🚨 New Pre-Print!🚨 with @macavaney.bsky.social & @iadhounis.bsky.social. Stop using "translate-train" for all your multilingual needs. We explore zero-shot transfer for low-resource languages... 🧵

🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 I am happy to share that our work with @macavaney.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social , "Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer", has been accepted to the #ecir2025 "IR for Good" track.

Demo paper entitled “FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - output of a collaboration with University of Tokyo with T Takayanagi, M Suzuki, K Izumi, R McCreadie, @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

#IR4Good paper entitled “Fair Exposure Allocation Using Generative Query Expansion” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - work by @tjaenich.bsky.social @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Happy to share that our paper "Improving novelty and diversity of nearest-neighbors recommendation by exploiting dissimilarities" with @psperez.bsky.social and @abellogin.bsky.social has been accepted to #ECIR2025 IR4Good track!

Full length paper entitled “One size doesn’t fit all: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning” has been accepted at #ecir2025 - work by Manish Chandra, @gdebasis.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Full length paper entitled “A Multi-modal Recipe for Improved Multi-domain Recommendation” has been accepted at #ecir2025 - work by @zixuanyi.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

#IR4Good paper entitled “Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - work by @andreaschari.bsky.social @macavaney.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Tomorrow, in our weekly reading group series, we will be discussing the recent Nature paper entitled “Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy“ by Farquhar et al. #IRGlasgowReadingGroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, Aixin Sun from the Nanyang Technological University is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Understanding and Evaluating Recommender Systems from a User Perspective". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 25th November, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind will give an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

Hello everyone! Happy to be here! If you are interested on the research that we do at @irglasgow.bsky.social (IR, RecSys, NLP), I have created an starter pack for you! Access it here: go.bsky.app/BM6iHbU I will keep updating it over time as more people in our team join BlueSky!