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Edited Volumes
Sharon McDonald and John Tait (eds) ”Advances in
Information Retrieval: 26th European Conference
on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April
5-7, 2004”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 2997 McDonald, Sharon; Tait, John (Eds.)
2004, XIII, 421 p. Also available online., Softcover
ISBN: 3-540-21382-1
John I. Tait (ed.) “Charting a New Course: Natural
Language Processing and Information Retrieval:
Essays in Honour of Karen Spärck Jones” The
Kluwer International Series on Information
Retrieval, Springer, Vol. 16 2005, 310 pp., ISBN:
1-4020-3343-5
Gary Marchionini, Alistair Moffat, John Tait,
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nivio Ziviani (eds) “SIGIR
2005: Proceedings of the Tweny-Eigth Annual
Internation ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval” ACM,
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005. ISBN: 1-59593-0345.
John Tait and Michael Oakes (eds.) “CLIIR: How
can Computaional Linguistics Improve Information
Retrieval” Proceedings of the Workshop at
COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia.
Association for Computational Linguistics,
Stroundsberg, PA, USA. 48 pages. 2006. ISBN 1932432-80-9.
Fotis Lazarinis, Jesus Vilares and John I. Tait
“Improving Non English Web Searching (iNEWS
’07)”. Workshop held in conjunction with the 30th
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. 78 pages, 2007. ISBN:
978-84-690-6978-3
Mihai Lupu, Katja Mayer, John Tait and Anthony J.
Trippe “Current Challenges in Patent Information
Retrieval”, Springer, The Information Retrieval
Series, Vol. 29, 2011. 415 pages. ISBN 978-3-64219230-2
Major Papers
K. Sparck Jones and J.I. Tait, "Automatic Search
Term Variant Generation". Journal of
Documentation, Aslib, London, March 1984.
K. Sparck Jones and J.I. Tait, "Linguistically
Motivated Descriptive Term Selection".
Proceedings of Coling84 - The 10th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd
Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, Stanford University,
July 1984.
M. Salampasis, J.I. Tait and C. Bloor, “Evaluation of
Information Seeking Performance in Hypermedia
Digital Libraries”. Interacting with Computers, Vol
10(3), June 1998 pp269-284.
M. Salampasis and J.I. Tait, “A Link-Based
Collection Fusion Strategy”. Information Processing
and Management, Vol 35(5), September 1999. Pp
691-711. ISSN 0306-4573
J. E. Ellman, I. Klincke, and J.I. Tait “Word Sense
Disambiguation by Information Filtering and
Extraction” Computers and the Humanities 34: 127134, 2000. ISSN:0010-4817.
Sharon McDonald, Ting-Sheng Lai and John Tait,
“Evaluating a Content Based Image Retrieval
System” Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001), New Orleans,
September 2001. W.B. Croft, D.J. Harper, D.H.
Kraft, and J. Zobel (Eds). ISBN 1-58113-331-6 pp
232-240.
*Christopher Stokoe, Michael Oakes and John Tait
“Word Sense Disambiguation in Information
Retrieval Revisited” Proceedings of the 26th ACM
SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2003), Toronto, July
2003. pp 159-166. ISBN 1-58113-646-3
*Sharon McDonald and John Tait “Search Strategies
in Content-Based Image Retrieval” Proceedings of
the 26th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR
2003), Toronto, July, 2003. pp 80-87. ISBN 158113-646-3
Yorick A. Wilks and John I. Tait “A Retrospective
View of Syonymy and Semantic Classification” in
J. I. Tait (ed.) “Charting a New Course: Natural
Language Processing and Information Retrieval:
Essays in Honour of Karen Spärck Jones” ,
Springer, 2005. pp 1-13. ISBN: 1-4020-3343-5
Chih-Fong Tsai, Ken McGarry and John Tait
“Qualitative Evaluation of Automatic Assignment of
Keywords to Images”. Information Processing and
Management, Volume 42 Issue 1, January, 2006. pp
136-154.
*Chih-Fong Tsai, Ken McGarry and John Tait
“CLAIRE: A Modular Support Vector Image
Indexing and Classification Systems”, ACM
Transactions On Information Systems 24(3) pp 353379. 2006.
*Shao-Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait
“Investigating Sentence Weighting Components for
Automatic Summarisation” Information Processing
and Management 43(1) January 2007. ISSN 03064573 pp146-153
Wei-Chao Lin, Michael Oakes and John Tait
“Improving image annotation via representative
feature vector selection” Neurocomputing 73 (2010)
pp. 1774-1782. DOI: 0.1016/j.neucom.2010.01.019
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Invited Papers
P. Smith, O. Taylor, J. MacIntyre and J.I. Tait,
“Expert System Applications: Power Industry” in
“The Handbook of Expert Systems” Ed. J.
Lebowitz, CRC Press. 1998. ISBN 0-8493-3106-4.
pp 20-1 to 20-19.
John Tait and Jeremy Ellman “Towards Reimplementing MABLe within the RAGS
Architecture”, Proceedings of the RAGS Workshop,
Edinburgh, November, 1999. 5 pages
John Tait “Exploring Information Spaces:
Information Retrieval Strategies combining
querying, relevance feedback and browsing”
Abstracts of Invited Lectures and Short
Communications Delivered at the Ninth
International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis
and Computer Science with Applications, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria, August 12-17, 2000. p 182.
