Postgraduate research students

Zeyan Liang

Email: z.liang.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Office: 18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Room G161 Desk4

Research title: A De-biasing Approach for Learning-to-Rank Within a Self-supervised Learning Framework

Research summary

I am a PhD student in the Information Retrieval Group of the Information & Data Analysis Section in the School of Computing Science. 

 

Publications

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2026

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Auditing Query Drift: Do Users Actually Benefit from Pseudo-Relevance Feedback? In: 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), Melbourne, Australia, 20–24 July 2026, pp. 3952-3957. ISBN 9798400725999 (doi: 10.1145/3805712.3809916)

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Explaining When PRF Fails: Participatory Auditing for Selective Query Expansion. In: Second Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval (WExIR) @ SIGIR 2026, Melbourne | Naarm, Australia, 24 July 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) Document Similarity Enhanced IPS Estimation for Unbiased Learning to Rank. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, pp. 2916-2920. ISBN 9798400715921 (doi: 10.1145/3726302.3730179)

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Conference Proceedings

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Auditing Query Drift: Do Users Actually Benefit from Pseudo-Relevance Feedback? In: 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), Melbourne, Australia, 20–24 July 2026, pp. 3952-3957. ISBN 9798400725999 (doi: 10.1145/3805712.3809916)

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Explaining When PRF Fails: Participatory Auditing for Selective Query Expansion. In: Second Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval (WExIR) @ SIGIR 2026, Melbourne | Naarm, Australia, 24 July 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Liang, Zeyan, McDonald, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-5996 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) Document Similarity Enhanced IPS Estimation for Unbiased Learning to Rank. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, pp. 2916-2920. ISBN 9798400715921 (doi: 10.1145/3726302.3730179)

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