Publications

I am the author of three texts,

• Writing for Computer Science, second edition, Springer, 2004
• How To Write A Better Thesis, third edition, 2011 (order via Melbourne University Publishing within Australia, or via Springer elsewhere), with David Evans and Paul Gruba.
• How To Write a Better Minor Thesis, 2014, with Paul Gruba.

The following papers by Justin Zobel have appeared in a refereed journal or conference. To get a copy of a paper where the full text is not available through the web site, email me with the title you are interested in.

NOTE: I have not maintained this web page recently. The University of Melbourne's 'find an expert' listing is kept up-to-date.

Recent papers

• "Performance and robustness of penalized and unpenalized methods for genetic prediction of complex human disease", G. Abraham, A. Kowalczyk, J. Zobel, and M. Inouye, Genetic Epidemiology, 37(2):184-195, 2013.
• "Short Read Sequence Typing (SRST): multi-locus sequence types from short reads", K. Holt, M. Inouye, T. Conway, and J. Zobel, BMC Bioinformatics, volume 13, 2012.
• "Gossamer -- A resource-efficient de novo assembler", T. Conway, J. Wazny, A. Bromage, J. Zobel, and B. Beresford-Smith, Bioinformatics, 2012, 28(14):1937--8.
• "SparSNP: Fast and memory-efficient analysis of all SNPs for phenotype prediction", G. Abraham, A. Kowalczyk, J. Zobel, and M. Inouye, BMC Bioinformatics, volume 13, 2012.
• "Efficient extended Boolean retrieval", S. Pohl, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering. 24(6):1014-1024, 2012.
• "Measurement of progress in machine translation", Y. Graham, T. Baldwin, A. Harwood, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, Dunedin, New Zealand, P. Cook and S. Nowson (eds.), December 2012, pp. 70-78.
• "Iterative Dictionary Construction for Compression of Large DNA Datasets" S. Kuruppu, B. Beresford-Smith, T. Conway, and J. Zobel, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, issue 99, 2011.
• "Quantifying the impact of concept recognition on biomedical information retrieval", S. Karimi, J. Zobel, and F. Scholer, Information Processing and Management, 48:94-106, 2011.
• "Relative Lempel-Ziv factorization for efficient storage and retrieval of web collections", C. Hoobin, S.J. Puglisi, and J. Zobel. Proceedings of the VLDB, 5(3):265-273, 2011. Full text.
• "Reference sequence construction for relative compression of genomes", S. Kuruppu, S. Puglisi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, R. Grossi, F. Silvestri, and F. Sebastiani (eds), Pisa, Italy, October 2011, pp. 420-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_41.
• "Collection-based compression using discovered long matching strings", A. Peel, A. Wirth, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-CIKM International Conference of Information & Knowledge Management, C. McDonald, W. Fan, A. de Vries, and B. Berendt (eds), Glasgow, UK, October 2011, pp. 2361-2364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2063576.2063967.
• "Sample selection for dictionary based corpus compression", C. Hoobin, S. Puglisi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, R. Baeza-Yates, T.-S. Chua, and W.B. Croft (eds), Beijing, China, July 2011, pp. 1137-1138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010087.
• "Principles for robust evaluation infrastructure", J. Zobel, W. Webber, A. Moffat, and M. Sanderson, DESIRE Workshop on Data Infrastructures for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation at CIKM, M. Agosti, N. Ferro, and C. Thanos (eds), Glasgow, UK, October 2011. Full text.
• "Optimized relative Lempel-Ziv compression of genomes", S. Kuruppu, S. Puglisi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACSC Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Reynolds (ed), Perth, Australia, January 2011, pp. 91-98. Full text.
• "Redesigning the string hash table, burst trie, and BST to exploit cache", N. Askitis and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. 2010, article 1.7. Full text. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1921703.1921704.
• "Boolean versus ranked querying for systematic reviews", S. Karimi, S. Pohl, F. Scholer, L. Cavedon, and J. Zobel, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10:58, DOI:10.1186/1472-6947-10-58, 2010. Full text (open access publisher) or full text (local).
• "Prediction of breast cancer prognosis using gene set statistics provides signature stability and biological context", G. Abraham, A. Kowalczyk, S. Loi, I. Haviv, and J. Zobel, BMC Bioinformatics. 11:277, DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-11-277, 2010. Full text (open access publisher) or full text (local).
• "Reference-free validation of short read data", J. Schroeder, J. Bailey, T. Conway, and J. Zobel, PLoS ONE, 5(9): e12681. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0012681, 2010. Full text.
• "Relative Lempel-Ziv compression of genomes for large-scale storage and retrieval", S. Kuruppu, S. J. Puglisi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, E. Chavez and S. Lonardi (eds.), Cancun, Mexico, October 2010, pp. 201-206. Full text. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16321-0_20.
• "The effect of pooling and evaluation depth on metric stability", W. Webber, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the EVIA International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, T. Sakai, M. Sanderson, and W. Webber (eds.), Japan, June 2010, pp. 7-15. Full text.
• "A similarity measure for indefinite rankings", W. Webber, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 28(4), 2010.
• "Design of an efficient out-of-core read alignment algorithm", A. Konagurthu, L. Allison, T. Conway, B. Beresford-Smith, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Tenth WABI International Workshop on Bioinformatics, V. Moulton and M. Singh (eds.), Liverpool, UK, September 2010, pp. 189-201. Full text. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15294-8_16.
• "Extended Boolean retrieval for systematic biomedical reviews", S. Pohl, J. Zobel, and A. Moffat, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, B. Mans and M. Reynolds (eds.), Brisbane, Queensland, January 2010, pp. 117-125. Full text.