Ingrid Bussman, Alexandra Kalogridi, Alexandra
Papazoglou, Pasi Silander and John Tait “Project
Verity: Virtual and Eletcronic Resources for
Information Skills Training for Young People”.
Abstracts of New Advances in Information Retrieval
and Information Skills Development for Young
People, Athens College, Athens, Greece, 30
November-1 December 2000.
John Tait “Multi-lingual and Cross-lingual
Information Access: Problems, Approaches and
Solutions” Abstracts of New Advances in
Information Retrieval and Information Skills
Development for Young People, Athens College,
Athens, Greece, 30 November-1 December 2000.
John Tait “The Semantic Web - What does it Really
Mean ?” Advances in Semantic Web Retrieval
Systems Editors: Ding,Y., van Rijsbergen,C.J.,
Ounis,I., Jose,J.M. Publisher: Springer, Hot topics
series, 2005.
John Tait “Exploratory Search: Image Retrieval
without Deep Semantics” Invited paper in
Semantics in Multmedia Anlaysis and Natural
Language Processing .Artificial Intelligence
Applications and Innovations (AIAI) 2006, Athens.
Proceedings edited by I. Maglogiannis, K.
Karpouzis and M. Bramer. Springer. ISBN 10: 0387-34223-0. pp 566-574
John Tait “Information Retrieval Research and Patent
Retrieval” Guest Editorial; World Patent
Information 31(4) pp 268-270. 2009. ISSN 01722190.
Other Significant Refereed Papers
J.I. Tait, "Generating Summaries using a Predictive
Language Analyser". Discussion paper at the
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Orsay, 1982.
J.I. Tait, "Automatic Summarising of English Texts",
Ph.D. Thesis University of Cambridge and
Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 47,
1982.
J.I. Tait, "Semantic Parsing and Syntactic
Constraints (Mark IV)". Automatic Natural
Language Parsing (K. Sparck Jones and Y. Wilks,
Eds.). Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1983. pp 169177
J.I. Tait, "Automatic Request Parsing and Variant
Generation". Informatics 7 - Intelligent Information
Retrieval. Aslib, London, 1984. ISBN 0 85142 197
5 pp 53-63
J.I. Tait, "An English Generator for a Case Labelled
Dependency Representation". Proceedings of the
Second Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics,
University of Geneva, March 1985. pp 194-7.
J. I. Tait, "Generating Summaries using a Predictive
Language Analyser". In "Progress in Artificial
Intelligence" (L. Steels and J. Campbell, Eds.). Ellis
Horwood Ltd, Chichester, 1985. pp 312-318.
S.M. Huang, J. Clifford, P. Smith, J.I. Tait and A.S.
Pollitt, "FOODM: The Kernel of a New Expert
Database System", EXPERSYS-92 Conference,
Paris, October 1992.
S.M. Huang, J. Clifford, P. Smith, J.I. Tait and A.S.
Pollitt "Knowledge Processing Tools: Proposal of a
New Architecture", the Third Annual IAKE
Symposium "New Generation Knowledge
Engineering", Washington DC, November 1992.
J. MacIntyre, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, T. Harris, and A.
Brason "Neural Networks for the analysis of off-line
condition monitoring data". Proceedings of ES-93
British Computer Society Specialist Group on
Expert Systems Annual Conference, Cambridge,
UK, 1993. pp129-140
J.I. Tait, "CALS and its implications for the Library
and Information Retrieval Communities", in
"Information Retrieval: new systems and current
research. Proceedings of the 15th Research
Colloquium of the British Computer Society
Information Retrieval Specialist Group, 1993"
edited by R. Leon. Taylor Graham, London. 1994
J. MacIntyre, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, T. Harris and A.
Brason "Applied Neural Networks in Condition
Monitoring" Proceedings of Data and Knowledge
Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering
(DKSME 94) , Chinese University of Hong Kong,
May 1994.
J. MacIntyre, P. Smith and J.I. Tait, "Determination
of Machine Condition using Neural Networks",
Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, July
1994. p 1472
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M. McAlister, J. McNeil, P. Smith and J.I. Tait
"What dictates knowledge acquisition, and can
changes be made ?". Proceedings of the World
Congress on Expert Systems, Estoril, January 1994.
Macmillan, pp554-558. (CD-ROM file
\word\vha1.doc)
J. MacIntyre, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, T. Harris and A.
Brason "Neural Network Architectures and Their
Application in Condition Monitoring". Proceedings
of the 7th International Conference on Condition
Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering
Management (COMADEM 94), New Delhi, 1994.
P. Smith, S.M. Huang, C.L. Lin and J.I. Tait, "The
Development of an Expert Database System by
Reusing Existing Databases". Proceedings of OOIS94 - Object Orientated Information Systems.
Springer-Verlag. 1994.
P. Smith, S.M. Huang, J.I. Tait, C.L. Lin and C.
Green. “The Development of an Expert Database by
Reusing Existing Databases", Proceedings of
EXPERSYS-94, The Sixth International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Application, Houston, Texas, USA. 1994.
S.M. Huang, P.Smith and J.I. Tait, "An Object
Oriented Model for Data, Knowledge and System
Re-Engineering" Proceedings of the Sixth
International Hong Kong Computer Society
Database Workshop, Hong Kong, 1995.
