Publications

Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Theresa Elstner, Christopher Akiki, Lukas Gienapp, Niklas Deckers, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast (2024). Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework. Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers, Janek Bevendorff, Shuai Wang, Johannes Kiesel, Shahbaz Syed, Maik Fröbe, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast (2024). Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Preprint PDF Project

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen (2024). Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders. arXiv preprint.

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Martin Potthast, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2024). Zero-shot Generative Large Language Models for Systematic Review Screening Automation. Proceedings of the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval.

Preprint Code Project

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Martin Potthast, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2023). Generating Natural Language Queries for More Effective Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation. Proceedings of the 1st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific.

Preprint PDF Code Project

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2023). Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritisation in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search. Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Document Computing Symposium.

Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang (2023). Beyond CO2 Emissions: The Overlooked Impact of Water Consumption of Information Retrieval Models. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval.

Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sebastian Schmidt, Maik Fröbe, Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast (2023). The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Martin Potthast (2023). Smooth Operators for Effective Systematic Review Queries. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

PDF Code Project Video

Harrisen Scells, Martin Potthast (2023). pybool_ir: A Toolkit for Domain-Specific Search Experiments. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

PDF Code Project

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2023). Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search?. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2022). Automated MeSH Term Suggestion for Effective Query Formulation in Systematic Reviews Literature Search. Intelligent Systems with Applications (ISWA) Technology-Assisted Review Systems Special Issue.

Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon (2022). Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Green Information Retrieval Research. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Ahmed Mourad, Guido Zuccon (2022). SDR for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study. Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval.

Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon (2022). MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search. Australasian Document Computing Symposium 2021.

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Justin Clark, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon (2022). From Little Things Big Things Grow: A Collection with Seed Studies for Medical Systematic Review Literature Search. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Preprint Dataset

Harrisen Scells (2021). Query Automation for Systematic Reviews. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland.

Kunpeng Qin, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon (2021). PECAN: A Platform for Searching Chat Conversations. Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Jimmy, Guido Zuccon (2021). Big Brother: A Drop-In Website Interaction Logging Service. Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman (2020). You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks - Rank Fusion applied to Coordination Level Matching for Ranking in Systematic Reviews. Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Bevan Koopman (2020). Sampling Query Variations for Learning to Rank to Improve Automatic Boolean Query Generation in Systematic Reviews. Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark (2020). Automatic Boolean Query Formulation for Systematic Review Literature Search. Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark (2020). A Computational Approach for Objectively Derived Systematic Review Search Strategies. Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman (2020). A Comparison of Automatic Boolean Query Formulation for Systematic Reviews. Information Retrieval Journal.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark (2019). Visualising Systematic Review Search Strategies to Assist Information Specialists. Abstracts of the 2019 Cochrane Colloquium.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman (2019). Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search. Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark (2019). Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search. Abstracts of the 2019 Cochrane Colloquium.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon (2018). searchrefiner: A Query Visualisation and Understanding Tool for Systematic Reviews. 27th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

PDF Code Project

Harrisen Scells, Leif Azzopardo, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman (2018). Query Variation Performance Prediction for Systematic Reviews. 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon (2018). Generating Better Queries for Systematic Reviews. 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon (2018). An Information Retrieval Experiment Framework for Domain Specific Applications. 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

PDF Code Project

Harrisen Scells (2017). Reducing Workload of Systematic Review Searching and Screening Processes. Future Directions of Information Access.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Anthony Deacon, Bevan Koopman (2017). QUT ielab at CLEF eHealth 2017 Technology Assisted Reviews Track: Initial Experiments with Learning To Rank. Working Notes of CLEF 2017 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Anthony Deacon, Bevan Koopman (2017). Integrating the Framing of Clinical Questions via PICO into the Retrieval of Medical Literature for Systematic Reviews. 26th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Anthony Deacon, Leif Azzopardi, Shlomo Geva (2017). A Test Collection for Evaluating Retrieval of Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews. 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Kirsty Kitto (2016). QUT at the NTCIR Lifelog Semantic Access Task. In NTCIR-12.

Harrisen Scells (2016). Investigating Methods Of Annotating Lifelogs For Use In Search. Honours Thesis.