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Thuma
Title
Dr.
Firstname
Edwin
Lastname
Thuma
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Computer Science
Office
247-271
Phone
3554973
Professional Qualifications
  1. MEng Computer Engineering (Queen Mary University of London)
  2. PhD Computing Science (Glasgow University)
Teaching Areas
  1. Discrete Structures 
  2. Web Computing
  3. Information Retrieval
Research Areas
  1. Information Retrieval 
  2. Consumer Health Search
  3. Clinical Decision Support 
  4. Precedents and Statutes Retrieval
  5. Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
Selected Publications
  1. O. Tibi, Edwin Thuma and G. Mosweunyane, "Selective collection enrichment in user-centred health information retrieval," 2017 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp),Mauritius, 2017, pp. 175-181, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8016195
  2. Edwin Thuma, Simon Rogers, Iadh Ounis: Detecting Missing Content Queries in an SMS-Based HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System. ECIR 2014: 247-259, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_21
  3. Edwin Thuma, Simon Rogers, Iadh Ounis: Exploiting Query Logs and Field-Based Models to Address Term Mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System. NLDB 2013: 77-89, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_7
  4. Edwin Thuma, Simon Rogers, Iadh Ounis: Evaluating bad query abandonment in an iterative SMS-based FAQ retrieval system. OAIR 2013: 117-120, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2491748.2491773

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