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Alistair Moffat

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Papers indexed

168

Venues

30

Active years

1980–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

168 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CaiSEConditioning and Stability in Process Discovery.Anandi Karunaratne, Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat
2026ECIRFaE: A Resource of Logs, Profiles, and Rankings for Academic Expert Finding.Marjan Azimi, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2026ICTIRDoes Form Affect Function? An Extended Study of LLM Re-Ranking Behavior.Reyhaneh Goli, Alistair Moffat
2026WWW(Everything You Never Knew You Needed To Know About) Rank-Biased Measurement For Web Search.Alistair Moffat
2026SIGIRModalities of Expert Search: How Users Transition Between Names and Topics.Marjan Azimi, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2026SIGIROn the Robustness of LLM Re-Rankings.Reyhaneh Goli, Alistair Moffat
2026SIGIRTargeted Parameter Selection for Rank-Biased Measurement.Alistair Moffat
2025CPPFormalized Burrows-Wheeler Transform.Louis Cheung, Alistair Moffat, Christine Rizkallah
2025ICTIRExpert Finding Revisited: A Uniform Exploration of Methods.Marjan Azimi, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2025ICTIRHandling Ties in Rank-Biased Measurement: Two Complementary Views.Alistair Moffat
2025SIGIRRefined Medical Search via Dense Retrieval and User Interaction.Reyhaneh Goli, Alistair Moffat, George Buchanan
2025SIGIRA Flexible Resource for Top-Weighted Comparisons Between Sets and Rankings.Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Antonio Mallia, Matthias Petri
2025SIGIRThe Effects of Demographic Instructions on LLM Personas.Angel Felipe Magnosso de Paula, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas
2024CaiSEStochastic Directly-Follows Process Discovery Using Grammatical Inference.Hanan Alkhammash, Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat
2024ICPMThe Role of Log Representativeness in Estimating Generalization in Process Mining.Anandi Karunaratne, Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat
2024ICPMEntropia: Measuring Log Representativeness and Generalization of Discovered Process Models.Anandi Karunaratne, Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat
2024ICTIRQuery Variability and Experimental Consistency: A Concerning Case Study.Lida Rashidi, Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat
2023ECIRIndex-Based Batch Query Processing Revisited.Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat
2022ADCSImmediate-Access Indexing Using Space-Efficient Extensible Arrays.Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie
2022CaiSEBootstrapping Generalization of Process Models Discovered from Event Data.Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat, Luciano Garca-Bauelos
2022EMNLPAccelerating Learned Sparse Indexes Via Term Impact Decomposition.Joel Mackenzie, Antonio Mallia, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2022SIGIRUsers: Can't Work With Them, Can't Work Without Them?Alistair Moffat
2022SIGIRA Flexible Framework for Offline Effectiveness Metrics.Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi
2022SIGIRCan Users Predict Relative Query Effectiveness?Oleg Zendel, Melika P. Ebrahim, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer
2021ADCSCost-Effective Updating of Distributed Reordered Indexes.Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat
2021CHIIRUser Models, Metrics and Measures of Search: A Tutorial on the C/W/L Evaluation Framework.Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
2021CHIIRDifferent Keystrokes for Different Folks: Visualizing Crowdworker Querying Behavior.Rodger Benham, Joel Mackenzie, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2021ECIRBayesian System Inference on Shallow Pools.Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2021ICTIRERR is not C/W/L: Exploring the Relationship Between Expected Reciprocal Rank and Other Metrics.Leif Azzopardi, Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat
2021ICTIRModality Effects When Simulating User Querying Tasks.Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat
2021SIGIRFaster Index Reordering with Bipartite Graph Partitioning.Joel Mackenzie, Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat
2021SIGIREvaluating the Predictivity of IR Experiments.Lida Rashidi, Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat
2020CIKMCC-News-En: A Large English News Corpus.Joel M. Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Matthias Petri, Johanne R. Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2020CIKMExamining the Additivity of Top-k Query Processing Innovations.Joel M. Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat
2020ECIRGeneration of Synthetic Query Auto Completion Logs.Unni Krishnan, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Bodo Billerbeck
2020ICPMEntropia: A Family of Entropy-Based Conformance Checking Measures for Process Mining.Artem Polyvyanyy, Hanan Alkhammash, Claudio Di Ciccio, Luciano Garca-Bauelos, Anna A. Kalenkova, Sander J. J. Leemans, Jan Mendling, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Weidlich
