Dr Paul Clough

Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

BEng (York), PhD (Sheffield)

Teaching

I am coordinator of five undergraduate and postgraduate courses: Information Retrieval (UG and PGT), Database Design (UG and PGT); and Information Systems in Healthcare (PGT). I teach mainly on the more technical aspects of information management and am interested particularly in the representation and storage of data and information.

Professional standing

• Member of RIN (Research Information Network)
• Member of the CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) steering committee

Research interests

My research interests mainly revolve around developing technologies to assist people with accessing and managing information. Much of my research has focused on Information Retrieval (IR) of natural language texts within various domains and contexts, such as Multilingual Information Retrieval, Text-Based Image Retrieval, Geographic Information Retrieval and user- and system-oriented evaluation of IR systems. A theme of my research has been to create re-usable resources (corpora and test collections) for the wider research community. A substantial amount of research has involved non-academic institutions or industrial collaborators, including the UK Press Association, Ordnance Survey, the UK National Archives, OCLC Inc., Alinari, the Netherlands Sound and Vision Archives, Press Association Images and Tate Online. U have co-authored a textbook on multilingual information retrieval and written over 80 peer-reviewed publications in my research area. I have been Principal Investigator in three EU-funded projects: PATHS, MultiMatch and Memoir and overall coordinator of an international evaluation campaign for image retrieval systems called ImageCLEF. See http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/ for more information.

Key publications

Rorissa, A., Clough, P. and Deselaers, T. (2008), Exploring the relationship between feature and perceptual visual spaces, In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 59(5), pp. 770-784.

Cox, A., Clough, P. and Marlow, J. (2008), Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure, Information Research, 13(1) paper 336. [Available, 6 January, 2008 at http://InformationR.net/ir/13-1/paper336.html].

Marlow, J., Clough, P., Ireson, N., Cigarrán Recuero, J., Artiles, J. and Debole, F. (2008), The MultiMatch Project: Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage on the Web, In Museums on the Web Conference (MW2008): Proceedings, J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. 2008.

Marlow, J., Clough, P., Cigarrán Recuero, J. and Artiles, J. (2008), Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search, In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'08), Glasgow, UK, April 2008.

Deselaers, T., Müller, H., Clough, P., Ney, H. and Lehmann, T. (2007), The CLEF 2005 Automatic Medical Image Annotation Task, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 74(1), pp. 51–58.

Purves, R.S., Clough, P., Jones, C.B., Arampatzis, A., Bucher, B., Finch, D., Fu, G., Joho, H., Khirini, A.S., Vaid, S., and Yang, B. (2007), The Design and Implementation of SPIRIT: a Spatially-Aware Search Engine for Information Retrieval on the Internet, International Journal Geographic Information Systems (IJGIS), Volume 21(7), January 2007, pp. 717 - 745.

Clough, P. (2007), Large-scale evaluation of cross-language image retrieval systems, ASIST Bulletin, Feb-Mar 2007.

Al-Maskari, A., Sanderson, M. and Clough, P. (2007), Arabic Users' Satisfaction with the Online Information as Obtained from Google , In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), Borås, Sweden, August 13-16.

Al-Maskari, A., Sanderson, M., and Clough, P.D. (2007), The Relationship between IR Effectiveness Measures and Users´ Satisfaction, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR2007 Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 773-774.

Marlow, J., Clough, P., and Dance, K. (2007), Multilingual needs of cultural heritage website visitors: A case study of Tate Online, In International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM07): Proceedings, J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. 2007. Published September 30, 2007 at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/marlow/marlow.html.

Clough, P. and Sanderson, M. (2006), User Experiments with the Eurovision Cross-Language Image Retrieval System, In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) Special Topic Section on Multilingual Information Systems, Volume 57(5), pp. 697 - 708.

Purves, R. and Clough, P. (2006), Judging spatial relevance and document location for Geographic Information Retrieval, extended abstract, In Proceedinfgs of 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2006), Münster, Germany, September 2006, pp. 159-164.

Clough, P.D., Joho, H. and Purves, R. (2006) Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR, In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'06), London, UK, April 2006, Springer-Verlag LNCS Volume 3936, pp. 548-552.

A. Arampatzis, M. van Kreveld., I. Reinbacher, C.B. Jones, S. Vaid, P.D. Clough, H. Joho, and M. Sanderson (2005), Web-based delineation of imprecise regions, In the Journal of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS), Volume 30(4), pp. 436-459.

Purves, R., Clough, P. and Joho, H. (2005), Identifying imprecise regions for geographic information retrieval using the web, In Proceedings of GIS RESEARCH UK 13th Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, pp. 313-318.

Müller, H., Clough, P., Hersh, W., Deselaers, T., Lehmann, T. and Geissbuhler, A. (2005), Axes for the evaluation of medical image retrieval systems - the Image CLEF experience, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2005 (Brave New Topics track), 6-12 November, Singapore, pp. 1014-1022.

Bucher, B., Clough, P., Joho, H., Purves, R., and Syed, A. K. (2005), Geographic IR Systems: Requirements and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, CD-ROM.

Clough, P. and Stevenson, M. (2004), Cross-Language Information Retrieval using EuroWordnet and Word Sense Disambiguation, In Advances in Information Retrieval, McDonald and Tait (Eds), Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'04), Sunderland, UK, April 2004, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2997, pp.327-337.

Sanderson, M., Clough, P.D., Paterson C. and Tung Lo, W. (2004), Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System, In Advances in Information Retrieval, McDonald and Tait (Eds), Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'04), Sunderland, UK, April 2004, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2997, pp.353-363.

Clough, P. and Sanderson, M.(2004), The Effects of Relevance Feedback in Cross Language Image Retrieval, In Advances in Information Retrieval, McDonald and Tait (Eds), Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'04), Sunderland, UK, April 2004, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2997, pp.238-252.

Gaizauskas, R., Burnard, L., Clough, P. and Piao, S.L. (2003), Using the XARA XML-Aware Corpus Query Tool to investigate the METER Corpus. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2003, Lancaster, UK.

Clough, P., Gaizauskas, R. and Piao, S. L. (2002), Building and annotating a corpus for the study of journalistic text reuse. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-02), pp.1678-1691 (Vol V), 29-31st May 2002, Los Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Clough, P.D., Gaizauskas, Piao, S.L. and Wilks, Y. (2002), Measuring Text Reuse, In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2002), Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp.152-159.

Gaizauskas, R., Foster, J., Wilks, Y., Arundel, J., Clough, P. and Piao, S.L. (2001), The METER corpus: a corpus for analysing journalistic text reuse, In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster, UK, pp.214-223.

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Last updated: 28 October 2012