2024

Janich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2024) Fairness-Aware Exposure Allocation via Adaptive Reranking. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2024) Personalised multi-modal interactive recommendation with hierarchical state representations. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, (doi: 10.1145/3651169) (Early Online Publication)

Yi, Z., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2024) Contrastive graph prompt-tuning for cross-domain recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42(2), 60. (doi: 10.1145/3618298)

2023

Jaenich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Improving Exposure Allocation in Rankings by Query Generation. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Frayling, E., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Adhoc Retrieval through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Jaenich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Query Exposure Prediction for Groups of Documents in Rankings. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Z., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. and Yi, Z. (2023) Knowledge Graph Cross-View Contrastive Learning for Recommendation. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Displaying Evolving Events via Hierarchical Information Threads for Sensitivity Review. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Huang, J., Chen, B. , Yan, Z., Ounis, I. and Wang, J. (2023) GEO: A computational design framework for automotive exterior facelift. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 17(6), 82. (doi: 10.1145/3578521)

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Multi-Task Learning of Query Generation and Classification for Generative Conversational Question Rewriting. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 6-10 Dec 2023, pp. 13667-13678. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.913)

Chandra, M., Ganguly, D. , Saha, T. and Ounis, I. (2023) 'Choose Your Data Wisely’: Active Learning based Selection with Multi-Objective Optimisation for Mitigating Stereotypes. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023, pp. 3768-3772. ISBN 9798400701245 (doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615261)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Goal-Oriented Multi-Modal Interactive Recommendation with Verbal and Non-Verbal Relevance Feedback. In: 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023), Singapore, 18-22 Sept 2023, pp. 362-373. ISBN 9798400702419 (doi: 10.1145/3604915.3608775)

Chari, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (2023) On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2220-2224. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592030)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2023) Reproducibility, Replicability, and Insights into Dense Multi-Representation Retrieval Models: from ColBERT to Col*. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2552-2561. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591916)

Liu, S., Meng, Z. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Graph neural pre-training for recommendation with side information. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3568953)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, pp. 12688-12704. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.710)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search. In: Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2023 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 July 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Identifying chronological and coherent information threads using 5W1H questions and temporal relationships. Information Processing and Management, 60(3), 103274. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103274)

Janich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Colbert-FairPRF: Towards Fair Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Dense Retrieval. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023, pp. 457-465. ISBN 9783031282379 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_36)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Hierarchical Information Threading using Network Community Detection. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023, pp. 701-706. ISBN 9783031282430 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28244-7_44)

Yi, Z., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2023) Contrastive Graph Learning with Positional Representation for Recommendation. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II. Springer: Cham, pp. 288-303. ISBN 9783031282386 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_19)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2023) ColBERT-PRF: Semantic pseudo-relevance feedback for dense passage and document retrieval. ACM Transactions on the Web, 17(1), 3. (doi: 10.1145/3572405)

Huang, J., Chen, B. , Luo, L., Yue, S. and Ounis, I. (2023) DVM-CAR: A Large-Scale Automotive Dataset for Visual Marketing Research and Applications. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022), Osaka, Japan, 17-20 Dec 2022, pp. 4140-4147. ISBN 9781665480451 (doi: 10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020634)

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) monoQA: Multi-Task Learning of Reranking and Answer Extraction for Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering. In: 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Abu Dhabi, 7-11 December 2022, pp. 7207-7218.

2022

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) BanditProp: bandit selection of review properties for effective recommendation. ACM Transactions on the Web, 16(4), 20. (doi: 10.1145/3532859)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) Sensitivity Review of Large Collections by Identifying and Prioritising Coherent Documents Groups. In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’22), Atlanta, GA, USA, 17-21 October 2022, pp. 4931-4935. ISBN 9781450392365 (doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557182)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Multimodal Conversational Fashion Recommendation with Positive and Negative Natural-Language Feedback. In: CUI 2022, Glasgow, UK, 26-28 Jul 2022, p. 6. ISBN 9781450397391 (doi: 10.1145/3543829.3543837)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Multi-Modal Dialog State Tracking for Interactive Fashion Recommendation. In: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), Seattle, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022, pp. 124-133. ISBN 9781450392785 (doi: 10.1145/3523227.3546774)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Improving zero-shot retrieval using dense external expansion. Information Processing and Management, 59(5), 103026. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103026)

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Mccreadie, R. , Droukas, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations. 3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.

Puthiya Parambath, S. A. , Liu, S., Anagnostopoulos, C. , Murray-Smith, R. and Ounis, I. (2022) Parameter Tuning of Reranking-based Diversification Algorithms using Total Curvature Analysis. In: 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2022), Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 2022, ISBN 9781450394123 (doi: 10.1145/3539813.3545135)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) An MLP-based Algorithm for Efficient Contrastive Graph Recommendations. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2431-2436. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531874)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2790-2800. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531721)

Yi, Z., Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) Multi-modal Graph Contrastive Learning for Micro-video Recommendation. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 1807-1811. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3532027)

MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 627-640. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_42)

MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 305-310. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_38)

McCreadie, R. , Perakis, K., Srikrishna, M., Droukas, N., Pitsios, S., Prokopaki, G., Perdikouri, E., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Next-Generation Personalized Investment Recommendations. In: Soldatos, J. and Kyriazis, D. (eds.) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance: Increasing Personalization and Trust in Digital Finance using Big Data and AI. Springer: Cham, pp. 171-198. ISBN 9783030945893 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-94590-9_10)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) Effective Rating Prediction Using an Attention-Based User Review Sentiment Model. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 487-501. ISBN 9783030997366 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_33)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) The Role of Latent Semantic Categories and Clustering in Enhancing the Efficiency of Human Sensitivity Review. In: Seventh ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (ACM CHIIR 2022), Regensburg, Germany, 14-18 Mar 2022, pp. 56-66. ISBN 9781450391863 (doi: 10.1145/3498366.3505824)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Search results diversification for effective fair ranking in academic search. Information Retrieval Journal, 25(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09399-z)

