Welcome to Tim's Online

I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science , The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Since 2003, I have been tutoring some 300 level subjects, including IT in Electronic Commerce (COMP3410) and Internet, Intranet and Document Systems (COMP3400)
I am also employed by CSIRO, working on the search quality project - building a software to automatically evaluate the quality of a web site.

Research:

Web Information Retrieval. In particular:
- Quality health search.
- Domain specific search.
- Focused crawling in medical domain.
- Automatic evaluation of health websites.

Publications:

Focused crawling for both topical relevance and quality of medical information (pdf)
Thanh Tang and David Hawking and Nick Craswell and Kathleen Griffiths Proceedings of CIKM'2005

Quality and Relevance of Domain-specific Search: A Case Study in Mental Health (pdf)
Thanh Tang and Nick Craswell and David Hawking and Kathleen Griffiths and Helen Christensen Journal of Information Retrieval, special issue on Web IR

Automated assessment of the quality of depression websites (pdf)
Kathleen Griffiths and Thanh Tang and Helen Christensen and David Hawking Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2005 Dec 30;7(5):e59

Focused crawling in depression portal search: A feasibility study (pdf)
Thanh Tang and David Hawking and Nick Craswell and Ramesh S. Sankaranarayana Australiasian Document Computing Symposium, 2004

*** The site is under construction ***
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