Craig Macdonald

With some of us already en route home, the rest of #TeamUofG bids farewell to #SIGIR2025 & the beautiful city of Padova. We had a great week full of ideas, activities & connections. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic conference! Until next time 🇮🇹 #GoodbyePadova #ByeSIGIR

Go to stall 091 if you want to check out the poster of this @ir_glasgow work by @DanielTian97 called "Am I on the Right Track?" #SIGIR2025 (done w/t @JinyuanF, @debforit, @mengzaiqiao and @craig_macdonald)

.@DanielTian97 is presenting our work on using QPP in agentic RAG w/ @JinyuanF @debforit @mengzaiqiao 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2507.10411

Currently listening to @iadh give his keynote speech on evaluating financial asset recommendation, in the FinIR workshop. Interesting stuff! @ir_glasgow #SIGIR2025

Starting the day at #SIGIR2025 FinIR Workshop with a lively keynote presentation by @iadh: Beyond Profit: Evaluating Financial Recommenders with Real-World Transactions. @ir_glasgow @IDAglasgow @GlasgowCS

Huge congratulations to @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 @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR

How does retrieval impact on Agentic RAG? Let's see what predicted intermediate retrieval quality can tell us! Our IR-RAG@SIGIR'25 paper is on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.10411. #SIGIR2025 cc/ @JinyuanF @debforit @mengzaiqiao @craig_macdonald

Join @MrParryParry and myself at our #sigir2025 demo on PyTerrier RAG. 🏠/📒 github.com/terrierteam/py… 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2506.10802 cc/ @JinyuanF @mengzaiqiao

Poster number 33 at #sigir2025, @JackMck1999's work on Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems, with me and @craig_macdonald. @ir_glasgow arxiv.org/abs/2507.07924

I like this career roadmap slide by @ACM_President at #sigir2025, who also says “when you are given a chance to do something different, take it!” (The right hand word behind the speaker is “policy”)

Takeheiro presenting his collaboration with Javier @richardm_ and @iadh at @ir_glasgow on AI agents for financial advice #SIGIR2025