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Kladouchou, V., Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893, Frankowska-Takhari, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-4930-7391 , Neate, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-1387-8168, Macfarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737, Wilson, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-6445-654X & Roper, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-6950-6294view all authors (2025). "The Internet is Hard. Is Words": Investigating Information Search Difficulties Experienced by People with Aphasia and strategies for Combatting Them. In: CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2025, 26 Apr - 1 May 2025, Yokohama, Japan. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713808

Reed, J., Macfarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893 (2024). Mobile search made easier: An ability-based mobile search prototype for people with dyslexia. In: CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. CHIIR '24: 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 10-14 March 2024, Sheffield, United Kingdom. doi: 10.1145/3627508.3638292

Gutierrez Lopez, M., Porlezza, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1400-5879, Cooper, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-8626 , Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893, MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Missaoui, S.view all authors (2023). A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines. Digital Journalism, 11(3), pp. 484-503. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2043759

Gutierrez Lopez,, M., Makri, S., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 , Porlezza, C., Cooper, G. & Missaoui, S.view all authors (2022). Making newsworthy news: The integral role of creativity and verification in the Human Information Behaviour that drives news story creation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 73(10), pp. 1445-1460. doi: 10.1002/asi.24647

Beveridge, L., Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893 & Macfarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 (2022). 'I’m just not sure.' The persistence of uncertainty in the information seeking of undergraduate students with dyslexia. In: Information Research: an international electronic journal. Information Seeking in Context (ISIC), 26-29 Sep 2022, Berlin, Germany. doi: 10.47989/irisic2207

MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737, Russell-Rose, T. & Shokraneh, F. (2022). Search Strategy Formulation for Systematic Reviews: issues, challenges and opportunities. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 15, article number 200091. doi: 10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200091

MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737, Missaoui, S., Makri, S. & Gutierrez Lopez, M.view all authors (2022). Sender vs Recipient Orientated Information Systems Revisited. Journal of Documentation, 78(2), pp. 485-509. doi: 10.1108/JD-10-2020-0177

Berget, G., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Pharo, N. (2021). Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: Are existing models applicable?. Journal of Documentation, 77(2), pp. 381-400. doi: 10.1108/jd-04-2020-0049

Russell-Rose, T. & MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 (2020). Towards Explainability in Professional Search. Paper presented at the The 3rd International Workshop on ExplainAble Recommendation and Search (EARS 2020), 30 July 2020, Xi'an, China.

Berget, G. & MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 (2020). What Is Known About the Impact of Impairments on Information Seeking and Searching?. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(5), pp. 596-611. doi: 10.1002/asi.24256

Cole, L., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893 (2020). More than Words: The Impact of Memory on How Undergraduates with Dyslexia Interact with Information. In: CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 14 - 18 March 2020, Vancouver, Canada. doi: 10.1145/3343413.3378005

McKay, D., Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893, Guiterrez-Lopez, M , MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737, Missaoui, S., Porlezza, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1400-5879 & Cooper, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-8626view all authors (2020). We are the Change that we Seek: Information Interactions During a Change of Viewpoint. In: CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20), 14 -18 March 2020, Vancouver, Canada. doi: 10.1145/3343413.3377975

Komatsu, T., Gutierrez Lopez, M, Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893 , Porlezza, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1400-5879, Cooper, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-8626, MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Missaoui, S.view all authors (2020). AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design. In: NordiCHI '20: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. NordiCHI 2020., 2 -29 Oct, Tallinn, Estonia.

MacFarlane, A., Missaoui, S. & Frankowska-Takhari, S. (2020). On machine learning and knowledge organisation in Multimedia Information Retrieval. Proceedings of ISKO UK Sixth Biennial Conference: The Human Position in an Artificial World: Creativity, Ethics and AI in Knowledge Organization., 47(1), pp. 45-55. doi: 10.5771/0943-7444-2020-1-45

Berget, G. & MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 (2019). Experimental Methods in IIR: The Tension between Rigour and Ethics in Studies Involving Users with Dyslexia. In: CHIIR '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. CHIIR '19: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 14-18 Mar 2020, Glasgow, UK. doi: 10.1145/3295750.3298939

Missaoui, S., Gutierrez-Lopez, M., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 , Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893, Porlezza, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1400-5879 & Cooper, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-8626view all authors (2019). How to Blend Journalistic Expertise with Artificial Intelligence for Research and Verifying News Stories. In: CHI 2019. CHI 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 04 - 09 May 2019, Glasgow, UK.