2020ICPMAn Entropic Relevance Measure for Stochastic Conformance Checking in Process Mining.Artem Polyvyanyy, Alistair Moffat, Luciano Garca-Bauelos
2020SIGIRBayesian Inferential Risk Evaluation On Multiple IR Systems.Rodger Benham, Ben Carterette, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2020WSDMMetrics, User Models, and Satisfaction.Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Alistair Moffat
2019ADCSTaking Risks with Confidence.Rodger Benham, Ben Carterette, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2019ECIRModeling User Actions in Job Search.Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2019SIGIRBuilding Economic Models and Measures of Search.Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
2019SIGIRcwl_eval: An Evaluation Tool for Information Retrieval.Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat
2019SIGIRAccelerated Query Processing Via Similarity Score Prediction.Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat, Joel M. Mackenzie, J. Shane Culpepper, Daniel Beck
2019WSDMFast Dictionary-Based Compression for Inverted Indexes.Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat
2018ADCSDesirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics.Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Lawrence Cavedon
2018ADCSBetter Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings.Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell
2018ADCSExploring Interaction Patterns in Job Search.Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Alistair Moffat
2018ADCSPairwise Crowd Judgments: Preference, Absolute, and Ratio.Ziying Yang, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin
2018CIKMEmpirical Evidence for Search Effectiveness Models.Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Alistair Moffat
2018SIGIRUsers, Adaptivity, and Bad Abandonment.Alistair Moffat, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono
2018SIGIRA Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search.Bahar Salehi, Damiano Spina, Alistair Moffat, Sargol Sadeghi, Falk Scholer, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson, Wilson Wong, Justin Zobel
2018WSDMIndex Compression Using Byte-Aligned ANS Coding and Two-Dimensional Contexts.Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2017ADCSA Taxonomy of Query Auto Completion Modes.Unni Krishnan, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2017ADCSTasks, Queries, and Rankers in Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction.Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat
2017ALENEXCSA++: Fast Pattern Search for Large Alphabets.Simon Gog, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2017CIKMANS-Based Index Compression.Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2017OZCHIOnly forward?: toward understanding human visual behaviour when examining search results.George Buchanan, Dana McKay, Eduardo Velloso, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
2017SIGIRCan Deep Effectiveness Metrics Be Evaluated Using Shallow Judgment Pools?Xiaolu Lu, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2017SIGIRRetrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2017SIGIRUnderstanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation.Damiano Spina, Maria Maistro, Yongli Ren, Sargol Sadeghi, Wilson Wong, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Alistair Moffat, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel
2017WSDMA Cost Model for Long-Term Compressed Data Retention.Kewen Liao, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri, Anthony Wirth
2016ADCSJudgment Pool Effects Caused by Query Variations.Alistair Moffat
2016ECIRDoes Selective Search Benefit from WAND Optimization?Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2016ICTIREfficient and Effective Higher Order Proximity Modeling.Xiaolu Lu, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2016WWWEffective Construction of Relative Lempel-Ziv Dictionaries.Kewen Liao, Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat, Anthony Wirth
2016SIGIRQuit While Ahead: Evaluating Truncated Rankings.Fei Liu, Alistair Moffat, Timothy Baldwin, Xiuzhen Zhang
2016SIGIRUQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2016SIGIRLoad-Balancing in Distributed Selective Search.Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2015ADCSINST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation.Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2015CIKMOn the Cost of Extracting Proximity Features for Term-Dependency Models.Xiaolu Lu, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2015CIKMPooled Evaluation Over Query Variations: Users are as Diverse as Systems.Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey
2015DCCIt's Been 1, 000, 000 Years Since Huffman.Alistair Moffat
2015ECIROn Identifying Phrases Using Collection Statistics.Simon Gog, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2015SIGIRUser Variability and IR System Evaluation.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2015SIGIROn the Cost of Phrase-Based Ranking.Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat
