STAFF PROFILE
Professor Bruce Croft
Position:
Adjunct Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
Email:
bruce.croft@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Finding answers for complex questions. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2018 from (2018 to 2022)
- A Learning to Rank Framework for Entity Centrality. Funded by: Abbrevi8 Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2016)
- Effective summaries for search results. Funded by: ARC Discovery Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2017)
1 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
- Tavakoli, L.,Zamani, H.,Scholer, F.,Croft, B.,Sanderson, M. (2022). Analyzing clarification in asynchronous information-seeking conversations In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73, 449 - 471
- Cambazoglu, B.,Baranova, V.,Scholer, F.,Sanderson, M.,Tavakoli, L.,Croft, B. (2021). Quantifying Human-Perceived Answer Utility in Non-factoid Question Answering In: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021), Canberra, Australia, 14-19 March 2021
- Cambazoglu, B.,Tavakoli, L.,Scholer, F.,Sanderson, M.,Croft, B. (2021). An Intent Taxonomy for Questions Asked in Web Search In: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021), Canberra, Australia, 14-19 March 2021
- Pathiyan Cherumanal, S.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Croft, B. (2021). Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Queensland, Australia, 1-5 November 2021
- Wu, Z.,Sanderson, M.,Cambazoglu, B.,Croft, B.,Scholer, F. (2020). Providing Direct Answers in Search Results: A Study of User Behavior In: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), Galway, Ireland, 19-23 October 2020
- Baranova, V.,Blinov, V.,Zheng, Y.,Croft, B.,Scholer, F.,Sanderson, M. (2020). Do People and Neural Nets Pay Attention to the Same Words: Studying Eye-tracking Data for Non-factoid QA Evaluation In: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), Galway, Ireland, 19-23 October 2020
- Yulianti, E.,Chen, R.,Scholer, F.,Croft, B.,Sanderson, M. (2018). Document summarization for answering non-factoid queries In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 30, 15 - 28
- Yulianti, E.,Chen, R.,Scholer, F.,Croft, B.,Sanderson, M. (2018). Ranking Documents by Answer-Passage Quality In: Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, United States, 8 - 12 July 2018
- Chen, R.,Yulianti, E.,Sanderson, M.,Croft, B. (2017). On the benefit of incorporating external features in a neural architecture for answer sentence selection In: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 August 2017
- Yang, L.,Ai, Q.,Spina, D.,Chen, R.,Pang, L.,Croft, W.,Guo, J.,Scholer, F. (2016). Beyond factoid QA: Effective methods for non-factoid answer sentence retrieval In: Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2016) Volume 9626, Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016