2009

• "Robust result merging using sample-based score estimates", M. Shokouhi and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(3):14:1-14:29, 2009. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508850.1508852.
• "Exploring criteria for successful query expansion in the genomic domain", N. Stokes, Y. Li, L. Cavedon, and J. Zobel, Information Retrieval Journal, Springer, 12(1):17-50, 2009. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10791-008-9073-9.
• "B-tries for disk-based string management", N. Askitis and J. Zobel, The VLDB International Journal on Very Large Databases, Springer, 18:157-179, 2009. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00778-008-0094-1.
• "Against recall: Is it persistence, cardinality, density, coverage, or totality?", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and L.A.F. Park, SIGIR Forum, June 2009, pp. 3-15. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Improvements that don't add up: Ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998", W. Webber, A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and T. Armstrong, Proceedings of the International ACM-CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, D. Cheung, I.-Y. Song, W. Chu, X. Hu, J. Lin, J. Li, and Z. Peng (eds.), Hong Kong, November 2009, pp. 601-610. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10.1145/1645953.1646031.
• "The challenge of high recall in biomedical systematic search", S. Karimi, J. Zobel, S. Pohl, and F. Scholer, Proceedings of the DTMBIO'09 Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics at CIKM, D. Lee and R. Altman (eds), Hong Kong, November 2009, pp. 89-92. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10.1145/1651318.1651338.
• "Has Adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?" (poster), T. Armstrong, A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, J. Allan, J. Aslam, M. Sanderson, C.X. Zhai, and J. Zobel (eds), Boston, Massachussetts, July 2009, pp. 692-3. Full text. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572081
• "Document compaction for efficient query-biased snippet generation", Y. Tsegay, S.J. Puglisi, A. Turpin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ECIR European Conference in Information Retrieval, Toulouse, France, M. Boughanem, C. Berrut, J. Mothe, and C. Soule-Dupuy (eds), April 2009, pp. 509-520. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7

2008

• "Rank-biased precision for measurement of retrieval effectiveness", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(1):A2, 2008. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1416950.1416952
• "Efficient online index construction for text databases", N. Lester, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 33(3):A19, 2008. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1386118.1386125
• "Statistical power in retrieval experimentation", W. Webber, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, J.G. Shanahan, S. Amer-Yahia, I. Manolescu, Y. Zhang, D.A. Evans, A. Kolcz, K.-S. Choi, A. Chowdury (eds), Napa Valley, California, October 2008, pp. 571-580. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458082.1458158
• "Precision-At-Ten Considered Redundant" (poster), W. Webber, A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and T. Sakai, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S.-H. Myaeng, D.W. Oard, F. Sebastiani, T.-S. Chua, and M.-K. Leong (eds), Singapore, July 2008, pp. 695-6. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390456
• "Aggregated click-through data in a homogeneous user community" (poster), M. Wu, A. Turpin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S.-H. Myaeng, D.W. Oard, F. Sebastiani, T.-S. Chua, and M.-K. Leong (eds), Singapore, July 2008, pp. 731-2. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390475
• "Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems", W. Webber, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S.-H. Myaeng, D.W. Oard, F. Sebastiani, T.-S. Chua, and M.-K. Leong (eds), Singapore, July 2008, pp. 51-58. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390346
• "An investigation of a community's web search variability", M. Wu, A.H. Turpin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, G. Dobbie and B. Mans (eds), Wollongong, Australia, January 2008, pp. 117-126. Winner, Best Paper award. Bibtex Full text.

