Inf. Retr., 2007

Strategic system comparisons via targeted relevance judgments.

Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

2006

Melbourne University at the 2006 Terabyte Track.

Vo Ngoc Anh, William Webber, Alistair Moffat

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval.

Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

2005

Space-Limited Ranked Query Evaluation Using Adaptive Pruning.

Nicholas Lester, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the Web Information Systems Engineering, 2005

RMIT University at TREC 2005: Terabyte and Robust Track.

Yaniv Bernstein, Bodo Billerbeck, Steven Garcia, Nicholas Lester, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel, William Webber

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

Melbourne University 2005: Enterprise and Terabyte Tasks.

Vo Ngoc Anh, William Webber, Alistair Moffat

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

2004

RMIT University at TREC 2004.

Bodo Billerbeck, Adam Cannane, Abhijit Chattaraj, Nicholas Lester, William Webber, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, Justin Zobel

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004