Frayling, E., Macdonald, C. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) Using Entities in Knowledge Graph Hierarchies to Classify Sensitive Information. In: 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2022), Bologna, Italy, 5-8 Sept 2022, pp. 125-132. ISBN 9783031136429 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_10)

2021

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2021) RelDiff: Enriching Knowledge Graph Relation Representations for Sensitivity Classification. In: 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 07-11 Nov 2021, pp. 3671-3681. ISBN 9781955917100

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. , MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (2021) PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event Queensland, Australia, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 4526-4533. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482013)

Meng, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Variational Bayesian representation learning for grocery recommendation. Information Retrieval, 24(4-5), pp. 347-369. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09397-1)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning for Dialog-based Interactive Recommendation. In: 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys21), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 Sep - 01 Oct 2021, pp. 241-251. (doi: 10.1145/3460231.3474256)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) The Simpson's Paradox in the offline evaluation of recommendation systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(1), 4. (doi: 10.1145/3458509)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2021) Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Multiple Representation Dense Retrieval. In: 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021), 11 Jul 2021, pp. 297-306. ISBN 9781450386111 (doi: 10.1145/3471158.3472250)

Mccreadie, R. et al. (2021) Leveraging data-driven infrastructure management to facilitate AIOps for big data applications and operations. In: Curry, E., Auer, S., Berre, A. J., Metzger, A., Perez, M. S. and Zillner, S. (eds.) Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value. Springer: Cham, pp. 135-158. ISBN 9783030783068 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-78307-5_7)

Ueda, A., Santos, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Structured Fine-Tuning of Contextual Embeddings for Effective Biomedical Retrieval. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2031-2035. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463075)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2021) Leveraging Review Properties for Effective Recommendation. In: The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021, pp. 2209-2219. ISBN 9781450383127 (doi: 10.1145/3442381.3450038)

Yigit-Sert, S., Altingovde, I. S., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Ulusoy, Ö. (2021) Explicit diversification of search results across multiple dimensions for educational search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(3), pp. 315-330. (doi: 10.1002/asi.24403)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) How the accuracy and confidence of sensitivity classification affects digital sensitivity review. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 39(1), 4. (doi: 10.1145/3417334)

Muchlinski, D., Yang, X., Birch, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) We need to go deeper: measuring electoral violence using convolutional neural networks and social media. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(1), pp. 122-139. (doi: 10.1017/psrm.2020.32)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2021) On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval. In: 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Bari, Italy, 13-15 Sep 2021,

2020

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Multi-Task Learning using Dynamic Task Weighting for Conversational Question Answering. In: 5th Edition of the Search-Oriented Conversational AI workshop held at EMNLP 2020, 19 Nov 2020, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9781952148675 (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.scai-1.3)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) A contextual recurrent collaborative filtering framework for modelling sequences of venue checkins. Information Processing and Management, 57(6), 102092. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102092)

Yigit-Sert, S., Altingovde, I., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Ulusoy, Ö. (2020) Supervised approaches for explicit search result diversification. Information Processing and Management, 57(6), 102356. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102356)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2020) Negative Confidence-Aware Weakly Supervised Binary Classification for Effective Review Helpfulness Classification. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020), 19-23 Oct 2020, pp. 1565-1574. ISBN 9781450368599 (doi: 10.1145/3340531.3411978)

Meng, Z. , Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for the Evaluation of Recommendation Models. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 681-686. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3418479)

Meng, Z. et al. (2020) BETA-Rec: Build, Evaluate and Tune Automated Recommender Systems. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 588-590. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3411524)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) A Hybrid Conditional Variational Autoencoder Model for Personalised Top-n Recommendation. In: ICTIR 2020: The 6th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Stavanger, Norway, 14-18 Sep 2020, pp. 89-96. ISBN 9781450380676 (doi: 10.1145/3409256.3409835)

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Castells, P., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models. Information Processing and Management, 57(5), 102285. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Using Exploration to Alleviate Closed-Loop Effects in Recommender Systems. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2025-2028. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401230)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. and Meng, Z. (2020) A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Model for Cold-Start Recommendation. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2029-2032. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401252)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Active Learning Stopping Strategies for Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2053-2056. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401267)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2020) Receptor: a Platform for Exploring Latent Relations in Sensitive Documents. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2161-2164. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401407)

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Castells, P. (2020) Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective. In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9783030454388 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)

2019

Meng, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Variational Bayesian Context-aware Representation for Grocery Recommendation. In: 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys19) - CARS 2019 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,

McCreadie, R. , Rajput, S., Soboroff, I., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) On enhancing the robustness of timeline summarization test collections. Information Processing and Management, 56(5), pp. 1815-1836. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.02.006)

Jadidinejad, A. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) How Sensitive is Recommendation Systems' Offline Evaluation to Popularity? In: REVEAL 2019 Workshop at RecSys, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 Sep 2019,

Su, T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Ensembles of Recurrent Networks for Classifying the Relationship of Fake News Titles. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'19), Paris, France, 21-25 Jul 2019, pp. 893-896. ISBN 9781450361729 (doi: 10.1145/3331184.3331305)

Thomas, C., McCreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2019) Event Tracker: a Text Analytics Platform for Use During Disasters. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'19), Paris, France, 21-25 Jul 2019, pp. 1341-1344. ISBN 9781450361729 (doi: 10.1145/3331184.3331406)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) The FACTS of Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR (SIGIR'19 Workshop)), Paris, France, 25 Jul 2019.

de Lira, V. M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Renso, C. and Times, V. C. (2019) Event attendance classification in social media. Information Processing and Management, 56(3), pp. 687-703. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2018.11.001)

Manotumruksa, J., Rafailidis, D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) On Cross-Domain Transfer in Venue Recommendation. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 443-456. ISBN 9783030157111 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_29)

Wang, X., Fang, A., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Evaluating Similarity Metrics for Latent Twitter Topics. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 787-794. ISBN 9783030157128 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_54)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Comparison of Sentiment Analysis and User Ratings in Venue Recommendation. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 215-228. ISBN 9783030157128 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_14)

Mcdonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) How Sensitivity Classification Effectiveness Impacts Reviewers in Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR), Glasgow, UK, 10-14 Mar 2019, pp. 337-341. ISBN 9781450360258 (doi: 10.1145/3295750.3298962)

Fang, A., Habel, P., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Votes on Twitter: assessing candidate preferences and topics of discussion during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. SAGE Open, 9(1), (doi: 10.1177/2158244018791653)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Unifying Explicit and Implicit Feedback for Rating Prediction and Ranking Recommendation Tasks. In: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 02-05 Oct 2019, pp. 149-151. ISBN 9781450368810 (doi: 10.1145/3341981.3344225)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Social Regularisation in a BPR-based Venue Recommendation Systems. In: 9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) and 12th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), Milan, Italy, 15-19 July 2019,

Su, T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Entity Detection for Check-worthiness Prediction: Glasgow Terrier at CLEF CheckThat! 2019. In: CLEF 2019, Lugano, Switzerland, 09-12 Sep 2019,

2018

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Efficient query processing for scalable web search. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 12(4-5), pp. 319-500. (doi: 10.1561/1500000057)

Fang, A., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Habel, P., Xiong, X. and Yu, H. (2018) An Effective Approach for Modelling Time Features for Classifying Bursty Topics on Twitter. In: 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy, 22-26 Oct 2018, pp. 1547-1550. ISBN 9781450360142 (doi: 10.1145/3269206.3269253)

Gonzalez Paule, J. D., Moshfeghi, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Learning to Geolocalise Tweets at a Fine-Grained Level. In: 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy, 22-26 Oct 2018, pp. 1675-1678. ISBN 9781450360142 (doi: 10.1145/3269206.3269291)

Smith, K. S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Regional sentiment bias in social media reporting during crises. Information Systems Frontiers, 50(5), pp. 1013-1025. (doi: 10.1007/s10796-018-9827-x)

Macdonald, C. , McCreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2018) Agile Information Retrieval Experimentation with Terrier Notebooks. In: 1st Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018), Bertinoro, Italy, 29-31 Aug 2018,

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Contextual Attention Recurrent Architecture for Context-aware Venue Recommendation. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 8-12 Jul 2018, pp. 555-564. ISBN 9781450356572 (doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210042)

McCreadie, R. , Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Explicit diversification of event aspects for temporal summarization. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 36(3), 25. (doi: 10.1145/3158671)

Yang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Using word embeddings in Twitter election classification. Information Retrieval, 21(2-3), pp. 183-207. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-017-9319-5)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Automatic Ground Truth Expansion for Timeline Evaluation. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 8-12 Jul 2018, pp. 685-694. ISBN 9781450356572 (doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210034)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Active Learning Strategies for Technology Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 439-453. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_33)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Towards Maximising Openness in Digital Sensitivity Review using Reviewing Time Predictions. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 699-706. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_65)

Su, T., Fang, A., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) On Refining Twitter Lists as Ground Truth Data for Multi-Community User Classification. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 765-772. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_74)

Yang, X., Ounis, I. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Fang, A. (2018) On the Reproducibility and Generalisation of the Linear Transformation of Word Embeddings. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 263-275. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_20)

2017

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2017) Efficient & Effective Selective Query Rewriting with Efficiency Predictions. In: SIGIR 2017: The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 Aug 2017, pp. 495-504. ISBN 9781450350228 (doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080827)

Mcdonald, G. , García-Pedrajas, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Study of SVM Kernel Functions for Sensitivity Classification Ensembles with POS Sequences. In: SIGIR 2017: The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 Aug 2017, pp. 1097-1100. ISBN 9781450350228 (doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080731)

Smith, K. S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter. In: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '17), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 317-320. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110066)

Yang, X., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Transfer Learning for Multi-language Twitter Election Classification. In: The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 341-348. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110059)

Azzopardi, L., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Halvey, M. (2017) Report on the Information Retrieval Festival (IRFest2017). ACM SIGIR Forum, 51(1), pp. 12-28. (doi: 10.1145/3130332.3130336)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Habel, P. and Yang, X. (2017) Exploring Time-Sensitive Variational Bayesian Inference LDA for Social Media Data. In: 39th European Conference in Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 252-265. ISBN 9783319566078 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_20)

Akcay, M., Altingovde, I. S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) On the Additivity and Weak Baselines for Search Result Diversification Research. In: ICTIR 2017: The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1-4 Oct 2017, pp. 109-116. ISBN 9781450344906 (doi: 10.1145/3121050.3121059)

de Lira, V. M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Renso, C. and Times, V. C. (2017) Exploring Social Media for Event Attendance. In: The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 447-450. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110080)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Deep Recurrent Collaborative Filtering Framework for Venue Recommendation. In: 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, 6-10 Nov 2017, pp. 1429-1438. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi: 10.1145/3132847.3133036)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Matrix Factorisation with Word Embeddings for Rating Prediction on Location-Based Social Networks. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 647-654. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_61)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Personalised Ranking Framework with Multiple Sampling Criteria for Venue Recommendation. In: 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, 6-10 Nov 2017, pp. 1469-1478. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi: 10.1145/3132847.3132985)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Enhancing Sensitivity Classification with Semantic Features using Word Embeddings. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 450-463. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_35)

