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Publications

2012

• 102 (P). Ariel Lazier, Hugh E. Williams, Timothy C. Hoad, Joshua Smith: Generating and Organizing References to Online Content, United States Patent 8103967, 2012.

2011

• 101 (PA). Nitin Agrawal, Tabreez Govani, Jamie Buckley, Michael Cameron, Liwei Chen, Hugh E. Williams, Sanaz Ahari, Yang Zhang, and Srinath Aaleti: Related URLs for Task-Oriented Query Results, United States Patent Application 20110035402

2010

• 100 (P). Hugh E. Williams: Discovering web-based multimedia using search toolbar data, United States Patent 7827191, 2010.
• 99 (P). Nick Craswell, Hugh E. Williams, Ariel Lazier: Using Link Structure for Suggesting Related Queries, United States Patent 7822774, 2007.
• 98 (P). Ryen White, Mikhail Bilenko, Nick Craswell, Michael Cameron, Hugh E. Williams: Using Search Trails to Provide Enhanced Search Interaction, United States Patent 7774339 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2008/154197, 2010.
• 97 (PA). Chris Meyers, Gopi Gopal, Andrew Oakley, Nitin Agrawal, Nick Craswell, Milad Shokouhi, Derrick Connell, Sanaz Ahari, Neil Sharman, Gaurav Sareen, Hugh E. Williams, Jay Goyal: Detecting Spiking Queries, United States Patent Application (in preparation), 2010.
• 96 (P). Julia H. Farago, Hugh E. Williams, James E. Walsh, Nick Whyte, Kavi Goel, Philip Fung, Ariel Lazier, Kenneth A. Moss, Ethan N. Ray: Object Search UI and Dragging Object Results, United States Patent 7664739 and European Patent Application EP1984854 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/094902, 2010.
• 95 (P). Ariel Lazier, Hugh Williams, Nick Craswell, Charles Clarke, Julie H. Farago: Content Item Query Formulation. United States Patent 7647338, 2010.

2009

• 94 (PA). Tabreez Govani, Jamie Buckley, Natalia Burina, Hemant Banavar, Hugh E. Williams, Nitin Agrawal: Providing Tools for Navigational Search Query Results. United States Patent Application 20100293178, 2009.

2008

• 93 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Kenneth A. Moss: Syndicating Search Queries Using Web Advertising. International Patent Application PCT/US2008/080480 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2009/058599, 2008.
• 92 (PA). Michael Cameron, Hugh E. Williams, Srinath Aaleti, Nitin Agrawal, Tabreez Govani: Presenting Search Queries Related to Navigational Search Queries, United States Patent Application 20090299964, 2008.
• 91 (PA). Ariel Lazier, Timothy C. Hoad, Hugh E. Williams: Presenting Query Suggestions based upon Content Items, United States Patent Application 20090240683, 2008.
• 90 (PA). Hugh E. Williams: Previewing Search Results for Suggested Refinement Terms and Vertical Searches, United States Patent Application, 2008.
• 89 (PA). Tabreez Govani, Hugh Williams, Jamie Buckley, Nitin Agrawal, Andy Lam, Kenneth A. Moss: Determining Entity Popularity Using Search Queries, United States Patent Application 20090182725, 2008.
• 88 (PA). Nick Craswell, Hugh E. Williams, Andy Lam, Tabreez Govani, Jamie P. Buckley: IDENTIFYING ON A GRAPHICAL DEPICTION CANDIDATE POINTS AND TOP-MOVING QUERIES, United States Patent Application 20090303238, 2008.
• 87 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Nick Craswell, Nick Whyte, Julie H. Farago, James E. Walsh, Carsten Rother: Ranking Images for Web Image Retrieval. United States Patent Application 20080097981, 2008.
• 86 (PA). Tabreez Govani, Amit Aggarwal, Nitin Agrawal, Michael Cameron, Nicholas Craswell, Nikhil Dandekar, Hugh E. Williams: Promoting Websites Based on Location. United States Patent Application 20090292684, 2008.

