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Craig Macdonald

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Professor of Information Retrieval

Glasgow
Joined July 2009
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@UofGNews
UofG News
13 days
Scientists @UofGlasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins. Read more about the new @NatureComms study โžก๏ธ https://t.co/kLWGk9J3Bg
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
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.@mvlacho1 presenting the last of her PhD work at #RecSys2025 : Fashion-AlterEval: A Dataset for Improved Evaluation of Conversational Recommendation Systems with Alternative Relevant Items Cc/ @ir_glasgow @GlasgowCS ๐Ÿ“„ https://t.co/KibFfanDpB
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@ir_glasgow
Glasgow IR Group
2 months
๐Ÿš€ At #RecSys2025 spot #24, Jackson Dam is demoing RecViz, a graph-based visual analytics tool for exploring recommendation datasets & results. ๐Ÿ“Š Great for qualitative analysis & insight generation. ๐Ÿ‘ A fantastic undergraduate achievement at @GlasgowCS with @iadh & @ZixuanYI_
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
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Alberto Mancino from Politecnico Bari explaining our joint work on Balancing Accuracy and Novelty with Sub-Item popularity at #recsys2025. First author Chiara Mallamaci was a @ir_glasgow @GlasgowCS visitor earlier this year. W/ @asash Walter Annelli, Tommaso Di Noia
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
2 months
Thrilled to join @asash on the Recsperts podcast! Thanks @MarcelKurovski for having us. We had a blast discussing our #RecSys research & transformer-based sequential recommendation. Tune in on your favorite podcast platform
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recsperts.com
In episode 29 of Recsperts, I welcome Craig Macdonald, Professor of Information Retrieval at the University of Glasgow, and Aleksandr โ€œSashaโ€ Petrov, PhD researcher and former applied scientist at ...
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
3 months
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. ๐Ÿ‘‡
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@_xizhang
Xi Zhang
3 months
๐Ÿ“ข Come by Poster #130 right now at #ACL2025NLP ! @mengzaiqiao is here! KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ“š w/ @JinyuanF and @craig_macdonald โ€” donโ€™t miss the deep dive into knowledge-grounded retrieval! @ir_glasgow
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@mengzaiqiao
Zaiqiao Meng
3 months
Come over X5 130 and have a chat with me๐Ÿ‘ˆ
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
4 months
4. ๐Ÿ“„ Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning https://t.co/7G9i6FTWRD
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Craig Macdonald
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3. ๐Ÿ“„ Static Pruning for Multi-Representation Dense Retrieval https://t.co/xZvilNMphH
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Craig Macdonald
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2. ๐Ÿ“„ Query Embedding Pruning for Dense Retrieval https://t.co/wASvPgk3Q9
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Craig Macdonald
4 months
Our works that Nicola cited in his talk (also @iadh, @macavaney and others): 1. ๐Ÿ“• E๏ฌƒcient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search (Foundations and Trends in IR) https://t.co/go3xMXLY3t
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@ir_glasgow
Glasgow IR Group
4 months
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 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น #GoodbyePadova #ByeSIGIR
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@craig_macdonald
Craig Macdonald
4 months
Watching .@ntonellotto presenting at ReNeuIR workshop at #sigir2025, discussing key ideas like static pruning in neural era
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@andreas_chari
Andreas Chari
4 months
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)
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Craig Macdonald
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.@DanielTian97 is presenting our work on using QPP in agentic RAG w/ @JinyuanF @debforit @mengzaiqiao ๐Ÿ“„ https://t.co/OkVsq7hQ0a
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@JackMcK1999
Jack McKechnie
4 months
Currently listening to @iadh give his keynote speech on evaluating financial asset recommendation, in the FinIR workshop. Interesting stuff! @ir_glasgow #SIGIR2025
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@graham_mcdonald
graham mcdonald
4 months
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
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@ir_glasgow
Glasgow IR Group
4 months
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 ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ‰#sigir2025 Cc @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR
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