Andrew Trotman

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Andrew Trotman
Department of Computer Science
Universityof Otago, PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

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Information Retrieval Papers
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Other IR Work From Otago
Active Involvement
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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PAPERS
Published
2011

•ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2011: Secretary's Notes
A. Trotman (2011)
SIGIR Forum 45(2):2-7
[Full Text]

• Automated Cross-lingual Link Discovery in Wikipedia
L.-X. Tang, D. Cavanagh1, A. Trotman, S. Geva, Y. Xu, L. Sitbon (2011)
Proceedings of the NTCIR-9
[Full Text]

• Overview of the NTCIR-9 Crosslink Task: Cross-lingual Link Discovery
L.-X. Tang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu, K.Y. Itakura (2011)
Proceedings of the NTCIR-9
[Full Text]

• Fast Search Engine Vocabulary Lookup
X.-F. Jia, A. Trotman, J. Holdsworth (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
[Full Text]

• Mobile Applications of Focused Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, K.Y. Itakura (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
[Full Text]

• Efficient sorting of search results by string attributes
N. Sherlock, A. Trotman (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
[Full Text]

• Click Log Based Evaluation of Link Discovery
D. Alexander, A. Trotman,A Knot (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
[Full Text]

• The Effectiveness of Cross-lingual Link Discovery
L.-X. Tang, K.Y. Itakura, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu (2011)
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2011)
[Full Text]

• Using Mobile Phones to Improve Offline Access to Online Information: Distributed Content Delivery
J. Zhang, S. Geva, A. Trotman (2011)
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Mobile IT Convergence (ICMIC2011)
[Full Text]

• Ad Hoc IR - Not Much Room for Improvement
A. Trotman, D. Keeler (2011)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2011, pp. 1095-1096
[Full Text]

• Report on INEX 2010
D. Alexander, P.Arvola, T. Beckers, P. Bellot, T. Chappell, C.M. DeVries, A. Doucet, N. Fuhr, S. Geva, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, A.Tagarelli, X.Tannier, J.A. Thom, A.Trotman, J.Vainio, Q.Wang, C.Wu (2011)
SIGIR Forum 45(1):2-17
[Full Text]

• Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia
K.Y. Itakura, C.L.A. Clarke, S. Geva, A. Trotman, W.C. Huang (2011)
Proceedings of ECIR 2011, pp. 460-465
[Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2010 Ad Hoc Track
P. Arvola S. Geva, J.Kamps, R. Schenkel, A. Trotman, J. Vainio (2010)
Proceedings of INEX 2010
[Full Text]

• University of Otago at INEX 2010
X.-F. Jia, D. Alexander, V. Wood, A. Trotman (2010)
Proceedings of INEX 2010
[Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2010 Link the Wiki Track
A. Trotman, D. Alexander, S. Geva (2010)
Proceedings of INEX 2010
[Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2010 Data Centric Track
A. Trotman, Q. Wang (2010)
Proceedings of INEX 2010
[Full Text]

• ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2010: Secretary's Notes
A. Trotman (2010)
SIGIR Forum 44(2):2-7
[Full Text]

• Extricating Meaning from Wikimedia Article Archives
B. Curry, A. Trotman, M. Albert (2010)
Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2010)
[Full Text]

• Efficient Accumulator Initialisation
X.-F. Jia, A. Trotman, R. O'Keefe (2010)
Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2010)
[Full Text]

• A Boundary-Oriented Chinese Segmentation Method Using N-Gram Mutual Information
L.-X. Tang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu (2010)
CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010)
[Full Text]

• Preserving our IT Heritage: Computers Designed & Assembled in NZ (Preserving our Heritage NZ-made Computers)
B. Doran, A. Trotman (2010)
New Zealand Computer Society Conference: Celebrating 50 Years of ICT Innovation
[Presentation]

• Report on INEX 2009
T. Beckers, P. Bellot, G. Demartini, L. Denoyer, C.M. De Vries, A. Doucet, K.N. Fachry, N. Fuhr, P. Gallinari, S. Geva, W.C. Huang, T. Iofciu, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, M. Lehtonen, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, X. Tannier, M. Theobald, J.A. Thom, A. Trotman, A.P. de Vries (2010)
SIGIR Forum 44(1):38-56
[Full Text]

• A Voting Mechanism for Named Entity Translation in English-Chinese Question Answering
L.-X. Tang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu (2010)
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access at COLING 2010, pp. 43-51
[Full Text]

