| 2026 | CHI | Strengthening the CHIIR Community: Bridging Interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026. | Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A. Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas |
| 2026 | SIGIR | An Eye Tracking Study: Are AI Overviews Changing Search Behavior? | Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R. Trippas |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval. | Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White |
| 2025 | ICTIR | Demographically-Inspired Query Variants Using an LLM. | Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson |
| 2025 | ICTIR | Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI. | Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, Guido Zuccon |
| 2025 | WWW | SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval. | Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas |
| 2025 | SIGIR | LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR. | Clemencia Siro, Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2025 | SIGIR | System Comparison Using Automated Generation of Relevance Judgements in Multiple Languages. | Paul Thomas, Douglas W. Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield |
| 2025 | WSDM | LLM4Eval@WSDM 2025: Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval. | Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2024 | CHIIR | Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing. | Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2024 | FIE | Assessing Climate Literacy in Engineering Undergraduate Students Through Simulation-Based Learning. | Tugba Karabiyik, Aparajita Jaiswal, Paul Thomas |
| 2024 | SIGIR | What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation. | Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell, Seth Spielman |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Large Language Models can Accurately Predict Searcher Preferences. | Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra |
| 2024 | SIGIR | LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR. | Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2023 | CHIIR | Taking Search to Task. | Chirag Shah, Ryen White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas J. Belkin |
| 2023 | FIE | Characterizing Intercultural Competence among Cybersecurity Majors. | Aparajita Jaiswal, Paul Thomas, Tugba Karabiyik |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Can Generative LLMs Create Query Variants for Test Collections? An Exploratory Study. | Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2022 | CHIIR | The Crowd is Made of People: Observations from Large-Scale Crowd Labelling. | Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen White, Nick Craswell |
| 2022 | CHIIR | Third Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2022). | Toine Bogers, Maria Gde, Mark Michael Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras, Paul Thomas |
| 2022 | CHIIR | Search Interfaces for Biomedical Searching: How do Gaze, User Perception, Search Behaviour and Search Performance Relate? | Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko |
| 2022 | FIE | Operationalizing team commitment in a project-based learning environment. | Aparajita Jaiswal, Tugba Karabiyik, Paul Thomas, Alejandra J. Magana |
| 2022 | SIGIR | A Flexible Framework for Offline Effectiveness Metrics. | Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi |
| 2021 | CHIIR | User Models, Metrics and Measures of Search: A Tutorial on the C/W/L Evaluation Framework. | Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon |
| 2021 | CIKM | Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, Shuo Zhang |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Do Affective Cues Validate Behavioural Metrics for Search? | Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Kael Rowan, Mary Czerwinski |
| 2020 | CHIIR | Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages. | Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell |
| 2020 | CHIIR | Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20): Full-day Workshop at CHIIR 2020. | Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Damiano Spina, Hideo Joho |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent. | Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell |
| 2019 | CHIIR | Data Sets for Spoken Conversational Search. | Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Building Economic Models and Measures of Search. | Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon |
| 2019 | SIGIR | cwl_eval: An Evaluation Tool for Information Retrieval. | Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat |
| 2019 | SIGIR | The Emotion Profile of Web Search. | Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell |
| 2018 | ADCS | Better Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings. | Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Style and Alignment in Information-Seeking Conversation. | Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Measuring the Utility of Search Engine Result Pages: An Information Foraging Based Measure. | Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell |
| 2017 | ADCS | Tasks, Queries, and Rankers in Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction. | Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat |
| 2017 | CHIIR | What Snippet Size is Needed in Mobile Web Search? | Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon |
| 2017 | ICMI | Multimodal analysis of vocal collaborative search: a public corpus and results. | Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Retrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations. | Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2016 | ADCS | Query-Biased Summaries for Tabular Data. | Vincent Au, Paul Thomas, Gaya K. Jayasinghe |