2007

• "A pipelined architecture for distributed text query evaluation", A. Moffat, W. Webber, J. Zobel, and R. Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval Journal, Springer. 10(3):205-231, 2007. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10791-006-9014-4.
• "Does topic metadata help with search?", D. Hawking and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(5):613-628, 2007. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20548
• "Compression techniques for fast external sorting", J. Yiannis and J. Zobel, The VLDB International Journal on Very Large Databases, Springer, 16(2):269-291, 2007. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00778-006-0005-2.
• "Efficient and effective plagiarism detection for large code repositories", S. Burrows, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, and J. Zobel, Software-Practice & Experience, 37(2):151-175, 2007. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.750.
• "Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, F. Scholer, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Information Processing & Management, 43(1):169-180, 2007. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2006.04.003
• "Exploring abbreviation expansion for genomic information retrieval", N. Stokes, Y. Li, L. Cavedon, and J. Zobel, Australian Language Technology Association, N. Colineau and M. Dras (eds), Melbourne, Australia, December 2007, pp. 100-108. Bibtex Full text.
• "Score standardization for robust comparison of retrieval systems", W. Webber, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australian Document Computing Symposium, A. Spink, A. Turpin, and M. Wu (eds), Melbourne, Australia, December 2007, pp. 1-8. Bibtex Full text.
• "Dynamic index pruning for effective caching", Y. Tsegay, A.H. Turpin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, R. Baeza-Yates, D.L. McGuinness, B. Olstad, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007, pp. 987-990. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1321440.1321592
• "Clustering near-duplicate images in large collections", J.J. Foo, R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the MIR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, J.Z. Wang, N. Boujemaa, A. Del Bimbo, and J. Li (eds), Augsburg, Germany, September 2007, pp. 21-30. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1290082.1290089
• "Federated text retrieval from uncooperative overlapped collections", M. Shokouhi and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, C.L.A. Clarke, N. Fuhr, N. Kando, W. Kraaij, and A.P. de Vries (eds), Amsterdam, July 2007, pp. 495-502. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277827
• "Strategic system comparisons via targeted relevance judgments", A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, C.L.A. Clarke, N. Fuhr, N. Kando, W. Kraaij, and A.P. de Vries (eds), Amsterdam, July 2007, pp. 375-382. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277806
• "Detection of near-duplicate images for web search", J.J. Foo, R. Sinha, J. Zobel, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the ACM CIVR Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, N. Sebe and M. Worring (eds), Amsterdam, July 2007, pp. 557-564. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1282280.1282360
• "SICO: A system for detection of near-duplicate images during search", J.J. Foo, R. Sinha, J. Zobel, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the ICME IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, Beijing, China, July 2007, pp. 595-598. Bibtex Full text.
• "Entropy-based authorship search in large document collections", Y. Zhao and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ECIR European Conference on Information Retrieval, Springer LNCS 4425, G. Amati, C. Carpineto, and G. Romano (eds), Rome, Italy, April 2007, pp. 381-392. Full text Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_35.
• "Searching with style: Authorship attribution in classic literature", Y. Zhao and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, G. Dobbie (ed), Ballarat, Australia, January 2007, pp. 59-68. Winner, Best Student Paper award. Full text. Bibtex
• "Distributed text retrieval from overlapping collections", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, and Y. Bernstein, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, J. Bailey and A. Fekete (eds), Ballarat, Australia, 2007, 141-150. Winner, Best Student Paper award. Full text. Bibtex
• "Discovery of image versions in large collections", J.J. Foo, R. Sinha, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multi-Media Modelling, Springer LNCS 4352, T.-J. Cham, J. Cai, C. Dorai, D. Rajan, T.-S. Chua, L.-T. Chia (eds), Singapore, January 2007, pp. 433-442. Full text. Bibtex 10.1007/978-3-540-69429-8_44.