Gutierrez-Lopez, M., Missaoui, S., Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893 , Porlezza, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1400-5879, Cooper, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-8626 & MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737view all authors (2019). Journalists as Design Partners for AI. In: Workshop for accurate, impartial and transparent journalism: challenges and solutions. CHI 2019. CHI 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 04 - 09 May 2019, Glasgow, UK.

Butler, C., Makri, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-5817-4893, MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 , Wisdom, S. & Cooke, I.view all authors (2018). Sheltering the Dream and Protecting the Dreamer : The Role of Place and Space in the Online Interactions of Fiction Authors and Readers. In: OzCHI '18 Proceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. OZCHI 2018, 5-7 Dec 2018, Melbourne, Australia.

Abbas, Z., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 & Robinson, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5202-8206 (2017). Use of Mobile Technologies by Law Students in the Law Library: an Exploratory Study. Legal Information Management, 17(3), pp. 180-189. doi: 10.1017/s1472669617000354

Frankowska-Takhari, S., MacFarlane, A., Goker, A. S. & Stumpf, S.view all authors (2017). Selecting and tailoring of images for visual impact in online journalism. Information Research, 22(1), article number 1619.

Cole, L., MacFarlane, A. & Buchanan, G. (2016). Does dyslexia present barriers to information literacy in an online environment? A pilot studynformation Research. Library and Information Research, 40(123), pp. 24-46.

Konkova, E., MacFarlane, A. & Goker, G. (2016). Analysing Creative Image Search Information Needs. Knowledge Organization: international journal devoted to concept theory, classification, indexing, and knowledge representation, 43(1), pp. 13-21. doi: 10.5771/0943-7444-2016-1-13

Goeker, A., Butterworth, R., MacFarlane, A. , Ahmed, T. S. & Stumpf, S.view all authors (2016). Expeditions through image jungles The commercial use of image libraries in an online environment. Journal of Documentation, 72(1), pp. 5-23. doi: 10.1108/jd-01-2014-0019

MacFarlane, A. (2016). Knowledge Organisation and its Role in Multimedia Information Retrieval. Knowledge Organization, 43(3), pp. 180-183. doi: 10.5771/0943-7444-2016-3-180

Georgiou, D., MacFarlane, A. & Russell-Rose, T. (2015). Extracting Sentiment from Healthcare Survey Data: An Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Tools. In: 2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI). . IEEE. doi: 10.1109/SAI.2015.7237168

Margree, P., MacFarlane, A., Price, L. & Robinson, L.view all authors (2014). Information behaviour of music record collectors. Information Research: an international electronic journal, 19(4), article number 652.

Millan-Cifuentes, J. D., Goker, A. S., Myrhaug, H. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (2014). Curiosity driven search: When is relevance irrelevant? In: Elsweiler, D., Ludwig, B., Azzopardi, L. & Wilson, M.view all authors (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. (pp. 279-282). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2637002.2637042

Konkova, E., Goker, A. S., Butterworth, R. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (2014). Social Tagging: Exploring the Image, the Tags, and the Game. Knowledge Organization, 41(1), pp. 57-65. doi: 10.5771/0943-7444-2014-1-57

MacFarlane, A. (2013). Web Search Engine Research. Journal of Documentation, 69(4), pp. 594-596. doi: 10.1108/jd-04-2013-0047

Martin, C., Corney, D., Goker, A. S. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (2013). Mining Newsorthy Topics from Social Media. Paper presented at the BCS SGAI Workshop on Social Media Analysis 2013, 10-12-2013, Cambridge, UK.

Bhogal, Jagdev & MacFarlane, A. (2013). Ontology Based Query Expansion with a Probabilistic Retrieval Model. Paper presented at the 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2013, 07-10-2013 - 09-10-2013, Limassol, Cyprus.

