Daniel Crabtree - Research

PhD Thesis
- Techniques for Improving Web Search by Understanding Queries
  School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, 2011
Book Chapters
- Enhancing Web Search through Query Expansion
  Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Second Edition, 2008
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
- Understanding Query Aspects with applications to Interactive Query Expansion
  The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07)
- Exploiting Underrepresented Query Aspects for Automatic Query Expansion
  The 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007)
- QC4 – A Clustering Evaluation Method
  The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007)
- Query Directed Web Page Clustering
  The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06)
- Standardized Evaluation Method for Web Clustering Results
  The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
- Improving Web Clustering by Cluster Selection
  The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
Technical Reports
- Universal Evaluation Method for Web Clustering Results
  School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, 2005
Undergraduate Thesis
- Improvements to Web Page Clustering Methods
  School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004

Invited Talks
- The Future of Search
  Wellington to the World (Unlimited Potential)
  Wellington, New Zealand — November 7, 2008
Workshops
- Improving Web Page Clustering with Global Document Analysis
  The First New Zealand Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
  Auckland, New Zealand — March 4, 2006
Other
- Hard Web Searches You Never Knew You Had
  Three Minute Thesis
  Wellington, New Zealand — July 2, 2010 & July 30, 2010
Festival of Doubt
- 16 April 2009 — Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- 29 October 2007 — Understanding Query Aspects with applications to Interactive Query Expansion
- 27 July 2007 — Exploiting Underrepresented Query Aspects for Automatic Query Expansion
- 15 May 2007 — QC4 – A Clustering Evaluation Method
- 7 December 2006 — Query Directed Web Page Clustering
- 2 March 2006 — Improving Web Page Clustering with Global Document Analysis
- 21 October 2005 — A New Approach to Sandwiches
- 2 September 2005 — Web Clustering – New Scoring and Selection Methods, New Evaluation Method
- 29 July 2005 — Web Clustering – A Sneak Peak
- 8 April 2005 — The Problems of Searching The Web, Web Clustering, and Possible Solutions
- 25 February 2005 — Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google

Program Committee Member
- WIRSS'09
  The 2009 International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems held with 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'09)
- WIRSS'08
  The 2008 International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems held with 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08)
- KSEM'07
  The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
Reviewer
- Computational Intelligence (Journal) — 2009
- WI'07
  The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence