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What an honor to receive both the best short paper award and the best paper honourable mention award at #ECIR2025. Thank you to all the co-authors Maik Fröbe Harry Scells Shengyao Zhuang Bevan Koopman Guido Zuccon Benno Stein Martin Potthast Matthias Hagen 🥳

Maik Fröbe Harry Scells Shengyao Zhuang Bevan Koopman Guido Zuccon Benno Stein Martin Potthast Matthias Hagen Short: Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking webis.de/publications.h… Full: Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders webis.de/publications.h…

ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11! Dive into cutting-edge Information Retrieval & AI, network with experts. Plus, don’t miss the interactive FDIA Symposium! 🎓 👉 2025.essir.eu ESSIR #IR #AI #ECIR2025

Yesterday I presented our #ECIR2025 paper "An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers", with Shuoqi Sun Shengyao Zhuang Wang shuai (Dylan). Yes, it was in a church! Slides at ielab.io/files/guido-20… and paper at arxiv.org/abs/2406.14117

Now it's workshop time here at #ECIR2025! Andrew Parry is kicking things off at the QPP++ workshop presenting his work (w/ Jan Heinrich Merker, Simon Ruth, Maik Fröbe, Harry Scells) on Corpora Performance Prediction. Glasgow IR Group @glasgowcs

At 15:00 on 28th April, Harry Scells Harry Scells from University of Tübingen will give an #IRTalk entitled "Quantifying and Applying Green IR". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science 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

Our paper on self-distillation for training bi-encoders got accepted at #ICTIR2025! By exploiting pretrained encoder capabilities, our approach eliminates expensive teacher models and batch sampling while maintaining the same effectiveness.

Thank you Carlos Lassance for shout-out of Lightning IR in the LSR tutorial at #SIGIR2025 If you want to fine your own LSR models, check out our framework at github.com/webis-de/light…

A comprehensive and nicely delivered tutorial by Sean MacAvaney et al. on learned sparse retrieval methods and their applications across various tasks. Slides and other materials are available via the link shown in the last image. #SIGIR2025

Now it’s Andrew Parry presenting the reproducibility efforts of a large team of researchers in relation to the shelf life of test collections #sigir2025

Lukas Gienapp presents "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" at #SIGIR2025 The paper is available at: webis.de/publications.h…

Want to know how to make bi-encoders more than 3x faster with a new backbone encoder model? Check out our talk on the Token-Independent Text Encoder (TITE) #SIGIR2025 in the efficiency track. It pools vectors within the model to improve efficiency dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

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

🏆 Our paper "GINGER: Grounded Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses", co-authored with Krisztian Balog, won the Best Short Paper Award at #SIGIR2025! Grateful to the community for the recognition 🙌 Check out the code & poster here: github.com/iai-group/ging…

Happy to share that our paper "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" received the Best Paper Honourable Mention at #SIGIR2025! Very grateful to the community for recognizing our work on improving RAG evaluation. 📄 webis.de/publications.h…

Go to stall 091 if you want to check out the poster of this Glasgow IR Group work by Fangzheng Tian called "Am I on the Right Track?" #SIGIR2025 (done w/t Jinyuan Fang, Debasis Ganguly, Zaiqiao Meng @ ACL 2025 and Craig Macdonald)

It's a busy day for Fangzheng Tian! After his earlier presentation, he's now presenting his poster that studies the search behaviour of agentic rag using QPP. *Go to poster 91 and have a chat! * Glasgow IR Group #SIGIR2025

Come join us at the poster session at ICTIR 2025 to discuss: - Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation webis.de/publications.h… - Learning Effective Representations for Retrieval Using Self-Distillation with Adaptive Relevance Margins webis.de/publications.h…

Honored to win the ICTIR Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for "Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation"! Our new axioms are integrated with ir_axioms: github.com/webis-de/ir_ax… Nice to see axiomatic IR gaining momentum.