Publications

Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Danula Hettiachchi, Chenglong Ma, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Khoi Vo Nguyen, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Lida Rashidi, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, Oleg Zendel (2026). RMIT-ADM+S at the MMU-RAG NeurIPS 2025 Competition 🏆. NeurIPS 2025 MMU-RAG Competition.

Oleg Zendel, Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati, Lida Rashidi, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson (2025). A Comparative Analysis of Linguistic and Retrieval Diversity in LLM-Generated Search Queries. CIKM ‘25.

Laura Dietz, Oleg Zendel, Peter Bailey, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ellese Cotterill, Jeff Dalton, Faegheh Hasibi, Mark Sanderson, Nick Craswell (2025). Principles and Guidelines for the Use of LLM Judges. ICTIR ‘25.

Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Damiano Spina, Oleg Zendel (2025). RMIT-ADM+S at the SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge 🏆. SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge.

Johanne R. Trippas, Oleg Zendel, Adam Roegiest (2025). Applying Large Language Models to Interactive Information Retrieval: A Practical Exploration. CHIIR ‘25.

Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas (2024). Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing?. In CHIIR ‘24.

Oleg Zendel (2024). New Perspectives on Query Performance Prediction. PhD Thesis.

Oleg Zendel, Maik Fröbe, Guglielmo Faggioli (2024). QPPTK@ TIREx: Simplified Query Performance Prediction for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments. WOWS@ ECIR ‘24.

Guglielmo Faggioli, Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Nicola Ferro, Falk Scholer (2022). sMARE: a new paradigm to evaluate and understand query performance prediction methods. In Information Retrieval Journal.

Oleg Zendel, Melika P. Ebrahim, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer (2022). Can Users Predict Relative Query Effectiveness?. In SIGIR'22.