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Song, Dawei; Shi, Yanjie; Zhang, Peng; Hou, Yuexian; Hu, Bin; Jia, Yuan; Huang, Qiang; Kruschwitz, Udo; De Roeck, Anne and Bruza, Peter (2013). Optimization of an integrated model for automatic reduction and expansion of long queries. In: Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, 9-11 Dec 2013, Singapore.

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Pan, Dazhao; Zhang, Peng; Li, Jingfei; Song, Dawei; Wen, Jirong; Hou, Yuexian; Hu, Bin; Jia, Yuan and De Roeck, Anne (2013). Using Dempster-Shafer’s evidence theory for query expansion based on freebase knowledge. In: Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, 9-11 Dec 2013, Singapore.

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Morse, David; Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and King, David (2013). ComTax: community-driven curation for taxonomic databases. In: TDWG 2013, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, Florence, Italy.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; Morse, David and De Roeck, Anne (2013). Literature-driven Curation for Taxonomic Name Databases. In: The Second Semantic Web and Information Extraction Workshop (SWAIE'13), 12 Sep 2013, Hissa, Bulgaria.

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Morse, David; De Roeck, Anne; Willis, Alistair and Yang, Hui (2013). Curation tools for taxonomic databases. In: BioCuration 2013, Su ay 7 Apr to Wednesday 10 April 2013, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.

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Adeyanju, Ibrahim; Song, Dawei; Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; De Roeck, Anne and Fasli, Maria (2012). Adaptation of the concept hierarchy model with search logs for query recommendation on intranets. In: 35th Annual SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2012), 12-16 Aug 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 5–14.

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Clark, Malcolm; Kim, Yunhyong; Kruschwitz, Udo; Song, Dawei; Albakour, M-Dyaa; Dignum, Stephen; Cerviño Beresi, Ulises; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2012). Automatically structuring domain knowledge from text: a review of current research. Information Processing and Management, 48(3) pp. 552–568.

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Willis, Alistair; Yang, Hui and De Roeck, Anne (2012). A generalised hybrid architecture for NLP. In: Workshop on Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data, 23 Apr 2012, Avignon, France, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 97–105.

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Adeyanju, Ibrhim; Song, Dawei; Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; De Roeck, Anne and Fasli, Maria (2012). Learning from users' querying experience on intranets. In: WWW 2012 21st International World Wide Web Conference, 16-20 Apr 2012, Lyon, France.

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Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; Nanas, Nikolaos; Adeyanju, Ibrahim; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2012). Analysis of query reformulations in a search engine of a local web site. In: ECIR 2012, 1-5 Apr 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and (2012). A hybrid model for automatic emotion recognition in suicide notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights, 5(Supp 1) pp. 17–30.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2012). Speculative requirements: automatic detection of uncertainty in natural language requirements. In: The 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 24-28 Sep 2012, Chicago, ILL, USA, IEEE, pp. 11–20.

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Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2011). Enriching query flow graphs with click information. In: The 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), 18-20 Dec 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2011). Analysing anaphoric ambiguity in natural language requirements. Requirements Engineering, 16(3) pp. 163–189.

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Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; Nanas, Nikolaos; Kim, Yunhyong; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2011). AutoEval: an evaluation methodology for evaluating query suggestions using query logs. In: 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2011), 19-21 Apr 2011, Dublin, Ireland, Springer-Verlag, pp. 605–610.

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Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; Nanas, Nikolaos; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2011). Exploring ant colony optimisation for adaptive interactive search. In: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, 12-14 Sep 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 213–224.

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Kruschwitz, Udo; Albakour, M-Dyaa; Niu, Jinzhong; Leveling, Johannes; Nanas, Nikolaos; Kim, Yunhyong; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2011). Moving towards adaptive search in digital libraries. In: Bernardi, Raffaella; Chambers, Sally; Gottfried, Björn; Segond, Frédérique and Zaihrayeu, Ilya eds. Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries: International Workshops on NLP4DL 2009, Viareggio, Italy, June 15, 2009 and AT4DL 2009, Trento, Italy, September 8, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6699). Berlin: Springer, pp. 41–60.

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Bin Saleem, Saad; Yu, Yijun; Nuseibeh, Bashar and De Roeck, Anne (2010). An Evaluation of the ReleasePlanner on the Treatment of Security and Evolving Requirements. Technical Report 2010/19; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; Vavalis, Manolis and De Roeck, Anne (2010). Words, antibodies and their interactions. Swarm Intelligence, 4(4) pp. 275–300.

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Dignum, Stephen; Kruschwitz, Udo; Fasli, Maria; Kim, Yunhyong; Song, Dawei; Cerviño Beresi, Ulises and De Roeck, Anne (2010). Incorporating seasonality into search suggestions derived from intranet query logs. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2010), 31 Aug 31-3 Sep 2010, Toronto, Canada.

