Research
Senior applied scientist
Yuxin Wang, Paul Thomas, Zhiwei Yu, Yuan Gao, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi, Robert Sim, Nick Craswell
2026 EMNLP Workshop on Grounding Language Models | October 2026
Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | April 2026, Vol 44(4)
Miriam Wanner, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Soham Dan, Ben Van Durme, Nick Craswell
October 2025
arXiv | October 2025
preprint arXiv:2510.07083
Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025
Johanne R Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, Mohammad Aliannejadi, James Allan, Enrique Amigó, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Nick Craswell, Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Zhicheng Dou, Carsten Eickhoff, Michael Ekstrand, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Dorota Glowacka, Faegheh Hasibi, Danula Hettiachchi, Rosie Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Sarvnaz Karimi, Makoto P. Kato, Bevan Koopman, Yiqun Liu, Chenglong Ma, Joel Mackenzie, Maria Maistro, Jiaxin Mao, Dana McKay, Bhaskar Mitra, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Josiane Mothe, Iadh Ounis, Lida Rashidi, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Rodrygo Santos, Falk Scholer, Chirag A Shah, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Julián Urbano, Arjen P. de Vries, Ryen W. White, Abby Yuan, Hamed Zamani, Oleg Zendel, Min Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Justin Zobel, Guido Zuccon
ACM SIGIR Forum | June 2025, Vol 59(1): pp. 1-68
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L A Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
Web Search and Data Mining | March 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
February 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
The Web Conference | January 2025
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific | December 2024
Best paper nomination
Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
September 2024
Workshop proceedings | September 2024
Hossein A Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L A Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli
August 2024
August 2024
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
August 2024
Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
An earlier version of this paper appeared as arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10621v1 [cs.IR].
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Workshop description
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell, Seth Spielman
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Best paper nomination
Oleg Zendel, J Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2024
Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas Belkin
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGIR Conference On Human Information Interaction And Retrieval | January 2023
Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2022
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen W. White, Nick Craswell
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | August 2021, Vol 39(4)
Article 39
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Kael Rowan, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski
SIGIR 2021 | July 2021
Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith
March 2021
March 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
Future Conversations | March 2021
David Hawking, Bodo von Billerbeck, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Published by Morgan & Claypool | September 2020
Editor(s): Gary Marchionini
ISBN: 9781681739571
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2020
Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020
An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.
Johanne R Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon
Information Processing and Management | March 2020, Vol 57(2)
Paul Thomas, Bodo von Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | December 2019, Vol 38(1)
Article 10
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | June 2019
Johanne Trippas, Paul Thomas
Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2019
Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell
Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2018
Best paper award
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2018
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2018
Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2017
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction | November 2017
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | August 2017
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Marijana Bacic, Tom Gedeon, Xindi Li
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association | August 2017, Vol 66(4): pp. 364-381
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | August 2017
Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | June 2017, Vol 35(3)
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2017
Vincent Au, Paul Thomas, Gaya K Jayasinghe
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2016
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | November 2016, Vol 67(11): pp. 2607-2619
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on on Information and Knowledge Management | October 2016
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2016
Yuxin Wang, Paul Thomas, Zhiwei Yu, Yuan Gao, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi, Robert Sim, Nick Craswell
2026 EMNLP Workshop on Grounding Language Models | October 2026
Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Miriam Wanner, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Soham Dan, Ben Van Durme, Nick Craswell
October 2025
arXiv | October 2025
preprint arXiv:2510.07083
Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
February 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
The Web Conference | January 2025
Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
September 2024
Workshop proceedings | September 2024
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
August 2024
Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
An earlier version of this paper appeared as arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10621v1 [cs.IR].
Yuxin Wang, Paul Thomas, Zhiwei Yu, Yuan Gao, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi, Robert Sim, Nick Craswell
2026 EMNLP Workshop on Grounding Language Models | October 2026
Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | April 2026, Vol 44(4)
Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025
Johanne R Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, Mohammad Aliannejadi, James Allan, Enrique Amigó, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Nick Craswell, Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Zhicheng Dou, Carsten Eickhoff, Michael Ekstrand, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Dorota Glowacka, Faegheh Hasibi, Danula Hettiachchi, Rosie Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Sarvnaz Karimi, Makoto P. Kato, Bevan Koopman, Yiqun Liu, Chenglong Ma, Joel Mackenzie, Maria Maistro, Jiaxin Mao, Dana McKay, Bhaskar Mitra, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Josiane Mothe, Iadh Ounis, Lida Rashidi, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Rodrygo Santos, Falk Scholer, Chirag A Shah, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Julián Urbano, Arjen P. de Vries, Ryen W. White, Abby Yuan, Hamed Zamani, Oleg Zendel, Min Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Justin Zobel, Guido Zuccon
ACM SIGIR Forum | June 2025, Vol 59(1): pp. 1-68
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L A Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
Web Search and Data Mining | March 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
February 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
The Web Conference | January 2025
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific | December 2024
Best paper nomination
Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
September 2024
Workshop proceedings | September 2024
Hossein A Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L A Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli
August 2024
August 2024
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
August 2024
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Workshop description
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell, Seth Spielman
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Best paper nomination
Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
An earlier version of this paper appeared as arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10621v1 [cs.IR].