Bhogal, Jagdev & MacFarlane, A. (2013). Ontology Based Query Expansion with a Probabilistic Retrieval Model. In: Lupu, M., Kanoulas, E. & Loizides, F. (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8201. (pp. 5-16). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41057-4_2

MacFarlane, A., Albrair, A., Marshall, C. R. & Buchanan, G.view all authors (2012). Phonological working memory impacts on information searching: An investigation of dyslexia. In: IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems. 4th Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 21-08-2012 - 24-08-2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

MacFarlane, A., Albrair, A., Marshall, C. R. & Buchanan, G.view all authors (2012). Phonological working memory impacts on information searching: an investigation of dyslexia. In: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. (pp. 27-34). New York, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2362724.2362734

Diplaris, S., Papadopoulos, S., Kompatsiaris, I. , Goker, A. S., MacFarlane, A., Spangenberg, J., Hacid, H., Maknavicius, L. & Klusch, M.view all authors (2012). SocialSensor: Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience. In: Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web. (pp. 243-246). New York, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2187980.2188020

Diplaris, S., Papadopoulos, S., Kompatsiaris, I. , Goker, A. S., MacFarlane, A., Spangenberg, J., Hacid, H., Maknavicius, L. & Klusch, M.view all authors (2012). SocialSensor: sensing user generated input for improved media discovery and experience. In: Mille, A, Gandon, FL, Misselis, J , Rabinovich, M & Staab, Sview all authors (Eds.), WWW (Companion Volume). The Twenty-first International WWW Conference, 16-04-2012 - 20-04-2012, Lyon, France. doi: 10.1145/2187980.2188020

Efthimiadis, E. N., Fernández Luna, J. M., Huete Guadix, J. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (2011). Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval. In: Efthimiadis, E. N., Fernandez-Luna, J. M., Huete, J. F. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (Eds.), Teaching and Learning Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, 31. (pp. 1-9). Berlin: Springer.

MacFarlane, A. (2011). Using Multiple Choice Questions to Assist Learning for Information Retrieval. In: Efthimiadis, E. N., FernandezLuna, J. M., Heute, J. F. & MacFarlane, A.view all authors (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval Series, 31. (pp. 107-121). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-22511-6_8

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2010). Creative professional users musical relevance criteria. Journal of Information Science, 36(4), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.1177/0165551510374006

MacFarlane, A., Secker, A., May, P. & Timmis, J.view all authors (2010). An experimental comparison of a genetic algorithm and a hill-climber for term selection. Journal of Documentation, 66(4), pp. 513-531. doi: 10.1108/00220411011052939

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2010). Organising music for movies. Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 62(4/5), pp. 489-501. doi: 10.1108/00012531011074726

MacFarlane, A., Al-Wabil, A., Marshall, C. R. , Albrair, A., Jones, S. A. & Zaphiris, P.view all authors (2010). The effect of dyslexia on information retrieval: A pilot study. Journal of Documentation, 66(3), pp. 307-326. doi: 10.1108/00220411011038421

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2010). Towards the disintermediation of creative music search: Analysing queries to determine important facets. In: International Journal of Digital Libraries. Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces (WEMIS 2009), 01 - 02 October 2009

MacFarlane, A., Inskip, C. & Rafferty, P. (2010). Upbeat and quirky with a bit of a build: Interpretive repertories in creative music search. Paper presented at the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010)(ISMIR 2010), 09 - 13 August 2010, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Fernandez-Luna, J. M., Huete, J. F., MacFarlane, A. & Efthimiadis, E. N.view all authors (2009). Teaching and learning in information retrieval. Information Retrieval, 12(2), pp. 201-226. doi: 10.1007/s10791-009-9089-9

Fernandez-Luna, J. M., Huete, J. F. & MacFarlane, A. (2009). Introduction to the special issue on teaching and learning in information retrieval. Information Retrieval, 12(2), pp. 99-101. doi: 10.1007/s10791-009-9090-3

MacFarlane, A. (2009). Models Performance Issues in Parallel Computing for Information Retrieval. In: Goker, A. S. & Davies, J. (Eds.), Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century. (pp. 255-271). John Wiley & Sons Inc.