2006

• "Cache-efficient string sorting using copying", R. Sinha, D. Ring, and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, volume 11, 2006, article 1.2. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1187436.1187439.
• "Methodologies for evaluation of note-based music retrieval systems", A.L. Uitdenbogerd, A. Chattaraj, and J. Zobel, Journal of Computing: Special Cluster on Music and Computation, 18(3):339-347, 2006. Bibtex.
• "Inverted files for text search engines", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, ACM Computing Surveys, 38(2):1-56, 2006. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132956.1132959 .
• "Efficient discovery of co-derivative documents via duplicate text detection", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 31:595-609, 2006. (Expanded version of 2004 SPIRE paper.) Publisher link. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Efficient query expansion with auxiliary data structures", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 31:573-584, 2006. (Expanded version of 2004 SPIRE paper.) Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2005.11.002
• "Efficient online index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists", N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, Information Processing & Management, 42(4):916-933, July 2006. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.09.005
• "Detection of video sequences using compact signatures", T. Hoad and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 24(1):1-50, 2006. Full text. Bibtex. href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1125857.1125858.
• "Compact features for detection of near-duplicates in distributed retrieval", Y. Bernstein, M. Shokouhi, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Springer LNCS 4209, F. Crestani, P. Ferragina, and M. Sanderson (eds), Glasgow, Scotland, October 2006, pp. 110-121. Full text (publisher link). Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11880561_10.
• "Using relative entropy for authorship attribution", Y. Zhao, J. Zobel, and P. Vines, Proceedings of the AIRS Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Springer LNCV 4182, H.T. Ng, M.-K. Leong, M.-Y. Kan, and D. Ji (eds), Singapore, October 2006, pp. 92-105. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11880592_8.
• "Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval", A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S. Dumais, E.N. Efthimiadis, D. Hawking, and K. Jarvelin (eds), Seattle, Washington, August 2006, pp. 348-355. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148232.
• "Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval", M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, F. Scholer, and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, S. Dumais, E.N. Efthimiadis, D. Hawking, and K. Jarvelin (eds), Seattle, Washington, August 2006, pp. 316-323. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148227.
• "The case of the duplicate documents: Measurement, search, and science" (Invited paper), J. Zobel and Y. Bernstein, Proceedings of the APWeb Asia Pacific Web Conference, Springer LNCS 3841, X. Zhao, J. Li, H.T. Shen, M. Kitsuregawa, and Y. Zhang (eds), Harbin, China, January 2006, pp. 26-39. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11610113_4.
• "Sample sizes for query probing in uncooperative distributed information retrieval", M. Shokouhi, F. Scholer, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the APWeb Asia Pacific Web Conference, Springer LNCS 3841, X. Zhao, J. Li, H.T. Shen, M. Kitsuregawa, and Y. Zhang (eds), Harbin, China, January 2006, pp. 63-75. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11610113_7.

2005

• "Chinese OOV term detection and translation in Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval", Y. Zhang, P. Vines, and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 4(2):57-77, 2005. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1105696.1105697.
• "Using random sampling to build approximate tries for efficient string sorting", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, volume 10, 2005, article 2.10. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1064546.1180622.
• "Recommended reading for IR research students", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and D. Hawking, SIGIR Forum, 39(2), December 2005. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1113343.1113344
• "Searchable words on the web", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, International Journal of Digital Libraries, Springer. 5(2):99-105, 2005. Full text. Bibtex. Full text. Bibtex
• "Cache-conscious collision resolution in string hash tables", N. Askitis and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Springer LNCS 3772, M. Consens and G. Navarro (eds), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005, pp. 91-102. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11575832_11.
• "Space-limited ranked query evaluation using adaptive pruning", N. Lester, A. Moffat, W. Webber, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WISE Workshop on Information Systems Engineering, Springer LNCS 3806, M. Kitsuregawa, E. Neuhold, and A.H.H. Ngu (eds), New York, November 2005, pp. 470-477. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11581062_37.
• "Fast on-line index construction by geometric partitioning", N. Lester, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005. pp. 776-783. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099554.1099739
• "Redundant documents and search effectiveness", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005, pp. 736-743. Full text. Bibtex
• "Similarity measures for tracking information flow", D. Metzler, Y. Bernstein, W.B. Croft, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, A. Chowdhury, N. Fuhr, M. Ronthaler, H.-J. Schek, and W. Teiken (eds), Bremen, Germany, November 2005, pp. 517-524. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099554.1099695
• "The RECAP system for identifying information flow", D. Metzler, Y. Bernstein, W.B. Croft, A. Moffat, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (demonstration abstract), A. Moffat, G. Marchionini, J. Tate, N. Ziviani, and R. Baeza-Yates (eds), Salvadore, Brazil, August 2005, p. 678. Bibtex
• "Effective and scalable authorship attribution using function words", Y. Zhao and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the AIRS Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Springer LNCS 3689, G.G. Lee, A. Yamada, H. Meng, and S.H. Myaeng (eds), Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005, pp. 174-189. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11562382_14.
• "Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability", M. Sanderson and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, A. Moffat, G. Marchionini, J. Tate, R. Baeza-Yates, and N. Ziviani (eds), Salvador, Brazil, August 2005, pp. 162-169. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076064

