Ronan Cummins (BEng MSc PhD)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group and hold an IRCSET-Marie Curie International Mobility Fellowship. I will be returning to the Dept. of Information Technology  in NUI, Galway to complete my fellowship with the Computational Intelligence Research Group .


I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the CIRG group in NUI, Galway.

My broad research interests include information retrieval, artificial intelligence and evolutionary computation.

 

 

Contact

Email:ronan.cummins@nuigalway.ie or ronanc@dcs.gla.ac.uk


Projects

I have conducted research in the following areas:

 

Teaching

Worked as a contract lecturer in the Department of Information Technology, NUI Galway.

Courses taught:

    CT102    Algorithms and Information systems (Spring 2009) - Sorting algorithms, Dynamic Programming
    CT108    Future Technologies I (Spring 2009) - Semantic Web
    CT244    Information Systems II (Spring 2009) - Databases, IR, PageRank

    CT331    Programming Paradigms (Spring 2008) - Functional Programming, Object-Orientated Programming, Logic Programming.

    CT246    Introduction to programming (Spring 2007) - Introduction to C
    CS102    Computer Science (Spring 2007) - Introduction to Computer science

    CT244    Information Systems II (Spring 2006) - Databases, Collaborative Filtering and IR

Facilitated online courses as part of the MSc in Software Engineering and Database Technologies, NUI Galway.

Modules facilitated:

    MCT610    Software Engineering
    MCT611    Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
    MCT612    Application Programming
    MCT619    Object Oriented Programming


Publications

 

2012

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. On Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrieval, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012.

 

Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Martin Halvey, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon Jose. Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queries, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012.

 

2011

 

Ronan Cummins. Measuring the Ability of Score Distributions to Model Relevance. Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, Dubai, AIRS 2011.

 

Ronan Cummins. Predicting Query Performance Directly from Score Distributions. Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, Dubai, AIRS 2011.

 

Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, and Joemon M. Jose. Evaluating Large-Scale Distributed Vertical Search. Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'11), Glasgow, October, CIKM 2011.

 

Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O'Riordan and Joemon M. Jose. Navigating the User Query Space. Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Pisa, October, SPIRE 2011.

 

Ronan Cummins, Joemon M. Jose and Colm O'Riordan. Improved Query Performance Prediction Using Standard Deviation. SIGIR, Beigiun 2011.

 

Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. The Limits of Retrieval Effectiveness. ECIR European Conference on Information Retrieval, Dublin, April, 2011.

 

2010

 

Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. Examining the Information Retrieval Process from an Inductive Perspective. ACM CIKM Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, October 26-30, 2010.

 

Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas and Colm O'Riordan. Learning Aggregation Functions for Expert Search. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2010, Lisbon.

 

Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan and Mounia Lalmas. An Analysis of Learned Proximity Functions. 9th International conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information, RIAO 2010, Paris.

 

2009

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Learning in a pairwise term-term proximity framework for information retrieval, SIGIR 2009.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Measuring constraint violations in information retrieval, SIGIR 2009.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. The Effect of Query Length on Normalisation in Information Retrieval, AICS 2009. 


2008

 

Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan. DERI at TREC 2008 Enterprise Search Track. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), NIST Special Publication, 2008.

 

2007

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Using Genetic Programming for Information Retrieval: Local and Global Query Expansion. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) London, July, 2007.  

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An axiomatic comparison of learned term-weighting schemes in information retrieval: clarifications and extensions. Artificial Intelligence Review, 2007.


Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An Axiomatic study of learned weighting schemes. Learning to Rank Workshop, SIGIR Amsterdam, July, 2007.


2006

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. A Framework for the study of Evolved Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval. Text based Information Retrieval, Workshop. ECAI 2006.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An analysis of the Solution Space for Genetically Programmed Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval. Artificial Intelligence Review, 2006.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An analysis of the Solution Space for Genetically Programmed Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval. 17th Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (AICS 2006), 2006.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving Local and Global Weigthting Schemes for Information Retrieval Journal of Information Retrieval 2006.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Term-Weighting in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming: A three stage process. ECAI 2006.


2005

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval. CIKM '05: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2005.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving General Term-Weigthting Schemes for Information Retrieval: Tests on Larger Collections, Artificial Intelligence Review, 2005

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving Co-occurrence Based Query Expansion Schemes in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming, 16th Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sience Conference (AICS 2005), September 7-9, 2005

 

2004

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Determining General Term Weighting Schemes for the Vector Space Model of Information Retrieval Using Genetic Programming Artifificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Using Genetic Programming to Evolve Weighting Schemes for the Vector Space Model of Information Retrieval. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (LBP), Seattle, Washington, June 26-30, 2004.

 

 

Technical Reports

 


2005

 

Ronan Cummins. An Analysis of Evolved Term-weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval, SIGIR Doctoral Consortium , August 15, 2005

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving Term-Selection Schemes for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Information Retrieval. Technical report of Dept. of Information Technology, NUI, Galway, Ireland, 2005.

 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Developing Local Term-Weighting schemes in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming Technical report of Dept. of Information Technology, NUI, Galway, Ireland, 2005.

 

2004


 

Ronan Cummins and Colm O'Riordan. Evolving, Analysing and Improving Global Term-Weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval Technical Report of Dept. of Information Retrieval, NUI, Galway.
 
 

Other Research Activities
 

Reviewer for Journal of Information Retrieval, RecSys 2008, GECCO 2009, GECCO 2010, WWW 2010, SIGKDD 2010, AICS 2010, ECIR 2011, AICS 2011, IJCNLP 2011
 

GECCO real-world track Program Comittee 2009, 2010, and 2011
 

AICS Program Comittee for 2010, and 2011