Oleg Zendel, J Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2024
Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas Belkin
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGIR Conference On Human Information Interaction And Retrieval | January 2023
Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2022
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen W. White, Nick Craswell
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | August 2021, Vol 39(4)
Article 39
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Kael Rowan, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski
SIGIR 2021 | July 2021
Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith
March 2021
March 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
Future Conversations | March 2021
David Hawking, Bodo von Billerbeck, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Published by Morgan & Claypool | September 2020
Editor(s): Gary Marchionini
ISBN: 9781681739571
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2020
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020
An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.
Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
Johanne R Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon
Information Processing and Management | March 2020, Vol 57(2)
Paul Thomas, Bodo von Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | December 2019, Vol 38(1)
Article 10
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | June 2019
Johanne Trippas, Paul Thomas
Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2019
Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell
Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2018
Best paper award
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2018
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2018
Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2017
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction | November 2017
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | August 2017
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Marijana Bacic, Tom Gedeon, Xindi Li
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association | August 2017, Vol 66(4): pp. 364-381
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | August 2017
Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | June 2017, Vol 35(3)
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2017
Vincent Au, Paul Thomas, Gaya K Jayasinghe
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2016
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | November 2016, Vol 67(11): pp. 2607-2619
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on on Information and Knowledge Management | October 2016
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2016
Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen W. White, Nick Craswell
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | August 2021, Vol 39(4)
Article 39
Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith
March 2021
March 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
Future Conversations | March 2021
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2020
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020
An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2018
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction | November 2017
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | August 2017
Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020
An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.
Yuxin Wang, Paul Thomas, Zhiwei Yu, Yuan Gao, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi, Robert Sim, Nick Craswell
2026 EMNLP Workshop on Grounding Language Models | October 2026
Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026
Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026
Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025
Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L A Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
Web Search and Data Mining | March 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
The Web Conference | January 2025
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific | December 2024
Best paper nomination
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Workshop description
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell, Seth Spielman
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
Best paper nomination
Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2024
An earlier version of this paper appeared as arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10621v1 [cs.IR].
Oleg Zendel, J Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2024
Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas Belkin
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGIR Conference On Human Information Interaction And Retrieval | January 2023
Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2022
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, Nicolay Rusnachenko
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen W. White, Nick Craswell
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2022
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2021
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Kael Rowan, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski
SIGIR 2021 | July 2021
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
Future Conversations | March 2021
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2020
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020
An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.
Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019
Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | June 2019
Johanne Trippas, Paul Thomas
Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2019
Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell
Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2018
Best paper award
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2018
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell, Gloria Mark
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2018
Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2017
Daniel McDuff, Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction | November 2017
Paul Thomas, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | August 2017
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | August 2017
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2017
Vincent Au, Paul Thomas, Gaya K Jayasinghe
Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2016
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on on Information and Knowledge Management | October 2016
Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2016
Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | April 2026, Vol 44(4)
Johanne R Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, Mohammad Aliannejadi, James Allan, Enrique Amigó, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Nick Craswell, Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Zhicheng Dou, Carsten Eickhoff, Michael Ekstrand, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Dorota Glowacka, Faegheh Hasibi, Danula Hettiachchi, Rosie Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Sarvnaz Karimi, Makoto P. Kato, Bevan Koopman, Yiqun Liu, Chenglong Ma, Joel Mackenzie, Maria Maistro, Jiaxin Mao, Dana McKay, Bhaskar Mitra, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Josiane Mothe, Iadh Ounis, Lida Rashidi, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Rodrygo Santos, Falk Scholer, Chirag A Shah, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Julián Urbano, Arjen P. de Vries, Ryen W. White, Abby Yuan, Hamed Zamani, Oleg Zendel, Min Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Justin Zobel, Guido Zuccon
ACM SIGIR Forum | June 2025, Vol 59(1): pp. 1-68
Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | August 2021, Vol 39(4)
Article 39
Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
Johanne R Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon
Information Processing and Management | March 2020, Vol 57(2)
Paul Thomas, Bodo von Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | December 2019, Vol 38(1)
Article 10
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Marijana Bacic, Tom Gedeon, Xindi Li
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association | August 2017, Vol 66(4): pp. 364-381
Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
ACM Transactions on Information Systems | June 2017, Vol 35(3)
Jaewon Kim, Paul Thomas, Ramesh Sankaranarayana, Tom Gedeon, Hwan-Jin Yoon
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | November 2016, Vol 67(11): pp. 2607-2619
Miriam Wanner, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Soham Dan, Ben Van Durme, Nick Craswell
October 2025
arXiv | October 2025
preprint arXiv:2510.07083
Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
September 2024
Workshop proceedings | September 2024
Hossein A Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L A Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli
August 2024
August 2024
Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith
March 2021
March 2021
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
February 2025
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
August 2024
David Hawking, Bodo von Billerbeck, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
Published by Morgan & Claypool | September 2020
Editor(s): Gary Marchionini
ISBN: 9781681739571
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services