David Hawking's publications prior to joining CSIRO

David Hawking's personal homepage
I worked for CSIRO from 01 June 1998 to 01 July 2008.
My CSIRO publications are also available online.
In some cases, the PDF versions of papers on this site have been reduced to 10pt font, and diagram sizes have been slightly reduced to reduce the amount of paper required to print them.
My very first IR publication was created in a word/document processing system which used a proprietary document format. To my annoyance, I soon became unable to read or modify the file. The only useful version still available is a PostScript file.
Since 1992, I have prepared all my papers in LaTeX. All are still readable and modifiable (should I want to modify them), regardless of the operating system or text editor I happen to be using at the time.
This page is also available in BibTeX format.

Important note: Full-text versions of papers provided via this site are author versions. In the case of ACM publications (TOIS, SIGIR, CIKM, etc.) they are posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.

Please cite definitive versions as noted in the bibtex entries.

1998

22. ACSys TREC-7 Experiments (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Nick Craswell and Paul Thistlewaite
in Proceedings of TREC-7. , pp. 299-312.

21. Overview of TREC-7 Very Large Collection Track (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Nick Craswell and Paul Thistlewaite
in Proceedings of TREC-7. , pp. 91-104.

20. Coping with Growing Collections of Electronic Text (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Kerry Webb
in Proceedings of the Ninth Victorian Association for Library Automation Biennial Conference. , pp. 183-191.

1997

19. A Distributed-Memory Algorithm for Lexicon Building (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 44(1), pp. 80-87.

18. PADRE for COWs (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the Sixth Parallel Computing Workshop, PCW97. .

17. Scalable Text Retrieval for Large Digital Libraries (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the First European Conference on Digital Libraries. , pp. 127-146.

16. Overview of TREC-6 Very Large Collection Track (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Paul Thistlewaite
in Proceedings of TREC-6. , pp. 93-106.

15. ANU/ACSys TREC-6 Experiments (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Paul Thistlewaite and Nick Craswell
in Proceedings of TREC-6. , pp. 275-290.

1996

14. A Parallel Architecture For Query Processing over a Terabyte of Text (pdf) bibtex

Peter Bailey and David Hawking
Tech Report: , Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra.

13. Document Retrieval in OCR-Scanned Text (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the Sixth Parallel Computing Workshop. .

12. Document Retrieval Performance on Parallel Systems (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference On Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. , pp. 1354-1365.

11. A Parallel Document Retrieval Server for the World Wide Web (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Peter Bailey and David Campbell
in Proceedings of the Australian Document Computing Symposium. , pp. 73-78.

10. Relevance Weighting Using Distance Between Term Occurrences (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Paul Thistlewaite
Tech Report: , Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University.

9. ANU/ACSys TREC-5 Experiments (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Paul Thistlewaite and Peter Bailey
in Proceedings of TREC-5. , pp. 359-376.

1995

8. The Design and Implementation of a Parallel Document Retrieval Engine (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
Tech Report: , Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra.

7. Proximity Operators - So Near And Yet So Far (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Paul Thistlewaite
in Proceedings of TREC-4. , pp. 131-143.

6. A PADRE in MUFTI (A Multi User Free Text retrieval Intermediary) (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking, Peter Bailey and David Campbell, Paul Thistlewaite and Andrew Tridgell
in Proceedings of the Fourth International Parallel Computing Workshop. , pp. 75-84.

1994

5. PADRE --- A Parallel Document Retrieval Engine (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the Third Fujitsu Parallel Computing Workshop. .

4. Searching for Meaning with the help of a PADRE (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Paul Thistlewaite
in Proceedings of TREC-3. , pp. 257-267.

1993

3. Towards a Practical Information Retrieval System for the AP1000 (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking and Peter Bailey
in Proceedings of the Second Fujitsu Parallel Computing Workshop. .

1992

2. PADDY's Progress (Further Experiments in Free-Text Retrieval on the AP1000) (pdf) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the First Annual Users' Meeting of Fujitsu Parallel Computing Research Facilities. .

1991

1. High Speed Search of Large Text Bases On the Fujitsu Cellular Array Processor (ps) bibtex

David Hawking
in Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Supercomputing Conference. , pp. 83-90.