Tassos Tombros - Publications

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

List of Publications
2013
Investigating the Behaviour of Visually Impaired Users for Multi-session Search Tasks Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Tony Stockman Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, in press, 2013.

The Utility of System Interface Features Abdigani Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros and Pertti Vakkari To appear in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice on Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013). Valletta, Malta, September 2013.

Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-based Approach Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Tony Stockman, Anastasios Tombros, Oussama Metatla To appear in the Proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2013). Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013.

Cross-Modal Collaborative Information Seeking (CCIS): An Exploratory Study Dena Al-Thani, Tony Stockman and Anastasios Tombros To appear in the Proceedings of the 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference(BHCI 2013). Brunel University, UK, September 2013.

An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking Yihan Tao, Anastasios Tombros In Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), pp. 26-37. Moscow, Russia, March 2013.
2012
A Comparative Analysis of the Information Seeking Behaviour of Visually Impaired and Sighted Searchers Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Tony Stockman Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(2):377-391, 2012.

Summarisation of the Logical Structure of XML Documents Zoltan Szlavik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas Information Processing & Management, 48(5): 956-968, 2012.

A Little Interaction Can Go A Long Way: Enriching the Query Formulation Process Abdi Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012). Barcelona, Spain, April 2012.

2010
When is System Support Effective? Abdi Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros In Proceedings of the 3rd Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX 2010). New Brunswick, NJ, USA, August 2010.

Exploring the Impact of Search Interface Features on Search Tasks Abdi Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros To appear in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2010). Glasgow, Scotland, September 2010.

Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2010), pp. 532-543. Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010.
2009
Incremental personalised summarisation with novelty detection Marco Campana, Anastasios Tombros In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2009), pp. 641-652. Roskilde, Denmark, October 2009.

Less is more: maximal marginal relevance as a summarisation feature Frederik Forst, Anastasios Tombros, Thomas Roelleke In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'09), pp. 350-353. Cambridge, UK, September 2009.

A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion Abdigani Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 217-220. Austin Texas, USA, June 2009.

Second international symposium on information interaction in context Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Pia Borlund, Jesper W. Schneider ACM SIGIR Forum, 43(1):47-54, June 2009.
2008
Supplementing the presentation of query expansion terms with summaries Abdigani Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. Redmond WA, USA, October 2008.

Information search stage based representations Abdigani Diriye, Ann Blandford, Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR 2008). London, October 2008.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context Pia Borlund, Jesper Schneider, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, John Feather, Diane Kelly, Arjen de Vries (editors) ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, 2008.

A Comparison of Interactive and Ad-Hoc Relevance Assessments Birger Larsen, Saadia Malik, Anastasios Tombros In Focused Access to XML Documents, 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, volume 4862 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 348-358. Springer Verlag, 2008.	217K

Using digest pages to increase user result space: Preliminary designs Shanu Sushmita, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGIR Workshop on Aggregated Search. Singapore, July 2008.
2007
POLIS: A probabilistic logic for document summarisation Jan Frederik Forst, Anastasios Tombros, Thomas Roelleke Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2007). Budapest, Hungary, October 2007.

Modelling a summarisation logic in probabilistic Datalog Jan Frederik Forst, Anastasios Tombros, Thomas Roelleke Proceedings of the LWA Workshop in Information Retrieval. Halle, Germany, September 2007.

Learning-based summarisation of XML documents Massih Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usunier, Mounia Lalmas Information Retrieval, 10(3):233-255, June 2007.

Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness at INEX Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros ACM SIGIR Forum, 41(1):40-57, June 2007.	268K

Report on the INEX 2005 interactive track Saadia Malik, Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros ACM SIGIR Forum, 41(1):67-74, June 2007.	244K

Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents Zoltan Szlavik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval. Rome, Italy, April 2007.

The interactive track at INEX 2006 Saadia Malik, Anastasios Tombros, Birger Larsen Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2006), volume 4518 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag, 2007.
2006
Advances in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006. London, UK, April 10-12, 2006 Mounia Lalmas, Andy MacFarlane, Stefan Rueger, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika, Alexei Yavlinsky (editors) Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3936, 2006.

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Interaction in Context Ian Ruthven, Pia Borlund, Peter Ingwersen, Nicholas J. Belkin, Anastasios Tombros, Pertti Vakkari (editors) ACM Press, 2006.

