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)

Had fun talking about biomedical information extraction with @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social today. Check out the materials from our #ISMBECCB2025 virtual tutorial. It's a mini intro course on #BioNLP! ai4biomed.org/ismb2025tuto...

Very happy to announce that our paper "Accelerating Cross-Encoders in Biomedical Entity Linking" with @jakelever.bsky.social has been accepted to the #BioNLP2025 workshop!

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!

An amazing work by @ttsamurai.bsky.social! Happy to see so much interest on conversational financial agents from the #ECIR2025 community!

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!

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!

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

Considering this is a new social network, I will take the opportunity to introduce myself to the research community here. 1. I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿(@irglasgow.bsky.social), interested in RecSys, graphs, IR and NLP.

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!