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Congratulations to Thomas Jänich who today successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled ‘Fair Group-Based Exposure of Documents in Ranked Search Results’. Thanks to the examiners Sole Pera (Delft University of Technology) and Chris Anagnostopoulos! 🥳🎉👏👏 Well done Thomas! Glasgow IR Group

Today, Harry Scells Harry Scells from University of Tübingen is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Quantifying and Applying Green IR". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

At 15:00 on 12th May, Orion Weller Orion Weller from Johns Hopkins University JHU CLSP will give an #IRTalk entitled "Beyond Semantic Search: Prompting, Reasoning, and Instruction-Following in Retrieval". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

Today, Orion Weller Orion Weller from Johns Hopkins University JHU CLSP is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Beyond Semantic Search: Prompting, Reasoning, and Instruction-Following in Retrieval". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

At 15:00 on 19th May, Debasis Ganguly Debasis Ganguly from the University of Glasgow will give an #IRTalk entitled "The Role of Query Performance Prediction in Developing Adaptive Search and RAG Systems". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

🎉 Glad to share that our paper "KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation" (w/ Zaiqiao Meng and Craig Macdonald) has been accepted at #ACL2025 as a main conference paper!

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Libra: Leveraging Temporal Images for Biomedical Radiology Analysis" (w/Zaiqiao Meng, Jake Lever & Edmond Ho) is accepted at #ACL2025! 🧠 TL;DR: We present Libra, a temporally-aware MLLM — inspired by "structure determines function" — to

Today, Debasis Ganguly Debasis Ganguly from the University of Glasgow is giving an #IRTalk entitled "The Role of Query Performance Prediction in Developing Adaptive Search and RAG Systems". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

🚨 New Pre-Print! We show that in-context learning can steer LLM rankers to satisfy multiple objectives at once, relevance and fairness/diversity, without any parameter updates. Work done jointly with Nilanjan Sinhababu from IIT Kharagpur and Debasis Ganguly. 🧵 Below!

🚨 New Pre-Print! You've just added your 600th model to your negative mining pool and filtered all false negatives. Does any of this even matter when we can apply distillation? In this work with Debasis Ganguly and Sean MacAvaney, we explore data selection in modern ranking. 🧵 Below

At 15:00 on 9th June, Yubao Tang Yubao Tang from the University of Amsterdam will give an #IRTalk entitled "Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

Today, Yubao Tang Yubao Tang from the University of Amsterdam The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

Happy to share that the OARS@KDD2025 workshop accepts our work. In this work, we turn a sequential recommendation system into a semantic search using generative language models. Apparently, this works really well.

Pleased to share that Libra is now ranked at Top 3 on ReXrank (rexrank.ai), a public leaderboard for chest X-ray image interpretation. Well done Xi Zhang! Glasgow IR Group UoG IDA Section, Glasgow CS UofG Computing Science

At 15:00 on 16th June, Sole Pera Sole Pera from TU Delft will give an #IRTalk entitled "Children IR: ​A ‘curated’ take of how IR caters to children & the challenges ahead". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

❓Which retrieval library should you use for RAG? Which agent library? Where do you get datasets? We made PyTerrier RAG to stop your headaches! Led by Craig Macdonald /w (Jinyuan Fang , me and Zaiqiao Meng )! 🧵 ⬇️

At 15:00 on 23rd June, Yongkang Li Li Yongkang from the University of Amsterdam will give an #IRTalk entitled "Robust Information Retrieval from the Perspective of Corpus Poisoning Attacks". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

Today, Yongkang Li Li Yongkang from the University of Amsterdam The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Robust Information Retrieval from the Perspective of Corpus Poisoning Attacks". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

At 15:00 on 30th June, Marco Braga from the University of Milano-Bicocca will give an #IRTalk entitled "Task-Specific Adaptation in Information Retrieval: From Data-Hungry Models to Training-Free Approaches". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group