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Hua, X., Petrou, S., Coathup, V. , Carson, C., Kurinczuk, J. J., Quigley, M. A., Boyle, E. M., Johnson, S., MacFarlane, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-0977-7214 & Rivero-Arias, O.view all authors (2023). Gestational age and hospital admission costs from birth to childhood: a population-based record linkage study in England. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 108(5), pp. 485-491. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324763

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

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

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 (2022). 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

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

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). 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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., 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

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

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

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

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., 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

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. (1997). Parallel computing in information retrieval - An updated review. Journal of Documentation, 53(3), pp. 274-315. doi: 10.1108/eum0000000007201

Book Section

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

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

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: 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

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

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.

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., 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. 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

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, 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., 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., 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

Conference or Workshop Item

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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., 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. (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., 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.), 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., 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.

MacFarlane, A., Robertson, S. E. & McCann, J. A. (1995). On Concurrency Control for Inverted Files. Paper presented at the 18th Annual BCS Colloquium on Information Retrieval (BCS IRSG), 26-03-1996 - 27-03-1996, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Thesis

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)