ADCS 2021 Programme

Note that all times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), UTC+11.

You can import the programme to your calendar using this .ics file.

Updates

We have moved the seminar which was originally on Thursday January 27th back to Tuesday January the 18th to avoid a clash with the SIGIR deadline.

Overview

ADCS will run as 7 seminars starting on December 9, 2021, through to February 24, 2022. The following image shows the program overview.

Full Program

Thursday 9 December, 2021

12pm-12.30pm (GMT+11) Conference Opening
12.30pm-1.30pm (GMT+11) Keynote: What users tell us: User Understanding and Modeling for Personalized Recommendation - Associate Professor Min Zhang, Tsinghua University [recording]

Thursday 13 January, 2022

12.30pm-1.30pm (GMT+11) Seminar Session 1
Hierarchical Clustering of Corals using Image Clustering - Rudra Sawant, Gianluca Demartini, and Tom Bridge [recording]
Cost-Effective Updating of Distributed Reordered Indexes - Joel Mackenzie and Alistair Moffat [recording] Best Paper Award.

Tuesday 18 January, 2022

12.30pm-1.30pm (GMT+11) Seminar Session 2
Document Clustering vs Topic Models: A Case Study - Meng Yuan, Pauline Lin, and Justin Zobel [recording]
MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search - Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, and Guido Zuccon [recording] Best Student Paper Award.

Thursday 20 January, 2022

12.30pm-1.30pm (GMT+11) Seminar Session 3
Annotation of Struck-out Text in Handwritten Documents - Hiqmat Nisa, Vic Ciesielski, James Thom, and Ruwan Tennakoon [recording]
Cohort-based Clinical Trial Retrieval - Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon [recording] Honourable Mention Best Paper Award.

Thursday 3 February, 2022

10am-11am (GMT+11) Seminar Session 4
Passage Based Answer-Set Graph Approach for Query Performance Prediction - Ghulam Sarwar and Colm O'Riordan [recording]
Crowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search - Manuel Steiner, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, and Lawrence Cavedon [recording]

Friday 11 February, 2022

4pm-5.30pm (GMT+11) Seminar Session 5
An Analysis of the Australian Political Discourse in Sponsored Social Media Content - Lei Han, Rudra Sawant, Shaoyang Fan, Glenn Kefford, and Gianluca Demartini [recording]
Business Meeting
Social Event

Thursday 24 February, 2022

12.30pm-1.30pm (GMT+11) Keynote: Maximising the potential of documents, NLP, and AI in an online employment marketplace: Technical and non-technical challenges - Dr. Terrence Szymanski, SEEK [recording]
Conference Closing

List of Accepted Papers

We accepted 9 out of 14 submissions, with an acceptance rate of 64%

The proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library.

  • An Analysis of the Australian Political Discourse in Sponsored Social Media Content
    Lei Han, Rudra Sawant, Shaoyang Fan, Glenn Kefford, and Gianluca Demartini
  • Annotation of Struck-out Text in Handwritten Documents
    Hiqmat Nisa, Vic Ciesielski, James Thom, and Ruwan Tennakoon
  • Cohort-based Clinical Trial Retrieval
    Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon
  • Cost-Effective Updating of Distributed Reordered Indexes
    Joel Mackenzie and Alistair Moffat
  • Crowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search
    Manuel Steiner, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, and Lawrence Cavedon
  • Document Clustering vs Topic Models: A Case Study
    Meng Yuan, Pauline Lin, and Justin Zobel
  • Hierarchical Clustering of Corals using Image Clustering
    Rudra Sawant, Gianluca Demartini, and Tom Bridge
  • MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search
    Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Harrisen Scells, Daniel Locke, and Guido Zuccon
  • Passage Based Answer-Set Graph Approach for Query Performance Prediction
    Ghulam Sarwar and Colm O'Riordan