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Nanas, N.; Vavalis, M. and De Roeck, A. (2010). A network-based model for high-dimensional information filtering. In: The 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 19-23 Jul 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 202–209.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Kruschwitz, Udo; Albakour, M-Dyaa; Fasli, Maria; Song, Dawei; Kim, Yunhyong; Cerviño, Ulises and De Roeck, Anne (2010). A methodology for simulated experiments in interactive search. In: ACM SIGIR2010 Workshop on Simulation of Interaction (SemInt), 19-23 Jul 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). A methodology for automatic identification of nocuous ambiguity. In: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010), 23-27 Aug 2010, Beijing, China, pp. 1218–1226.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). Automatic detection of nocuous coordination ambiguities in natural language requirements. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering, ACM, pp. 53–62.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). Extending Nocuous Ambiguity Analysis for Anaphora in Natural Language Requirements. In: 18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'10), 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2010, Sydney, Australia, pp. 25–34.

Gacitua, R.; Ma, L.; Nuseibeh, B.; Piwek, P.; De Roeck, A.; Rouncefield, M.; Sawyer, P.; Willis, A. and Yang, H. (2009). Making tacit requirements explicit. In: Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09), 1 Sep 2009, Altanta, USA.

Nanas, Nikolaos; De Roeck, Anne and Vavalis, Manolis (2009). What happened to content-based information filtering? In: ed. Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5766. Berlin: Springer, pp. 249–256.

Ma, Lin; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Piwek, Paul; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2009). On presuppositions in requirements. In: 2009 Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK'09), 1 Sep 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Dignum, Stephen; Kim, Yunhyong; Kruschwitz, Udo; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Using domain models for context-rich user logging. In: Workshop on Understanding the User Logging and Interpreting User Interactions in Information Search and Retrieval (UIIR-2009), 24 Jul 2009, Boston, USA.

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Nanas, Nikolaos and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Autopoiesis, the immune system, and adaptive information filtering. Natural Computing, 8(2) pp. 387–427.

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Nanas, Nikolaos and De Roeck, Anne (2009). A review of evolutionary and immune-inspired information filtering. Natural Computing, 9(3) pp. 545–573.

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Haley, Debra; Thomas, Pete; Petre, Marian and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Human fallibility: How well do human markers agree? In: The Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2009), 20-23 Jan 2009, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Overcoming schema heterogeneity between linked semantic repositories to improve coreference resolution. In: The Semantic Web, Springer.

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De Roeck, Anne; Song, Dawei; Kruschwitz, Udo and Azzopardi, Leif eds. (2009). Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. London: Learned Publishing.

Dignum, Stephen; Kim, Yunhyong; Kruschwitz, Udo; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Moving towards adaptive search. In: Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, 8 Sep 2009, Trento, Italy.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 Apr 2009, Madrid, Spain.

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Willis, Alistair; Chantree, Francis and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Automatic identification of nocuous ambiguity. Research on Language and Computation, 6(3-4) pp. 355–374.

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Haley, Debra Trusso; Thomas, Pete; Petre, Marian and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Using a New Inter-rater Reliability Statistic. Technical Report 2008/15; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Haley, Debra Trusso; Thomas, Pete; Petre, Marian and De Roeck, Anne (2008). EMMA - a Computer Assisted Assessment System based on Latent Semantic Analysis. Technical Report 2008/14; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies. In: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I. URSW 2006, URSW 2007, URSW 2005 (da Costa, P. C. G.; d’Amato, Claudia; Fanizzi, Nicola; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Laskey, Kenneth J.; Lukasiewicz, Thomas; Nickles, Matthias and Michael, Pool eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, UK, pp. 143–160.

Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation. In: The Semantic Web: proceedings the of 3rd Asian SemanticWeb Conference, ASWC 2008, Springer, pp. 405–419.

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Nanas, Nikolaos and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Corpus profiling with Nootropia. In: BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling, 18 Oct 2008, London.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture. In: 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) - at ESWC-08, 1 Jun 2008, Tenerife, Spain.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture. In: Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns (Gangemi, Aldo and Euzenat, Jérôme eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 265–274.

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De Roeck, Anne; Song, Dawei; Kruschwitz, Udo and Azzopardi, Leif (2008). Workshop on corpus profiling in information retrieval and natural language processing. In: Corpus Profiling in Information Retrieval & Natural Processing, 18 Oct 2008, BCS Office, London.

Haley, Debra; Thomas, Pete; De Roeck, Anne and Petre, Marian (2007). Seeing the whole picture: evaluating automated assessment systems. Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 6(4) pp. 203–224.

Haley, Debra Trusso; Thomas, Pete; Petre, Marian and De Roeck, Anne (2007). Seeing the Whole Picture: Comparing Computer Assisted Assessment Systems using LSA-based Systems as an Example. Technical Report 2007/07; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Burek, Gaston; Pietsch, Christian and De Roeck, Anne (2007). SVO triple based latent semantic analysis for recognising textual entailment. In: Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, RTE '07, Association for Computational Linguistics, USA, pp. 113–118.

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Nanas, Nikolaos and De Roeck, Anne (2007). Multimodal dynamic optimization: From evolutionary algorithms to artificial immune systems. In: NunesDeCastro, L.; VonZuben, F. J. and Knidel, H. eds. Artificial Immune Systems, Volume 4628. Berlin: Springer, pp. 13–24.