S. Devlin and J.I. Tait, “Computer-Aided Reading
for Aphasics”. Proceedings of the International
Conference CPC’95, Cognitive Processes in Spoken
and Written Communication: Theories and
Applications, (eds. V. Ronginsky, S. Dikareva, T.
Yaschenko), Crimea, Ukraine, September 1995.
J. Ellman and J.I. Tait, “INTERNET Challenges for
Information Retrieval”. Proceedings of the BCS
Information Retrieval Specialist Group Research
Colloquium, Manchester, U.K., April 1996.
M. Salampasis, C. Bloor and J.I. Tait, “Cooperative
Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries”.
Proceeding of the BCS Information Retrieval
Specialist Group Research Colloquium, Manchester,
U.K., April 1996.
S.M. Huang, P. Smith and J.I. Tait, “An Object
Oriented Model for Data, Knowledge, and System
Re-engineering” in “Database Reengineering and
Interoperability”, T. Cheung, J. Fong and B. Siu
(eds.), Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York,
N.Y. 1996. pp 25-40.
M. Salampasis, C. Hardy and J.I. Tait, “An AgentBased Hypermedia Framework for Designing and
Developing Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the
Third Forum on Research and Technology
Advances in Digital Library ADL96. May 13-15
1996, Washington DC. pp 5-13. ISBN 0-81867402-4. IEEE press.
C.-F. Tsai, C. Bowerman and J.I. Tait, “Fuzzy
Refinement in Genetic Algorithms for the Economic
Design of Control Charts”. Proceedings of the
Conference in Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing
Systems, Renseller Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY, October 1996. (CD-ROM)
C.-F. Tsai, C. Bowerman and J.I. Tait, “An Intelligent
Adaptive System for Improving the Behaviour of
Simple Genetic Algorithms”. Proceedings of
EXPERSYS-96, October 1996, Paris, France. pp
89-95. ISBN: 2-90766933-8
C.-F. Tsai, C.G.D. Bowerman and J.I. Tait, “Fuzzy
Taguchi Controller to Genetic Algorithm Parameter
Selection”, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms, Norwich, U.K., April 1997.
J.I. Tait, H. Sanderson, J.E. Ellman, A. Martinez, P.
Hellwig. and P. Tsahageas, “Practical
Considerations in Building a Multi-Lingual
Authoring System for Business Letters”.
Proceedings of the Workshop “From Research to
Commercial Applications: making NLP Technology
Work in Practice”. Association of Computational
Linguistics/European ACL ‘97 Conference, Madrid,
Spain, July 1997. pp 35-42.
M. Salampasis, J.I. Tait and C. Hardy, “HyperTree:
An Alternative Approach to Web Authoring”.
Software-Practice and Experience Vol 27(12),
1411-1426 (December 1997).
C. Batzios, M. Salampasis, V.D. Liakos, J.I. Tait and
S. Androulidakis, “A Hypermedia Digital Library
for the Education and Extension Training of Greek
Beekeepers”. Proceedings of the First European
Conference for Information Technology in
Agriculture, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural
University, Copenhagen, Denmark June 15-18,
1997, pp 159-162. ISBN 87 7432 465 9. (Computer
Demonstration paper.)
C.-F. Tsai, G. C.D. Bowerman, J. I. Tait, and C.
Bradford, “A Novel Ranking Technique For
Multiple Objective Functions Using Dynamic
Genetic Algorithms”. In Proceeding of
EXPERSYS-97 (Ed. P. Smith), Sunderland,
October 1997. IITT International, Gournay sur
Marne, Fr. pp. 181-186. ISBN: 2-90766934-6.
S. Devlin and J.I. Tait, “The use of a Psycholinguistic
database in the Simplification of Text for Aphasic
Readers” in “Linguist Databases” J. Nerbonne (ed.),
CSLI (CUP), 1998. pp 161-173. ISBN: 1-57586092-9.
T.-S. Lai and J.I. Tait “Using Global Colour Features
for General Photographic Image Indexing and
Retrieval” Poster in the Proceedings of SIGIR ‘98,
The ACM Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval. Melbourne,
1998. pp349-50
J. Carroll, G. Minnen, Y. Canning, S. Devlin, J.I.
Tait, “Practical Simplification of English
Newspaper Text to Assist Aphasic Readers”,
Working notes of AAAI-98 Workshop on
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“Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Assistive
Technology” at the National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98) Madison,
Wisconsin July 26-30, 1998. pp7-10.
T.S. Lai and J.I. Tait, “General Photographic Image
Retrieval Simulating Human Visual Perception”.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimedia
Indexing and Retrieval at SIGIR ‘98, The ACM
Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval. Melbourne, 1998. pp 17-28.
ISBN: 1-58113-015-5.
G. Oatley, J.I. Tait and J. MacIntyre, “A Case-Based
Reasoning Tool for Vibration Analysis”.
Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems VI,
Proceedings of The Eighteenth SGES International
Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and
Applied Artificial Intelligence. Robert Milne, Ann
Macintosh and Max Bramer (Eds.), 1998. pp132146. ISBN: 1-85233-087-2.
T.-S. Lai, J.I. Tait, and S. McDonald “Image
Browsing and Navigation using Heirarchical
Classification” Proceedings of Challenges of Image
Retrieval, Newcastle, Feb. 1999.
