| 2007 | IJCAI | Supervised Latent Semantic Indexing Using Adaptive Sprinkling. | Sutanu Chakraborti, Rahman Mukras, Robert Lothian, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Stuart N. K. Watt, David J. Harper |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Information sharing through rational links and viewpoint retrieval. | Bicheng Liu, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt |
| 2004 | ADCS | On the Effectiveness of Relevance Profiling. | David J. Harper, David Lee |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Supporting federated information sharing communities. | Bicheng Liu, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension. | Yixing Sun, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt |
| 2003 | ECIR | Query-Based Document Skimming: A User-Centred Evaluation of Relevance Profiling. | David J. Harper, Ivan Koychev, Yixing Sun |
| 2001 | DCC | Combining PPM Models Using a Text Mining Approach. | W. J. Teahan, David J. Harper |
| 2000 | SIGIR | ClusterBook, a tool for dual information access (panel session). | Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Ayse Gker, Peter Lowit |
| 1999 | ECIR | Document Clustering for Mediated Information Access. | David J. Harper, Mourad Mechkour, Gheorghe Muresan |
| 1999 | SIGIR | WebCluster, a Tool for Mediated Information Access (demonstration abstract). | Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Mourad Mechkour |
| 1998 | SIGIR | Spatial Querying for Image Retrieval: A User-Oriented Evaluation. | Joemon M. Jose, Jonathan Furner, David J. Harper |
| 1998 | SIGIR | The WebCluster Project: Using Clustering for Mediating Access to the World Wide Web. | Mourad Mechkour, David J. Harper, Gheorghe Muresan |
| 1997 | DEXA | A Retrieval Mechanism for Semi-Structured Photographic Collections. | Joemon M. Jose, David J. Harper |
| 1996 | SIGIR | An Architecture for Implementing Extensible Information-Seeking Environments. | David G. Hendry, David J. Harper |
| 1993 | CoopIS | Detecting Semantic Violations in Generalised Classification Structures. | Stephen Blott, Moira C. Norrie, David J. Harper, Andrew D. M. Walker |
| 1993 | ICCI | An Object-Oriented Data Model Specification. | Daniel Kim Chung Chan, David J. Harper, Philip W. Trinder |