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My research investigates how to improve medical systematic review creation with Information Retrieval. My research focuses on developing methods to assist information specialists in creating more effective queries in shorter periods of time. To do this, I am investigating automatic methods of query formulation, refinement, visualisation, and understandability.

For an overview of my research during my PhD, please visit the systematic reviews project page. Below is a list of publications I have authored. Please see the link to my Google scholar page above for a more comprehensive list.

2024

Ranking Generated Answers: On the Agreement of Retrieval Models with Humans on Consumer Health Questions
Sebastian Heineking, Jonas Probst, Daniel Steinbach, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells
arXiv  ·  19 Aug 2024  ·  https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09831
Learning Effective Representations for Retrieval Using Self-Distillation with Adaptive Relevance Margins
Lukas Gienapp, Niklas Deckers, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells
arXiv  ·  01 Aug 2024  ·  arXiv:2407.21515
Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework
Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Theresa Elstner, Christopher Akiki, Lukas Gienapp, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  10 Jul 2024  ·  10.1145/3626772.3657886
A Systematic Investigation of Distilling Large Language Models into Cross-Encoders for Passage Re-ranking
Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
arXiv  ·  18 Jun 2024  ·  arXiv:2405.07920
Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders
Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
arXiv  ·  18 Jun 2024  ·  arXiv:2404.06912
Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024
Sean MacAvaney, Adam Roegiest, Aldo Lipani, Andrew Parry, Björn Engelmann Engelmann, …, Shubham Chatterjee, Thomas Jaenich, Udo Kruschwitz, Xi Wang, Zijun Long
ACM SIGIR Forum  ·  01 Jun 2024  ·  10.1145/3687273.3687287
Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers, Janek Bevendorff, Shuai Wang, …, Maik Fröbe, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
arXiv  ·  24 May 2024  ·  arXiv:2311.04694
Zero-Shot Generative Large Language Models for Systematic Review Screening Automation
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Martin Potthast, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2024  ·  10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_25

2023

Generating Natural Language Queries for More Effective Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Martin Potthast, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region  ·  26 Nov 2023  ·  10.1145/3624918.3625322
Beyond CO2 Emissions: The Overlooked Impact of Water Consumption of Information Retrieval Models
Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval  ·  09 Aug 2023  ·  10.1145/3578337.3605121
Smooth Operators for Effective Systematic Review Queries
Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Martin Potthast
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  18 Jul 2023  ·  10.1145/3539618.3591768
Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search?
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  18 Jul 2023  ·  10.1145/3539618.3591703
pybool_ir: A Toolkit for Domain-Specific Search Experiments
Harrisen Scells, Martin Potthast
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  18 Jul 2023  ·  10.1145/3539618.3591819
The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives
Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sebastian Schmidt, Maik Fröbe, Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  18 Jul 2023  ·  10.1145/3539618.3591890

2022

Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritisation in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Document Computing Symposium  ·  15 Dec 2022  ·  10.1145/3572960.3572980
Automated MeSH term suggestion for effective query formulation in systematic reviews literature search
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Intelligent Systems with Applications  ·  01 Nov 2022  ·  10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200141
The Impact of Query Refinement on Systematic Review Literature Search
Harrisen Scells, Connor Forbes, Justin Clark, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval  ·  23 Aug 2022  ·  10.1145/3539813.3545143
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  06 Jul 2022  ·  10.1145/3477495.3531766
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Justin Clark, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  06 Jul 2022  ·  10.1145/3477495.3531748
Seed-Driven Document Ranking for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Ahmed Mourad, Guido Zuccon
Advances in Information Retrieval  ·  01 Jan 2022  ·  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_46
Guiding Neural Entity Alignment with Compatibility
Bing Liu, Harrisen Scells, Wen Hua, Guido Zuccon, Genghong Zhao, Xia Zhang
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  ·  01 Jan 2022  ·  10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.32