2014ADCSHow Effective are Proximity Scores in Term Dependency Models?Xiaolu Lu, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2014ADCSAssessing the Cognitive Complexity of Information Needs.Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2014ADCSGraph Representations and Applications of Citation Networks.Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat, Anthony Wirth
2014EACLIs Machine Translation Getting Better over Time?Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2014SIGIRScore-safe term-dependency processing with hybrid indexes.Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
2014SPIREStrategic Pattern Search in Factor-Compressed Text.Simon Gog, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
2013ADCSExploring the magic of WAND.Matthias Petri, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2013ADCSChoices in batch information retrieval evaluation.Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas
2013CIKMUsers versus models: what observation tells us about effectiveness metrics.Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer
2013SPIREAdding Compression and Blended Search to a Compact Two-Level Suffix Array.Simon Gog, Alistair Moffat
2012ADCSModels and metrics: IR evaluation as a user process.Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2011CIKMPrinciples for robust evaluation infrastructure.Justin Zobel, William Webber, Mark Sanderson, Alistair Moffat
2011WSDMEfficient indexing of repeated n-grams.Samuel J. Huston, Alistair Moffat, W. Bruce Croft
2010DCCLocal Modeling for WebGraph Compression.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2009ADCScore Aggregation Techniques in Retrieval Experimentation.Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat
2009CIKMImprovements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998.Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2009DASFAAReducing Space Requirements for Disk Resident Suffix Arrays.Alistair Moffat, Simon J. Puglisi, Ranjan Sinha
2009ECIRMeasurement Techniques and Caching Effects.Stefan Pohl, Alistair Moffat
2009SIGIRHas adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2009SIGIREvaluatIR: an online tool for evaluating and comparing IR systems.Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2009SIGIRSystem scoring using partial prior information.Sri Devi Ravana, Laurence Anthony F. Park, Alistair Moffat
2008CIKMStatistical power in retrieval experimentation.William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2008SIGIRExploring evaluation metrics: GMAP versus MAP.Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat
2008SIGIRScore standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems.William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2008SIGIRPrecision-at-ten considered redundant.William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tetsuya Sakai
2008SIGMODImproving suffix array locality for fast pattern matching on disk.Ranjan Sinha, Simon J. Puglisi, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin
2008SPIRETerm Impacts as Normalized Term Frequencies for BM25 Similarity Scoring.Vo Ngoc Anh, Raymond Wan, Alistair Moffat
2007SIGIRStrategic system comparisons via targeted relevance judgments.Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2007SPIRECompact Set Representation for Information Retrieval.J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2006CIKMPruning strategies for mixed-mode querying.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2006SIGIRPruned query evaluation using pre-computed impacts.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2006SIGIRLoad balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval.Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2006SPIREStructured Index Organizations for High-Throughput Text Querying.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2006SPIREPhrase-Based Pattern Matching in Compressed Text.J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2005ACEMaking Connections: First Year Transition for Computer Science and Software Engineering Students.Alistair Moffat, Baden Hughes, Harald Sndergaard, Paul Gruba
2005CIKMFast on-line index construction by geometric partitioning.Nicholas Lester, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2005CIKMSimilarity measures for tracking information flow.Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2005DCCBinary Codes for Non-Uniform Sources.Alistair Moffat, Vo Ngoc Anh
2005SIGIRSimplified similarity scoring using term ranks.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2005SIGIRThe recap system for identifying information flow.Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2005WISESpace-Limited Ranked Query Evaluation Using Adaptive Pruning.Nicholas Lester, Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
2005SPIREEnhanced Byte Codes with Restricted Prefix Properties.J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
2004ACEWhat Drives Curriculum Change?Paul Gruba, Alistair Moffat, Harald Sndergaard, Justin Zobel