2016

Mccreadie, R. , Albakour, D., Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Searching the Internet of Things. In: John, S. (ed.) Building Blocks for IoT Analytics. River Publishers, pp. 39-80. ISBN 9788793519039 (doi: 10.13052/rp-9788793519046)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Topics in Tweets: A User Study of Topic Coherence Metrics for Twitter Data. In: ECIR 2016: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Padua, Italy, 21-23 March 2016, pp. 492-504. ISBN 9783319306704 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_36)

Mackie, S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Experiments in newswire summarisation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9626, pp. 421-435. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_31)

Dinçer, B. T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Risk-Sensitive Evaluation and Learning to Rank using Multiple Baselines. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 483-492. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2911511)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Examining the Coherence of the Top Ranked Tweet Topics. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914731)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Using Word Embedding to Evaluate the Coherence of Topics from Twitter Data. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 Jul 2016, ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914729)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Modelling User Preferences using Word Embeddings for Context-Aware Venue Recommendation. In: Neu-IR ’16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, 21 Jul 2016,

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Predicting Contextually Appropriate Venues in Location-Based Social Networks. In: CLEF 2016: 7th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Évora, Portugal, 5-8 Sept 2016, pp. 96-109. ISBN 9783319445632 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-44564-9_8)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Regularising Factorised Models for Venue Recommendation using Friends and their Comments. In: CIKM 2016: 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Indianapolis, United States, 24-28 Oct 2016, ISBN 9781450340731 (doi: 10.1145/2983323.2983889)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) EAIMS: Emergency Analysis Identification and Management System. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 1101-1104. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2911460)

Moran, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Enhancing First Story Detection using Word Embeddings. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 821-824. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914719)

Vargas, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises. In: 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016), Cologne, Germany, 17-20 May 2016,

Yang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Using Word Embeddings in Twitter Election Classification. In: Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, 21 July 2016,

Yang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2016) Monitoring Electoral Violence through Social Media: A Machine Learning Approach. In: International Conference on Computational Social Science, Evanston, IL, USA, 24-26 Jun 2016,

2015

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2015) Queuing theory-based latency/power tradeoff models for replicated search engines. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 21(13), pp. 1790-1809. (doi: 10.3217/jucs-021-13-1790)

Moshfeghi, Y., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Jose, J. , Triantafillou, P., Livingston, M. and Thakuriah, P. (2015) UCUI'15 : Proceedings of the ACM First International Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics. ACM. ISBN 9781450337861

Mccreadie, R. , Kappler, K., Kaltenbrunner, A., Kardara, M., Macdonald, C. , Soldatos, J. and Ounis, I. (2015) SUPER: Towards the Use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, Florence, Italy, 18-22 May 2015, pp. 1217-1220. ISBN 9781450334730 (doi: 10.1145/2740908.2741723)

Limsopatham, N., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Tweeting Behaviour during Train Disruptions within a City. In: Workshop on Digital Placemaking: Augmenting Physical Places with Contextual Social Data, Oxford, 26 May 2015,

Rodrygo, L.T. S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Search result diversification. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 9(1), pp. 1-90. (doi: 10.1561/1500000040)

Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Using Sensor Metadata Streams to Identify Topics of Local Events in the City. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 711-714. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767837)

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Experiments with a Venue-Centric Model for Personalised and Time-Aware Venue Suggestion. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015, (doi: 10.1145/2806416.2806484)

Di Santo, G., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Comparing Approaches for Query Autocompletion. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 775-778. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767829)

Fang, A., Ounis, I. , Habel, P., Macdonald, C. and Limsopatham, N. (2015) Topic-centric Classification of Twitter User's Political Orientation. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 791-794. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767833)

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Generalized Team Draft Interleaving. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Optimised Scheduling of Online Experiments. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 453-462. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767706)

Kharitonov, E., Vorobev, A., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Sequential Testing for Early Stopping of Online Experiments. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 473-482. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767729)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Modelling the Usefulness of Document Collections for Query Expansion in Patient Search. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Macdonald, C. , Dincer, B. T. and Ounis, I. (2015) Transferring Learning To Rank Models for Web Search. In: ICTIR 2015: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Northampton, MA, USA, 27-30 Sep 2015, pp. 41-50. ISBN 9781450338332 (doi: 10.1145/2808194.2809463)

Macdonald, G., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Using Part-of-Speech N-grams for Sensitive-text Classification. In: ICTIR 2015: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Northampton, MA, USA, 27-30 Sep 2015, pp. 381-384. ISBN 9781450338332 (doi: 10.1145/2808194.2809496)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Crowdsourced Rumour Identification During Emergencies. In: 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, Florence, Italy, 18-22 May 2015, pp. 965-970. ISBN 9781450334730 (doi: 10.1145/2740908.2742573)

McDonald, G., Deveaud, R., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Tweet Enrichment for Effective Dimensions Classification in Online Reputation Management. In: 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Oxford, UK, 26-29 May 2015, pp. 654-657.

Moshfeghi, Y., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Jose, J. M. , Triantafillou, P., Livingston, M. and Thakuriah, P. (2015) UCUI'15: The 1st International Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics. In: 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '15), Melbourne, Australia, 19-12 Oct 2015, pp. 1955-1956. ISBN 9781450337946 (doi: 10.1145/2806416.2806878)

Sebastiani, F., Esuli, A., Macdonald, C. , Berardi, G. and Ounis, I. (2015) Semi-Automated Text Classification for Sensitivity Identification. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Vargas, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Analysing Compression Techniques for In-Memory Collaborative Filtering. In: RecSys 2015 Poster Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 16-20 Sep 2015,

2014

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) On the Importance of Venue-Dependent Features for Learning to Rank Contextual Suggestions. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 1827-1830. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661956)

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) SmartVenues: Recommending Popular and Personalised Venues in a City. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 2078-2080. (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661855)

McCreadie, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Incremental Update Summarization: Adaptive Sentence Selection based on Prevalence and Novelty. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 301-310. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661951)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Modelling Relevance towards Multiple Inclusion Criteria when Ranking Patients. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 1639-1648. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661958)

Osborne, M. et al. (2014) Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media. In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, Baltimore, MD, USA, 23-24 Jun 2014, pp. 37-42.

