Dr Jon Chamberlain
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872366
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Location
5A.538, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Academic support is available by pre-arranged Zoom meeting or face-to-face meeting. My support hours are 11am-1pm on Friday but please contact me by email to confirm you will attend or to arrange a meeting at a more convenient time.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Problem solving with collective intelligence and distributed human tasking (crowdsourcing/human computation)
Citizen science through games, gamification and games-with-a-purpose
Computer vision in 3D modelled environments
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Tropical Marine Field Research Skills (BS256)
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Coral Reef Biodiversity and Management Field Trip (BS710)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Computer Science
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 2/4/2024
Degree subject: Computer Science
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/4/2023
Degree subject: Computing and Electronic Systems
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 14/2/2022
Degree subject: Computer Science
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/2/2021
Publications
Journal articles (10)
Wright, J. and Chamberlain, J., (2024). Investigating human impacts on rocky reefs using measures of complexity and relief from 3D photogrammetry. Ecosphere. 15 (2), e4763-
Kia, MA., Garifullina, A., Kern, M., Chamberlain, J. and Jameel, S., (2024). Question-Driven Text Summarization Using an Extractive-Abstractive Framework. Computational Intelligence. 40 (3)
Kia, MA., Garifullina, A., Kern, M., Chamberlain, J. and Jameel, S., (2022). Adaptable Closed-Domain Question Answering Using Contextualized CNN-Attention Models and Question Expansion. IEEE Access. 10, 45080-45092
Chamberlain, J., Turpin, B., Maged, A., Chatsiou, A. and O'Callaghan, K., (2021). Designing for Collective Intelligence and Community Resilience on Social Networks. Human Computation. 8 (2), 15-32
Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2018). Optimising crowdsourcing efficiency: Amplifying human computation with validation. it - Information Technology. 60 (1), 41-49
Russell-Rose, T., Chamberlain, J. and Azzopardi, L., (2018). Information retrieval in the workplace: A comparison of professional search practices. Information Processing and Management. 54 (6), 1042-1057
Paun, S., Carpenter, B., Chamberlain, JD., Hovy, D., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2018). Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 6 (2018), 571-585
Russell-Rose, T. and Chamberlain, J., (2017). Expert Search Strategies: The Information Retrieval Practices of Healthcare Information Professionals. JMIR Medical Informatics. 5 (4), e33-e33
Russell-Rose, T. and Chamberlain, J., (2016). Searching for talent. Business Information Review. 33 (1), 40-48
Poesio, M., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U., Robaldo, L. and Ducceschi, L., (2013). Phrase detectives: Utilizing collective intelligence for internet-scale language resource creation. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 3 (1), 1-44
Book chapters (4)
Chamberlain, J., (2018). Using Social Media for Biomonitoring: How Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Other Social Networking Platforms Can Provide Large-Scale Biodiversity Data. In: Advances in Ecological Research. Academic Press. 133- 168. 9780128143179
Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2013). Methods for Engaging and Evaluating Users of Human Computation Systems. In: Handbook of Human Computation. Editors: . Springer New York. 679- 694. 9781461488057
Chamberlain, J., Fort, K., Kruschwitz, U., Lafourcade, M. and Poesio, M., (2013). Using Games to Create Language Resources: Successes and Limitations of the Approach. In: The People?s Web Meets NLP : Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources. Editors: Gurevych, I. and Kim, J., . Springer. 3- 44. 9783642350849
Poesio, M., Diewald, N., Stührenberg, M., Chamberlain, J., Jettka, D., Goecke, D. and Kruschwitz, U., (2011). Markup Infrastructure for the Anaphoric Bank: Supporting Web Collaboration. In: Studies in Computational Intelligence. Editors: . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 175- 195. 9783642226120
Conferences (50)
Yu, J., Paun, S., Camilleri, M., Carretero Garcia, P., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2023). Aggregating Crowdsourced and Automatic Judgments to Scale Up a Corpus of Anaphoric Reference for Fiction and Wikipedia Texts
Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Ben Abacha, A., Friedrich, CM., Rückert, J., Bloch, L., Brüngel, R., Idrissi-Yaghir, A., Schäfer, H., Kozlovski, S., Dicente Cid, Y., Kovalev, V., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Schindler, H., Deshayes, J., Popescu, A., S¸tefan, L-D., Constantin, MG. and Dogariu, M., (2022). ImageCLEF 2022: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature, Fusion, and Internet Applications
Chamberlain, J., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Campello, A. and Clark, A., (2022). ImageCLEFcoral task: Coral reef image annotation and localisation
