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Overview

Paul Clough is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields including Computer Science and Social Sciences, with specific contributions to Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their recent research works demonstrate a focus on network analysis techniques, software engineering, and social media studies. The topics covered in their publications include:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Topic Modeling
  • Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul Clough include:

  • "Paraphrase type identification for plagiarism detection using contexts and word embeddings," 2021, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  • "Investigating clickbait in Chinese social media: A study of WeChat," 2020, Online Social Networks and Media
  • "Investigating the Usage of IoT-Based Smart Parking Services in the Borough of Westminster," 2021, Journal of Global Information Management
  • "Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance," 2022, Journal of Software Evolution and Process
  • "Generative AI for Software Metadata: Overview of the Information Retrieval in Software Engineering Track at FIRE 2023," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, reflecting a variety of interdisciplinary research projects. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Srijoni Majumdar
  • Partha Pratim Das
  • Jahna Otterbacher
  • Faisal Alvi
  • Mark Stevenson

Paul Clough's work appears across several publication venues, illustrating an engagement with both educational and technological literature. These publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  • Online Social Networks and Media
  • Journal of Global Information Management
  • Journal of Software Evolution and Process
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

In addition to journal publications, Paul Clough has contributed to book literature, including an authored work titled Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa, published by Berghahn Books in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web

    C. B. Jones;R. S. Purves;P. D. Clough;H. Joho

  • Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images

    Carol Peters;Paul Clough;Julio Gonzalo;Gareth J. F. Jones

  • ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proximity Method with an Adhoc Influence Function in Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain

    Carol Peters;Paul Clough;Fredric C. Gey;Jussi Karlgren

  • The CLEF 2005 cross–language image retrieval track

    Paul Clough;Henning Müller;Thomas Deselaers;Michael Grubinger

  • Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 medical retrieval and medical annotation tasks

    Henning Müller;Thomas Deselaers;Thomas Deserno;Paul Clough

  • Plagiarism in natural and programming languages: an overview of current tools and technologies

    Paul Clough

  • Easy on that trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval

    Steve Whittaker;Ofer Bergman;Paul Clough

  • Measuring Text Reuse

    Paul Clough;Robert Gaizauskas;Scott S.L. Piao;Yorick Wilks

  • The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet

    Ross S. Purves;Paul Clough;Christopher B. Jones;Avi Arampatzis

  • ImageCLEF: Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval

    Henning Mller;Paul Clough;Thomas Deselaers;Barbara Caputo

  • Do user preferences and evaluation measures line up

    Mark Sanderson;Monica Lestari Paramita;Paul Clough;Evangelos Kanoulas

  • The relationship between IR effectiveness measures and user satisfaction

    Azzah Al-Maskari;Mark Sanderson;Paul Clough

  • Old and new challenges in automatic plagiarism detection

    Paul Clough;Regent Court

  • Developing a corpus of plagiarised short answers

    Paul Clough;Mark Stevenson

  • Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure

    Andrew M. Cox;Paul D. Clough;Jennifer Marlow

  • The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004

    Paul D. Clough;Mark Sanderson;Henning Müller

  • The CLEF 2004 cross-language image retrieval track

    Paul Clough;Henning Müller;Mark Sanderson

  • Competent Men and Warm Women: Gender Stereotypes and Backlash in Image Search Results

    Jahna Otterbacher;Jo Bates;Paul Clough

  • GeoCLEF: the CLEF 2005 cross-language geographic information retrieval track overview

    Fredric Gey;Ray Larson;Mark Sanderson;Hideo Joho

  • Extracting metadata for spatially-aware information retrieval on the internet

    Paul Clough

  • Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2008 photographic retrieval task

    Thomas Arni;Paul Clough;Mark Sanderson;Michael Grubinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Henning Müller
Henning Müller University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Eneko Agirre
Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Evangelos Kanoulas
Evangelos Kanoulas University of Amsterdam
Robert Gaizauskas
Robert Gaizauskas University of Sheffield
Ross S. Purves
Ross S. Purves University of Zurich
Thomas Deselaers
Thomas Deselaers Apple (United States)
Julio Gonzalo
Julio Gonzalo National University of Distance Education
Ben Carterette
Ben Carterette Spotify, US

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