STAFF PROFILE
Professor Falk Scholer
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Computer Science and Information Tech
Phone:
99259831
Email:
falk.scholer@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Dr Falk Scholer is an Associate Professor in Information Retrieval, and the Deputy Director of the RMIT Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA)
Dr Falk Scholer is a research and teaching academic in the Discipline of Computer Science and IT, in the RMIT School of Science.
His research is in the area of information retrieval, with particular interests in:
- Web and enterprise search engines
- Evaluation of information retrieval systems
- User analytics
- Interactive search
- Relevance and user perceptions
- Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics of Computing
- Document summarisation
- Biomedical search
A list of Dr Scholer's publications is available on Google Scholar.
More information about his research and teaching is available at his personal website.
- Research supervision
- Teaching:
- Lecturer, Scripting Language Programming (COSC 1092/1093)
- Lecturer, Information Retrieval (ISYS 1078/1079)
PhD, MSc, BSc
- Roitero, K.,Culpepper, S.,Sanderson, M.,Scholer, F.,Mizzaro, S. (2020). Fewer topics? A million topics? Both?! On topics subsets in test collections In: Information Retrieval Journal, 23, 49 - 85
- Li, P.,Sanderson, M.,Carman, M.,Scholer, F. (2020). Self-labeling methods for unsupervised transfer ranking In: Information Sciences, 516, 293 - 315
- Trippas, J.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Hassan, A.,Bailey, P.,Bennett, P.,White, R.,Liono, J.,Ren, Y.,Salim, F.,Sanderson, M. (2019). Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design In: CHIIR '19 Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Glasgow, Scotland UK, March 10 - 14, 2019
- Albahem, A.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Cavedon, L. (2019). Meta-evaluation of Dynamic Search: How Do Metrics Capture Topical Relevance, Diversity and User Effort? In: Advances in Information Retrieval 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14�18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I, Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019
- Qu, C.,Yang, L.,Croft, W.,Scholer, F.,Zhang, Y. (2019). Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '19), Glasgow, Scotland UK, March 10 - 14, 2019
- Liono, J.,Trippas, J.,Spina, D.,Saiedur Rahaman, M.,Ren, Y.,Salim, F.,Sanderson, M.,Scholer, F.,White, R. (2019). Building a Benchmark for Task Progress in Digital Assistants In: Proceedings of Task Intelligence Workshop at WSDM 2019, Melbourne, Australia, February 11th--15th, 2019
- Mao, J.,Spina, D.,Sadeghi, S.,Scholer, F.,Sanderson, M. (2019). Investigating the Learning Process in Job Search: A Longitudinal Study In: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, November 03 - 07, 2019
- Karimi, S.,Nguyen, V.,Scholer, F.,Jin, B.,Falamaki, S. (2018). A2A: Benchmark Your Clinical Decision Support Search In: SIGIR '18 The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 08-12 July 2018
- Albahem, A.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Moffat, A.,Cavedon, L. (2018). Desirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics In: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, 11-12 December, 2018
- Thomas, P.,Moffat, A.,Bailey, P.,Scholer, F.,Craswell, N. (2018). Better Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings In: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand, 11-12 Dec 2018
- New approaches to interactive sessional search for complex tasks. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2019 from (2019 to 2022)
- Archistar Innovation Connection Grant. Funded by: Archistar Pty Ltd Contract from (2019 to 2020)
- Finding answers for complex questions. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2018 from (2018 to 2021)
- A cyber physical and socially aware personal assistant. Funded by: Microsoft Corporation (USA) - research grant 2018 from (2018 to 2020)
- User-Adaptive Search and Evaluation for Complex Information-Seeking Tasks. Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2015 Round 1 from (2016 to 2019)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
19 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions
Information retrieval; search engines; past queries and query log analysis; query refinement and expansion; document summarisation; retrieval models; document surrogates; efficient indexing and data structures.