MacFarlane, A. & Tuson, A. (2009). Local search: A guide for the information retrieval practitioner. Information Processing and Management, 45(1), pp. 159-174. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.002

Lu, W., MacFarlane, A. & Venuti, F. (2009). Okapi-based XML indexing. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 61(5), pp. 483-499. doi: 10.1108/00012530910989634

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2008). Content or context? Searching for musical meaning in task-based interactive information retrieval. IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, pp. 72-74.

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2008). Meaning, communication, music: Towards a revised communication model. Journal of Documentation, 64(5), pp. 687-706. doi: 10.1108/00220410810899718

MacFarlane, A. (2008). Teaching mathematics for search using a tutorial style of delivery. Information Retrieval, 12(2), pp. 162-178. doi: 10.1007/s10791-008-9078-4

Inskip, C., Butterworth, R. & MacFarlane, A. (2008). A study of the information needs of the users of a folk music library and the implications for the design of a digital library system. Information Processing and Management, 44(2), pp. 647-662. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.05.004

Inskip, C., MacFarlane, A. & Rafferty, P. (2008). Music, movies and meaning: communication in film-markers' search for pre-existing music, and the implications for music information retrieval. In: 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008). 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008), 14 - 18 September 2008, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.

Mountain, D. & MacFarlane, A. (2007). Geographic information retrieval in a mobile environment: evaluating the needs of mobile individuals. Journal of Information Science, 33(5), pp. 515-530. doi: 10.1177/0165551506075333

MacFarlane, A. (2007). Evaluation of web search for the information practitioner. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 59(4/5), pp. 352-366. doi: 10.1108/00012530710817573

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Robertson, S. E. (2007). Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 59(4/5), pp. 367-396. doi: 10.1108/00012530710817582

Wei, L., Robertson, S. & MacFarlane, A. (2007). CISR at INEX 2006. In: Fuhr, N., Lalmas, M. & Trotman, A. (Eds.), Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4518. (pp. 57-63). Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_6

MacFarlane, A. (2007). Pedagogic challenges in Information Retrieval – teaching mathematics to Postgraduate Information Science students. In: MacFarlane, A, Fernandez-Luna, JM, Ounis, I & Huete, JFview all authors (Eds.), TLIR 2007. 1st International Workshop on Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007), 10-01-2007 - 10-01-2007, London, UK.

Lu, W., Robertson, S., MacFarlane, A. & Zhao, L.view all authors (2007). Window based Enterprise Expert Search. In: Voorhees, EM (Ed.), NIST Special Publication SP 500-272. Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), 14-11-2006 - 17-11-2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Robertson, S. E., Lu, W. & MacFarlane, A. (2006). XML-structured documents: Retrievable units and inheritance. In: Larsen, HL, Pasi, G, OrtizArroyo, D , Andreasen, T & Christiansen, Hview all authors (Eds.), FLEXIBLE QUERY ANSWERING SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS. 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, 07-06-2006 - 10-06-2006, Milan, ITALY.

Lu, W., Robertson, S. & MacFarlane, A. (2006). CISR at INEX 2006. In: Fuhr, N, Lalmas, M & Trotman, A (Eds.), INEX. 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 17-12-2006 - 20-12-2006, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_6

MacFarlane, A., Lu, W. & Robertson, S. E. (2006). Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3977. (pp. 161-171). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-34963-1_12

Pickens, J. & MacFarlane, A. (2006). Term Context Models for Information Retrieval. Paper presented at the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 05-11-2006 - 11-11-2006, Arlington, Virginia.

Pickens, J. & MacFarlane, A. (2006). Term Context Models for Information Retrieval. In: Yu, PS (Ed.), CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management. (pp. 559-566). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1183614.1183694

Robertson, S. E., Lu, W. & MacFarlane, A. (2006). XML-structured documents: Retrievable units and inheritance. In: Larsen, H. L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D. , Andreasen, T. & Christiansen, H.view all authors (Eds.), Flexible Query Answering Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4027. (pp. 121-132). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/11766254_11

Richter, G. & MacFarlane, A. (2005). The impact of metadata on the accuracy of automated patent classification. World Patent Information, 27(1), pp. 13-26. doi: 10.1016/j.wpi.2004.08.001

