Thomas Richard Lynam

Publications

Chapters in Books

• Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam and Egidio L. Terra. Question Answering by Passage Selection. In Advances in Open Domain Question Answering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006.
• G. V. Cormack, C. L. A. Clarke T. R. Lynam and C. R. Palmer. MultiText Experiments for TREC. In TREC: Experiments and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2006.

Journal Papers

• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R On-line Supervised Spam Filter Evaluation, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, July 2007.
• Bratko A., Cormack G. V., Filipic B., Lynam T. R. and Zupan B., Spam Filtering Using Statistical Data Compression Models, Journal of Machine Learning Research Dec 2006.

Conference Papers

• T.R. Lynam, G.V. Cormack. MultiText Legal Experiments at TREC 2008, Proceedings of TREC 2008: The Seventeenth Text Retrieval
  Conference, November 2008.
• Buttcher S., Clarke C.L.A, Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. MultiText Legal Experiments at TREC 2007, Proceedings of TREC 2007: The Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference, November 2007.
• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. Validity and power of t-test for comparing MAP and GMAP, SIGIR 2007, July 2007.
• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. Power and bias of subset pooling strategies, SIGIR 2007, July 2007.
• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. Statistical Precision of Information Retrieval Evaluation, SIGIR 2006, August 2006.
• Lynam T.R. and Cormack G.V. On-line Spam Filter Fusion, SIGIR 2006, August 2006.
• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. TREC 2005 Spam Track Overview in Proc. TREC 2005 - the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, 2005.
• Cormack G.V. and Lynam T.R. Spam Corpus Creation for TREC, Proc. CEAS 2005 - The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, Palo Alto, July 2005.
• Thomas R. Lynam, Chris Buckley, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack A multi-system analysis of document and term selection for blind feedback. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM conference on Information and knowledge management (CKIM 2004), Washington D.C., U.S.A.
• David L. Yeung, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam and Egidio L. Terra. Task-Specific Query Expansion. Presented at the 2003 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2003.
• C. L. A. Clarke and G. V. Cormack and G. Kemkes and M. Laszlo and T. R. Lynam and E. L. Terra and P. L. Tilker. Statistical Selection of Exact Answers. Presented at the 2002 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2002.
• C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, M. Laszlo, T. R. Lynam and E. L. Terra. The Impact of Corpus Size on Question Answering Performance. Short paper in Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002. Poster version .
• C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, T. R. Lynam, C. M. Li and G. L. McLearn. Web Reinforced Question Answering . Presented at the 2001 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2001), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2001.
• Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack and Thomas R. Lynam. Exploiting Redundancy in Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, September, 2001.
• T. R. Lynam, C. L. A. Clarke and G. V. Cormack. Information Extraction with Term Frequencies. Short paper in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, 2001.
• C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, D. I. E. Kisman and T. R. Lynam. Question Answering by Passage Selection . Presented at the Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2000.

Thesis

• Thomas Lynam. Spam Filter Improvement Through Measurement. PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, Computer Science, Waterloo,
  Ontario, May 2009
• Thomas Richard Lynam Exploitation of Redundant Inverse Term Frequency for Answer Extraction. Master Thesis, University of Waterloo, Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2002.