• Current research in focused retrieval and result aggregation
A. Trotman, S. Geva, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, V. Murdock (2010)
Information Retrieval 13(5):407-411
[Full Text]

• Wikipedia and Web document based Query Translation and Expansion for Cross-language IR
L.-X. Tang, A. Trotman, S. Geva, Y. Xu (2010)
Proceedings of NTCIR 8
[Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track
S. Geva, J. Kamps, M. Lethonen, R Schenkel, J.A. Thom, A. Trotman (2009)
Proceedings of INEX 2009, pp. 4-25
[Full Text]

• Analysis of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track Results
J. Kamps, S. Geva, A. Trotman. (2009)
Proceedings of INEX 2009, pp. 26-48
[Full Text]

• Overview of INEX 2009 Link the Wiki Track
W.C. Huang, S. Geva, A. Trotman (2009)
Proceedings of INEX 2009, pp. 312-323
[Full Text]

• Link Discovery in the Wikipedia
S. Geva, A. Trotman, L.-X. Tang (2009)
Pre-Proceedings of INEX 2009
[Full Text]

• Fast and Effective Focused Retrieval
A. Trotman, X.-F. Jia, S. Geva (2009)
Proceedings of INEX 2009, pp. 229-241
[Full Text]

• University Student Use of the Wikipedia
A. Trotman, D. Alexander (2009)
Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pp.59-66
[Full Text]

• Id - Dynamic Views on Static and Dynamic Disassembly Listings
N. Sherlock, A. Trotman (2009)
Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pp. 19-26
[Full Text]

• The Methodology of Manual Assessment in the Evaluation of Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2009)
Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pp. 110-114
[Full Text]

• Word Segmentation for Chinese Wikipedia Using N-Gram Mutual Information
L.-X. Tang, S. Geva, Y. Xu, A. Trotman (2009)
Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pp.82-89
[Full Text]

• Report on INEX 2008
G. Demartini, L. Denoyer, A. Doucet, K.N. Fachry, P. Gallinari, S. Geva,
W.C. Huang, T. Iofciu, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, M. Landoni, R. Nordlie,
N. Pharo, R. Schenkel, M. Theobald, A. Trotman, A.P. de Vries, A. Woodley, J. Zhu (2009)
SIGIR Forum 43(1):22-28
[Full Text]

• A Virtual Evaluation Forum for Cross Language Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2009)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation
[Full Text]

• A Virtual Evaluation Track for Cross Language Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2009)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World
[Full Text]

• Visualizing the Problems with the INEX Topics
A. Trotman, M. del Rocio Gomez Crisostomo, M. Lalmas (2009)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, pp. 826-826
[Full Text]

• The Importance of Manual Assessment in Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2009)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, pp.698-699
[Full Text]

• Comparative Analysis of Clicks and Judgments for IR Evaluation
J. Kamps, M. Koolen, A. Trotman (2009)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Search Click Data 2009 (WSCD 2009), pp. 80-87
[Full Text]

• Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI)
A. Trotman (2009)
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Editors-in-chief:Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling , Springer, 2009. (print and online)
[Full Text]

• Processing Structural Constraints
A. Trotman (2009)
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Editors-in-chief:Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling , Springer, 2009. (print and online)
[Full Text]

• XML Retrieval
M. Lalmas, A. Trotman (2009)
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Editors-in-chief:Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling , Springer, 2009. (print and online)
[Full Text]

• Overview of INEX 2008 Link the Wiki Track
W.C. Huang, S. Geva, A. Trotman (2008)
Proceedings of INEX 2008, 314-325
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2008 Ad Hoc Track
J. Kamps, S. Geva, A. Trotman, A. Woodley, M. Koolen (2008)
Proceedings of INEX 2008, pp. 1-28
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Wikisearching and Wikilinking
D. Jenkinson, K.-C. Leung, A. Trotman (2008)
Proceedings of INEX 2008, pp. 374-388
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Sound and Complete Relevance Assessment for XML Retrieval
B. Piwowarski, A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2008)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(1):1:1-1:37
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Report on the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
J. Kamps, S. Geva, A. Trotman (2008)
SIGIR Forum 42(2):59-65
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Application-specific Disk I/O Optimisation for a Search Engine
X.-F. Jia, A. Trotman, R.A. O'Keefe, Z. Huang (2008)
Proceedings of the 3^rd (2008) New Zealand Workshop in High Performance and Grid Computing, pp. 399-404
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Experiments and Evaluation of Link Discovery in the Wikipedia
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2008)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Efficient Information Seeking on a Mobile Device
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2008)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR'08)
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Report on The SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
A. Trotman, S. Geva, J. Kamps (2007)
SIGIR Forum 41(2):97-103
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Overview of INEX 2007 Link the Wiki Track
W.C. Huang, Y. Xu, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2007)
Proceedings of INEX 2007, pp. 373-387
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Overview of the INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track
N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, S. Malik, A. Trotman (2007)
Proceedings of INEX 2007, pp. 1-23
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Wikipedia Ad hoc Passage Retrieval and Wikipedia Document Linking
D. Jenkinson, A. Trotman (2007)
Proceedings of INEX 2007, pp. 426-439
[Abstract, Full Text]

