A great opportunity for students, and a new, expanded format with an academic Symposium in parallel. Come and join us in Glasgow in June! @idaglasgow.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social

Call for participation: 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland. June 16-20, 2026. Summer School expanded to include Symposium. Call for Workshops (14th Feb) & Student Attendence (14th March). s3cix.computationalinteraction.org

🎄 PyTerrier Advent 24/25: Removing low-quality docs can boost search quality and cut indexing costs. Our SIGIR’24 paper QT5 trains a T5 model to filter passages at indexing time—easy to integrate, and works with dense, PISA, or SPLADE indexes too.

🎄 PyTerrier Advent 22/25: A more complex pipeline—knowledge-graph–enhanced RAG from our EMNLP 2024 paper TRACE. We build a KG over retrieved docs, then use a transformer to reason over triples for better QA. This pipeline instantiation uses a cache (see 20th advent) on LLM-based KG extraction.

🎄 PyTerrier Advent 13/25: Doc2query expands docs with generated queries, but can hallucinate. Our ECIR’23 paper Doc2query-- (aka "minus minus") filters generated queries using a cross-encoder before indexing. PyTerrier pipeline: generate→score→filter→index. 📄https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03266

🎄PyTerrier Advent 8/25: Beyond sparse! PyTerrier_dr adds dense indexing & retrieval. Instantiate an encoder model, compose with FlexIndex. Retrieval is identical. Support models include: ANCE, TCT-ColBERT, BGE, E5, or any SentenceTransformer model. 👉 github.com/terrierteam/...

Paper alert 🚨"Investors Are (Not) Always Right: A Comparison of Transaction-Based and Profitability-Based Metrics for Financial Asset Recommendations", with @richardmcc.bsky.social, Nikos Droukas, @craigmacdonald.bsky.social & @iadhounis.bsky.social has been accepted at ACM TOIS! 🧵(1/5)

🎄We want to try something new and fun this year – an “Advent Calendar” of PyTerrier pipelines 🤓 We’ll kick it off with *the* baseline: BM25 on MSMARCO. One line to download a pre-built index, one line to make a BM25 retriever, one line to search.

We are happy to sponsor the Keith Van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award at #ECIR2026 📢 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! Details and Submission Form at @ecir2026.eu website: lnkd.in/emecdsXm 🗓 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...

We’re hiring a 2nd RA/PDRA at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social for the EU CLIMINVEST Project! Work with @iadhounis.bsky.social, @craigmacdonald.bsky.social & Richard McCreadie on LLM-powered AI agents for ESG & risk assessment in green investment. Apply by Dec 15: www.linkedin.com/posts/iadhou...

📢 We're also now on LinkedIn! Follow the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group for updates on IR research, @irglasgow.bsky.social activities, events, and collaborations: 🔗 linkedin.com/company/glasgow-information-retrieval-group #InformationRetrieval #IR #AI #recsys #RecommenderSystems #Glasgow

📢 We're off to #SIGIR2025 in Padova! A large contingent of our students & staff will be at the main conference + tutorials, workshops & #ICTIR2025. Let’s connect if you’re around! 🤝 Also: we're hiring in #FinTech — DM us if you're interested! #IR #Hiring #Research #ACMSIGIR

Huge congratulations to our brilliant PhD graduates: @tjaenich.bsky.social, @mariavlachou.bsky.social, and @apetrov.bsky.social 🎉 It’s been a joy having you @uofgcompsci.bsky.social - We’re so proud of all you’ve achieved and can’t wait to see what amazing things you’ll do next! 👏 #PhDGraduation

Congratulations to @tjaenich.bsky.social who defended his PhD Thesis Fair Group-Based Exposure of Documents in Ranked Search Results 👏👏 Was a pleasure supervising your PhD along with @iadhounis.bsky.social. @irglasgow.bsky.social Thanks to the examiners Dr. Sole Pera and Christos Anagnostopoulos!

A large contingent of our staff & students @uofgcompsci.bsky.social will soon be traveling to #ECIR2025. We'll be presenting our latest work in #search & #RecSys throughout the 5-day conference. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends in Lucca!

About a week left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR at @irglasgow.bsky.social Details are below. Deadline to apply: 26th March

Watching @iadhounis.bsky.social give a Keynote talk about reproducibility and PyTerrier pipelines in Tsukuba x Glasgow workshop on the Frontiers of AI. @irglasgow.bsky.social

We are recruiting a postdoc at @irglasgow.bsky.social to work on the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) RAI UK project on Responsible AI. phawm.org Deadline: 26th March www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

🎉 #ICDCS2025 Registration Now Open! 🎉 Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to: 🚀Inspiring keynote talks & technical sessions 🛠️Hands-on workshops & tutorials 🗣️Thought-provoking panel discussions & networking 🎊Exciting social events icdcs2025.icdcs.org/registration/

Join #ICDCS2025's unforgettable Civic Reception at the grandeur of Glasgow’s historic City Chambers experiencing Glasgow’s hospitality on 23rd of July. More: icdcs2025.icdcs.org/social-events/ #ConferenceFun

Come work with us in Glasgow! We are recruiting a postdoc at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social to work on understanding & measuring the harm of AI-driven IR approaches within various search contexts as part of the PHAWM project on Responsible AI. Deadline: 26/03 Details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

We have 2 tenure-track faculty openings in Machine Learning at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social; Applications are welcome in the general areas of AI & ML, which complement existing strengths in the @idaglasgow.bsky.social section. Details at: jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-s… Deadline: 17 Feb 2025 at 23:45

🚨A week to go (!) before the poster papers abstract deadline for #ICDCS2025🚨 Submissions should be in the form of papers in a short format that are best presented as posters. icdcs2025.icdcs.org/call-for-pos... Deadlines: 15 Jan (abstracts), 22 Jan (papers).

Ph.D. studentship available at @idaglasgow.bsky.social with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by @ssteinresearch.bsky.social and @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social. Deadline, 31st January 2025. Fully funded (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html

One week to go(!) before the deadline to submit a Workshop Proposal for #ICDCS2025 icdcs2025.icdcs.org/call-for-wor... Deadline: 27 Nov 2024 (AoE).

The 45th IEEE ICDCS 2025 Conference, Glasgow, UK, is inviting for novel contributions in various tracks: +Regular papers (4 Dec), +Workshop proposals (27 Nov) +Posters (15 Jan) +Demonstrations (22 Jan) +Industry event papers (12 Feb) icdcs2025.icdcs.org Follow us on @icdcs2025.bsky.social