2004

• "Cache-conscious sorting of large sets of strings with dynamic tries", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. Vol. 9, 2004. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1005813.1041517
• "Fast phrase querying with multiple indexes", H.E. Williams, J. Zobel, and D. Bahle, ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 22(4):573-594, 2004. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1028099.1028102
• "An architecture for effective music information retrieval", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 55(12):1053-1057, 2004. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20057
• "Collection selection for managed distributed document databases", D. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Information Processing & Management. 40:527-546, 2004. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00008-6
• "Is CORI effective for collection selection? An exploration of parameters, queries, and data", D. D'Souza, J. Zobel, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Australian Document Computing Symposium, P. Bruza, A. Moffat, and A. Turpin (eds), Melbourne, Australia, December 2004, pp. 41-46. Full text. Bibtex
• "What does it mean to 'Measure Performance'?", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WISE International Conference on Web Information Systems, Springer LNCS 3306, X. Zhou, S. Su, M.P. Papazoglou, M.E. Owlowska,and K. Jeffrey (eds), Brisbane, Australia, November 2004, pp. 1-12. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b103344.
• "A scalable system for identifying co-derivative documents", Y. Bernstein and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), A. Apostolico and M. Melucci (eds), Springer LNCS 3246, Padova, Italy, September 2004, pp. 55-67. Full text. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b100941.
• "Techniques for efficient query expansion", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), Springer LNCS 3246, A. Apostolico and M. Melucci (eds), Padova, Italy, September 2004, pp. 30-42. Full text. Bibtex 10.1007/b100941.
• "Using random sampling to build approximate tries for efficient string sorting", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the WEA International Workshop On Experimental Algorithmics, C.C. Ribeiro and S.L. Martins (eds), Springer LNCS 3059, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, May 2004, pp. 529-544. Full text. Bibtex 10.1007/b97914
• "Questioning query expansion: an examination of behaviour and parameters", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, K.-D. Schewe and H.E. Williams (eds), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 69-76. Full text. Bibtex
• "'Uni Cheats Racket': A case study in plagiarism investigation", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, R. Lister and A. Young (editors), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 357-365. Full text. Bibtex
• "What drives curriculum change?", P. Gruba, A. Moffat, H. Sondergaard, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Education Conference, R. Lister and A. Young (editors), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 109-117. Full text. Bibtex
• "In-place versus re-build versus re-merge: Index maintenance strategies for text retrieval systems", N. Lester, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, V. Estivill-Castro (ed), Dunedin, New Zealand, January 2004, pp. 15-22. Full text. Bibtex

2003

• "Efficient single-pass index construction for text databases", S. Heinz and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(8):713-729, 2003. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.10268
• "Methods for identifying versioned and plagiarised documents", T.C. Hoad and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 54(3):203-215, 2003. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.10170
• "Query expansion using associated queries", B. Billerbeck, F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, O. Frieder, J. Hammer, S. Quershi, and L. Seligman (eds), New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2003, pp. 2-9. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/956863.956866
• "When query expansion fails", B. Billerbeck and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, J. Callan, D. Hawking, and A. Smeaton, Toronto, Canada, July 2003, pp. 387-388. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/860435.860514
• "External sorting with on-the-fly compression", J. Yiannis and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases, A. James (ed), Springer LNCS 2712, Coventry, UK, July, 2003, pp. 115-130. Full text. Bibtex 10.1007/3-540-45073-4_10.
• "Efficient trie-based sorting of large sets of strings", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Adelaide, Australia, February, 2003, pp. 11-18. Full text. Bibtex
• "Video similarity detection for digital rights management", T.C. Hoad and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Adelaide, Australia, February, 2003, pp. 237-245. Full text. Bibtex
• "Cache-conscious sorting of large sets of strings with dynamic tries", R. Sinha and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ALENEX Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, R. Ladner (ed), Baltimore, Maryland, January, 2003, pp. 93-105. Full text. Bibtex

