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 .


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 include Information Systems, Algorithms and Databases.

Currently not teaching. 

 

Publications

 

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.