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

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

Constructing and Evaluating Declarative RAG Pipelines in PyTerrier Craig Macdonald et al. introduce PyTerrier-RAG extension enabling declarative construction of RAG pipelines with standard datasets and sota components. 📝arxiv.org/abs/2506.10802 👨🏽‍💻github.com/terrier-org/py…

❓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 )! 🧵 ⬇️

Today, Sole Pera Sole Pera from TU Delft is giving 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

Great talk at #healtac2025 by Xinhao Yi presenting his interesting research on editing long-tail biomedical knowledge within LLMs!

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

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

Now at the Demo session Craig Macdonald and Andrew Parry @ SIGIR are presenting the beautiful RAG capabilities of PyTerrier #SIGIR2025

Huge congratulations to Sean MacAvaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research category! This well-deserved recognition highlights the excellence & impact of his work in the IR community 👏🎉#sigir2025 Cc UofG Computing Science University of Glasgow ACM SIGIR

Iadh Ounis is kicking off the first keynote on assets recommendations.

Back from an inspiring #SIGIR2025 in Padova — and diving straight into final preparations for #ICDCS2025 in Glasgow. Workshops and tutorials kick off tomorrow!

A strong turnout and an attentive audience for Zaiqiao Meng’s presentation at the #ICDCS2025 tutorial on Integrating Knowledge Graphs into Large Language Models. Great to see such strong interest in this important topic! Pictures by Iadh Ounis

The IDA section at UofG Computing Science is well represented at #icdcs2025 this year!

Delighted to see my former PhD student at Glasgow IR Group and UofG Computing Science Jingmin Huang, now a lecturer at the University of Southampton; Jingmin served as Demo Co-Chair at #ICDCS2025. Great to catch up at the conference!

Journal article “Unifying Isolated Processes for Enhanced Multi-modal Recommendations Using a Graph Transformer” has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ToRS); Joint work with Zixuan Yi  & part of a special issue on best papers from ACM #RecSys 2024

Heading to ACM #RecSys2025 in Prague! Looking forward to a great programme of research, networking opportunities and the traditional karaoke! Already enjoying a coffee and croissant at the airport before my early flight. Hope to meet many of you there! #RecSys #AcademicTravel

🚀 At #RecSys2025 spot #24, Jackson Dam is demoing RecViz, a graph-based visual analytics tool for exploring recommendation datasets & results. 📊 Great for qualitative analysis & insight generation. 👏 A fantastic undergraduate achievement at UofG Computing Science with Iadh Ounis & Zixuan Yi

📢 We are now also on LinkedIn! Follow the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group on LinkedIn for updates on IR research, Glasgow IR Group activities, events, and collaborations: 🔗 linkedin.com/company/glasgo… #InformationRetrieval #IR #AI #recsys #RecommenderSystems #Glasgow

PyTerrier 1.0 has been released: - ➡️ search pipeline validation, visualisation and verification - 📘more documentation - ☕️ java now optional 🆕📰github.com/terrier-org/py… Try pip install pyterrier[all] w/ Sean MacAvaney