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Rückert, J., Abacha, AB., GARCIA SECO DE HERRERA, A., Friedrich, CM., Bloch, L., Brüngel, R., Idrissi-Yaghir, A., Schäfer, H., Kozlovski, S., Cid, YD., Kovalev, V., Ştefan, L-D., Constantin, MG., Dogariu, M., Popescu, A., Deshayes-Chossart, J., Schindler, H., Chamberlain, J., Campello, A. and Clark, A., (2022). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2022: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Social Media and Nature Applications
Madge, C., Brightmore, J., Kicikoglu, D., Althani, F., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2022). LingoTowns: A Virtual World For Natural Language Annotation and Language Learning
Madge, C., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2021). WordClicker: Tuning our approach for language resourcing
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Ben Abacha, A., Demner-Fushman, D., Hasan, SA., Sarrouti, M., Pelka, O., Friedrich, C., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Jacutprakart, J., Kovalev, V., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Dicente Cid, Y., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Moustahfid, H., Oliver, T., Schulz, A., Brie, P., Berari, R., Fichou, D., Tautenau, A., Dogariu, M., Stefan, LD., Constantin, MG., Deshayes, J. and Popescu, A., (2021). The 2021 ImageCLEF Benchmark: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature, Internet and Social Media Applications
Brill, J., Albakour, D., Esquivel, J., Kruschwitz, U., Martinez, M. and Chamberlain, J., (2021). Signal Briefings: Monitoring News Beyond the Brand
Wright, J., Palosanu, I-L., Clift, L., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A. and Chamberlain, J., (2021). Pixelwise annotation of coral reef substrates
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Abacha, AB., Sarrouti, M., Demner-Fushman, D., Hasan, SA., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Cid, YD., Kovalev, V., Pelka, O., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Jacutprakart, J., Friedrich, CM., Berari, R., Tauteanu, A., Fichou, D., Brie, P., Dogariu, M., Ştefan, LD., Constantin, MG., Chamberlain, J., Campello, A., Clark, A., Oliver, TA., Moustahfid, H., Popescu, A. and Deshayes-Chossart, J., (2021). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2021: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature, Internet and Social Media Applications
Chamberlain, J., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Campello, A., Clark, A., Oliver, TA. and Moustahfid, H., (2021). Overview of ImageCLEFcoral 2021: Coral reef image annotation of a 3D environment
Uma, A., Fornaciari, T., Dumitrache, A., Miller, T., Chamberlain, J., Plank, B., Simpson, E. and Poesio, M., (2021). SemEval-2021 Task 12: Learning with Disagreements
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Ben Abacha, A., Demner-Fushman, D., Hasan, SA., Sarrouti, M., Pelka, O., Friedrich, C., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Jacutprakart, J., Kovalev, V., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Dicente Cid, Y., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Moustahfid, H., Oliver, T., Schulz, A., Brie, P., Berari, R., Fichou, D., Tautenau, A., Dogariu, M., Stefan, LD., Constantin, MG., Deshayes, J. and Popescu, A., (2021). The 2021 ImageCLEF Benchmark: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature, Internet and Social Media Applications
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Zhou, L., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Halvorsen, P., Tran, M-T., Lux, M., Gurrin, C., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Ben Abacha, A., Datla, V., A. Hasan, S., Liu, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Obioma, P., Friedrich, CM., Dicente Cid, Y., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Kovalev, V., Berari, R., Brie, P., Fichou, D., Dogariu, M., Daniel Stefan, L. and Constantin, MG., (2020). ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Security Applications
Zimmerman, S., Thorpe, A., Chamberlain, J. and Kruschwitz, U., (2020). Towards Search Strategies for Better Privacy and Information
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Abacha, AB., Datla, V., Hasan, SA., Demner-Fushman, D., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Cid, YD., Kovalev, V., Pelka, O., Friedrich, CM., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Ninh, V-T., Le, T-K., Zhou, L., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Halvorsen, PL., Tran, M-T., Lux, M., Gurrin, C., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Fichou, D., Berari, R., Brie, P., Dogariu, M., Stefan, LD. and Constantin, MG., (2020). ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Internet Applications
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Abacha, AB., Datla, V., Hasan, SA., Demner-Fushman, D., Kozlovski, S., Liauchuk, V., Cid, YD., Kovalev, V., Pelka, O., Friedrich, CM., García Seco de Herrera, A., Ninh, V-T., Le, T-K., Zhou, L., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Halvorsen, P., Tran, M-T., Lux, M., Gurrin, C., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Campello, A., Fichou, D., Berari, R., Brie, P., Dogariu, M., Ştefan, LD. and Constantin, MG., (2020). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Lifelogging, Nature, and Internet Applications
Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Savran Kiziltepe, R., Chamberlain, J., Constantin, MG., Claire-Hélène, D., Doctor, F., Ionescu, B. and Smeaton, AF., (2020). Overview of MediaEval 2020 Predicting Media Memorability task: What does it Make a Video Memorable?
