Andrew MacFarlane
Senior Lecturer
Dr Andrew MacFarlane Senior Lecturer
Room: A304E
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
andym@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8386
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
Andy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at City University, and currently co-directs the Centre of Interactive Systems Research with Prof Stephen Robertson of Microsoft Research Cambridge. He got his PhD in Information Science from the same Department under the supervision of Prof Robertson and Dr J.A. McCann (now at Imperial College London). His research interests currently focus on a number of areas including parallel computing for information retrieval, disabilities and Information Retrieval (dyslexia in particular), AI techniques for Information Retrieval and Filtering, and Open Source Software Developement. He is the Chair of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group and is a long standing member of that SG. He was the principle investigator for a project funded by Microsoft Research entitled "Improving tools for investigating linguistic and probabilistic models in IR: an XML indexer for Okapi". He has also done some consultancy work for the Mitre Corporation and Microsoft Research Cambridge on the Okapi system.
Recent Publications
- A. MacFarlane, A. Al-Wabil, C. Marshall, S. A. Jones, A. Albrair, and P. Zaphiris. (2010) The effect of dyslexia on Information Retrieval: a pilot study. Journal of Documentation (to appear).
- J.M. Fernandez-Luna, J.F. Huete, A. MacFarlane and E. Efthimiadis. (2009). Review of Teaching and Learning in IR, Special Issue of Teaching and Learning in IR, Information Retrieval, 12(2).
- A. MacFarlane and A. Tuson. (2009) Local Search: A guide for the Information Retrieval Practitioner, Information Processing and Management, 45 (1).
- C. Inskip, A. MacFarlane and P. Rafferty (2009) Towards the Disintermediation of Creative Music Search: Analysing Queries To Determine Important Facets, Proceedings of WEMIS 2009 (to appear).