Hugh E. Williams is Principal Development Manager at Microsoft's Live Search. Personal email address:

Publications

2007

• 72 (RC). Andrew Turpin, Yohannes Tsegay, David Hawking, Hugh E. Williams: Fast generation of result snippets in web search. SIGIR 2007: 127-134
• 71 (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)
• 70 (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)
• 69 (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

• 68 (RC). Michael Cameron, Yaniv Bernstein, Hugh E. Williams: Clustering Near-Identical Sequences for Fast Homology Search. RECOMB 2006: 175-189
• 67 (J). Nicholas Lester, Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: Efficient online index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists. Inf. Process. Manage. 42(4): 916-933 (2006)
• 66 (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)
• 65 (B). Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams: Learning MySQL, O'Reilly Media Inc., 2006.

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.