Author: Alan F. Smeaton

Professor of computing at Dublin City University

Publications

Publication period start: 2012
Number of co-authors: 67

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Gareth J. F. Jones
6
Hyowon Lee
16
Cathal Gurrin
19

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Djoerd Hiemstra
26
Gareth J. F. Jones
30
Barry Smyth
61

Publications

Doherty, Aiden R., Pauly-Takacs, Katalin, Caprani, Niamh, Gurrin, Cathal, Moulin, Chris J. A., O'Connor, Noel E., Smeaton, Alan F. (2012): Experiences of Aiding Autobiographical Memory Using the SenseCam. In Eminds – International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 27 (1) pp. 151-174. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.2012.656050

Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., O\'Connor, Noel E., Smyth, Barry (2006): User evaluation of Fischlar-News: An automatic broadcast news delivery system. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 24 (2) pp. 145-189. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1148020.1148021

Keenan, Sabrina, Smeaton, Alan F., Keogh, Gary (2001): The effect of pool depth on system evaluation in TREC. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52 (7) pp. 570-574.

Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., McCann, Peter, Murphy, Noel, O'Connor, Noel E. O., Marlow, Sean (2000): Fischlar on a PDA: A Handheld User Interface to a Video Indexing, Browsing and, Playback S. In: Emiliani, Pier Luigi, Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 25-26, 2000, Florence, Italy. pp. 2. https://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/UI4ALL-2000/files/Posters/Lee.pdf

Guinan, Catherine, Smeaton, Alan F. (1992): Information Retrieval from Hypertext using Dynamically Planned Guided Tours. In: Lucarella, D., Nanard, Jocelyne, Nanard, Marc, Paolini, P. (eds.) Proceedings of ECHT 92 the Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext November 30 - December 04, 1992, Milano, Italy. pp. 122-130. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/hypertext/168466/p122-guinan/p122-guinan.pdf

Smeaton, Alan F. (1992): \"Hypertext and Hypermedia: Theory and Applications,\" by Nigel Woodhead. In Hypermedia, 4 (2) pp. 135-138.

Smeaton, Alan F. (1992): Europe, ESPRIT II, and Information Retrieval. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43 (1) pp. 89-91.

Smeaton, Alan F., Murphy, N., O\'Connor, N. E., Marlow, S., Lee, H., McDonald, K., Browne, P., Ye, J. (2001): The Fischlar Digital Video System: A Digital Library of Broadcast TV Programmes. In: JCDL01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2001, . pp. 312-313. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/379437/p312-smeaton/p312-smeaton.pdf

Greevy, Edel, Smeaton, Alan F. (2004): Classifying racist texts using a support vector machine. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2004, . pp. 468-469. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008992.1009074

Ye, Jiamin, Smeaton, Alan F. (2004): Aggregated feature retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2004, . pp. 514-515. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008992.1009097

Oisin-Boydell, A, Smyth, Barry, Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F. (2005): Evaluating the impact of selection noise in community-based web search. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2005, . pp. 591-592. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076143

Ferguson, Paul, Smeaton, Alan F., Gurrin, Cathal, Wilkins, Peter (2005): Top subset retrieval on large collections using sorted indices. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2005, . pp. 599-600. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076147

Smeaton, Alan F. (1986): Incorporating Syntactic Information into a Document Retrieval Strategy: An Investigation. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1986, . pp. 103-113.

Smeaton, Alan F., Rijsbergen, C. J. Van (1988): Experiment on Incorporation Syntactic Processing of User Queries into a Document Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1988, . pp. 31-51.

Smeaton, Alan F., Quigley, Ian (1996): Experiments on Using Semantic Distances between Words in Image Caption Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1996, . pp. 174-180. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/ir/243199/p174-smeaton/p174-smeaton.pdf

Gurrin, Cathal, Jones, Gareth J. F., Lee, Hyowon, O\'Hare, Neil, Smeaton, Alan F., Murphy, Noel (2005): Mobile access to personal digital photograph archives. In: Proceedings of 7th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services , 2005, . pp. 311-314. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1085777.1085842

Gurrin, Cathal, Brenna, Lars, Zagorodnov, Dmitrii, Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., Johansen, Dag (2006): Supporting mobile access to digital video archives without user queries. In: Proceedings of 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services , 2006, . pp. 165-168. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152249

Smeaton, Alan F., Foley, Colum, Gurrin, Cathal, Lee, Hyowon, McGivney, Sinéad (2006): Collaborative Searching for Video Using the Físchlár System and a Diamond Touch Table. In: First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems Tabletop 2006 5-7 January, 2006, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 151-159. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TABLETOP.2006.7

Gurrin, Cathal, Brenna, Lars, Zagorodnov, Dmitrii, Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., Johansen, Dag (2006): Supporting mobile access to digital video archives without user queries. In: Nieminen, Marko, Roykkee, Mika (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Mobile HCI 2006 September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 165-168. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152249

Gurrin, Cathal, Jones, Gareth J. F., Lee, Hyowon, O\'Hare, Neil, Smeaton, Alan F., Murphy, Noel (2005): Mobile access to personal digital photograph archives. In: Tscheligi, Manfred, Bernhaupt, Regina, Mihalic, Kristijan (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Mobile HCI 2005 September 19-22, 2005, Salzburg, Austria. pp. 311-314. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1085777.1085842

Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F., Lee, Hyowon, McDonald, Kieran, Murphy, Noel, O\'Connor, Noel E., Marlow, Sean (2004): Mobile Access to the Físchlár-News Archive. In: Crestani, Fabio, Dunlop, Mark D., Mizzaro, Stefano (eds.) Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access - Mobile HCI 2003 International Workshop September 8, 2004, Udine, Italy. pp. 124-142. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2954/29540124.htm

Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., Murphy, Noel, O\'Connor, Noel E., Marlow, Sean (2001): Fischlar on a PDA: handheld user interface design to a video indexing, browsing and playba. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) HCI International 2001 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, USA. pp. 377-381.

Gurrin, Cathal, Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F. (2004): Fischlár @ TRECVID2003: system description. In: Schulzrinne, Henning, Dimitrova, Nevenka, Sasse, Martina Angela, Moon, Sue B., Lienhart, Rainer (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia October 10-16, 2004, New York, NY, USA. pp. 938-939. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027742

O\'Hare, Neil, Gurrin, Cathal, Lee, Hyowon, Murphy, Noel, Smeaton, Alan F., Jones, Gareth J. F. (2005): My digital photos: where and when?. In: Zhang, Hongjiang, Chua, Tat-Seng, Steinmetz, Ralf, Kankanhalli, Mohan S., Wilcox, Lynn (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia November 6-11, 2005, Singapore. pp. 261-262. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101196

Smeaton, Alan F., Over, Paul, Kraaij, Wessel (2004): TRECVID: evaluating the effectiveness of information retrieval tasks on digital video. In: Schulzrinne, Henning, Dimitrova, Nevenka, Sasse, Martina Angela, Moon, Sue B., Lienhart, Rainer (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia October 10-16, 2004, New York, NY, USA. pp. 652-655. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027678

Byrne, Daragh, Doherty, Aiden R., Jones, Gareth J. F., Smeaton, Alan F., Kumpulainen, Sanna, Järvelin, Kalervo (2008): The SenseCam as a Tool for Task Observation. In: Proceedings of the HCI08 Conference on People and Computers XXII , 2008, . pp. 19-22. https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.21389

Lee, Hyowon, Ferguson, Paul, Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F., O\'Connor, Noel E., Park, Heeseon (2008): Balancing the power of multimedia information retrieval and usability in designing interac. In: Darnell, Michael J., Masthoff, Judith, Panabaker, Sheri, Sullivan, Marc, Lugmayr, Artur (eds.) UXTV 2008 - Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video October 22-24, 2008, Silicon Valley, California, USA. pp. 105-114. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1453805.1453827

Caprani, Niamh, Doherty, Aiden R., Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., O'Connor, Noel E., Gurrin, Cathal (2010): Designing a touch-screen sensecam browser to support an aging population. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 4291-4296. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1754141

Wilkins, Peter, Smeaton, Alan F., Ferguson, Paul (2010): Properties of optimally weighted data fusion in CBMIR. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2010, . pp. 643-650. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1835449.1835556

Lanagan, James, Smeaton, Alan F. (2010): SIGIR: scholar vs. scholars' interpretation. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2010, . pp. 713-714. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1835449.1835579

Bermingham, Adam, Smeaton, Alan F. (2009): A study of inter-annotator agreement for opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 784-785. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572127

Kelledy, Fergus, Smeaton, Alan F. (1997): Automatic Phrase Recognition and Extraction from Text. In: 19th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 8th-9th April, 1997, Aberdeen, UK. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1997/irsg/papers/paper3.htm

Lee, Hyowon, Smeaton, Alan F., Furner, Jonathan (1999): User Interface Issues for Browsing Digital Video. In: Challenge of Image Retrieval 25-26 February, 1999, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1999/21stirsg/papers/paper7.htm

Smeaton, Alan F. (1998): Independence of Contributing Retrieval Strategies in Data Fusion for Effective Information. In: 20th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 25th-27th March, 1998, Autrans, France. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1998/20thirsg/papers/paper12.htm

Smeaton, Alan F., Burnett, Mark, Crimmins, Francis, Quinn, Gerard (1998): An Architecture for Efficient Document Clustering and Retrieval on a Dynamic Collection of. In: 20th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 25th-27th March, 1998, Autrans, France. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1998/20thirsg/papers/paper10.htm

Smeaton, Alan F., Kelledy, Fergus (1998): User-Chosen Phrases in Interactive Query Formulation for Information Retrieval. In: 20th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 25th-27th March, 1998, Autrans, France. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1998/20thirsg/papers/paper11.htm

Ferguson, Paul, Gurrin, Cathal, Wilkins, Peter, Smeaton, Alan F. (2005): Físréal: A Low Cost Terabyte Search Engine. In: Losada, David E., Fernández-Luna, Juan M. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 27th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2005 March 21-23, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 520-522. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3408/34080520.htm

Gurrin, Cathal, Johansen, Dag, Smeaton, Alan F. (2006): Supporting Relevance Feedback in Video Search. In: Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, Tsikrika, Theodora, Yavlinsky, Alexei (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2006 April 10-12, 2006, London, UK. pp. 561-564. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11735106_65

Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F. (2003): Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems. In: Sebastiani, Fabrizio (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 25th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2003 April 14-16, 2003, Pisa, Italy. pp. 25-40. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2633/26330025.htm

Ye, Jiamin, Smeaton, Alan F. (2003): Aggregated Feature Retrieval for MPEG-7. In: Sebastiani, Fabrizio (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 25th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2003 April 14-16, 2003, Pisa, Italy. pp. 563-570. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2633/26330563.htm

Boydell, Oisin, Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F., Smyth, Barry (2005): Manipulating the Relevance Models of Existing Search Engines. In: Losada, David E., Fernández-Luna, Juan M. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 27th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2005 March 21-23, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 540-542. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3408/34080540.htm

Mooney, Colum, Scully, Micheál, Jones, Gareth J. F., Smeaton, Alan F. (2006): Investigating Biometric Response for Information Retrieval Applications. In: Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, Tsikrika, Theodora, Yavlinsky, Alexei (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2006 April 10-12, 2006, London, UK. pp. 570-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11735106_67

Smeaton, Alan F., Jones, Gareth J. F., Lee, Hyowon, O'Connor, Noel E., Sav, Sorin (2006): Object-Based Access to TV Rushes Video. In: Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, Tsikrika, Theodora, Yavlinsky, Alexei (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2006 April 10-12, 2006, London, UK. pp. 476-479. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11735106_45

Soedring, Thomas, Smeaton, Alan F. (2002): Evaluating a Melody Extraction Engine. In: Crestani, Fabio, Girolami, Mark, Rijsbergen, C. J. Van (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, UK. pp. 1-21. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2291/22910001.htm

Stokes, Nicola, Newman, Eamonn, Carthy, Joe, Smeaton, Alan F. (2004): Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis. In: Mcdonald, Sharon, Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 209-222. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2997/29970209.htm

Wilkins, Peter, Ferguson, Paul, Gurrin, Cathal, Smeaton, Alan F. (2006): Automatic Determination of Feature Weights for Multi-feature CBIR. In: Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, Tsikrika, Theodora, Yavlinsky, Alexei (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2006 April 10-12, 2006, London, UK. pp. 527-530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11735106_57

Foley, Colum, Smeaton, Alan F. (2009): Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation. In: Boughanem, Mohand, Berrut, Catherine, Mothe, Josiane, Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 31th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2009 April 6-9, 2009, 2009, Toulouse, France. pp. 42-53. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_7

Aly, Robin, Doherty, Aiden R., Hiemstra, Djoerd, Smeaton, Alan F. (2010): Beyond Shot Retrieval: Searching for Broadcast News Items Using Language Models of Concept. In: Gurrin, Cathal, He, Yulan, Kazai, Gabriella, Kruschwitz, Udo, Little, Suzanne, Roelleke, Thomas, Rüger, Stefan M., Rijsbergen, Keith van (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 32nd European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2010 March 28-31, 2010, Milton Keynes, UK. pp. 241-252. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_23

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