2002

• "Burst tries: a fast, efficient data structure for string keys", S. Heinz, J. Zobel, and H.E. Williams, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20(2):192-223, 2002. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/506309.506312
• "Managing student plagiarism in large academic departments", J. Zobel and M. Hamilton, Australian Universities Review. 45(2):23-30, 2002. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Indexing and retrieval for genomic databases", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 14(1):63-78, 2002. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.979973
• "Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002, pp. 215-221. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/564376.564415
• "Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation", F. Scholer, H.E. Williams, J. Yiannis, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002, pp. 222-229. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/564376.564416
• "Music ranking techniques evaluated", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Melbourne, Australia, January, 2002, pp. 275-283. Full text. Bibtex
• "Practical data structures for managing small sets of strings", S. Heinz and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Melbourne, Australia, January, 2002, pp. 75-84. Full text. Bibtex

2000-2001

• "In-memory hash tables for accumulating text vocabularies", J. Zobel, S. Heinz, and H.E. Williams, Information Processing Letters, 80(6):271-277, December 2001. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0190(01)00239-3
• "Self-adjusting trees in practice for large text collections", H.E. Williams, J. Zobel, and S. Heinz, Software: Practice and Experience. 31(10):925-939, August 2001. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.394
• "Effective ranking with arbitrary passages", M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 54(4):344-364, 2001. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Compaction techniques for nextword indexes", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), Chile, November, 2001. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SPIRE.2001.10021
• "Optimised phrase querying and browsing in text databases", D. Bahle, H.E. Williams, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, M. Oudshoorn (ed), Gold Coast, Australia, January, 2001, pp. 11-19. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACSC.2001.906618
• "Experiments in spoken document retrieval using phonetic n-grams", C. Ng, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Speech Communication, special issue on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, 32(1-2):61-77, September 2000. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Partitioning number sequences into optimal subsequences", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 32(2):121-129, May 2000. Full text. Bibtex.
• "A comparison of techniques for selecting text collections", D.J. D'Souza, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, M. Orlowska (ed), Canberra, Australia, January 2000, pp. 28-32. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ADC.2000.819810
• "Trends in retrieval system performance", J. Zobel, H. Williams, and S. Kimberley, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, J. Edwards (ed), Canberra, Australia, January 2000, pp. 241-248. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACSC.2000.824410

1990s journal papers

• "Efficient passage ranking for document databases", M. Kaszkiel, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 17(4):406-439, October 1999. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/326440.326445 .
• "Compressing integers for fast file access", H.E. Williams and J. Zobel, The Computer Journal, 42(3):193-201, 1999. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Inverted files versus signature files for text indexing", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and K. Ramamohanarao, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, December 1998. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/296854.277632 .
• "Compression techniques for Chinese text", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Software-Practice and Experience, 28(12):1299-1314, October 1998. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Exploring the similarity space", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, SIGIR forum 32(1):18-34, Spring 1998. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/281250.281256
• "Compression of nucleotide databases for fast searching", H. Williams and J. Zobel, CABIOS Computer Applications in the Biological Sciences. 13(5):549-554, October 1997. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Text compression for dynamic document databases", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and N. Sharman, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 9(2):302-313, March-April 1997. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.591454
• "A formal model for representation and querying of structured documents", B. Lowe, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Journal of Systems Integration, Springer, 7(2):31-46, January 1997. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008226505951
• "Filtered document retrieval with frequency-sorted indexes", M. Persin, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 47(10):749-764, October 1996. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Self-indexing inverted files for fast text retrieval", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 14(4):349-379, October 1996. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/237496.237497 .
• "Guidelines for presentation and comparison of indexing techniques", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and K. Ramamohanarao, SIGMOD Record, 25(3):10-15, October 1996. Full text. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/234889.234891
• "Index organisation for multi-media database systems", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, ACM Computing Surveys, 27(4):607-609, 1995. Bibtex. ttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/234782.234801
• "Database systems for structured documents", R. Sacks-Davis, T. Arnold-Moore, and J. Zobel, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 78-D(11):1335-1342, November 1995. Bibtex.
• "The MG retrieval system: Compressing for space and speed", T.C. Bell, A. Moffat, I.H. Witten, and J. Zobel, Communications of the ACM, Special Section on Digital Libraries, 38(4):41-42, April 1995. Bibtex. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/205323.205327
• "Adding compression to a full text retrieval system", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, Software-Practice and Experience, 25(8):891-903, 1995. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380250804
• "Atlas: A nested relational database system for text applications", R. Sacks-Davis, A. Kent, K. Ramamohanarao, J. Thom, and J. Zobel, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 7(3):454-470, June 1995. Bibtex. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.390250
• "Efficient retrieval of partial documents". J. Zobel, A. Moffat, R. Wilkinson, and R. Sacks-Davis, Information Processing and Management, 31(3):361-377, 1995. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(94)00052-5
• "Finding approximate matches in large lexicons", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Software-Practice and Experience, 25(3):331-345, 1995. Full text. Bibtex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380250307
• "Compression and fast indexing for multi-gigabyte text databases", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Australian Computer Journal, 26(1):1-9, 1994. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Memory-efficient ranking", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Information Processing and Management, 30(6):733-744, 1994. Full text. Bibtex.
• "Data compression in full-text retrieval systems", T.C. Bell, A. Moffat, C.G. Nevill-Manning, I.H. Witten, and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science 44(9):508-531, 1993. Bibtex.
• "Supporting random access in files of variable length records", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Information Processing Letters, 46(2):71-78, 1993. Bibtex
• "A model for word clustering", J.A. Thom and J. Zobel, Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 43(9):616-627, 1992. Full text. Bibtex
• "Efficient run-time type checking of typed logic programs", P.W. Dart and J. Zobel, Journal of Logic Programming, 14(1&2):31-36, 1992. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0743-1066(92)90046-6
• "Conceptual schemas applied to deductive databases", P.W. Dart and J. Zobel, Information Systems, 13(3):273-287, 1988. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4379(88)90039-7