J. Carroll, G. Minnen, D. Pearce, Y. Canning, S.
Devlin and J.I. Tait “Simplifying Text for
Language-Impaired Readers” Proceedings of the 9th
Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL),
Bergen, Norway, June 9-11, 1999.
Odin Taylor, John Tait and John MacIntyre,
“Improved Classification for a Data Fusing
Kohonen Self Organizing Map Using A Dynamic
Thresholding Technique" Proceedings of IJCAI-99,
the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999. Vol
2. Pp 828-832. ISBN 1-55860-613-0.
Kenneth McGarry, John Tait and Stefan
Wermter“Rule Extraction from Radial Basis
Function Networks". Proceedings of the Ninth
International Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks Incorporating the IEE Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks University of Edinburgh,
UK: 7-10 September 1999. Pp 613-618.
Ting-Sheng Lai and John Tait “CHROMA: A
Content-Based Image Retrieval System”
Demonstration Paper in the proceedings of SIGIR99, Berkely CA, p 324. ISBN 1-58113-096-1.
Y. Canning & J.I. Tait “Syntactic Simplification of
Newspaper Text for Aphasic Readers” The
Proceedings of SIGIR-99 Workshop on Customised
Information Delivery, Berkeley, Ca. 19 August
1999, pp6-11.
P. Periorellis, W. Scales, J. Stafford & J.I. Tait
“VERITY: Towards an Integrated Infomation
Searching and Skills Development System for
Young People”, Proceeedings of the Asia Pacific
Web Conference, Kowloon, Hong Kong, September
1999.
B. Zong, J. MacIntyre, Y. He, and J.I. Tait, “High
Order Neural Networks for Simultaneous Diagnosis
of Multiple Faults in Rotating Machines”. Neural
Computing & Applications Vol. 8(3) pp189-195,
ISSN 0941-0643. 1999.
John Tait, Jeremy Ellman and Diomidis Spinellis,
“MABLe: a multi-lingual authoring tool for
business letters”. Proceeeding of Translating and
Computer 21, Aslib, London, November 1999. 12
pages. ISBN 085142 440 6
S. Devlin, J.I. Tait, Y. Canning, J. Carroll, G.
Minnen, and D. Pearce, “The Application of
Assistive Technology in Facilitating the
Comprehension of Newspaper Text by Aphasic
People” Proceedings of The 5th European
Conference for the Advancement of Assistive
Technology. 1st - 4th November 1999.
Düsseldorf/Germany.
J.E. Ellman and J.I. Tait, “Roget's Thesaurus: An
additional knowledge source for Textual CBR?”
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems
XVI: Proceedings of ES 99. M. Bramer, A.
Macintosh and Franz Coened (eds). SpringerVerlag, London. 2000. Pp 204-217. ISBN 1-85233231-X.
Cheng-Fang Tsai, Chris Bowerman, John Tait “A
dynamic adaptive system for economic design of
multiple control charts” Integrated Manufacturing
Systems Vol 11(4) pp 277-285, 2000. MCB
University Press. ISSN 09576061.
Jeremy Ellman and John Tait "On the Generality of
Thesaurally derived Lexical Links" Proceedings of
JADT 2000, the 5th International Conference on the
Statistical Analysis of Textual Data eds. M. Rajman
& J.-C. Chappelier. March 2000, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ecole Polytechnique de Federale Lausanne,
Switzerland. Pp 147-154.
Ting-Sheng Lai, John Tait, and Sharon McDonald “A
User-Centred Evaluation of Visual Search Methods
for CBIR” in Proceedings of CIR2000 – Third UK
Conference on Image Retrieval. John P Eakins and
Peter G B Enser (eds). University of Brighton. May
2000. 12 pages.
Devlin, S., J. Tait, Y. Canning, J. Carroll, G. Minnen,
D. Pearce “Making accessible international
communication for people with language
comprehension difficulties” in Computers Helping
People with Special Needs: Proceedings of ICCHP
2000 Page: 135-142 ISBN: 3854031459 Jul 2000.
Devlin, S., J. Tait, Y. Canning, J. Carroll, G. Minnen
“Automatically simplifying text for aphasic people
with reading difficulties” in Proceedings of in 9th
Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, August 2000
Devlin, S., J. Tait, Y. Canning, J. Carroll, G. Minnen,
D. Pearce “An AAC Aid for Aphasic People with
Reading Difficulties” Proceedings of the 9th
Biennial Conference of the International Society for
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Augmentative and Alternative Communciation pp
10-12 (Aug 2000).
C. Batzios, M. Salmapasis, V. Lakos, J. Tait, and S.
Androulidakis “Towards Increasing Productivity of
the Greek Beekeeping Industry: Tools and Methods
for Building a Hypermedia Digital Library for
Extension Training” Revista Brasiliera de
Agroinformatica (Brazilian Journal of Information
Technology in Agriculture) 3(1) 2000 pp 30-40.
Canning, Y., Tait, J., Archibald, J. & Crawley, R.
“Cohesive Generation of Syntactically Simplified
Newspaper Text.” In Text, Speech & Dialogue,
Third International Workshop, TSD 2000
Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
1902. Petr Sojka, Ivan Kipecek & Karel Pala (Eds.)
2000 Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-41042-2 pp
145 – 150.