2004ADCIndex Compression Using Fixed Binary Codewords.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2004ADCPerformance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search..Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Alistair Moffat
2004ADCSCollection-Independent Document-Centric Impacts.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2004WISEWhat Does It Mean to "Measure Performance"?Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
2003DCCHybrid Prefix Codes for Practical Use.Mike Liddell, Alistair Moffat
2002ADCImproved Retrieval Effectiveness Through Impact Transformation.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2002ADCSVector Space Ranking: Can We Keep it Simple?Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2002CPMBlock Merging for Off-Line Compression.Raymond Wan, Alistair Moffat
2002DCCIncremental Calculation of Minimum-Redundancy Length-Restricted Codes.Mike Liddell, Alistair Moffat
2002SIGIRImpact transformation: effective and efficient web retrieval.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
2001ADCEffective compression for the web: exploiting document linkages.Raymond Wan, Alistair Moffat
2001DCCParsing Strategies for BWT Compression.R. Yugo Kartono Isal, Alistair Moffat
2001DCCLength-Restricted Coding in Static and Dynamic Frameworks.Mike Liddell, Alistair Moffat
2001DCCCan We Do without Ranks in Burrows Wheeler Transform Compression?Anthony Ian Wirth, Alistair Moffat
2001SIGIRVector-Space Ranking with Effective Early Termination.Vo Ngoc Anh, Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
2001SIGIRInteractive Phrase Browsing Within Compressed Text.Raymond Wan, Alistair Moffat
2001SPIRERe-Store: A System for Compressing, Browsing, and Searching Large Documents (Invited Paper).Alistair Moffat, Raymond Wan
1999ADCLocality-Based Information Retrieval.Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
1999DCCOffline Dictionary-Based Compression.N. Jesper Larsson, Alistair Moffat
1999SIGIREffective Document Presentation with a Locality-Based Similarity Heuristic.Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
1999SIGIRStatistical Phrases for Vector-Space Information Retrieval (poster abstract).Andrew Turpin, Alistair Moffat
1998DCCPiecewise Integer Mapping for Arithmetic Coding.Lang Stuiver, Alistair Moffat
1998ICDCSMethodologies for Distributed Information Retrieval.Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat, Tim Shimmin, Justin Zobel
1998SIGIRUntitled recordOwen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
1998SIGIRCompressed Inverted Files with Reduced Decoding Overheads.Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat
1997DCCEfficient Approximate Adaptive Coding.Andrew Turpin, Alistair Moffat
1996DCCExploiting Clustering in Inverted File Compression.Alistair Moffat, Lang Stuiver
1996DCCOn the Implementation of Minimum-Redundancy Prefix Codes.Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin
1996SIGIRThe Design of a High Performance Information Filtering System.Timothy A. H. Bell, Alistair Moffat
1995ADCImproved Inverted File Processing for Large Text Databases.Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Shmuel T. Klein
1995DCCArithmetic Coding Revisited.Alistair Moffat, Radford M. Neal, Ian H. Witten
1995DCCSpace-Efficient Construction of Optimal Prefix Codes.Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin, Jyrki Katajainen
1995ISAACA Fast and Space - Economical Algorithm for Length - Limited Coding.Jyrki Katajainen, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin
1995WADSIn-Place Calculation of Minimum-Redundancy Codes.Alistair Moffat, Jyrki Katajainen
1994ADCSelf-Indexing Inverted Files.Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
1994DCCStatic Compression for Dynamic Texts.Alistair Moffat, Neil Sharman, Justin Zobel
1994ICDEFast Ranking in Limited Space.Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
1993ADCStorage Management for Files of Dynamic Records.Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis
1993DCCAn Empirical Evaluation of Coding Techniques for Multi-Symbol Alphabets.Alistair Moffat, Neil Sharman, Ian H. Witten, Timothy C. Bell
1993VLDBSearching Large Lexicons for Partially Specified Terms using Compressed Inverted Files.Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis
1992DCCCoding for Compression in Full-Text Retrieval Systems.Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
1992DCCTextual Image Compression.Ian H. Witten, Timothy C. Bell, M. E. Harrison, Mark L. James, Alistair Moffat
1992ISAACSorting and/by Merging Finger Trees.Alistair Moffat, Ola Petersson, Nicholas C. Wormald
1992SIGIRParameterised Compression for Sparse Bitmaps.Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
1992VLDBAn Efficient Indexing Technique for Full Text Databases.Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis
1991DCCTwo-Level Context Based Compression of Binary Images.Alistair Moffat
1989WADSA Fast Algorithm for Melding Splay Trees.Graeme S. Port, Alistair Moffat
1985FOCSAn All Pairs Shortest Path Algorithm with Expected Running Time O(n^2 log n)Alistair Moffat, Tadao Takaoka
1980MFCSAn O(n² log log log n) Expected Time Algorithm for the all Shortest Distance Problem.Tadao Takaoka, Alistair Moffat