Staff Profile
Rob McArthur
Post Doctoral Fellow
Information Engineering
Information Retrieval
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra
Contact Details
CSIRO ICT Centre
Building 108, Australian National University Campus North Road,
Acton ACT 0200, Australia
Mail: GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
E-mail: Robert.McArthur@csiro.au
Telephone: +61 2 6216 7040
Fax: +61 2 6216 7111
Overview
Robert joined CSIRO after 7 years at
DSTC as a research scientist
and nearly 5 year prior to that lecturing at
QUT. His interests originally
were in the area of information retrieval, in which he worked on the
Guidebeam product - an automatic interactive query reformulation
engine. Over the past five years, he has been working in the
conjoint set of the areas of cognitive science, knowledge
management, text mining and philosophy. Specifically, this has meant
bringing together for the first time philosophical work on the
socio-cognitive representation of meaning in people's communication,
with specific cognitive algorithms that have been proven, in closed
experiments, to represent meaning. The ideas have been successfully
tested in a number of domains such as health-related mailing lists,
intelligence-related and corporate emails, and post-hoc fraud
analysis.
Key Skills
Robert has considerably better than average key skills in a
variety of areas:
Writing: editing (including professional work as an editor),
correction and authoring
Research: finding information, choosing appropriate sources,
determining source quality
Organisation: meeting facilitation and group decision making
Presentation: public speaking, preparation of notes and materials,
mindmapping
Photography: most aspects, digital post processing
Software engineering: C, Perl and Java (and he has forgotten
another 10+ languages)
Professional Interests
Robert is interested in socio-cognitively motivated text
mining, semantic spaces, and online communities. He is also
interested in analysis of email, blogs and mailing lists in novel
ways.
Professional Memberships
Robert reviews papers for the the IP&M journal, and the
SIGIR and ADCS conferences.
Professional Qualifications
PhD (QUT) "Computing with meaning by operationalising
socio-cognitive semantics" in 2007
MInfTech (QUT) completed in 1998
Grad Cert Ed (Higher Ed) (QUT) completed in 1996
BSc(Hons) (ANU) completed in 1987
Publications
Books and Book Chapters
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Dimensional representations
of knowledge in online community. Chapter in
Chance Discovery, Ohsawa, Y. and McBurney, P. (Eds),
Springer-Verlag. pp98-114
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Discovery of tacit knowledge
and topical ebbs and flows within the utterances of online
community. Chapter in
Chance Discovery, Ohsawa, Y. and McBurney, P. (Eds),
Springer-Verlag. pp115-132
Journal Articles
Bruza, P.D., Song, D., McArthur, R. (2004) Abduction in semantic
space: Towards a logic of discovery.
Logic
Journal of IGPL. Volume 12, Number 2, March 2004, pp. 97--110.
Dennis, S., Bruza, P., McArthur, R. (2002) Web Searching: a
process oriented experimental study of thee interactive search
paradigms. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (JASIST),
53(2): 120-133, 2002.
Refereed Conferences and Workshops
Chen, G., Warren, J., McArthur, R., Bruza, P. , Kralik, D. and
Price, K. (2007) Understanding Individual Experiences of Chronic
Illness with Semantic Space Models of Electronic Discussions. in
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on
Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS
2007). pp.548-553.
McArthur, R. (2006) Deep context with a sense-of-self. In
Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC
2006; Blog Track).
McArthur, R., Bruza P.D., Kralik, D. and Warren, J. (2006)
Projecting computational sense of self: A study of transition in a
chronic illness online community. in Proceedings of the 39th
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2006;
Information Technology in Health Care Track).
Song, D., Bruza, P.D., McArthur, R., and Mansfield, T. (2006)
Enabling Management Oversight in Corporate Blog Space. in
Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs: Papers from
the 2006 Spring Symposium, ed. Nicolas Nicolov, Franco Salvetti,
Mark Liberman, and James H. Martin, 24-31. Technical Report
SS-06-03. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo
Park, California.
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Finding Tacit Knowledge in
Online Communities. In
Communities
and Technologies conference C&T2003,
Workshop on Knowledge Sharing under Distributed Circumstances,
Edited by Robert M. Verburg and Jan A. De Ridder. ISBN 90-9017372-2.
NWO-MES Press. pp61-66
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Submission to workshop. In
ECSCW 2003
Workshop on Social Network Analysis
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Discovery of implicit and
explicit connections between people using email utterance.
Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of
Computer-supported Cooperative Work, Helsinki, September 2003,
pp21-40
McArthur, R., Bruza, P. (2001) Knowledge Representation in
Online Community. (Short Paper) Proceedings of the Sixth
Australasian Document Computing Symposium (
ADCS'01). pp91-94.
McArthur, R. and Bruza, P.D. (2001) Representation of
Knowledge in Online Communities. Presented at the
ECSCW 2001 workshop on Community Knowledge.
McArthur, R., Bruza, P. (2001) The ABC's of Online Community.
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'01) (Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in AI series).
Bruza, P., McArthur, R., Dennis, S. (2000) Interactive
Internet Search: Keyword, Directory and Query Reformulation
Mechanisms Compared. ACM
SIGIR 2000 Conference. pp280-287. July 24-28, 2000, Athens,
Greece
McArthur, R., Bruza, P. (2000) The Ranking of Query
Refinements in Interactive Web-based Retrieval.
Information
Doors Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext and
Digital Libraries 2000 Conferences. pp46-49.
McArthur, R., Broom, B., Middleton, M. and Willie, S. (1995)
Experiences with internet client software in a university IT
faculty. in Proceedings of the first Australian Web Conference (AusWeb'95).
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