Albakour, M.-D., Deveaud, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Diversifying contextual suggestions from location-based social networks. In: Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX), Regensburg, Germany, 26-30 Aug 2014,

Catena, M., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) On inverted index compression for search engine efficiency. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_30)

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Challenges in recommending venues within smart cities. In: ECIR 2014 Workshop on Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC 2014), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 Apr 2014,

Dinçer, B. T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Hypothesis testing for the risk-sensitive evaluation of retrieval systems. In: 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, 6-11 Jul 2014, pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.1145/2600428.2609625)

Dinçer, B. T., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2014) Tackling biased baselines in the risk-sensitive evaluation of retrieval systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 26-38. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_3)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2014) A self-adapting latency/power tradeoff model for replicated search engines. In: WSDM (Web Search and Data Mining) 2014, New York, NY, 24-28 February 2014, pp. 13-22. (doi: 10.1145/2556195.2556246)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2014) Towards green information retrieval: studying the suitability of queueing theory in reducing power consumption. In: CERI 2014: 3rd Spanish Conference on Information RetrievaL, A Coruña, Spain, 19-20 Jun 2014,

Mackie, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Choosing an effective automatic evaluation metric for microblog summarisation. In: IIIX 2014, Regensburg, Germany, 26-30 Aug 2014,

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Brassey, J. (2014) A study of personalised medical literature search. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 2014,

McDonald, G., Deveaud, R., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. , Gollins, T. and Ounis, I. (2014) University of Glasgow terrier team / project abaca at RepLab 2014: reputation dimensions task. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 2014,

McDonald, G., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Gollins, T. (2014) Towards a classifier for digital sensitivity review. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 500-506. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_48)

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2014) Detecting missing content queries in an SMS-Based HIV/AIDS FAQ retrieval system. In: 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13-16 April 2014, pp. 247-259. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_21)

2013

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R. L. T. and Ounis, I. (2013) The whens and hows of learning to rank for web search. Information Retrieval, 16(5), pp. 584-628. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9209-9)

Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Learning to rank query suggestions for adhoc and diversity search. Information Retrieval, 16(4), pp. 429-451. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9211-2)

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R. L.T., Ounis, I. and He, B. (2013) About learning models with multiple query dependent features. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 31(3), (doi: 10.1145/2493175.2493176)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) News Vertical Search: When and What to Display to Users. In: SIGIR 2013: 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28th July - 1st August 2013,

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Identifying top news using crowdsourcing. Information Retrieval, 16(2), pp. 179-209. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9186-z)

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Efficient and effective retrieval using selective pruning. In: 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Rome, Italy, 6-8 February, 2013, (doi: 10.1145/2433396.2433407)

Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Identifying local events by using microblogs as social sensors. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C. , Orlando, S., Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Silvestri, F. and Tonellotto, N. (2013) Load-sensitive selective pruning for distributed search. In: CIKM '13: 22nd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, San Francisco CA, USA, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, pp. 379-388. (doi: 10.1145/2505515.2505699)

Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C. , Orlando, S., Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Silvestri, F. and Tonellotto, N. (2013) Query Processing in Highly-Loaded Search Engines. In: 20th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Jerusalem, Israel, Oct 7-9 2013, pp. 49-55. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-02432-5_9)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2013) Hybrid query scheduling for a replicated search engine. In: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 Mar 2013, pp. 435-446. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_37)

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2013) User model-based metrics for offline query suggestion evaluation. In: SIGIR 2013: 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28 Jul - 01 Aug 2013,

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2013) Using historical click data to increase interleaving sensitivity. In: CIKM 2013: 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, San Francisco CA, USA, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, pp. 679-688. (doi: 10.1145/2505515.2505687)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Inferring conceptual relationships to improve medical records search. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) A task-specific query and document representation for medical records search. In: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 Mar 2013, pp. 747-751. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_75)

McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Osborne, M. and Petrovic, S. (2013) Scalable distributed event detection for Twitter. In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 6-9 Oct 2013, (doi: 10.1109/BigData.2013.6691620)

Petrovic, S., Osborne, M., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Can twitter replace newswire for breaking news? In: ICWSM - 13, Boston, MA, USA, 8-10 Jul 2013,

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2013) Evaluating Bad Query Abandonment in an Iterative SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval System. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 May 2013, pp. 117-120. ISBN 9782905450098

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2013) Exploiting query logs and field-based models to address term mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ retrieval system. In: Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V. and Vadera, S. (eds.) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB2013, Salford, UK, June 2013, Proceedings. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7934). Springer: Berlin, pp. 77-89. ISBN 9783642388231

Vargas, S., Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Selecting effective expansion terms for diversity. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

2012

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) On the role of novelty for search result diversification. Information Retrieval, 15(5), pp. 478-502. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-011-9180-x)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) MapReduce indexing strategies: studying scalability and efficiency. Information Processing and Management, 48(5), pp. 873-888. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2010.12.003)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2012) Scheduling queries across replicas. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1139-1140. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348508)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2012) Exploiting term dependence while handling negation in medical search. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1065-1066. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348471)

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Tonellotto, N. (2012) Learning to predict response times for online query scheduling. In: 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2012, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348367)

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R.L.T. and Ounis, I. (2012) On the usefulness of query features for learning to rank. In: CIKM 2012: 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui HI, USA, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012, pp. 2559-2562. (doi: 10.1145/2396761.2398691)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2012) Effect of dynamic pruning safety on learning to rank effectiveness. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1051-1052. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348464)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) CrowdTerrier: automatic crowdsourced relevance assessments with terrier. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, p. 1005. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348430)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Giles, J. and Jabr, F. (2012) An examination of content farms in web search using crowdsourcing. In: CIKM 2012: 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui HI, USA, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012, pp. 2551-2554. (doi: 10.1145/2396761.2398689)

