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  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of information retrieval.

Overview

Stephen Robertson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, chiefly within Social Sciences and Medicine, with a particular focus on Anthropology, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Gender Studies, and Oral Surgery as prominent subfields.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Eurasian Exchange Networks
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Stephen Robertson has contributed to a range of academic publications and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics
  • The Lancet
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Kidney International Reports
  • European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Stephen Robertson are:

  • "Worldwide trends in the burden of asthma symptoms in school-aged children: Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study," 2021, The Lancet
  • "A probabilistic model of information and retrieval: development and status," 2021, CL Technical Reports
  • "Asthma management and control in children, adolescents, and adults in 25 countries: a Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study," 2023, The Lancet Global Health
  • "Kidney-Function Trajectories From Young Adulthood to Midlife: Identifying Risk Strata and Opportunities for Intervention," 2022, Kidney International Reports
  • "Prospective development study of the Versius Surgical System for use in transoral robotic surgery: an IDEAL stage 1/2a first in human and initial case series experience," 2024, European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Their co-authors include Neil Pearce, Charlotte E Rutter, Eamon Ellwood, Philippa Ellwood, and Eva Morales.

Stephen Robertson has authored a book published by Open Book Publishers titled B C, Before Computers in 2020.

They were recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to the theory and practice of information retrieval.

Best Publications

  • Okapi at TREC

    Stephen E. Robertson;Steve Walker;Susan Jones;Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu

  • Relevance weighting of search terms

    Stephen Robertson;K. Sparck Jones

  • Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF

    Stephen Robertson

  • Some simple effective approximations to the 2-Poisson model for probabilistic weighted retrieval

    S. E. Robertson;S. Walker

  • The Probabilistic Relevance Framework

    Stephen Robertson;Hugo Zaragoza

  • A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments

    K. Sparck Jones;S. Walker;S. E. Robertson;S. E. Robertson

  • The probability ranking principle in IR

    S. E. Robertson

  • Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields

    Stephen Robertson;Hugo Zaragoza;Michael Taylor

  • Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback

    Guihong Cao;Jian-Yun Nie;Jianfeng Gao;Stephen Robertson

  • Okapi at TREC-7: Automatic Ad Hoc, Filtering, VLC and Interactive.

    Stephen E. Robertson;Steve Walker;Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu

  • Information science and the phenomenon of information

    Nicholas J. Belkin;Stephen E. Robertson

  • Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8.

    Stephen E. Robertson;Steve Walker

  • On term selection for query expansion

    S. E. Robertson

  • SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics

    Michael Taylor;John Guiver;Stephen Robertson;Tom Minka

  • Effective site finding using link anchor information

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Stephen Robertson

  • Simple, proven approaches to text retrieval

    S.E. Robertson;K. Spärck Jones

  • Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC

    S. E. Robertson;S. Walker;M. Beaulieu

  • A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval

    Emine Yilmaz;Javed A. Aslam;Stephen Robertson

  • Probabilistic models of indexing and searching

    S. E. Robertson;C. J. van Rijsbergen;M. F. Porter

  • The TREC 2002 Filtering Track Report.

    Stephen E. Robertson;Ian Soboroff

  • Relevance weighting of search terms

    Stephen E. Robertson;Karen Sparck Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo Zaragoza
Hugo Zaragoza Amazon (United States)
Nick Craswell
Nick Craswell Microsoft (United States)
Julie A. McCann
Julie A. McCann Imperial College London
Gabriella Kazai
Gabriella Kazai Microsoft (United States)
Djoerd Hiemstra
Djoerd Hiemstra Radboud University
Tetsuya Sakai
Tetsuya Sakai Waseda University
Simone Teufel
Simone Teufel University of Cambridge
Dawei Song
Dawei Song The Open University
Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi University of Strathclyde
Jaap Kamps
Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam

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