The deadline for short and reproducibility paper abstracts is fast approaching - just under a week left until Oct 4 (11:59 PM AoE). For more details see: ecir2024.org/category/calls/ Short, reproducibility and demo papers are due by Oct 11 (11:59 PM AoE).

Our paper, "Multi-Task Learning of Query Generation and Classification for Generative Conversational Question Rewriting" has been accepted in the Findings of #EMNLP2023. w/t Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis

Happy to share that our /w Craig Macdonald full research paper "RecJPQ: Training Large-Catalogue Sequential Recommenders" has been accepted by the WSDM 2024 conference. In the paper, we tackle the large embedding tensor problem. See you soon in Mexico🙂 #wsdm2024 #recsys

Great talk by TerrierTeam alumni, UofG graduate, and friend Xi Wang at UofG Computing Science on the role of synthetic dialogue generation in enhancing conversational recommendation systems. #IRTalk

The slides from our User Simulation tutorial at #cikm2023 are available here: usersim.ai/files/cikm2023…

Call For ACM TOIS Special Section on Pre-trained Models for Search and Recommendation. The submission entry has already opened. Deadline: Feb 1, 2024.

Feeling a bit intimidating to write about it but work on attacks can lead to good insights for mitigation. Plan to write about mitigation work separately later. Also want to thank all the researchers who shared disclosure reports w/ us so far. 🙏🙏🙏 lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-10-…

Do you want to develop a #Machine #Learning #methodology for #Bio-#Sensing applications? I am looking for a #PhD #student to work with me and Craig Macdonald. UofG Computing Science and UofG Engineering, University of Glasgow Apply: tinyurl.com/5n6cjera Deadline 31/1/24 Contact me for info

I am delighted that Yaxiong Wu passed his PhD viva today. His thesis is entitled "Effective Multi-Modal Conversational Recommendation". Yashon (and his supervisors are delighted)

A now freely-available preprint version of Chapter 1 of "Bayesian Methods for Interaction and Design" (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Covers applications of Bayesian models in HCI, including for design, in-loop interaction and evaluation. johnhw.github.io/bayesian_inter…

.University of Glasgow has James McCune Smith scholarships for Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research starting in October 2024: 🔍 gla.ac.uk/scholarships/m… Anyone interested in studying for a PhD in search or recommendation Glasgow IR Group UofG Computing Science, please do reach out

Personalised Multi-Modal Interactive Recommendation with Hierarchical State Representations, accepted in ACM Transactions on Recommender systems. By Yaxiong Wu, with myself & Iadh Ounis. The last part of Yashon's recent PhD thesis on conversational image recommendation ACM RecSys

One more thing to do for #sigir2024: Chenyan Xiong and I are chairing the tutorials programme. If you have a great tutorial proposal for SIGIR 2025, we look forward to hearing from you! System open for submissions. Deadline: 28th March (AoE). See: sigir-2024.github.io/call_for_tutor…

Congratulations to 9MeO who passed his PhD viva today on Open-Retrieval Conversational QA with minor corrections. Craig Macdonald and I would like to thank his examiners Tamer Elsayed and Jake Lever for their thorough examination! Glasgow IR Group TerrierTeam UofG Computing Science

Hundreds of computing science researchers are gathering in Glasgow for ECIR2024, Europe’s leading conference on information retrieval. Iadh Ounis, graham mcdonald and Craig Macdonald of UofG Computing Science organised this year's event! Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

Here are your volunteers for #ecir2024 Look out for people in blue t-shirts! 👕 They will be around all week to help you out, don't hesitate to ask!

I am delighted to share that our full paper "Fairness-Aware Exposure Allocation via Adaptive Reranking" with graham mcdonald and Iadh Ounis has been accepted to #sigir2024 !!🥳😎 Glasgow IR Group Looking forward to presenting our work in Washington, D.C. 💪

Several members of the group will be shortly heading to Bari to attend the #recsys2024 summer school & conference. We will be presenting new work in sequential, multimodal and knowledge-grounded recommendation. Do reach out and say hello!

📢We are seeking #PhD students for a fully funded research project (open to local & international applicants) Sheffield NLP. This project is supported by a cross-discipline supervision team and opportunities. bit.ly/414E7WD🧵

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