Mccreadie, R. , Soboroff, I., Lin, J., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and McCullough, D. (2012) On building a reusable Twitter corpus. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1113-1114. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348495)

Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. , Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2012) Information retrieval on the blogosphere. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 6(1), pp. 1-125. (doi: 10.1561/1500000026)

Soldatos, J., Draief, M., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) Multimedia search over integrated social and sensor networks. In: 21st International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, Lyon, France, pp. 283-286. (doi: 10.1145/2187980.2188029)

2011

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) The influence of the document ranking in expert search. Information Processing and Management, 47(3), pp. 376-390. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2010.09.004)

Bouamrane, M.-M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Mair, F. (2011) Protocol-driven searches for medical and health-sciences systematic reviews. In: Amati, G. and Crestani, F. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6931. Springer: Berlin, pp. 188-200. ISBN 9783642233180 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_18)

Gil-Costa, V., Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Sparse spatial selection for novelty-based search result diversification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7024, pp. 344-355. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_34)

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Tonellotto, N. (2011) Upper-bound approximations for dynamic pruning. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 29(4), pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1145/2037661.2037662)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Learning models for ranking aggregates. In: European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April 2011, pp. 517-529. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_52)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2011) On upper bounds for dynamic pruning. In: 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 313-317. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_29)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) A learned approach for ranking news in real-time using the blogosphere. In: 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), Pisa, Italy, pp. 104-116. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_11)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Aggregated search result diversification. In: 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 250-261. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_23)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Effectiveness beyond the first crawl tier. In: 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK, 24-28 October 2011, (doi: 10.1145/2063576.2063859)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Intent-aware search result diversification. In: 34th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, p. 595. (doi: 10.1145/2009916.2009997)

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Query efficiency prediction for dynamic pruning. In: LSDS-IR: Large-Scale and Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval 2011, Glasgow, 28 October 2011, p. 3. (doi: 10.1145/2064730.2064734)

2010

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Selectively diversifying Web search results. In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM'10), Toronto, ON, Canada, 26-30 October 2010, pp. 1179-1188. (doi: 10.1145/1871437.1871586)

Gray, A., Gray, N. , Hall, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)

Chalmers, S., Gray, N. , Ounis, I. and Gray, A. (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Exploiting query reformulations for web search result diversification. In: 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, Raleigh NC, 26-30 April 2010, p. 881. (doi: 10.1145/1772690.1772780)

Santos, R.L.T., Peng, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Explicit search result diversification through sub-queries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5993, pp. 87-99. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_11)

2009

Gray, A. J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)

Azman, A. and Ounis, I. (2009) Browsing recommendation based on the intertemporal choice model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5822, pp. 215-226. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_19)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) Finding good feedback documents. In: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, China, 2-6 Nov 2009, pp. 2011-2014. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646289)

He, B., Peng, J. and Ounis, I. (2009) Fitting score distribution for blog opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, pp. 688-689. ISBN 9781605584836

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) The influence of the document ranking in expert search. In: 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, 2-6 Nov 2009, pp. 1983-1986. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646282)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) On perfect document rankings for expert search. Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 740-741.

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2009) Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search? In: 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Boston, USA, 19-23 Jul 2009,

Mccreadie, R., Mcdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) Comparing distributed indexing: to MapReduce or not? In: In 7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, 2009,

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) On single-pass indexing with MapReduce. Proceedings of the Annual International ACMSIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 742-743.

Peng, J., He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) Predicting the usefulness of collection enrichment for enterprise search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5766, pp. 366-370. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_41)

Peng, J., Macdonald, C. , He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) A study of selective collection enrichment for enterprise search. In: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, Oct 26-30 2008, pp. 1999-2002. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646286)

Santos, R.L.T., He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) Integrating proximity to subjective sentences for blog opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), Toulouse, France, 6-9 April, 2009, pp. 325-336. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_30)

2008

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)

Hannah, D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Analysis of link graph compression techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, pp. 596-601. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_62)

He, B., Macdonald, C. , He, J. and Ounis, I. (2008) An effective statistical approach to blog post opinion retrieval. In: 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, USA, 26-30 Oct 2008, p. 1063. (doi: 10.1145/1458082.1458223)

He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Ranking opinionated blog posts using OpinionFinder. In: 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008, pp. 727-728. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390473)

He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Retrieval sensitivity under training using different measures. In: 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008, p. 67. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390348)

Macdonald, C. , Hannah, D. and Ounis, I. (2008) High quality expertise evidence for expert search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, p. 283. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_27)

Macdonald, C. , He, B., Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2008) Limits of opinion-finding baseline systems. In: SIGIR '08, Singapore, 20-24 Jul 2008, p. 747. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390483)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Expert search evaluation by supporting documents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_55)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Key blog distillation. In: 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, USA, 26-30 Oct 2008, pp. 1043-1052. (doi: 10.1145/1458082.1458221)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Voting techniques for expert search. Knowledge and Information Systems, 16(3), pp. 259-280. (doi: 10.1007/s10115-007-0105-3)

Peng, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Automatic document prior feature selection for web retrieval. In: SIGIR '08, Singapore, 20-24 Jul 2008, p. 761. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390490)

2007

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Performance analysis of distributed information retrieval architectures using an improved network simulation model. Information Processing and Management, 43, pp. 204-224. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.06.002)

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Performance comparison of clustered and replicated information retrieval systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 124-135. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_14)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) Combining fields for query expansion and adaptive query expansion. Information Processing and Management, 43, pp. 1294-1307. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.11.002)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) On setting the hyper-parameters of term frequency normalization for information retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25, (doi: 10.1145/1247715.1247719)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) Setting per-field normalisation hyper-parameters for the named-page finding search task. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 468-480. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_42)

Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Extending weighting models with a term quality measure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4726, pp. 205-216. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75530-2_19)

Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Light syntactically-based index pruning for information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 88-100. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_11)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Using relevance feedback in expert search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 431-443. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_39)

Ounis, I., Lioma, C., Macdonald, C. and Plachouras, V. (2007) Research directions in Terrier: a search engine for advanced retrieval on the Web. CEPIS Upgrade Journal, 8(1),

Peng, J. and Ounis, I. (2007) Combination of document priors in web information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 732-736. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_80)

Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Multinomial randomness models for retrieval with document fields. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 28-39. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_6)

2006

Chang, Y., Ounis, I. and Kim, M. (2006) Query reformulation using automatically generated query concepts from a document space. Information Processing and Management, 42, pp. 453-468. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.025)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2006) Query performance prediction. Information Systems, 31, pp. 585-594. (doi: 10.1016/j.is.2005.11.003)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) Combining fields in known-item email search. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, 6-11 August 2006, pp. 675-676. ISBN 1595933697 (doi: 10.1145/1148170.1148312)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) The TREC Blogs06 Collection: Creating and Analysing a Blog Test Collection. Technical Report. Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

MacDonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task. In: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 6-11 November 2006, pp. 387-396. ISBN 1595934332 (doi: 10.1145/1183614.1183671)

Macdonald, C., Plachouras, V., He, B., Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: experiments in per-field normalisation and language specific stemming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4022, pp. 898-907. (doi: 10.1007/11878773_100)

Plachouras, V., Cacheda, F. and Ounis, I. (2006) A decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence in topic distillation. Information Retrieval, 9, pp. 139-163. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-006-7147-0)

2005

Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) Dempster-Shafer theory for a query-biased combination of evidence on the web. Information Retrieval, 8(2), pp. 197-218. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-005-5659-7)

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) Network analysis for distributed information retrieval architectures. Advances in Information Retrieval, 3408, pp. 527-529.

Cacheda, F., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text. Information Processing and Management, 41, pp. 1141-1161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.002)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2005) A study of the Dirichlet Priors for term frequency normalisation. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 August 2005, pp. 465-471. ISBN 1595930345 (doi: 10.1145/1076034.1076114)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2005) Term frequency normalisation tuning for BM25 and DFR models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3408, pp. 200-214. (doi: 10.1007/b107096)

Lioma, C., He, B., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French monolingual Information Retrieval with terrier. Multilingual Information Access For Text, Speech and Images, 3491, pp. 253-259.

Ounis, I. (2005) Automatically Building a Stopword List for an Information Retrieval System. Journal of Digital Information Management: Special Issue on the 5th Dutch-belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (dir'05),

Ounis, I. (2005) The Static Absorbing Model for Hyperlink Analysis on the Web. Journal of Web Engineering,

Ounis, I., Amati, G., Plachouras, V., He, B., Macdonald, C. and Johnson, D. (2005) Terrier information retrieval platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3405, pp. 517-519. (doi: 10.1007/b107096)

2004

Cacheda, F., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2004) Performance analysis of distributed architectures to index one terabyte of text. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2997, pp. 394-408.

Chang, Y., Kim, M. and Ounis, I. (2004) Construction of query concepts in a document space based on data mining techniques. Flexible Query Answering Systems, Proceedings, 3055, pp. 137-149.

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2004) Inferring query performance using pre-retrieval predictors. String Processing and Information Retrieval, Proceedings, 3246, pp. 43-54.

Purchase, H.C. , Mitchell, C. and Ounis, I. (2004) Gauging Students' Understanding Through Interactive Lectures. In: BNCOD 21, Edinburgh, UK, 7-9 July, 2004, pp. 234-243. (doi: 10.1007/b98625)

2003

Ding, Y., Van Rijsbergen, C.J., Ounis, I. and Jose, J. (2003) Report on ACM SIGIR workshop on 'semantic web' SWIR 2003. ACM SIGIR Forum, 37(2), pp. 45-49. (doi: 10.1145/959258.959265)

Martinet, J., Ounis, I. , Chiaramella, Y. and Mulhem, P. (2003) A weighting scheme for star-graphs. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2633, pp. 546-554.

2002

McEwan, C., Ounis, I. and Ruthven, I. (2002) Building bilingual dictionaries from parallel Web documents. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2291, pp. 303-323.

Articles

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2024) Personalised multi-modal interactive recommendation with hierarchical state representations. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, (doi: 10.1145/3651169) (Early Online Publication)

Yi, Z., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2024) Contrastive graph prompt-tuning for cross-domain recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42(2), 60. (doi: 10.1145/3618298)

Huang, J., Chen, B. , Yan, Z., Ounis, I. and Wang, J. (2023) GEO: A computational design framework for automotive exterior facelift. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 17(6), 82. (doi: 10.1145/3578521)

Liu, S., Meng, Z. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Graph neural pre-training for recommendation with side information. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3568953)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Identifying chronological and coherent information threads using 5W1H questions and temporal relationships. Information Processing and Management, 60(3), 103274. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103274)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2023) ColBERT-PRF: Semantic pseudo-relevance feedback for dense passage and document retrieval. ACM Transactions on the Web, 17(1), 3. (doi: 10.1145/3572405)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) BanditProp: bandit selection of review properties for effective recommendation. ACM Transactions on the Web, 16(4), 20. (doi: 10.1145/3532859)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Improving zero-shot retrieval using dense external expansion. Information Processing and Management, 59(5), 103026. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103026)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Search results diversification for effective fair ranking in academic search. Information Retrieval Journal, 25(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09399-z)

Meng, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Variational Bayesian representation learning for grocery recommendation. Information Retrieval, 24(4-5), pp. 347-369. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09397-1)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) The Simpson's Paradox in the offline evaluation of recommendation systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(1), 4. (doi: 10.1145/3458509)

