Samuel Huston
BCS (University of Melbourne) sjh(a)cs.umass.edu
I'm currently a PhD student studying at Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am supervised by Professor W. Bruce Croft.
Research Interests
I'm interested in the problems related to effectively processing of complex retrieval models. Particularly, I'm interested in improving the efficiency and throughput of long and complex queries.
I'm also interested in the problems related to the effective distribution of search engine functions across cluster computers. This involves large scale indexing and efficient distributed retrieval.
I've been working recently on a new search engine Galago, it is hosted in the Lemur Project. Galago is a scalable and extensible search engine. One novel feature of this search engine is the extensible query language.
Publications
- 2011 Samuel Huston, Alistair Moffat, W. Bruce Croft, Efficient Indexing of Repeated n-Grams. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Hong Kong, China, 2011
- 2010 Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft, Improving Verbose Queries using Subset Distribution. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Toronto, Canada, 2010
- 2010 Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft, Evaluating Verbose Query Processing Techniques. Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010
- 2008 Samuel Huston, Jakob Puchinger, Peter Stuckey The Core Concept for 0/1 Integer Programming. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology. Vol 77: Theory of Computing, CATS 2008, Wollongong, Austrlia, 2008