Rodger Benham

Engineer at Easygo

PhD Thesis: Inferential Risk Measures In Information Retrieval

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Publications

2021
2020
2019
2018
2017

Bayesian System Inference On Shallow Pools
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Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared at 43rd European Conference On Information Retrieval.

Short Paper

Different Keystrokes for Different Folks: Visualizing Crowdworker Querying Behavior
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Rodger Benham, Joel Mackenzie, J. Shane Culpepper, and Alistair Moffat

Appeared at 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.

Demonstration Paper

RMITB at TREC COVID 2020
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Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in TREC COVID bibliography.

Workshop Paper

CC-News-En: A Large English News Corpus
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Joel Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Matthias Petri, Johanne R. Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, and Alistair Moffat

Appeared in 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

Long Paper Resources Track

Bayesian Inferential Risk Evaluation On Multiple IR Systems
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Rodger Benham, Ben Carterette, J. Shane Culpepper, and Alistair Moffat

Appeared in 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Long Paper Flagship Conference

Taking Risks with Confidence
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Rodger Benham, Ben Carterette, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium.

Short Paper Best Paper Award CIDDA Runner-Up Best Poster Presentation

On The Pluses and Minuses of Risk
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Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference.

Long Paper

Boosting Search Performance Using Query Variations
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Rodger Benham, Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in Transactions on Information Systems Journal, Volume 37, Issue 4.

Journal Paper Flagship Journal

Evaluating Risk-Sensitive Text Retrieval
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Rodger Benham

Appeared in 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Doctoral Consortium Abstract Flagship Conference

RMIT at the 2018 TREC CORE Track
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Rodger Benham, Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Binsheng Liu, Xiaolu Lu, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in the 27th Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2018).

Workshop Paper 2nd Place

Topic-Specific Off-line Web Search
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Rodger Benham

Appeared in 1st Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems

Abstract Paper

Towards Efficient and Effective Query Variant Generation
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Rodger Benham, J. Shane Culpepper, Luke Gallagher, Xiaolu Lu, Joel Mackenzie

Appeared in 1st Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems

Long Paper Equal Contribution

Improving Recall In Text Retrieval Using Rank Fusion
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Rodger Benham

RMIT Honours Thesis supervised by J. Shane Culpepper.

Thesis

Risk-Reward Trade-offs in Rank Fusion
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Rodger Benham and J. Shane Culpepper.

Appeared in 22nd Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Full Paper Over 10 Citations

RMIT at the NTCIR-13 We Want Web Task
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Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in 13th NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research.

Workshop Paper Over 10 Citations

RMIT at the 2017 TREC CORE Track
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Rodger Benham, Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Tadele T. Damessie, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, and J. Shane Culpepper

Appeared in the 26th Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2017).

Workshop Paper

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