| 2016 | CHIIR | System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016). | Heather L. O'Brien, Nicola Ferro, Hideo Joho, Dirk Lewandowski, Paul Thomas, Keith van Rijsbergen |
| 2016 | CHIIR | Measuring Engagement with Online Forms. | Paul Thomas, Heather O'Brien, Tom Rowlands |
| 2016 | CIKM | Pagination versus Scrolling in Mobile Web Search. | Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon |
| 2016 | GLOBECOM | Smart Attacks on the Integrity of the Internet of Things: Avoiding Detection by Employing Game Theory. | George Margelis, Robert J. Piechocki, Theo Tryfonas, Paul Thomas |
| 2016 | VTC | The Potential of Offloading and Spectrum Sharing for 5G Vehicular Infotainment. | John Harris, Mark A. Beach, Andrew R. Nix, Paul Thomas |
| 2016 | WCNC | Spectrum sharing for M2M applications through Whitetime exploitation in WiFi networks. | John Harris, Mark A. Beach, Andrew R. Nix, Paul Thomas |
| 2016 | SIGIR | UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability. | Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2015 | ADCS | INST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation. | Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2015 | ADCS | Towards Searching Amongst Tables. | Paul Thomas, Rollin M. Omari, Tom Rowlands |
| 2015 | ADCS | Text segmentation and Chinese site search. | Liyuan Zhou, David Hawking, Paul Thomas |
| 2015 | CIKM | Pooled Evaluation Over Query Variations: Users are as Diverse as Systems. | Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey |
| 2015 | SIGIR | User Variability and IR System Evaluation. | Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Features of Disagreement Between Retrieval Effectiveness Measures. | Timothy Jones, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson |
| 2015 | UIC | Priority SDN Controlled Integrated Wireless and Powerline Wired for Smart-Home Internet of Things. | Andrew Mckeown, Habib Rashvand, Tony Wilcox, Paul Thomas |
| 2014 | ADCS | Assessing the Cognitive Complexity of Information Needs. | Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Compositional data analysis (CoDA) approaches to distance in information retrieval. | Paul Thomas, David Lovell |
| 2013 | ADCS | Merging algorithms for enterprise search. | PengFei (Vincent) Li, Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2013 | ADCS | Choices in batch information retrieval evaluation. | Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas |
| 2013 | CIKM | Users versus models: what observation tells us about effectiveness metrics. | Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer |
| 2013 | DICTA | Automated Classification of Bone and Air Volumes for Hybrid PET-MRI Brain Imaging. | Sze Liang Stanley Chan, Rosalind L. Jeffree, Michael Fay, Stuart Crozier, Zhengyi Yang, Yaniv Gal, Paul Thomas |
| 2012 | ADCS | Comparing scanning behaviour in web search on small and large screens. | Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon |
| 2012 | ADCS | Models and metrics: IR evaluation as a user process. | Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas |
| 2012 | ADCS | Explaining difficulty navigating a website using page view data. | Paul Thomas |
| 2012 | ICWSM | Differences in Language and Style Between Two Social Media Communities. | Ccile Paris, Paul Thomas, Stephen Wan |
| 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 | DICTA | Automatic Brain Tumour Segmentation in 18F-FDOPA PET Using PET/MRI Fusion. | Amir Fazlollahi, Nicholas D. H. Dowson, Fabrice Mriaudeau, Stephen E. Rose, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Zeike A. Taylor, Yaniv Gal, Alan Coulthard, Craig D. Winter, David MacFarlane, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, Pierrick Bourgeat |
| 2011 | SIGIR | What deliberately degrading search quality tells us about discount functions. | Paul Thomas, Timothy Jones, David Hawking |
| 2010 | ECIR | Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search. | Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi |
| 2010 | MICCAI | Joint Factor and Kinetic Analysis of Dynamic FDOPA PET Scans of Brain Cancer Patients. | Nicholas D. H. Dowson, Pierrick Bourgeat, Stephen E. Rose, Mark R. C. Daglish, Jye Smith, Michael Fay, Alan Coulthard, Craig D. Winter, David MacFarlane, Paul Thomas |
| 2009 | FUSION | Information Fusion based decision support via Hidden Markov Models and time series anomaly detection. | Jonathan Edward Barker, Richard John Green, Paul Thomas, Gavin Brown, David Salmond |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Effective query expansion for federated search. | Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas |
| 2009 | SIGIR | SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection. | Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter. | Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes. | Paul Thomas |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Evaluating sampling methods for uncooperative collections. | Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Estimating the value of automatic disambiguation. | Paul Thomas, Tom Rowlands |
| 2006 | CIKM | Evaluation by comparing result sets in context. | Paul Thomas, David Hawking |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Server selection methods in hybrid portal search. | David Hawking, Paul Thomas |
| 2002 | PDPTA | Cost-effective High-performance Disk Access on PC Clusters With Commodity IDE Disks. | Jens Mache, Joshua Bower-Cooley, Jason Guchereau, Paul Thomas, Matthew Wilkinson |