Department of Computing Science
Name:Dr Craig Macdonald
Occupation: Information Retrieval Researcher in the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Research Interests: Expert Search; Blog, Web & Enterprise Information Retrieval

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Publications

2010
[Pdf] Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track.
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2009. NIST Special Publication. 2010, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. In press.
 
[Pdf] University of Glasgow at TREC-2009: Experiments with Terrier.
R. McCreadie, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis, J. Peng, R.L.T. Santos. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2009. NIST Special Publication. 2010, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
 
[Pdf] Voting for Related Entities
Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of RAIO 2010. In press.
 
[Pdf] News Article Ranking: Leveraging the Wisdom of Bloggers
Richard M. C. McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of RAIO 2010. In press.
 
[Pdf] Exploiting Query Reformulations for Web Search Result Diversification
Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of WWW 2010. In press.
 
[Pdf] Insights on the Horizon of News Search
Richard M. C. McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SSM 2010 Workshop at WSDM 2010.
 
[Pdf] Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-Queries
Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2010. In press.
 
[Pdf] Learning to Select a Ranking Function
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2010. In press.
 
2009
[Pdf] [Acm] The Influence of the Document Ranking in Expert Search
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of CIKM 2009.
 
[Acm] A Study of Selective Collection Enrichment for Enterprise Search
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of CIKM 2009.
 
[Pdf] Comparing Distributed Indexing: To MapReduce or Not?
Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of LSDS Workshop at SIGIR 2009.
 
[Acm] Is Spam an Issue for Opinionated Blog Post Search?
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009.
 
[Acm] On Perfect Document Rankings for Expert Search.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009.
 
[Acm] On Single-Pass Indexing with MapReduce.
Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009.
 
[Acm] Usefulness of Click-through data in Expert Search.
Craig Macdonald and Ryen White. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009.
 
[Acm] Expertise Search in Academia using Facets.
Duncan McDougall and Craig Macdonald. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009.
 
[Pdf] The Voting Model for People Search (extended abstract)
Craig Macdonald. SIGIR Forum, Volume 43 Number 1, June 2009, page 75.
 
[Lib] [Pdf] The Voting Model for People Search
Craig Macdonald. PhD thesis, Department of Computing Science, Univeristy of Glasgow, 2009.
 
[Doi] Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval.
Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2009.
 
[Acm] Usefulness of Quality Click-through Data for Training.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of WSCD09 Workshop at WSDM 2009.
 
2008
[Acm] Key Blog Distillation: Ranking Aggregates.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of CIKM 2008.
 
[Acm] An Effective Statistical Approach to Blog Post Opinion Retrieval.
Ben He, Craig Macdonald Jiyin He, and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of CIKM 2008.
 
[Acm] Retrieval Sensitivity Under Training Using Different Measures.
Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008.
 
[Acm] Ranking Opinionated Blog Posts using OpinionFinder.
Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008.
 
[Acm] Limits of Opinion-Finding Baseline Systems.
Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008.
 
[Acm] Automatic Document Prior Feature Selection for Web Retrieval.
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008.
 
[Pdf] Efficiency Comparison of Document Matching Techniques.
Patrice Lacour, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop at ECIR 2008.
 
[Pdf] [Video] On the TREC Blog track
Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2008. AAAI.
 
[Doi] High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2008. Springer LNCS 4956.
 
[Doi] Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2008. Springer LNCS 4956.
 
[Doi] Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ECIR 2008. Springer LNCS 4956.
 
[Pdf] [Abstract] Searching for Expertise: Experiments with the Voting Model.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Special Issue of the Computer Journal on Expertise Profiling. 2008; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxm112
 
[Pdf] Overview of the TREC-2007 Blog Track.
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2007. NIST Special Publication. 2008, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
 
 
[Pdf] University of Glasgow at TREC2007: Experiments in Blog and Enterprise tracks with Terrier.
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2007. NIST Special Publication. 2008, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
 
[Doi] Voting Techniques for Expert Search.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Knowledge and Information Systems Journal. 2008. 16:259--280.
 
2007
[Pdf] A Belief Network Model for Expert Search
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Studies in Theory of Information Retrieval, Proceedings of 1st conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR). Alma Mater ISBN 9630632372. 18th - 20th October 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
 
[Acm] Expertise Drift and Query Expansion in Expert Search
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'07. November 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
 
[Pdf] [Slides] Terrier takes on the non-English Web
Craig Macdonald, Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of iNEWS'07 SIGIR Workshop. 2007.
 
[Pdf] Clickthrough based measures of search engine performance.
Erik Graf, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of WISI'07 SIGIR Workshop. 2007.
 
[Pdf] Research Directions in Terrier: a Search Engine for Advanced Retrieval on the Web.
Iadh Ounis, Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, and Vassilis Plachouras In CEPIS Upgrade Journal 8(1), Next Generation Web Search, February 2007.
 
[Acm] Incorporating Term Dependency in the DFR Framework.
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007. July 2007. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2007.
 
[Pdf] Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval.
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of RIAO 2007. May 2007. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 2007.
 
[SpringerLink] Using Relevance Feedback in Expert Search
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'07). April 2007. Springer LNCS 4425, pages 431--443. Rome, Italy. 2007.
 
[Pdf] Overview of the TREC-2006 Blog Track.
Iadh Ounis, Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne and Ian Soboroff. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2006. NIST Special Publication. 2007, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
 
[Pdf] University of Glasgow at TREC2006: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise tracks with Terrier.
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2006. NIST Special Publication. 2007, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
 
2006
[Abstract] [Pdf] The TREC Blogs06 Collection : Creating and Analysing a Blog Test Collection
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. DCS Technical Report TR-2006-224. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2006.
 
[Abstract] [Acm] [Pdf] Voting for Candidates: Adapting Data Fusion Techniques for an Expert Search Task
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'06. November 2006, Arlington Virginia, USA.
 
[Pdf] Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform.
Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Christina Lioma. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). 10th August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
 
[Acm] An Expert Search System using the Terrier Platform.
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06. August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
 
[Acm] Combining Fields in Known-Item Email Search.
Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06. August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
 
[Pdf] University of Glasgow at TREC2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise tracks with Terrier.
Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference 2005. NIST Special Publication. 2006, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
2005
 
[Working Notes] [SpringerLink] University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in per-field normalisation and language specific stemming.
Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis. In Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, Revised Selected Papers. Carol Peters, Fredric C. Gey, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J.F. Jones, Michael Kluck, Bernardo Magnini, Henning Muller, Maarten de Rijke (Eds.). Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4022.
 
[Working Notes] Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, Revised Selected Papers. Carol Peters, Fredric C. Gey, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J.F. Jones, Michael Kluck, Bernardo Magnini, Henning Muller, Maarten de Rijke (Eds.). Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4022.
 
[Pdf] Predicting Query Performance in Intranet Search.
Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'05 Query Prediction Workshop. August 19, 2005, Salvador, Brazil.
 
[Pdf] [SpringerLink] Terrier Information Retrieval Platform.
Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Douglas Johnson. In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 05).