Chamberlain, J., Campello, A., Wright, JP., Clift, LG., Clark, A. and García Seco de Herrera, A., (2020). Overview of the ImageCLEFcoral 2020 Task: Automated Coral Reef Image Annotation
Zimmerman, S., Herzog, SM., Elsweiler, D., Chamberlain, J. and Kruschwitz, U., (2020). Towards a framework for harm prevention in web search
Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Hoeber, O., (2019). Scalable visualisation of sentiment and stance
Elsholz, E., Chamberlain, J. and Kruschwitz, U., (2019). Exploring Language Style in Chatbots to Increase Perceived Product Value and User Engagement
Russell-Rose, T., Chamberlain, J. and Shokraneh, F., (2019). A Visual Approach to Query Formulation for Systematic Search
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Tran, M-T., Lux, M., Gurrin, C., Cid, YD., Liauchuk, V., Kovalev, V., Ben Abacha, A., Hasan, SA., Datla, V., Liu, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Pelka, O., Friedrich, CM., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Garcia, N., Kavallieratou, E., del Blanco, CR., Rodríguez, CC., Vasillopoulos, N. and Karampidis, K., (2019). ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Security Applications
Russell-Rose, T., Chamberlain, J. and Kruschwitz, U., (2019). Rethinking ‘Advanced Search’: A New Approach to Complex Query Formulation
Chamberlain, J., Campello, A., Wright, J., Clift, L., Clark, A. and Seco De Herrera, AG., (2019). Overview of ImageCLEFcoral 2019 task
Kicikoglu, D., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J. and Poesio, M., (2019). Wormingo
Madge, C., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2019). Making text annotation fun with a clicker game
Madge, C., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2019). The Design Of A Clicker Game for Text Labelling
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Péteri, R., Cid, YD., Liauchuk, V., Kovalev, V., Klimuk, D., Tarasau, A., Abacha, AB., Hasan, SA., Datla, V., Liu, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Tran, M-T., Lux, M., Gurrin, C., Pelka, O., Friedrich, CM., Garcia Seco De Herrera, A., Garcia, N., Kavallieratou, E., del Blanco, CR., Cuevas, C., Vasillopoulos, N., Karampidis, K., Chamberlain, J., Clark, A. and Campello, A., (2019). ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Medicine, Lifelogging, Security and Nature
Madge, C., Bartle, R., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2019). Incremental Game Mechanics Applied to Text Annotation
Russell-Rose, T. and Chamberlain, J., (2019). An Open-Access Platform for Transparent and Reproducible Structured Searching
Poesio, M., Chamberlain, J., Paun, S., Yu, J., Uma, A. and Kruschwitz, U., (2019). A Crowdsourced Corpus of Multiple Judgments and Disagreement on Anaphoric Interpretation
Grayson, K. and Chamberlain, J., (2019). VISTX: Experimenting with Interactive Stance and Sentiment Visualisation
Madge, C., Yu, J., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U., Paun, S. and Poesio, M., (2019). Crowdsourcing and Aggregating Nested Markable Annotations
Madge, C., Yu, J., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U., Paun, S. and Poesio, M., (2019). Progression in a Language Annotation Game with a Purpose
Paun, S., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U., Yu, J. and Poesio, M., (2018). A Probabilistic Annotation Model for Crowdsourcing Coreference
Madge, C., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2017). Experiment-Driven Development of a GWAP for Marking Segments in Text
Russell-Rose, T. and Chamberlain, J., (2016). Real-World Expertise Retrieval: The Information Seeking Behaviour of Recruitment Professionals
Chamberlain, J., Poesio, M. and Kruschwitz, U., (2016). Phrase detectives corpus 1.0 crowdsourced anaphoric coreference
Poesio, M., Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U., Robaldo, L. and Ducceschi, L., (2015). Phrase detectives: Utilizing collective intelligence for internet-scale language resource creation