Chantree, Francis; Willis, Alistair; Kilgarriff, Adam and De Roeck, Anne (2007). Detecting dangerous coordination ambiguities using word distribution. In: Nicolov, Nicolas; Bontcheva, Kalina; Anjelova, Galia and Mitkov, Ruslan eds. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4 (292). John Benjamins Publishers, pp. 287–296.

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De Roeck, Anne; Sarkar, Avik and Garthwaite, Paul (2007). Even very frequent function words do not distribute homogeneously. In: Nicolov, Nicolas; Bontcheva, Kalina; Angelova, Galia and Mitkov, Ruslan eds. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (292). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 267–276.

Haley, Debra; Thomas, Pete; De Roeck, Anne and Petre, Marian (2007). Measuring improvement in latent semantic analysis-based marking systems: using a computer to mark questions about HTML. In: ACM 9th International Australasian Computing Education Conference, 30 Jan - 02 Feb 2007, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

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De Roeck, Anne (2007). The role of data in NLP: the case for dataset profiling. In: Nicolov, Nicolas; Mitkov, Ruslan and Angelova, Galia eds. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV. Current issues in linguistic theory (292). Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Company, pp. 259–266.

Nanas, Nikolaos; De Roeck, Anne and Uren, Victoria (2006). Immune-inspired adaptive information filtering. In: Artificial immune systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin/Heidelburg, Germany, pp. 418–431.

Chantree, Francis; Nuseibeh, Bashar; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2006). Identifying nocuous ambiguities in natural language requirements. In: 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), IEEE, pp. 56–65.

Burek, Gaston; De Roeck, Anne and Zdrahal, Zdenek (2005). Hybrid mappings of complex questions over an integrated semantic space. In: 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 22-26 Aug, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 557–561.

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Sarkar, Avik; De Roeck, Anne and Garthwaite, Paul (2005). Team re-occurrence measures for analyzing style. In: Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Stylistic Analysis of Text for Information Access. (Argamon, S.; Karlgren, J. and Shanahan, J.G. eds.), ACM Press, pp. 28–36.

Sarkar, Avik; Garthwaite, Paul and De Roeck, Anne (2005). A Bayesian mixture model for term re-occurrence and burstiness. In: Ninth Conference on Computational Language Learning (CoNLL), 29-30 Jun 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, pp. 48–55.

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Haley, Debra Trusso; Thomas, Pete; De Roeck, Anne and Petre, Marian (2005). A Research Taxonomy for Latent Semantic Analysis-Based Educational Applications. Technical Report 2005/09; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, Francis; Nuseibeh, Bashar; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2005). Nocuous Ambiguities in Requirements Specifications. Technical Report 2005/03; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, Francis; Kilgarriff, Adam; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2005). Using a Distributional Thesaurus to Resolve Coordination Ambiguities. Technical Report 2005/02; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, F.; Kilgarriff, A.; De Roeck, A. and Willis, A. (2005). Disambiguating coordinations using word distribution information. In: Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - 2005, 21-23 Sep 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria and De Roeck, Anne (2004). A Comparative Evaluation of Term Weighting Methods for Information Filtering. In: Galindo, Fernando; Takizawa, Makoto and Traunmüller, Roland eds. Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 13–17.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria and De Roeck, Anne (2004). Nootropia: a user profiling model based on a self-organising term network. In: Artificial Immune Systems: Third International conference. ICARIS 2004, 13-16 Sep 2004, Catania, Italy.

Goweder, Abduelbaset; Poesio, Massimo; De Roeck, Anne and Reynolds, Jeff (2004). Identifying broken plurals in unvowelized Arabic text. In: 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2004), 24-25 Jul 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

De Roeck, Anne; Sarkar, Avik and Garthwaite, Paul H. (2004). Defeating the homogeneity assumption. In: Seventh International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT) (Purnelle, G.; Fairo, C and Dister, A eds.), UCL Presses Universitaries, Louvain, pp. 282–294.

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De Roeck, Anne; Sarkar, Avik and Garthwaite, Paul (2004). Frequent Term Distribution Measures for Dataset Profiling. Technical Report 2004/06; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Sarkar, A.; De Roeck, A. and Garthwaite, P. (2004). Easy measures for evaluating non-English corpora for language engineering. Some lessons from Arabic and Bengali. Technical Report 2004/05; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2004). Multi-topic information filtering with a single user profile. In: Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Vouros, George A. and Panayiotopoulos, Themistoklis eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 400–409.

De Roeck, Anne; Sarkar, Avik and Garthwaite, Paul H. (2004). Frequent term distribution measures for dataset profiling. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (Lino, M. T.; Xavier, M. F.; Ferreira, F.; Costa, R. and Silva, R. eds.), ELRA, Paris, pp. 1647–1650.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2004). Beyond TREC's filtering track. In: In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC04), Springer, pp. 1651–1654.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2003). Building and applying a Concept Hierarchy Representation of a user profile. In: 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval., 28 Jul - 1 Aug 2003, Toronto, Canada.