Y. Canning, J.I. Tait, J. Archibald and R. Crawley
“Cohesive Regeneration of Syntactically Simplified
Newspaper Text” Workshop Proceedings:
ROMAND 2000, Workshop on Robust Methods in
Analysis of Natural language Data, Lausanne,
Switzerland, October 2000. Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne. Pp 3-16
John Tait, Sharon McDonald and Ting-Sheng Lai,
“CHROMA: An Experimental Image Retrieval
System” Proceeding of The 1st International
Workshop on New Developments in Digital
Libraries (NDDL-2001), Setubul, Portugal, July
2001, pp 141-151 ISBN 972-98050-4-0.
Anders Fongen, Frank Eliassen, Ian Ferguson, Simon
Stobart, John Tait “Distributed Resource Discovery
using a Context-sensitive Infrastructure” Proceeding
of the Third International Conference on
Information Integration and Web-based
Applications and Services (IIWAS 2001), pp 205215, Linz Austria, September 2001.
S. Dulaymi, M. Marghalani, J. Tait (October 2002)
”The Growth of Electronic Journals in Academic
Libraries in Saudi Arabia” Journal of Digital
Information, (electronic only) ISSN 13608-7506
Anders Fongen, Frank Eliassen, Ian Ferguson, Simon
Stobart, John Tait “A Scalable and Fault Tolerant
Architecture for Distributed Web Resource
Discovery” The 14th International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS
2002) pp.153-159,ISSN:1027-2658,ISBN: 0-88986366-0, Nov.4-6, 2002, Cambridge USA
Chih-Fong Tsai, Ken McGarry and John Tait “Image
Classification Using Hybrid Neural Networks”
poster paper in Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2003), Toronto, July,
2003. pp 431-432. ISBN 1-58113-646-3
Chih-Fong Tsai, Ken McGarry and John Tait “Using
Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques Based on a Two-Stage
Mapping Model for Concept-Based Image Datbase
Indexing” Proceedings of the IEEE Fifth
International Symposium on Multimedia Software
Engineering MSE 2003, Taichung, Taiwan,
December 2003. pp6-12.
Sawsan Taha Dulaymi, Mohammed A. Marghalani
and John I. Tait, “Information Technology in Saudi
Academic and Research Libraries” Arab Journal of
Library and Information Science, Vol. 24 No. 1.
January 2004. pp 4-36.
Sawsan Taha Dulaymi, Mohammed A. Marghalani,
Andrew McDonald, John I. Tait “The Growth of
Electronic Journals in Academic Libraries in Saudi
Arabia”, Library Management, Vol 25(4/5) 2004.
pp 190-199. ISSN 0143-5124
Chih-Fong, Tsai, Ken McGarry and J.I. Tait
Automatic Metadata Annotation of Image via a
Two-level Learning Framework. ACM SIGIR
Semantic Web Workshop, Sheffield, July 2004. pp
32-42
John Flackett, John Tait, Guy Littlefair “Scaling
Connectionist Compositional Representations”
Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science
(Tech. Report FS-04-03), AAAI Fall Symposium,
Washington D.C., October 21-24, 2004 pp.20-24
S.F. Liang, S. Devlin, J. Tait “Using Query Term
Order for Result Summarisation” in SIGIR 2005:
Proceedings of the Tweny-Eigth Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval” ACM,
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005. PP 629-630 ISBN:
1-59593-034-5.
Michail Salampasis & John Tait. “The Effect of
Collection Fusion Strategies on Information Seeking
Performance in Distributed Hypermedia Digital
Libraries”. In proceedings of the 9th European
Conference on Digital Libraries, Vienna, Austria,
September 2005, pp57-68. Editors Andreas Rauber,
Stavros Christodoulakis, Min Tjoa, LCNS 3652,
Springer.
John Tait “Making Better Summary Evaluations”
Proceedings of the Internatinal Workshop:
“Crossing Barriers in Text Summarisation
Research” Horacio Saggion and Jean-Luc Minnel
(eds.), Borovets, Bulgaria, Septemeber 2005. pp2631. ISBN 954-90906-8-X
Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait
“Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries”
Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceeding of
the 28th European Conference in IR Research,
London, UK, April, 2006. Springer LNCS 3936.
pp96-106. ISBN 3-540-33347-9.
Chufeng Chen, Michael Oakes and John Tait
“Browsing Personal Images Using Episodic
Memory (Time + Location)” Advances in
Information Retrieval: Proceeding of the 28th
European Conference in IR Research, London, UK,
April, 2006. Springer LNCS 3936. pp363-372.
ISBN 3-540-33347-9.
Fadi Yamout, Michael Oakes and John Tait
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“Relevance Feedback using Weight Propopagation”
Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceeding of
the 28th European Conference in IR Research,
London, UK, April, 2006. Springer LNCS 3936.
pp575-578. ISBN 3-540-33347-9.
Chufeng Chen, Michael Oakes and John Tait “A
Location Annotation System for Personal
Photographs” Proceedings of the 29th Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Developement in Information Retrieval;
Demonstration p726; ACM Press, 2006; ISBN 159593-369-7
Fadi Yamout, Michael Oakes and John Tait
“Relevance Feedback using Weight Propagation
Compared with Information-theoretic Query
Expansion” Lecture Notes in Computer Science
4425 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71494-1 pp
258-270.