Chamberlain, J. and O'Reilly, C., (2014). User performance indicators in task-based data collection systems
Chamberlain, J., (2014). The annotation-validation (AV) model
Chamberlain, J., (2014). Groupsourcing: Distributed Problem Solving Using Social Networks
Chamberlain, J., (2014). Groupsourcing: Problem Solving, Social Learning and Knowledge Discovery on Social Networks
Robaldo, L., Poesio, M., Ducceschi, L., Chamberlain, J. and Kruschwitz, U., (2011). Italian Anaphoric Annotation with the Phrase Detectives Game-with-a-Purpose
Chamberlain, J., Poesio, M. and Kruschwitz, U., (2009). A demonstration of human computation using the Phrase Detectives annotation game
Chamberlain, J., Kruschwitz, U. and Poesio, M., (2009). Constructing an anaphorically annotated corpus with non-experts: Assessing the quality of collaborative annotations
Poesio, M., Kruschwitz, U. and Chamberlain, J., (2008). ANAWIKI: Creating anaphorically annotated resources through Web cooperation
Chamberlain, J., Poesio, M. and Kruschwitz, U., (2008). Addressing the resource bottleneck to create large-scale annotated texts
Thesis dissertation (1)
Abazari Kia, M., (2024). Question‐driven text summarization using an extractive‐abstractive framework
Other (1)
Chamberlain, J., (2015).Harnessing Collective Intelligence on Social Networks,University of Essex
Grants and funding
2025
Michael Kampouridis consultancy project with GLA - Machine Vision 2
General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland
2024
Trinity House (Harwich port) Consultancy Project
General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland
Eastern IFCA Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds MCZ Disturbance Study Consultancy
Eastern IFCA
Trinity House (Harwich port) Consultancy Project
General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland
Trinity House (Harwich port) Consultancy Project
General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland
2023
Marine surveying support (Farne Islands)
Natural England
Exploring complexity of marine environments using photogrammetry in computer games
Natural England
Multi-trophic response and effects of an extensive oil spill in a coastal fish nursery
Natural Environment Research Council
Tritonia Scientific Ltd KTP 23_24 R4
Tritonia Scientific Ltd
Tritonia Scientific Ltd KTP 23_24 R4
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
2022
Use of 3D Photogrammetry for Remotely Operated Vehicles
Natural England (Norfolk and Suffolk Area Team)
3D Printed Scale Model of Norfolk�s Chalk Reef
Natural England (Norfolk and Suffolk Area Team)
Advanced live imaging for the Eastern ARC with dual inverted light-sheets and AI-led analysis
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Open Medical KTP Application
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
3D Printed Scale Model of Norfolk�s Chalk Reef
Natural England (Norfolk and Suffolk Area Team)
2021
Automated ballast tank inspection with 3D photogrammetry
Ultra Maritime Ltd
2020
Investigating human impacts on North Norfolk�s chalk reef using a multicamera ROV
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Supporting Stakeholder Actions to Manage Human Impact on Norfolk�s Chalk Reef
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2018
Signal Media KTP Develop insight extraction and visualisation techniques to convert a stream of unstructured textual documents.
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
Rebuilding Coral Reef Ecosystems with 3D Printing
University of Essex
2017
IAA ECC Challenge Lab project - Community inclusion
Catalyst Project (HEFCE Funding)
2016
Disagreements and Language Interpretation (DALI)
European Commission (H2020)
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Academic support hours:
Academic support is available by pre-arranged Zoom meeting or face-to-face meeting. My support hours are 11am-1pm on Friday but please contact me by email to confirm you will attend or to arrange a meeting at a more convenient time.
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