2007

• 85 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Qiao Li, Xiaodong Fan, Richard Qian: Forming a Representation of a Video Item and Use Thereof, United States Patent Application 20090007202, 2007.
• 84 (PA). Phillip T. Su, Eric Burns, Hugh E. Williams: User-Created Search Results in an Incentive Scheme, United States Patent Application 20090157612, 2007.
• 83 (PA). Krishna Gade, Srinath Aaleti, Nick Craswell, Amit Prakash, Hugh E. Williams: Related Search Queries for a Webpage and their Applications, United States Patent Application 20080235187 and European Patent Application EP2130142 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2008/118544, 2007.
• 82 (PA). Julia H. Farago, Hugh E. Williams, Darren A. Shakib, Nick Whyte, Srinath Aaleti: Controlling Search Indexing, United States Patent Application 20080208831, 2007.
• 81 (PA). Justin Denney, Timothy C. Hoad, Hugh E. Williams, Richard J. Qian: User Interface for Previewing Video Items, United States Patent Application 20090150784, 2007.
• 80 (PA). Michael Cameron, Hugh Williams, Query Suggestions for No Result Web Searches, United States Patent Application 20090094221, 2007.
• 79 (RC). Andrew Turpin, Yohannes Tsegay, David Hawking, Hugh E. Williams: Fast generation of result snippets in web search. SIGIR 2007: 127-134
• 78 (J). Mirna Adriani, Jelita Asian, Bobby Nazief, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: Stemming Indonesian: A confix-stripping approach. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. 6(4): (2007)
• 77 (J). Michael Cameron, Hugh E. Williams: Comparing Compressed Sequences for Faster Nucleotide BLAST Searches. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 4(3): 349-364 (2007)
• 76 (J). Michael Cameron, Yaniv Bernstein, Hugh E. Williams: Clustered Sequence Representation for Fast Homology Search. Journal of Computational Biology. 14(5): 594-614 (2007)

2006

• 75 (PA). Stephen Robertson, Michael Taylor, Nick Craswell, Hugh E. Williams: Indexing Documents for Information Retrieval based on additional feedback fields, European Patent Application EP1862916, 2006.
• 74 (PA). Michael Taylor, Stephen Robertson, Hugh E. Williams, Nick Craswell: Indexing Documents for Information Retrieval, United States Patent Application 20090198676 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/139610, 2006.
• 73 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Nick Craswell, Nick Whyte, Julie H. Farago, James E. Walsh, Carsten Rother: Ranking Images for Web Image Retrieval, United States Patent Application 20080097981 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2008/048769, 2006.
• 72 (PA). James Dai, Julia H. Farago, Natala Menezes, Ramez Naam, Saleel Sathe, Hugh Williams: Using user feedback to improve search results, United States Patent Application 20080235204 and European Patent Application EP1979843 and WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/089403, 2006.
• 71 (PA). Ari Lazier, Hugh E. Williams, Nick Whyte: HANDLING EXTERNAL CONTENT IN WEB APPLICATIONS, United States Patent Application 20080120533, 2006.
• 70 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Ariel Lazier: Presentation of duplicate and near duplicate search results, United States Patent Application 20070266001, 2006.
• 69 (RC). Michael Cameron, Yaniv Bernstein, Hugh E. Williams: Clustering Near-Identical Sequences for Fast Homology Search. RECOMB 2006: 175-189
• 68 (J). Nicholas Lester, Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: Efficient online index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists. Inf. Process. Manage. 42(4): 916-933 (2006)
• 67 (J). Michael Cameron, Hugh E. Williams, and Adam Cannane: A Deterministic Finite Automaton for Faster Protein Hit Detection in BLAST. Journal of Computational Biology, 13(4): 965-978 (2006)
• 66 (B). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: Learning MySQL, O'Reilly Media Inc., 2006.

2005

• 65 (PA). Hugh E. Williams, Julia H. Farago, Nick Whyte: Monetization of Multimedia Queries, United States Patent Application 20070162428, 2005.
• 64 (E). Hugh E. Williams, Gillian Dobbie: Database Technologies 2005, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2005, Newcastle, Australia, January 31st - February 3rd 2005 Australian Computer Society 2005
• 63 (RC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams, James A. Thom, Timo Volkmer: Video Cut Detection using Frame Windows. ACSC 2005: 193-200
• 62 (RC). Jelita Asian, Hugh E. Williams, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi: Stemming Indonesian. ACSC 2005: 307-314
• 61 (J). Hugh E. Williams: Introduction to genomic information retrieval. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 23(1): 1-2 (2005)
• 60 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Searchable words on the Web. Int. J. on Digital Libraries 5(2): 99-105 (2005)