Solving the enterprise TREC task with probabilistic data models Frederik Forst, Anastasios Tombros, Thomas Roelleke Proceedings of the 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD., USA, November 2006.	92K

The use of summaries in XML retrieval Zoltan Szlavik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 75-86. Alicante, Spain, September 2006.	429K

Designing a user interface for interactive retrieval of structured documents - Lessons learned from the INEX interactive track Saadia Malik, Claus-Peter Klas, Norbert Fuhr, Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 291-302. Alicante, Spain, September 2006.	854K

Is XML retrieval meaningful to users? Searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 663-664. Seattle, U.S.A, August 2006.	435K

XML Retrieval: User Expectations Stamatina Betsi, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 611-612. Seattle, U.S.A, August 2006.	139K

Investigating the use of summarisation for interactive XML retrieval Zoltan Szlavik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Information Access and Retrieval Track (SAC-IARS'06), pp. 1068-1072. Dijon, France, April 2006.	265K

The Interactive track at INEX2005 Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), volume 3977 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 398-410. Springer Verlag, 2006.	392K
2005
How users assess web pages for information-seeking Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon Jose Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(4):327-344, February 2005.	471K

Learning to summarise XML documents using content and structure Massih Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usunier, Mounia Lalmas, Patrick Gallinari Proceedings of the 14th ACM CIKM Conference, pp. 297-298 (poster paper). Bremen, Germany, November 2005.	56K

Obtrusiveness and relevance assessment in interactive XML IR experiments Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, pp. 39-42. Glasgow, Scotland, July 2005.	67K

Report on the INEX 2004 interactive track Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik, Birger Larsen ACM SIGIR Forum, 39(1):43-49, June 2005.	180K

The interactive track at INEX 2004 Anastasios Tombros, Birger Larsen, Saadia Malik Proceedings of the 3rd INEX Workshop (INEX 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3493, pp. 410-423, 2005.	474K

Factors affecting web page similarity Anastasios Tombros, Zeeshan Ali Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2005), pp. 487-501. Santiago de Compostella, Spain, March 2005.	176K
2004
Query-sensitive similarity measures for information retrieval (invited paper) Anastasios Tombros, C.J. van Rijsbergen Knowledge and Information Systems, 6(5):617-642, September 2004.	356K

End users in the context of XML documents - setting up an interactive track at INEX 2004 Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik In Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context at the ACM SIGIR 2004 Conference. Sheffield, England, July 2004.	25K
2003
Clustering the information space using top-ranking sentences: a study of user interaction Anastasios Tombros, Joemon Jose, Ian Ruthven, Ryen White Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), pp. 928-931. Zurich, Switzerland, September 2003.	526K

Clustering top-ranking sentences for information access Anastasios Tombros, Joemon Jose, Ian Ruthven Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 523-528. Trondheim, Norway, August 2003.	70K

Searchers' criteria for assessing web pages (poster paper) Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon Jose Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 385-386. Toronto, Canada, July 2003.	30K
2002
The effectiveness of hierarchic query-based clustering of documents for information retrieval Anastasios Tombros Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, April 2002. The thesis received the 2003 BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertations Award.	1.8MB

The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval Anastasios Tombros, Robert Villa, C.J. van Rijsbergen Information Processing & Management, 38(4):559-582, July 2002.	288K

Mobile delivery of news using hierarchical query-biased summaries Simon Sweeney, Fabio Crestani, Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 634-639. Madrid, Spain, March 2002.	105K
2001
Query-sensitive similarity measures for the calculation of interdocument relationships Anastasios Tombros, C.J. van Rijsbergen Proceedings of the 10th ACM CIKM Conference, pp. 17-24. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 2001.	200K

Evaluating summarisation technologies: A task-oriented approach Paul McLellan, Anastasios Tombros, Joemon Jose, Iadh Ounis, Miles Whitehead Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries (NDDL-2001), International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2001), pp. 99-112. Setubal, Portugal, July 2001.	499K

A study on the use of summaries and summary-based query expansion for a question-answering task Ian Ruthven, Anastasios Tombros, Joemon Jose Proceedings of the 23rd BCS European Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2001), pp. 41-53. Darmstadt, Germany, April 2001.	58K
2000
Users' perception of relevance of spoken documents Anastasios Tombros, Fabio Crestani Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(10):929-939, August 2000. An earlier version of this paper was published under the title 'A Study of Users' Perception of Relevance of Spoken Documents' as a Technical Report (TR-99-013) of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California, Berkeley, July 1999.	115K

Question-answering, relevance feedback and summarisation: TREC-9 interactive track report Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon Jose, Ian Ruthven and Anastasios Tombros Proceedings of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), pp. 523-550. Washington D.C., USA, November 2000.	42K
1998
The advantages of query-biased summaries in Information Retrieval Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , pp. 2-10, 1998. An earlier version of this paper was presented (though not published) at AAAI'98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization, March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, California.	287K
1997
Reflecting user information needs through query biased summaries Anastasios Tombros MSc Thesis, Technical Report (TR-1997-35) of the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. November 1997.	545K