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Robertson, S. E. (2005). Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 57(5), pp. 434-459. doi: 10.1108/00012530510621888

Lu, W., Robertson, S. E. & MacFarlane, A. (2005). Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25. In: Fuhr, N, Lalmas, M, Malik, S & Kazai, Gview all authors (Eds.), INEX. 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 28-11-2005 - 30-11-2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany,. doi: 10.1007/11766278_12

MacFarlane, A., Petrie, H. & Jones, S. A. (2005). A user study on the effect of Dyslexia on Information Retrieval. In: UNSPECIFIED . UNSPECIFIED.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, F. A. (2004). Parallel computing for passage retrieval. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 56(4), pp. 201-211. doi: 10.1108/00012530410549231

Vakkari, P., Jones, S., MacFarlane, A. & Sormunen, E.view all authors (2004). Query exhaustivity, relevance feedback and search success in automatic and interactive query expansion. Journal of Documentation, 60(2), pp. 109-127. doi: 10.1108/00220410410522016

Taheri-Panah, S. & MacFarlane, A. (2004). Music Information Retrieval systems: why do individuals use them and what are their needs?. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 10-10-2004 - 14-10-2004, Barcelona, Spain.

MacFarlane, A. (2003). On open source IR. Aslib Proceedings; New Information Perspectives, 55(4), pp. 217-222. doi: 10.1108/00012530310486575

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (2003). Parallel computing for term selection in routing/filtering. In: Sebastiani, F (Ed.), ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2003), 14-04-2003 - 16-04-2003, Pisa, Italy.

MacFarlane, A. (2003). Pliers and snowball at CLEF 2002. In: Peters, C, Braschler, M, Gonzalo, J & Kluck, Mview all authors (Eds.), ADVANCES IN CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. 3rd Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2002), 19-09-2002 - 20-09-2002, ROME, ITALY.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (2003). Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. In: Sebastiani, F. (Ed.), Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2633. (pp. 537-545). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/3-540-36618-0_40

MacFarlane, A. (2003). Pliers and snowball at CLEF 2002. In: Petersen, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J. & Kluck, M.view all authors (Eds.), Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2785. (pp. 321-335). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_27

MacFarlane, A. (2003). Pliers at TREC 2002. In: Voorhees, E (Ed.), NIST Special Publication SP 500-251. Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002), 19-11-2002 - 22-11-2002, Gaithersburg, USA.

MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-8057-0737 (2000). Distributed Inverted Files and Performance: A Study of Parallelism and Data Distribution Methods in IR. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London)

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Robertson, S. E. (2000). Parallel search using partitioned inverted files. In: Seventh International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2000. SPIRE 2000. Proceedings. (pp. 209-220). IEEE COMPUTER SOC. doi: 10.1109/SPIRE.2000.878197

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (2000). PLIERS AT TREC8. In: Voorhees, EM (Ed.), NIST Special Publication 500-246. Eight Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), 16-11-1999 - 19-11-1999, Gaithersburg, USA.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (1999). PLIERS at TREC8 - Appendix. In: TREC. Eight Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), 16-11-1999 - 19-11-1999, Gaithersburg, USA.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (1999). PLIERS at VLC2. In: Voorhees, EM & Harman, DK (Eds.), NIST Special Publication 500-242. Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), 09-11-1999, Gaithersburg, USA.

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Robertson, S. E. (1999). PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System Using MPI. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E. & Margalef, T. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1697. (pp. 317-324). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/3-540-48158-3_39

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Robertson, S. E. (1999). PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System using MPI. In: Dongarra, J, Luque, E & Margalef, T (Eds.), LNCS. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 8th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, 26-09-199 - 29-09-1999, Santorini/Thera, Greece.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (1997). Parallel computing in information retrieval - An updated review. Journal of Documentation, 53(3), pp. 274-315. doi: 10.1108/eum0000000007201

MacFarlane, A., McCann, J. A. & Liddell, H. (1996). A Common Data Model for Meta-Data in Interoperable Environments. Paper presented at the 2nd international Baltic conference on IS and DB, 12-06-1996 - 14-06-1996, Tallinn, Estonia.

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