2004

• 59 (UC). Timo Volkmer, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: RMIT University at TRECVID-2004. TRECVID 2004 Workshop.
• 58 (E). Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Hugh E. Williams: Database Technologies 2004, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand, 18-22 January 2004 Australian Computer Society 2004
• 57 (RC). Nicholas Lester, Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: In-Place versus Re-Build versus Re-Merge: Index Maintenance Strategies for Text Retrieval Systems. ACSC 2004: 15-22
• 56 (RC). Steven Garcia, Hugh E. Williams, Adam Cannane: Access-Ordered Indexes. ACSC 2004: 7-14
• 55 (RC). Jelita Asian, Hugh E. Williams, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi: A Testbed for Indonesian Text Retrieval. ADCS 2004: 55-58
• 54 (RC). Abhijit Chattaraj, Hugh E. Williams: Variable-length Intervals in Homology Search. APBC 2004: 85-91
• 53 (RC). Amanda Clare, Hugh E. Williams, Nicholas Lester: Scalable Multi-Relational Association Mining. ICDM 2004: 355-358
• 52 (RC). Timo Volkmer, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: Gradual Transition Detection Using Average Frame Similarity. MDDE 2004
• 51 (RC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams: Representing Colour for Computing Image Similarity. iiWAS 2004
• 50 (RC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: The WebMark Course Management System. International Conference on Computers in Education 2004: 1169-1178
• 49 (J). Abhijit Chattaraj, Hugh E. Williams, Adam Cannane: General-purpose Search Techniques for Genomic Text. Genome Informatics. 15(2): 42-51 (2004)
• 48 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel, Dirk Bahle: Fast phrase querying with combined indexes. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 22(4): 573-594 (2004)
• 47 (J). Michael Cameron, Hugh E. Williams, Adam Cannane: Improved Gapped Alignment in BLAST. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 1(3): 116-129 (2004)
• 46 (J). Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, Andrew Turpin: Query association surrogates for Web search. JASIST 55(7): 637-650 (2004)
• 45 (B). Hugh E. Williams, David Lane: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL. Second Edition, O'Reilly Media Inc., 2004.

2003

• 44 (UC). Timo Volkmer, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams: The moving query window for shot boundary detection at TREC-12. TRECVID 2003.
• 43 (RC). Vaughan R. Shanks, Hugh E. Williams, Adam Cannane: Indexing for Fast Categorisation. ACSC 2003: 119-127
• 42 (RC). Hugh E. Williams: Genomic Information Retrieval. ADC 2003: 27-35
• 41 (RC). Bodo Billerbeck, Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Query expansion using associated queries. CIKM 2003: 2-9
• 40 (RC). Vaughan R. Shanks, Hugh E. Williams: Index construction for linear categorisation. CIKM 2003: 334-341
• 39 (RC). Andrew G. Fry, Hugh E. Williams: Comparing the Overhead Requirements of Database Transaction Models. DEXA 2003: 318-329
• 38 (RC). Halil Ali, Hugh E. Williams: What's Changed? Measuring Document Change in Web Crawling for Search Engines. SPIRE 2003: 28-42

2002

• 37 (UC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams: Shot boundary detection using the moving query window. TRECVID 2002.
• 36 (UC). Nicholas Lester, Hugh E. Williams: TDT2002 Topic Tracking at RMIT University, The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) Workshop 2002.
• 35 (RC). Wahyu Wibowo, Hugh E. Williams: Simple and accurate feature selection for hierarchical categorisation. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2002: 111-118
• 34 (RC). Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams: Query association for effective retrieval. CIKM 2002: 324-331
• 33 (RC). Wahyu Wibowo, Hugh E. Williams: Strategies for minimising errors in hierarchical web categorisation. CIKM 2002: 525-531
• 32 (RC). Dirk Bahle, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index. SIGIR 2002: 215-221
• 31 (RC). Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, Justin Zobel: Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation. SIGIR 2002: 222-229
• 30 (RC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams: Multiple Example Queries in Content-Based Image Retrieval. SPIRE 2002: 227-240
• 29 (RC). Andy Song, Victor Ciesielski, Hugh E. Williams: Texture Classifiers Generated by Genetic Programming, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2002: 243-248
• 28 (J). Steffen Heinz, Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: Burst tries: a fast, efficient data structure for string keys. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 20(2): 192-223 (2002)
• 27 (J). Adam Cannane, Hugh E. Williams: A general-purpose compression scheme for large collections. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 20(3): 329-355 (2002)
• 26 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Indexing and Retrieval for Genomic Databases. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 14(1): 63-78 (2002)
• 25 (BC). Hugh E. Williams: MySQL PHP API Reference. In George Reese, Randy Jay Yarger, and Tim King with Hugh E.Williams, Managing and Using MySQL, Second Edition, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002.
• 24 (BC). Hugh E. Williams: PHP. In George Reese, Randy Jay Yarger, and Tim King with Hugh E.Williams, Managing and Using MySQL, Second Edition, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002.
• 23 (B). Hugh E. Williams, David Lane: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL. Second Edition, O'Reilly Media Inc., 2002.

