| 2017 | ADCS | Efficient In-Memory, List-Based Text Inversion. | David Hawking, Bodo Billerbeck |
| 2017 | ADCS | Large-scale Generative Query Autocompletion. | David Maxwell, Peter Bailey, David Hawking |
| 2017 | SIGIR | MAPping the probability of start-up success. | David Hawking |
| 2015 | ADCS | Text segmentation and Chinese site search. | Liyuan Zhou, David Hawking, Paul Thomas |
| 2015 | SIGIR | On Term Selection Techniques for Patent Prior Art Search. | Mona Golestan Far, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Gabriela Ferraro, David Hawking |
| 2015 | SIGIR | If SIGIR had an Academic Track, What Would Be In It? | David Hawking |
| 2013 | ADCS | An enterprise search paradigm based on extended query auto-completion: do we still need search and navigation? | David Hawking, Kathy Griffiths |
| 2013 | ADCS | Merging algorithms for enterprise search. | PengFei (Vincent) Li, Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2013 | PAKDD | Dynamic Similarity-Aware Inverted Indexing for Real-Time Entity Resolution. | Banda Ramadan, Peter Christen, Huizhi Liang, Ross W. Gayler, David Hawking |
| 2012 | ADCS | Reordering an index to speed query processing without loss of effectiveness. | David Hawking, Timothy Jones |
| 2011 | CIKM | Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines. | Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana |
| 2011 | SIGIR | What deliberately degrading search quality tells us about discount functions. | Paul Thomas, Timothy Jones, David Hawking |
| 2010 | WWW | Live web search experiments for the rest of us. | Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana |
| 2010 | WWW | New-web search with microblog annotations. | Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana |
| 2009 | CIKM | Similarity-aware indexing for real-time entity resolution. | Peter Christen, Ross W. Gayler, David Hawking |
| 2009 | ECIR | Quality-Oriented Search for Depression Portals. | Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Kathleen Griffiths, Nick Craswell |
| 2008 | SPIRE | "Search Is a Solved Problem" and Other Annoying Fallacies. | David Hawking |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Workload sampling for enterprise search evaluation. | Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Evaluating sampling methods for uncooperative collections. | Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Fast generation of result snippets in web search. | Andrew Turpin, Yohannes Tsegay, David Hawking, Hugh E. Williams |
| 2006 | CIKM | Secure search in enterprise webs: tradeoffs in efficient implementation for document level security. | Peter Bailey, David Hawking, Brett Matson |
| 2006 | CIKM | Evaluation by comparing result sets in context. | Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2006 | ECIR | Enterprise Search - The New Frontier? | David Hawking |
| 2005 | CIKM | Focused crawling for both topical relevance and quality of medical information. | Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kathleen Griffiths |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Server selection methods in hybrid portal search. | David Hawking, Paul Thomas |
| 2004 | ADC | Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.. | Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Alistair Moffat |
| 2004 | ADC | Challenges in Enterprise Search. | David Hawking |
| 2004 | ADC | How Valuable is External Link Evidence When Searching Enterprise Webs? | David Hawking, Francis Crimmins, Nick Craswell, Trystan Upstill |
| 2004 | ADCS | Focused Crawling in Depression Portal Search: A Feasibility Study. | Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Toward better weighting of anchors. | David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Nick Craswell |
| 2003 | ADC | Automated Discovery of Search Interfaces on the Web. | Jared Cope, Nick Craswell, David Hawking |
| 2002 | ADCS | XML Document Retrieval with PADRE. | Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Alexander Krumpholz, Ian D. Mathieson, James A. Thom, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Peter Wilkins, Mingfang Wu |
| 2002 | ADCS | Searching for Perfection. | David Hawking |
| 2002 | ADCS | Buying bestsellers online: A case study in Search & Searchability. | Trystan Upstill, Nick Craswell, David Hawking |
| 2001 | WWW | Which Search Engine is Best at Finding Online Services? | David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kathleen Griffiths |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. | Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 1999 | ADC | Merging Results From Isolated Search Engines. | Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Paul B. Thistlewaite |
| 1996 | PDPTA | Document Retrieval Performance on Parallel Systems. | David Hawking |