• IR Evaluation Using Multiple Assessors per Topic
A. Trotman, D. Jenkinson (2007)
Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, pp. 9-16
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Users' perspectives on the Usefulness of Structure for XML Information Retrieval
G. Kazai, A. Trotman (2007)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, pp. 247-260
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Sigma Encoded Inverted Files
A. Trotman, V. Subramanya (2007)
Proceedings of CIKM 2007 pp. 983-986
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Can we at least agree on something?
A. Trotman, N. Pharo, D. Jenkinson (2007)
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval pp. 49-56
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Collaborative Knowledge Management: Evaluation of Automated Link Discovery in the Wikipedia
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva (2007)
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval pp. 9-16
[Abstract, Full Text]

• The Use Case Track at INEX 2006
N. Pharo, A. Trotman (2007)
SIGIR Forum 41(1):64-66
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Overview of INEX 2006
S. Malik, A. Trotman, M. Lalmas, N. Fuhr (2006)
In INEX 2006 Workshop Proceedings pp. 1-11
[Abstract, Full Text]

• XML-IR Users and Use Cases
A. Trotman, N.Pharo, M. Lehtonen (2006)
In INEX 2006 Workshop Proceedings pp. 400-412
[Abstract, Full Text]

• A Taxonomy for XML Retrieval Use Cases
M. Lehtonen, N. Pharo, and A. Trotman (2006)
In INEX 2006 Workshop Proceedings pp. 413-422
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Inter-assessor agreement at INEX 06
N. Pharo, A. Trotman, S. Geva, B. Piwowarski (2006)
In INEX 2006 Workshop pre-Proceedings pp.273
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Report on the SIGIR 2006 Workshop on XML Element Retrieval Methodology
A. Trotman, S. Geva (2006)
SIGIR Forum 40(2):42-48
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Element Retrieval Using a Passage Retrieval Approach
W. Huang, A. Trotman, R.A. O'Keefe (2006)
Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems (AJIIPS), 9(2):80-83
Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2006) pp.80-83
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Passage Retrieval and Other XML-Retrieval Tasks
A. Trotman, S. Geva (2006)
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006 Workshop on XML Element Retrieval Methodology pp. 43-50
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Why Structural Hints in Queries do not Help XML-Retrieval
A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2006)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2006 pp. 711-712
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Strict and Vague Interpretation of XML-Retrieval Queries
A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2006)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2006 pp. 709-710
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Recommending Geocaches
A. Trotman, T. Jones, C. Handley (2005)
Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2005) pp. 76-83
[Abstract, Full Text]

• The Interpretation of CAS
A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2005)
In INEX 2005 Workshop Proceedings pp 58-71
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Report on the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology
A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2005)
SIGIR Forum 39(2):46-51
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Introduction to the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology
A. Trotman, M. Lalmas (2005)
Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology pp. 1-3
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Wanted: Element Retrieval Users
A. Trotman (2005)
Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology pp. 58-64
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Learning to Rank
A. Trotman (2005)
Information Retrieval 8(3):359-381
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Choosing Document Structure Weights
A. Trotman (2005)
Information Processing & Management 41(2):243-264
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Optimal Structure Weighted Retrieval
A. Trotman (2004)
Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2004), pp.17-24
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI)
A. Trotman and B. Sigurbjörnsson (2004)
In INEX 2004 Workshop Proceedings pp. 16-40
[Abstract, Full Text]

• NEXI, Now and Next
A. Trotman and B. Sigurbjörnsson (2004)
In INEX 2004 Workshop Proceedings pp. 41-53
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Searching Structured Documents
A. Trotman (2004)
Information Processing & Management 40(4):619-632
[Abstract, Full Text, ScienceDirect]

• An Artificial Intelligence Approach To Information Retrieval
A. Trotman (2004)
The First ACM SIGIR Doctorial Consortium
[Abstract, Full Text (never appeared)]