Lin, W., Oakes, M. and Tait, J. (2008) “Real
AdaBoost for Large Vocabulary Image
Classification.” Proceedings of the 6th
International Workshop on Content-Based
Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008). London, UK,
18-20 June 2008, pp. 192-199. (EI)
John Tait, Mihai Lupu, Helmut Berger, Giovanna
Roda, MichaelDittenbach, Andreas Pesenhofer, Erik
Graf, Keith van Rijsbergen “Patent Search: An
important new test bed for IR” in Hiemstra, D.,
Huibers, T.W.C, de Jong, F.M.G. (eds.)
Proceedings of the 9th Dutch-Belgian Information
Retrieval Workshop, CTIT Workshop Proceedings
WP 09-01, Enschede, University of Twente, Centre
for Telematics and Information Technology; ISSN
0929-0672; No 09-01 (CTIT Workshop
Proceedings Series) pp56-63
F Lazarinis, J Vilares, J Tait, EN Efthimiadis
“Current research issues and trends in non-English
Web searching” Information Retrieval: Volume 12,
Issue3 (2009), Pages 230-250.
John I. Tait “What’s wrong with CLIR ?”
Proceedings of the SIGIR’09 Workshop on MultiLingual Information Access. 2009
Lin, W., Oakes, M., Tait, J. and Tsai, C.-F. (2009)
Improving image annotation via useful
representative feature selection. Cognitive
Processing, 10(3), pp. 233-242.
G. Roda, J. Tait, F. Piroi, V. Zenz CLEF-IP 2009:
retrieval experiments in the Intellectual Property
domain in: CLEF 2009 Proceedings, Multilingual
Information Access Evaluation Vol. I Text
Retrieval Experiments Editors: Carol Peters,
Giorgio Di Nunzio, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl,
Djamel Mostefa, Anselmo Peñas, Giovanna Roda
Springer LNCS series Vol. 6241. 2010
Mihai Lupu, Jimmy Huang, Jianhan Zhu, John Tait,
“TREC chemical information retrieval – An initial
evaluation effort for chemical IR systems”, World
Patent Information, Volume 33, Issue 3, September
2011, Pages 248-256, ISSN 0172-2190,
10.1016/j.wpi.2011.03.002.
Veronika Stefanov and John I. Tait “An Introduction
to Contemporary Search Technology” in Lupu,
Mayer, Tait and Trippe, 2011 (above), pp 45-65.
John I. Tait and Barrou Diallo “Future Patent
Search” in Lupu, Mayer, Tait and Trippe, 2011
(above), pp 389-407.
Minor Papers, Book Reviews etc. generally subject
to limited or no peer review
J.I. Tait, "Topic Identification Techniques for
Predictive Language Analysers". Coling82 - 9th
International Conference on Computational
Linguistics - Abstracts, Prague, 1982. pp 281-6.
B.K. Boguraev, K. Sparck Jones and J.I. Tait,
"Compound Nouns - a Problem for Inference".
Language, Reasoning and Inference, University of
Edinburgh, 1982.
B.K. Boguraev, K. Sparck Jones and J.I. Tait, "Three
papers on Parsing" University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 17,
1982.
J.I. Tait, "Semantic Parsing and Syntactic
Constraints". SERC Natural Language Parsing
Workshop, University of Essex, 1982.
J.I. Tait and K. Sparck Jones, "Automatic search term
variant generation for document retrieval", British
Library R&D Department Technical Report 5793,
University Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, 1983.
J.I. Tait, "La Comunicazione in Linguaccio Naturale
con i Computer: Alcuni Problemi e Soluzioni".
Informatica Oggi, Milan, 1983.
J.I. Tait, "Report of working group on: Tools for
Natural Language Processing" in K. Sparck Jones
(ed.) Report on Natural Language Workshop 1,
Alvey IKBS Programme. 1983.
J.I. Tait, "Document and Data Management". In
"Engineering Data Management", University of
Leeds Continuing Professional Education Short
Course Programme. 1991.
J.I. Tait "CALS - Defining Standards for Technical
Documentation" in M. Waldron (Ed.) "Applying a
Standard Approach to Document Management", InForm Systems, Chorleywood, Herts. 1991.
S.M. Huang, J. Clifford, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, T.C. Tan
and A.S. Pollitt, "Intelligent Databases: towards
knowledge processing", 4th International Hong
Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, Hong
Kong, December, 1992.
J.I. Tait, Review of "Computational Morphology:
Practical Mechanisms for the English Lexicon" by
Ritchie, Russell, Black and Pullman, Artificial
Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly
No. 85, Autumn 1993.
Page 6 of 9
S.M. Huang, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, J. Clifford and S.
Pollitt, "An Expert Database System Shell for
Intelligent Information Systems" University of
Sunderland, School of Computing and Information
Systems, Occasional Paper 93-2. 1993.
S.M. Huang, C.L. Lin, P. Smith, J.I.Tait and S.
Pollitt, "A survey of approaches to commercial
expert system development tools", University of
Sunderland School of Computing and Information
Systems Occasional Paper No: 93-4.
S.M. Huang, P. Smith, J.I. Tait, J. Clifford and S.
Pollitt, "An information resource dictionary system
for a peer-to-peer expert database system",
University of Sunderland Scool of Computing and
Information Systems Occasional Paper No: 93-7.
P.Smith, B. King and J.I. Tait, "Expert Systems in
Manufacturing in Europe", Proceedings of the
World Congress on Expert Systems, Estoril, January
1994.
P. Smith, S.M. Huang and J.I. Tait. "Expert Database
Systems: the Way Forward", Proceedings of the
Fifth International Hong Kong Computer Society
Database Workshop, Hong Kong, 1994.J.I. Tait,
"Building on HAZOP (Hazard and Operability)
Studies to produce Knowledge Based Systems"
Digest of the IEE Colloquium on Knowledge-based
Systems for safety critical applications, IEE,
London, May 1994.
B. King, A.P. Steward and J.I. Tait, "ComputerAided Process Engineering (CAPE)", University of
Sunderland School of Computing and Information
Systems Occasional Paper No: 94-1.
B. King, A.P. Steward and J.I. Tait, "Towards
Automated Knowledge Aquisition for Process Plant
Diagnosis", University of Sunderland School of
Computing and Information Systems Occasional
Paper No: 94-8. 1994.
B.K. Boguraev, R. Garigliano, and J.I. Tait. Editorial,
Natural Language Engineering 1(1) pp 1-7, March
1995. ISSN: 1351-3249(199503)1:1;1-F.
J.I. Tait, Report on SALT Club Workshop
"Information Retrieval and Natural Language
Processing", University of Sunderland, January
1995, SALTnews, DTI, January 1995.
B. King, A.P. Steward and J.I. Tait, "Towards
Automated Knowledge Aquisition for Process Plant
Diagnosis". Digest of the IEE Colloquium on
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, London,
February 1995.
S. Devlin, C. Bloor and J.I. Tait, "The use of a
psycholinguistic database in the simplification of
text for the aphasic reader", Abstracts of
"Linguistic Databases", University of Groningen,
March 1995.
S. Devlin, C. Bloor and J.I. Tait “The Use of a
Natural Language Paraphrasing Tool as a means of
aiding Aphasics in the Reading Process”.
Proceedings of the Postgraduate Workshop at
AISB-95. 10 th Annual Conference of the Society
for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour. Sheffield, U.K. 1995.
C.-F. Tsai, C.G.D. Bowerman and J.I. Tait,
“Temporal Causal Reasoning in Mixed-Production”,
Polymodel 16, University of Sunderland, May
1995.
J.I. Tait, “Sea Survival at South Shields”, Tees
Tidings, Tees Sailing Club, Hartlepool, September
1995.
M. Salampasis and J.I. Tait, “HyperTree: An
Alternative Approach to Web Authoring”,
University of Sunderland School of Computing and
Information Systems Occasional Paper No: 95-8,
October 1995.
J. Ellman and J.I. Tait, “Using Information Density to
Navigate the Web”. Digest of the IEE Colloquium
on Intelligent World Wide Web Agents, IEE,
London, March, 1997. UK ISSN 0963-3308. p 8/1 8/6
J.I. Tait, “User-Centred Evaluation in Language
Engineering”, Proceedings of the Speech and
Language Club meeting on “Evaluation in Natural
Language Engineering”, Sheffield, June, 1997. pp
195-7
J.I. Tait, “A Position Paper on Multilingual
Communication Systems”, Proceedings of
“ELSNET in Wonderland”, Soesterberg, NL, March
1998. pp 63-65
Jeremy Ellman, Ian Klincke & John Tait. “SUSS: the
Sunderland University Similarity System: Beneath
the Glass Ceiling”. In the Programme and Advanced
Papers of PILOT Senseeval, Herstmonceux Castle,
Sussex, September 1998.
Panayiotis Periorellis, Walter Scales, Janet Stafford,
John Tait. “VERITY: towards and integrated
information searching and skills development
system for young people”. Poster at the Annual
Research Colloquium of British Computer Society
Information Retreival Specialist Group, Glasgow,
1999.
John Tait and Aline Villavicencio “Report on 3rd
CLUK Colloquium” ELSNEWS: The Newsletter of
the European Network in Human Language
Technologies. Summer 2000. P 11. ISSN
1350-990X.
Canning, Y., Tait, J., Archibald, J. & Crawley, R.
“Replacing Anaphora for Readers with Acquired
Dyslexia”. Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora
and Reference Resolution Conference
(DAARC2000). P.Baker, A. Hardie, T. McEnery &
A. Siewierska (Eds.). University of Lancaster. Pp
83-88
Christopher M. Stokoe and John Tait “Automated
Word Sense Disambiguation for Internet
Information Retrieval” Proceedings of Text
Retrieval Conference (TREC 2002), National
Institute of Standards and Technology,
Page 7 of 9
Gaithersburg, MD, USA pp 743-745. November
2002.
Shao-Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait
“Feature Selection for Summarising: the Sunderland
DUC-2004 Experience”, Proceeding of the
Document Understanding Coference (DUC), 2004,
NIST, http://wwwnlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/pubs.html
John I. Tait Book Review “Spotting and Discovering
Terms through Natural Language Processing” by
Christian Jacquemin, Natural Language Engineering
10(2), 2004.
John I. Tait Preface John I. Tait (ed.) “Charting a
New Course: Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval: Essays in Honour of Karen
Spärck Jones” The Kluwer International Series on
Information Retrieval, Vol. 16 2005, pp ix-xii.,
ISBN: 1-4020-3343-5
Christos Kouroupetroglou, Michail Salampasis, John
Tait, Mohamed Loutfi “Measuring the effectiveness
of a web meta-search engine: a user centred
evaluation” Proceeding of the World MultiConference of Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics, Volume IV pp303-308 2005. ISBN
980-6560-52-3
John Tait and Mounia Lalmas “A tribute to Karen
Sparck Jones” Informer No. 18, Spring 2006. pp
10-13 BCS IRSG. ISSN 0950-9574.