2001

• 22 (UC). Vaughan Shanks, Hugh E. Williams: TDT2001 Topic Tracking at RMIT University, The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) Workshop 2001.
• 21 (RC). Dirk Bahle, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Optimised Phrase Querying and Browsing of Large Text Databases. ACSC 2001: 11-19
• 20 (RC). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams: Are two pictures better than one? ADC 2001: 138-144
• 19 (RC). Vaughan R. Shanks, Hugh E. Williams: Fast Categorisation of Large Document Collections. SPIRE 2001: 194-204
• 18 (RC). Dirk Bahle, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Compaction Techniques for Nextword Indexes. SPIRE 2001: 33-45
• 17 (J). Adam Cannane, Hugh E. Williams: General-purpose compression for efficient retrieval. JASIST 52(5): 430-437 (2001)
• 16 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel, Steffen Heinz: Self-adjusting trees in practice for large text collections. Softw., Pract. Exper. 31(10): 925-939 (2001)
• 15 (J). Justin Zobel, Steffen Heinz, and Hugh E. Williams: In-memory Hash Tables for Accumulating Text Vocabularies, Information Processing Letters, 80(6): 271-27 (2001)

2000

• 14 (RC). Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams, Sam Kimberley: Trends in Retrieval System Performance. ACSC 2000: 241-248
• 13 (RC). Adam Cannane, Hugh E. Williams: A Compression Scheme for Large Databases. Australasian Database Conference 2000: 6-11
• 12 (BR). Hugh E. Williams: Book review: Information retrieval: Algorithms and heuristics, by David A. Grossman and Ophir Frieder. JASIS 51(11): 1063-1064 (2000)

1999

• 11 (RC). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel, Phil Anderson: What's Next? Index Structures for Efficient Phrase Querying. Australasian Database Conference 1999: 141-152
• 10 (RC). Adam Cannane, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: A General-Purpose Compression Scheme for Databases. Data Compression Conference 1999: 519
• 9 (RC). Hugh E. Williams: Effective Query Filtering for Fast Homology Searching. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 1999: 214-225
• 8 (RC). Wahyu Wibowo, Hugh E. Williams: On Using Hierarchies for Document Classification. Australian Document Computing Symposium 1999: 31-37
• 7 (RC). Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: Compact In-Memory Models for Compression of Large Text Databases. SPIRE/CRIWG 1999: 224-231
• 6 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Compressing Integers for Fast File Access. Comput. J. 42(3): 193-201 (1999)

1998

• 5 (RC). Hugh E. Williams: Cafe: An Indexed Approach to Searching Genomic Databases. SIGIR 1998: 389
• 4 (J). Hugh E. Williams: Compressed Indexing for Genomic Retrieval, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing. 9(2): 144-154 (1998)

1997

• 3 (J). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Compression of nucleotide databases for fast searching. Computer Applications in the Biosciences 13(5): 549-554 (1997)

1996

• 2 (RC). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Indexing Nucleotide Databases for Fast Query Evaluation. EDBT 1996: 275-288
• 1 (RC). Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel: Practical Compression of Nucleotide Databases. Australasian Computer Science Conference 1996: 184-193

Key: J, Journal. RC, Refereed Conference, UC, Unrefereed Conference. E, Editor. B, Book. BC, Book Chapter. BR, Book Review. PA, Patent Application. P, Issued Patent.