John D. King B.I.T. (Q.U.T.), M.I.T. (Q.U.T.)

School of Software Engineering and Data Communications
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
Office: Room 710, S Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus

John has a Bachelor of Information Technology (Software Engineering), and recently completed a Master of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology where his theses was titled "Deep Web Collection Selection". He is currently doing a PhD at Q.U.T. where he is researching Information Retrieval, focusing on Collection Selection. He has the Q.U.T. Blueprint Scholarship.

The following is an abstract of his research:
Little is known about the content of the major search engines. We present an automatic ontology learning method which trains an ontology with world knowledge of hundreds of different subjects in a three-level taxonomy covering all the documents offered in our training set. We then mine this ontology to find important classification rules, and then use these rules to perform an extensive analysis of the content of the largest general purpose Internet search engines in use today. Also, instead of representing documents and collections as a set of terms, we represent them as a set of subjects, leading to a more robust representation of information and a decrease of synonymy.

His supervisors are Associate Professor Yuefeng Li, Professor Peter Bruza, and Dr. Richi Nayak.

His resume can be downloaded in MS Word format.