C. Chen, M. Oakes and J. Tait “What do people
remember about digital images?” Proceedings of
Visual Categorisation and Image Management
Systems, University of Sunderland, June 2006. (2
pages)
W-C. Lin, M. Oakes and J. Tait “Using Information
gain to select representative image features”
Proceedings of Visual Categorisation and Image
Management Systems, University of Sunderland,
June 2006. (2 pages)
“TechNotes” The Journal (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
local paper), Thursday 27 July 2006 (450 words)
(on what makes Google successful).
Jesus Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, John I. Tait
“CoLesIR at CLEF 2006: Rapid Protyping of an Ngram-based CLIR System” Cross-Language
Evaluation Forum Campaign (CLEF-2006). Book
of Abstracts. University of Alicante. 2006. ISBN 2912335-21-3. p11
Shi-Ming Huang, Chih-Fong Tsai, Chia-Ming Chuang
and John Tait “Learning User’s Searching
Behavior in Image Retrieval”, Proceedings of the
Adaptive Information Retrieval Workshop,
Glasgow, (3 pages) October 2006.
C.F.Chen, M. Oakes, J. Tait “A location Annotation
System for Personal Photogrpah Collections:
Evaluation of Searching and Browsing Tools” ACM
SIGIR Workshop on Geographical Information
Retrieval, Seatle: USA, August 2006.
Mustafa Abusalah, John Tait, Michael Oakes
“Arabic-English Automatic Ontology Mapping
Based on Machine Readable Dictionary”, poster
paper to be published in the Eighth International
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics proceedings, February
2007
Mustafa Abusalah, John Tait, Michael Oakes “Cross
Language Information Retrieval Using
Multilingual Ontology as Translation Base”, to be
published in the Eighth International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational
Linguistics proceedings, February 2007
Fotis Lazarinis, Jesus Vilares Ferro and John Tait
“Improving non-English Web Searching
(iNEWS07)” SIGIR Workshop Report, SIGIR
Forum 41(2) pp72-76, December 2007.
Fotis Lazarinis, Jesus Vilares, John Tait, E. N.
Efthimiadis “Introduction to the special issue on
non-english web Retrieval” Information Retrieval
(2009) 12:227–229 DOI 10.1007/s10791-0099091-2
Valerie Bonnardel, Michael Oakes, John Tait
“Special corner: Visual Categorization and Image
Management Systems” (editorial) Cognitive
Processing (2009) 10:209–210 DOI
10.1007/s10339-009-0270-2
Giovanna Roda, John Tait, Florina Piroi, Veronika
Zenz “CLEF-IP 2009: retrieval experiments in the
Intellectual Property domain” CLEF Workshop
Proceedings, 2009.
Tait, J. 2008. Information retrieval facility
symposium in Vienna. SIGIR Forum 42, 1 (Jun.
2008), 67-67. DOI=
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1394251.1394266
Zhu, J. and Tait, J. 2008. A proposal for chemical
information retrieval evaluation. In Proceeding of
the 1st ACM Workshop on Patent information
Retrieval (Napa Valley, California, USA, October
30 - 30, 2008). PaIR '08. ACM, New York, NY,
15-18. DOI=
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458572.1458577
Tait, J. I. 2008. Noise and information.
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on
Analytics For Noisy Unstructured Text
Data (Singapore, July 24 - 24, 2008). AND '08,
vol. 303. ACM, New York, NY, 1-2. DOI=
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390749.1390751
Lupu, M., Huang, J., Zhu, J., and Tait, J. 2009.
TREC-CHEM: large scale chemical information
retrieval evaluation at TREC.SIGIR Forum 43, 2
(Dec. 2009), 63-70. DOI=
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1670564.1670576
Lupu, M., F. Piroi, J. Tait, J. Huang, Z. Zhu
“Overview of the TREC 2009 Chemical IR track”
The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC
2009) Proceedings. NIST Special Publication 500278.
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Mihai Lupu, John Tait, Katja Mayer, and Christopher
Harris. 2010. 3rd international workshop on patent
information retrieval (PaIR'10). In Proceedings of
the 19th ACM international conference on
Information and knowledge management (CIKM
'10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1977-1978.
DOI=10.1145/1871437.1871794
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1871437.1871794
Mihai Lupu, Christopher Harris, and John Tait. 2010.
Ideas: from mind, to paper, to mind.
InProceedings of the 3rd international workshop
on Patent information retrieval (PaIR '10). ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 67-68.
DOI=10.1145/1871888.1871901
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1871888.1871901
Mihai Lupu, Harsha Gurulingappa, Igor Filippov,
Zhao Jiashu, Juliane Fluck, Marc Zimmermann,
Jimmy Huang, John Tait “Overview of the TREC
2011 Chemical IR Track” Proceedings of The
Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference
(TREC 2011) Proceedings. NIST Special
Publication: SP 500-295
J. Tait “In Memoriam: David L. Waltz” Natural
Language Engineering 18(3), July 2012. Pp 291.
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