Glasgow IR Group

I can finally share my PhD Thesis👩‍🎓📕, available at theses.gla.ac.uk/85203/

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 @ZixuanYI_  & part of a special issue on best papers from ACM #RecSys 2024

Delighted to see my former PhD student at @ir_glasgow and @GlasgowCS 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!

Insightful keynote by Ling Liu from Georgia Tech at #ICDCS2025 on the costs of fine-tuning LLMs and diverse strategies to mitigate them. #AI #MachineLearning

Smiles all around! The #ICDCS2025 organising team is thrilled with a fantastic start to the conference here in Glasgow. A great kickoff to a week of exciting discussions in distributed systems! Fàilte gu Glaschu!

A strong turnout and an attentive audience for @mengzaiqiao’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

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

Glad to discover that our #ECIR2025 best paper award winning work (w/ Manish Chandra and @iadh) has been taken up as a teaching material in an online Youtube course on LLMs. @ir_glasgow tinyurl.com/bdhrjxfb

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)

It's a busy day for @DanielTian97! 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! * @ir_glasgow #SIGIR2025

After @iadh’s keynote at the #sigir2025 FinIR workshop and @DanielTian97’s talk at the RAG workshop, our SIGIR journey winds down — time to enjoy the rest of the programme! But let’s not forget two more awards: Best SPC and PC Member Awards for our own @iadh and @debforit resp.

@iadh is kicking off the first keynote on assets recommendations.

Now time for @ir_glasgow 's @DanielTian97 to present his impeccable QPP work "Am I on the Right Track?" at the IR-RAG Workshop #SIGIR2025 (work w/t @JinyuanF, @debforit, @mengzaiqiao and @craig_macdonald)

@iadh's keynote at #SIGIR2025 FinIR workshop: Financial asset recommendation is a multi-objective, multi-modal and heavily time-dependent problem, that needs to be personalised to individual's investment profiles to be successful. @ir_glasgow @GlasgowCS

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

Now it’s the turn of @hideo_joho from Tsukuba University presenting a paper at #sigir2025 with J Jose entitled “An instruction-response perspective on LLMs in IR tasks” - one of the results of his research visit to @GlasgowCS

Now listening to @hideo_joho give his talk on an instruction - response perspective on LLMs in IR tasks, in the perspectives track at #sigir2025 @ir_glasgow

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

I will present our paper “Breaking the lens of the Telescope: Online Relevance Estimation over Large Retrieval Sets” at #SIGIR2025 🕰️ 10:30 AM (16.07.2025) 📍Location: GIOTTO (Floor 0) Full Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… Slides: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/detailed-progr…