1990s conference papers

• "Efficient building and querying of Asian-language text databases", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, November 1999. Full text. Bibtex
• "Melodic matching techniques for large music databases", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Multimedia Conference, D. Bulterman, K. Jeffay, and H.J. Zhang (eds), Orlando, Florida, November 1999, pp. 57-66. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/319463.319470
• "Combined models for high-performance compression of large text collections", J. Zobel and H.E. Williams, Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, September 1999, pp. 224-231. Published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Full text Bibtex
• "What's next? Index structures for efficient phrase querying", H. Williams, J. Zobel, and P. Anderson, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, January 1999, pp. 141-152. Full text Bibtex
• "Factors affecting speech retrieval", C. Ng, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, November 1998, pp. 45-50. Bibtex
• "Manipulation of music for melody matching", A.L. Uitdenbogerd and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Briston, England, September 1998, pp 235-240. Full text. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/290747.290776
• "How reliable are large-scale information retrieval experiments?", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 307-314. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/290941.291014
• "Term-ordered query evaluation versus document-ordered query evaluation for large document databases", extended abstract, M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 343-344. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/290941.291031
• "Speech Retrieval using phonemes with error correction", extended abstract, C. Ng and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August 1998, pp. 365-366. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/290941.291055
• "Conflation-based comparison of stemming algorithms", M. Fuller and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Third Australian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, August 1998, pp 8-13. Full text. Bibtex
• "Methodologies for distributed information retrieval", O. de Kretser, A. Moffat, T. Shimmin, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, May 1998, pp. 66-73. Full text Bibtex
• "Reliable research: Towards experimental standards for Computer Science", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, Western Australia, February 1998, pp 217-229. Full text. Bibtex
• "A framework for predictive compression of time-series data", S. Mukherjee and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, Western Australia, February 1998, pp 95-106. Bibtex
• "Indexing documents for queries on structure, content, and attributes", R. Sacks-Davis, T. Dao, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Media Information Base, Nara, Japan, November 1997, pp 236-245. Full text. Bibtex
• "Passage retrieval revisited", M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Twentieth International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1997, pp. 178-185. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258525.258561
• "Performance in practice of string hashing functions", M.V. Ramakrishna and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997, pp. 215-223. Full text. Bibtex
• "Collection selection via lexicon inspection", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the 1997 Australian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997, pp. 74-80. Full text. Bibtex
• "Phonetic string matching: Lessons from information retrieval", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, August 1996, pp. 166-173. Full text Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/243199.243258
• "Indexing nucleotide databases for fast query evaluation", H. Williams and J. Zobel, Proceedings of Advances in Database Technology (EDBT96), Springer LNCS 1057, Avignon, France, March 1996, pp. 275-288. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014158
• "Practical compression of nucleotide databases", H. Williams and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 1996, pp. 184-192. Bibtex
• "A formal model for databases of structured text", B. Lowe, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the DASFAA Database Systems for Advanced Applications conference, Singapore, April 1995, pp. 449-456. Bibtex
• "Limited-memory predictive compression for Chinese text", P. Vines and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, Australia, February 1995, pp. 546-555. Bibtex
• "Improved inverted file processing for large text databases", A. Moffat, J. Zobel, and S. T. Klein, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, Adelaide, Australia, January 1995, pp. 162-171. Bibtex