2021

MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search
Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon
Australasian Document Computing Symposium  ·  09 Dec 2021  ·  10.1145/3503516.3503530
Big Brother: A Drop-In Website Interaction Logging Service
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  11 Jul 2021  ·  https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462781
PECAN: A Platform for Searching Chat Conversations
Kunpeng Qin, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  11 Jul 2021  ·  10.1145/3404835.3462791
ActiveEA: Active Learning for Neural Entity Alignment
Bing Liu, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Wen Hua, Genghong Zhao
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  ·  01 Jan 2021  ·  10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.270

2020

A comparison of automatic Boolean query formulation for systematic reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman
Information Retrieval Journal  ·  27 Oct 2020  ·  10.1007/s10791-020-09381-1
Systematic Review Automation Tools for End-to-End Query Formulation
Hang Li, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  25 Jul 2020  ·  10.1145/3397271.3401402
Sampling Query Variations for Learning to Rank to Improve Automatic Boolean Query Generation in Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Bevan Koopman
Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020  ·  20 Apr 2020  ·  10.1145/3366423.3380075
Automatic Boolean Query Formulation for Systematic Review Literature Search
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark
Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020  ·  20 Apr 2020  ·  10.1145/3366423.3380185
A Computational Approach for Objectively Derived Systematic Review Search Strategies
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Justin Clark
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2020  ·  10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_26
You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: Rank Fusion applied to Coordination Level Matching for Ranking in Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2020  ·  10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_27

2019

TrecTools
João Palotti, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  18 Jul 2019  ·  10.1145/3331184.3331399
Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman
The World Wide Web Conference  ·  13 May 2019  ·  10.1145/3308558.3313544
Causality Discovery with Domain Knowledge for Drug-Drug Interactions Discovery
Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit, Xue Li, Xin Zhao, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2019  ·  10.1007/978-3-030-35231-8_46
Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2019
Liadh Kelly, Hanna Suominen, Lorraine Goeuriot, Mariana Neves, Evangelos Kanoulas, …, Leif Azzopardi, Rene Spijker, Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells, João Palotti
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2019  ·  10.1007/978-3-030-28577-7_26

2018

searchrefiner
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management  ·  17 Oct 2018  ·  10.1145/3269206.3269215
11th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2017)
Harrisen Scells
ACM SIGIR Forum  ·  31 Aug 2018  ·  10.1145/3274784.3274793
Improving Systematic Review Creation With Information Retrieval
Harrisen Scells
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval  ·  27 Jun 2018  ·  10.1145/3209978.3210226
Generating Better Queries for Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval  ·  27 Jun 2018  ·  10.1145/3209978.3210020
An Information Retrieval Experiment Framework for Domain Specific Applications
Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval  ·  27 Jun 2018  ·  10.1145/3209978.3210167
Query Variation Performance Prediction for Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Leif Azzopardi, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval  ·  27 Jun 2018  ·  10.1145/3209978.3210078

2017

Integrating the Framing of Clinical Questions via PICO into the Retrieval of Medical Literature for Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Anthony Deacon, Leif Azzopardi, Shlomo Geva
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management  ·  06 Nov 2017  ·  10.1145/3132847.3133080
The Lucene for Information Access and Retrieval Research (LIARR) Workshop at SIGIR 2017
Leif Azzopardi, Matt Crane, Hui Fang, Grant Ingersoll, Jimmy Lin, Yashar Moshfeghi, Harrisen Scells, Peilin Yang, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  07 Aug 2017  ·  10.1145/3077136.3084374
A Test Collection for Evaluating Retrieval of Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Anthony Deacon, Leif Azzopardi, Shlomo Geva
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  ·  07 Aug 2017  ·  10.1145/3077136.3080707
Reducing Workload of Systematic Review Searching and Screening Processes
Harrisen Scells
Electronic Workshops in Computing  ·  01 Jan 2017  ·  10.14236/ewic/fdia2017.2
Automatic Query Generation from Legal Texts for Case Law Retrieval
Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  ·  01 Jan 2017  ·  10.1007/978-3-319-70145-5_14

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