• Queries: INEX 2003 Working Group Report
B. Sigurbjörnsson and A. Trotman (2003)
In INEX 2003 Workshop Proceedings
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Queries: INEX 2003 Working Group Report
H. Flörke, N. Fuhr, K. Hatano, B. Sigurbjörnsson, A. Trotman, M. Watanabe (2003)
Preprint on INEX 2003 Website
[INEX'03-Preprint]

• Identifying and Ranking Relevant Document Elements
A. Trotman and R.A. O'Keefe (2003)
In INEX 2003 Workshop Proceedings
[Abstract, PreProceedings, Full Text]

• The Simplest Query Language That Could Possibly Work
R.A. O'Keefe and A. Trotman (2003)
In INEX 2003 Workshop Proceedings
[Abstract, PreProceedings, Full Text]

• Compressing Inverted Files
A. Trotman (2003)
Information Retrieval 6(1):5-19
[Abstract, Full Text]

• Towards Universal Linking for Electronic Journals
S. Hitchcock, F. Quek, L. Carr, W. Hall, A. Witbrock* and I. Tarr (1998)
*Published under the pseudonym A. Witbrock
Serials Review, 24(1):21-33.
[Abstract, Full Text, HTML]

• Linking Everything to Everything: Journal Publishing Myth or Reality?
S. Hitchcock, L. Carr, F. Quek, A. Witbrock*, I. Tarr, and W. Hall (1997)
*Published under the pseudonym A. Witbrock
Proceedings of ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing - New Models and Opportunities 1997.
[Abstract, Full Text, HTML]

OTHER PAPERS
Operating Systems

• Advantages and vulnerabilities of pull-based email-delivery
N. Chrobok, A. Trotman, R. O'Keefe (2010)
Australasian Information Security Conference 2010 (ACSW-AISC 2010)
[Full Text]

• Virtual Aggregated Processor in Multi-core Computers
Z. Huang, A. Trotman, J. Zhang, X.-F. Jia, M. Nowostawski, N. Rountree, P. Werstein (2008)
Programming Parallel Applications for Multi-cores (PPAM 2008)
[Full Text]

Programming Contest

• Programming Contest Strategy
A. Trotman and C. Handley (2008)
Computers & Education 50(3):821-837
[Full Text]

• The Cao En Surface: A New Approach to Freeform Geometric Models
G. Wyvill, E. Cao, and A. Trotman (1992)
Programmirovanie 4, pp. 4-16. In Russian.
Programming and Computer Software, 18(4):135-145. In English.
[English Scanned PDF, Russian Scanned PDF]

• Hierarchy, Labels and Motion Description
G. Wyvill, A. Witbrock, and A. Trotman (1992)
Creating and Animating the Virtual World. pp. 237-248.
[Scanned PDF]

• Exact Ray Tracing of CSG Models by Preserving Boundary Information
G. Wyvill and A. Trotman (1992)
Proceedings of Computer Graphics International 1992. pp. 411-428.
[Scanned PDF]

• Ray Tracing Soft Objects
G. Wyvill and A. Trotman (1990)
Proceedings of Computer Graphics International 1990. pp. 467-476
[Scanned PDF]

OTHER NOTABLE IR WORK FROM OTAGO

•Both Sides of the Digital Battle for a High Rank from a Search Engine
T. Jones (2005)
Association for Computing Machinery New Zealand Bulletin, 1(2)
[Full Text]

ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT
Appointments

•SIGIR, Secretary and Member of Executive Committee (2010-current)
•Information Retrieval, Member of journal Editorial Board (2010-current)
•Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Member of Steering Committee (2009-current)
•INEX, Member of Steering Committee (2008-current)

Conferences

•SIGIR 2014 General Chair (with Shlomo Geva)

•ADCS 2012 General Chair (17th Australasian Document Computing Symposium)
•SIGIR 2012 Area Chair (35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•CIKM 2012 Senior Program Committee in IR (21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
•I-KNOW 2012 PC Member (12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies)
•ECIR 2012 Workshop PC Member (34th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
•SWIRL 2012 Participant (Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne)

•SIGIR 2011 Area Chair (34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•CIKM 2011 Senior Program Committee in IR (20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
•I-KNOW 2011 PC Member (11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies)
•TIR 2011 Member of Program Committee (8th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval)
•ESSLLI 2011 Reviewer (23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information)
•ADCS 2011 Member of Program Committee (16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium)

•SIGIR 2010 PC Member (33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•CIKM 2010 Senior Program Committee in IR (19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
•IIiX 2010 Member of Program Committee (Information Interaction in Context Symposium)
•CLEF 2010 Member of Senior Program Committee (CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation)
•I-KNOW 2010 PC Member (10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies)
•TIR 2010 Member of Program Committee (7th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval)
•ESSLLI 2010 Reviewer (22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information)
•ADCS 2010 Program chair (with Falk Scholer) (15th Australasian Document Computing Symposium)

•ADCS 2009 Programme Chair (with Paul Thomas) (14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium)
•CIKM 2009 Member of Program Committee (18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
•WWW 2009 Program Committee for the XML and Web Data track (18th International World Wide Web Conference)
•SIGIR 2009 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair (with Doug Oard), PC Member (32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•AIRS 2009 Reviewer (2009 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium)
•PDCAT 2009 Member of Program Committee (9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies)
•TIR-09 Member of Program Committee (6th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval)

•CIKM 2008 Track Chair in IR (17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
•QA Web 2008 Member of Program Committee (First WWW Workshop on Question Answering on the Web)
•SIGIR 2008 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair (with Susan Dumais) (31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•ECIR 2008 Workshops/Tutorials Committee Member (30th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
•AIRS 2008 Reviewer (2008 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium)
•PDCAT 2008 Member of Program Committee (9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies)

•CODS 2007 / ICABS 2007 Reviewer (2007 SIWN International Conference on Complex Open Distributed Systems)
•SIGIR 2007 Member of Program Committee (30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)

•ADCS 2006 Member of Program Committee (The 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium)
•SIGIR 2006 Member of Program Committee (29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)
•SPIRE 2006 Member of Program Committee (13th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval)
•AAMAS 2006 Reviewer (5th International Joint Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems)

•ECIR 2005 Reviewer (27th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
•SIGIR 2005 Poster Reviewer (28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)

•SWIRL 2004 Participant (Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne)
•TDM 2004 Reviewer (1st Twente Data Management Workshop)
•SIGIR 2004 Workshop Reviewer (27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval)

•ASPGP 2003 Member of Review Committee (1st Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming)

•Fourth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2011) Member of Program Committee
•INEX 2010 Chair (with Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps)
•Third Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2010) Member of Program Committee
•SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation Chair (with Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, Carol Peters, Tetsuya Sakai, and Ellen Voorhees)
•INEX 2009 Chair (with Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps)
•SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval Chair (with Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps)
•INEX 2008 Chair (with Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps)
•SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval Chair (with Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps)
•INEX 2007 Project Leader (with Norbert Fuhr and Mounia Lalmas)
•SIGIR 2006 Workshop on XML Element Retrieval Methodology Chair (with Shlomo Geva)
•INEX 2006 Organizer - Use case studies (with Nils Pharo) Organizer - Topic Specification (with Birger Larsen)
•INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology Chair (with Mounia Lalmas and Norbert Fuhr)
•INEX 2005 Organizer - Topic Specification (with Börkur Sigurbjörnsson)
•INEX 2004 Organizer - Topic Specification (with Börkur Sigurbjörnsson)

Editorships

•S. Geva, J. Kamps, A. Trotman (2011) Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval Springer, LNCS (Vol 6932)
•F. Scholer, A. Trotman, A.Turpin (2010) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
•S. Geva, J. Kamps, A. Trotman (2010) Focused Retrieval and Evaluation Springer, LNCS (Vol 6203)
•J. Kay, P. Thomas, A. Trotman (2009) Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium Technical report TR 645, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
•S. Geva, J. Kamps, A. Trotman (2009) Advances in Focused Retrieval Springer, LNCS (Vol 5631)
•S. Geva, J. Kamps, C. Peters, T. Sakai, A. Trotman, E. Voorhees (2009) Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation
•A. Trotman, S. Geva, J. Kamps (2008) Proceedings of the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
•N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, A. Trotman (2008) Focused Access to XML Documents Springer, LNCS (Vol 4862)
•A. Trotman, S. Geva, J. Kamps (2007) Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
•N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, A. Trotman (2007) Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems Springer, LNCS (Vol 4518)
•A. Trotman, S. Geva (2006) Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology
•A. Trotman, M. Lalmas, N. Fuhr (2005) Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology

TEACHING
2012 Academic Year (Jan-Dec)

•COSC431 Information Retrieval
•COSC345 Software Engineering
•COSC243 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems