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Overview

David Hawking is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and decision sciences, with a focus on artificial intelligence, management science and operations research, computer vision and pattern recognition, computer networks and communications, and hardware and architecture.

Their work encompasses several topics including:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques

David Hawking has contributed to various publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections (2020), published in Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
  • Chunked Lists versus Extensible Arrays for Text Inversion (2023), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

In addition to journal and conference papers, Hawking has a book published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers titled Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections (2020).

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Bodo Billerbeck
  • Paul Thomas
  • Nick Craswell

Their work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

David Hawking's contributions focus on advancing understanding and methodologies related to information retrieval, data management, and algorithmic approaches within computer science. Their research intersects theoretical foundations and practical implementations relevant to emerging data and privacy challenges.

Best Publications

  • Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track.

    David Hawking;Ellen M. Voorhees;Nick Craswell;Peter Bailey

  • Overview of the TREC-2002 Web Track.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Effective site finding using link anchor information

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Stephen Robertson

  • Measuring Search Engine Quality

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell;Peter Bailey;Kathleen Griffihs

  • Challenges in enterprise search

    David Hawking

  • Overview of the TREC 2003 Web Track.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Ross Wilkinson;Mingfang Wu

  • Results and challenges in Web search evaluation

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell;Paul Thistlewaite;Donna Harman

  • Overview of the TREC-9 Web Track.

    David Hawking

  • Fast generation of result snippets in web search

    Andrew Turpin;Yohannes Tsegay;David Hawking;Hugh E. Williams

  • Engineering a multi-purpose test collection for web retrieval experiments

    Peter Bailey;Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Type Less, Find More: Fast Autocompletion Search with a Succinct Index

    Holger Bast;Ingmar Weber;Efthimis N. Efthimiadis;Susan Dumais

  • Overview of the TREC-2001 Web track

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell

  • Overview of the TREC 2004 Web Track.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Automated discovery of search interfaces on the web

    Jared Cope;Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Overview of TREC-6 Very Large Collection Track.

    David Hawking;Paul B. Thistlewaite

  • Methods for information server selection

    David Hawking;Paul Thistlewaite

  • Overview of TREC-7 Very Large Collection Track.

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell;Paul B. Thistlewaite

  • Server selection on the World Wide Web

    Nick Craswell;Peter Bailey;David Hawking

  • Merging Results From Isolated Search Engines.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Paul B. Thistlewaite

  • Proximity operators : So near and yet so far

    David Hawking;Paul B. Thistlewaite

  • Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

    Efthimis N. Efthimiadis;Susan Dumais;David Hawking;Kalervo Järvelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Craswell
Nick Craswell Microsoft (United States)
Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)
Ellen M. Voorhees
Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology
Peter Christen
Peter Christen Australian National University
Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat University of Melbourne
Justin Zobel
Justin Zobel University of Melbourne
Kalervo Järvelin
Kalervo Järvelin Tampere University
Andrew Turpin
Andrew Turpin University of Melbourne
Charles L. A. Clarke
Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo
Gordon V. Cormack
Gordon V. Cormack University of Waterloo

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