• "Database systems for structured documents", R. Sacks-Davis, T. Arnold-Moore, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Database Technologies and Their Integration, Nara, Japan, October 1994, pp. 272-283. Bibtex
• "Fast document ranking for large scale information retrieval", M. Persin, J. Zobel, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases, Springer LNCS 819, W. Litwin (ed.), Vadstena, Sweden, June 1994, pp. 253-266. Bibtex http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58183-9_53.
• "Static compression for dynamic texts", A. Moffat, N. Sharman, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1994, pp. 126-135. Bibtex
• "Fast ranking in limited space", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Data Engineering, Houston, Texas, February 1994, pp. 428-437. Bibtex
• "Approximate string matching for large lexicons", J. Zobel and P. Dart, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Computer Science Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1994, pp. 379-390. Bibtex
• "Self-indexing inverted files", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Database Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1994, pp. 79-91. Bibtex
• "Searching large lexicons for partially specified terms using compressed inverted files", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Dublin, Ireland, August 1993, pp. 290-301. Bibtex
• "Storage management for files of dynamic records", J. Zobel, A. Moffat and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Database Conference, Brisbane, February 1993, pp. 26-38. Full text Bibtex
• "Parameterised compression for sparse bitmaps", A.~Moffat and J.~Zobel, Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval, Copenhagen, Denmark, June~1992, pp.~274-285. Bibtex http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/133160.133210
• "An efficient indexing technique for full-text database systems", J. Zobel, A. Moffat, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Eighteenth VLDB International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Vancouver, Canada, August 1992, pp. 352-362. Bibtex
• "Coding for compression in full-text retrieval systems", A. Moffat and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1992, pp. 72-81. Bibtex
• "Advanced database systems for text retrieval", keynote paper, R. Sacks-Davis, J. Zobel, and K. Ramamohanarao, Proceedings of the Third Australian Database Conference, February 1992, pp. 1-8. Bibtex
• "Retrieval of tree-structured data from disc", E. Mackie and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Third Australian Database Conference, February 1992, pp. 209-216. Bibtex
• "Hyperbase systems: A structured architecture", M.S. Fuller, R. Sacks-Davis, R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel, and E. Mackie, Proceedings of the Future Databases Conference, Kyoto, Japan, February 1992, pp. 222-230. Bibtex
• "Database systems for advanced applications", A.J. Kent, R. Sacks-Davis, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australian Computer Science Conference, January 1992, pp. 427-438. Bibtex
• "Adding compression to a full-text retrieval system", J. Zobel and A. Moffat, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australian Computer Science Conference, Hobart, Australia, January 1992, pp. 1077-1089. Bibtex
• "Efficiency of nested relational document database systems", J. Zobel, J.A. Thom, and R. Sacks-Davis, Proceedings of the Seventeenth VLDB International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Barcelona, Spain, September 1991, pp. 91-102. Bibtex
• "Document ranking, topic, and skew", P. Wallis, J. Zobel, and J.A. Thom, Proceedings of the Second Japan-Australia Joint Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Iizuka City, Japan, September 1991, pp. 325-332. Bibtex
• "Querying in a large hyperbase", M.S. Fuller, A.J. Kent, R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, R. Wilkinson, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Second ICDE International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Berlin, Germany, August 1991, pp. 455-458. Bibtex
• "The NU-Prolog debugging environment", L. Naish, P.W. Dart, and J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Logic Programming, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1989, pp. 521-536. Bibtex
• "Derivation of polymorphic types for Prolog programs", J. Zobel, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Logic Programming, Melbourne, Australia, May 1987, pp. 816-838. Bibtex

I am also an author of

• Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems, E. Bertino, B.C. Ooi, R. Sacks-Davis, K.-L. Tan, J. Zobel, B. Shidlovsky, and B. Catania, Kluwer, 1997.
• Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections R. Wilkinson, T. Arnold-Moore, M. Fuller, R. Sacks-Davis, J.A. Thom, and J. Zobel, Kluwer, 1998.

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