Craig Macdonald
@craig_macdonald
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Professor of Information Retrieval
Glasgow
Joined July 2009
RA job in @ir_glasgow on an EU Horizon project, with @iadh @richardm_ and myself, on the use of LLMs in developing AI agents for the risk and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) assessment of sustainability-focused green investment projects. 👇.
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RT @_xizhang: 📢 Come by Poster #130 right now at #ACL2025NLP ! @mengzaiqiao is here! .KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhan….
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Our works that Nicola cited in his talk (also @iadh, @macavaney and others):. 1. 📕 Efficient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search (Foundations and Trends in IR).
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RT @ir_glasgow: With some of us already en route home, the rest of #TeamUofG bids farewell to #SIGIR2025 & the beautiful city of Padova. We….
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Watching .@ntonellotto presenting at ReNeuIR workshop at #sigir2025, discussing key ideas like static pruning in neural era
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RT @andreas_chari: 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….
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.@DanielTian97 is presenting our work on using QPP in agentic RAG w/ @JinyuanF @debforit @mengzaiqiao. 📄
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RT @JackMcK1999: Currently listening to @iadh give his keynote speech on evaluating financial asset recommendation, in the FinIR workshop.….
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RT @graham_mcdonald: Starting the day at #SIGIR2025 FinIR Workshop with a lively keynote presentation by @iadh:.Beyond Profit: Evaluating F….
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RT @ir_glasgow: Huge congratulations to @macavaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research cat….
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RT @DanielTian97: How does retrieval impact on Agentic RAG? Let's see what predicted intermediate retrieval quality can tell us! Our IR-RAG….
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Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a new paradigm where the reasoning model decides when to invoke a retriever (as a "tool") when answering a question. This paradigm, exemplified by...
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Join @MrParryParry and myself at our #sigir2025 demo on PyTerrier RAG. 🏠/📒 📰 cc/ @JinyuanF @mengzaiqiao
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RT @graham_mcdonald: Poster number 33 at #sigir2025, @JackMck1999's work on Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrie….
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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”)
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Takeheiro presenting his collaboration with Javier @richardm_ and @iadh at @ir_glasgow on AI agents for financial advice #SIGIR2025
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