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Starting Sunday early to listen to Avishek Anand talk about explainable IR at #ECIR2025 in the IMT beautiful campus in Lucca. It's tutorials day!

A busy day for Glasgow IR Group students UofG Computing Science. Now listening to Zixuan Yi presenting our #ecir2025 work entitled “A Multi-modal Recipe for Improved Multi-domain Recommendation”. #recsys #modelsoups

Now at #ecir2025 Zixuan Yi Glasgow IR Group presenting ‘A Multi-modal Recipe for Improved Multi-domain Recommendation’ (w\ Iadh Ounis)

Yesterday, @TTSamurai2 has been busy at #ECIR2025, presenting our FinPersona demo (w/ すずき, Kiyoshi Izumi, Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Richard McCreadie & Iadh Ounis). Great to see many people interested in FinTech LLM agents! Demo at: huggingface.co/spaces/TTsamur… & poster at: javiersanzcruza.github.io/assets/posters…

Great work and presentation by UofG Computing Science MSc student Ariane Müller about analysing semantic matching in ColBERT at the Findings session of ECIR2025. You can still check out her work at the #ecir2025 poster session later on!

Congratulations to Manish Chandra Debasis Ganguly and Iadh Ounis for being awarded the Best Paper Award at #ECIR2025 for their work entitled “One size doesn’t fit all: Predicting the number of examples for in-context learning”. The paper will be presented Wednesday morning in Lucca.

Manish Chandra is presenting the #ecir2025 best paper award paper: one size doesn’t fit all: predicting the number of examples for in-context learning w/ Debasis Ganguly Iadh Ounis Glasgow IR Group cc/UofG Computing Science

In addition to the #ecir2025 best paper award for Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly and Iadh Ounis, our own Sean MacAvaney also received two awards with various international collaborators: a best (full) paper honourable mention and a best short paper honourable mention

Next up in the IR4Good track at #ecir2025 Thomas Jänich is presenting our work (w\ Iadh Ounis) ‘Fair Exposure Allocation using Generative Query Expansion’. Glasgow IR Group UofG Computing Science

The man, the myth, the legend Thomas Jänich presenting another excellent Glasgow IR Group paper: "Fair Exposure Allocation using Generative Query Expansion" at this year's ECIR2025 #IR4GOOD track (work w/ graham mcdonald and Iadh Ounis)

Slides: gdebasis.github.io/files/ragtalk.… Keep an eye on more exciting work down the line w/ Fangzheng Tian and Craig Macdonald #ecir2025

Finishing up #ECIR2025 for Glasgow IR Group is Andreas Chari talking about his work (w/ Sean MacAvaney & Iadh Ounis) on improving low-resource retrieval with linguistic similarity transfer! A great end to the conference! Glasgow IR Group @glasgowcs

.Andreas Chari talking about fine tuning dense retrieval models for low resource languages #ecir2025. Work with Sean MacAvaney and Iadh Ounis cc/ Glasgow IR Group

The last remaining members of the group at the closing of the #ir4good track and the #ecir2025 workshops. As we bid farewell to the charming and warm Lucca, it’s time to start new journeys including heading back to the sunny and green Glasgow!

Arrivederci ECIR2025 #ecir2025 … and thanks for all the fish - see you all in Delft.

Back to sunny and green Glasgow after an eventful week in Tuscany attending #ecir2025 with the wonderful Glasgow IR Group group. #SpringInGlasgow #FlowerPower #Upwards

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

Congratulations to Thomas Jänich ! Thank you to graham mcdonald & Iadh Ounis for inviting me to join this committee along with Chris Anagnostopoulos 🥳

Overleaf is down! It has become such a crucial tool for our work, even more so than some of the biggest names on the internet. 🛠️📉 #Productivity #TechTools #overleafdown

Delighted that Aleksandr V. Petrov passed his 🎓 PhD defense this morning, without corrections. Thanks to Pablo Castells and Nicolas Pugeault for their thorough examination of the thesis, and Mireilla Bikanga Ada for convening the defense!