Yigit-Sert, S., Altingovde, I. S., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Ulusoy, Ö. (2021) Explicit diversification of search results across multiple dimensions for educational search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(3), pp. 315-330. (doi: 10.1002/asi.24403)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) How the accuracy and confidence of sensitivity classification affects digital sensitivity review. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 39(1), 4. (doi: 10.1145/3417334)

Muchlinski, D., Yang, X., Birch, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) We need to go deeper: measuring electoral violence using convolutional neural networks and social media. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(1), pp. 122-139. (doi: 10.1017/psrm.2020.32)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) A contextual recurrent collaborative filtering framework for modelling sequences of venue checkins. Information Processing and Management, 57(6), 102092. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102092)

Yigit-Sert, S., Altingovde, I., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Ulusoy, Ö. (2020) Supervised approaches for explicit search result diversification. Information Processing and Management, 57(6), 102356. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102356)

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Castells, P., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models. Information Processing and Management, 57(5), 102285. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)

McCreadie, R. , Rajput, S., Soboroff, I., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) On enhancing the robustness of timeline summarization test collections. Information Processing and Management, 56(5), pp. 1815-1836. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2019.02.006)

de Lira, V. M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Renso, C. and Times, V. C. (2019) Event attendance classification in social media. Information Processing and Management, 56(3), pp. 687-703. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2018.11.001)

Fang, A., Habel, P., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Votes on Twitter: assessing candidate preferences and topics of discussion during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. SAGE Open, 9(1), (doi: 10.1177/2158244018791653)

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Efficient query processing for scalable web search. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 12(4-5), pp. 319-500. (doi: 10.1561/1500000057)

Smith, K. S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Regional sentiment bias in social media reporting during crises. Information Systems Frontiers, 50(5), pp. 1013-1025. (doi: 10.1007/s10796-018-9827-x)

McCreadie, R. , Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Explicit diversification of event aspects for temporal summarization. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 36(3), 25. (doi: 10.1145/3158671)

Yang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Using word embeddings in Twitter election classification. Information Retrieval, 21(2-3), pp. 183-207. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-017-9319-5)

Azzopardi, L., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Halvey, M. (2017) Report on the Information Retrieval Festival (IRFest2017). ACM SIGIR Forum, 51(1), pp. 12-28. (doi: 10.1145/3130332.3130336)

Mackie, S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Experiments in newswire summarisation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9626, pp. 421-435. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_31)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2015) Queuing theory-based latency/power tradeoff models for replicated search engines. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 21(13), pp. 1790-1809. (doi: 10.3217/jucs-021-13-1790)

Rodrygo, L.T. S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Search result diversification. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 9(1), pp. 1-90. (doi: 10.1561/1500000040)

Catena, M., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) On inverted index compression for search engine efficiency. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_30)

Dinçer, B. T., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2014) Tackling biased baselines in the risk-sensitive evaluation of retrieval systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 26-38. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_3)

McDonald, G., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Gollins, T. (2014) Towards a classifier for digital sensitivity review. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8416, pp. 500-506. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_48)

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R. L. T. and Ounis, I. (2013) The whens and hows of learning to rank for web search. Information Retrieval, 16(5), pp. 584-628. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9209-9)

Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Learning to rank query suggestions for adhoc and diversity search. Information Retrieval, 16(4), pp. 429-451. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9211-2)

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R. L.T., Ounis, I. and He, B. (2013) About learning models with multiple query dependent features. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 31(3), (doi: 10.1145/2493175.2493176)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Identifying top news using crowdsourcing. Information Retrieval, 16(2), pp. 179-209. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-012-9186-z)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) On the role of novelty for search result diversification. Information Retrieval, 15(5), pp. 478-502. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-011-9180-x)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) MapReduce indexing strategies: studying scalability and efficiency. Information Processing and Management, 48(5), pp. 873-888. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2010.12.003)

Santos, R. L.T., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. , Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2012) Information retrieval on the blogosphere. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 6(1), pp. 1-125. (doi: 10.1561/1500000026)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) The influence of the document ranking in expert search. Information Processing and Management, 47(3), pp. 376-390. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2010.09.004)

Gil-Costa, V., Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Sparse spatial selection for novelty-based search result diversification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7024, pp. 344-355. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_34)

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Tonellotto, N. (2011) Upper-bound approximations for dynamic pruning. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 29(4), pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1145/2037661.2037662)

Gray, A., Gray, N. , Hall, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)

Santos, R.L.T., Peng, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Explicit search result diversification through sub-queries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5993, pp. 87-99. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_11)

Azman, A. and Ounis, I. (2009) Browsing recommendation based on the intertemporal choice model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5822, pp. 215-226. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_19)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) On perfect document rankings for expert search. Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 740-741.

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) On single-pass indexing with MapReduce. Proceedings of the Annual International ACMSIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 742-743.

Peng, J., He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) Predicting the usefulness of collection enrichment for enterprise search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5766, pp. 366-370. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_41)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)

Hannah, D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Analysis of link graph compression techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, pp. 596-601. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_62)

Macdonald, C. , Hannah, D. and Ounis, I. (2008) High quality expertise evidence for expert search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, p. 283. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_27)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Expert search evaluation by supporting documents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956, pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_55)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Voting techniques for expert search. Knowledge and Information Systems, 16(3), pp. 259-280. (doi: 10.1007/s10115-007-0105-3)

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Performance analysis of distributed information retrieval architectures using an improved network simulation model. Information Processing and Management, 43, pp. 204-224. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.06.002)

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Performance comparison of clustered and replicated information retrieval systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 124-135. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_14)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) Combining fields for query expansion and adaptive query expansion. Information Processing and Management, 43, pp. 1294-1307. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.11.002)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) On setting the hyper-parameters of term frequency normalization for information retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25, (doi: 10.1145/1247715.1247719)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2007) Setting per-field normalisation hyper-parameters for the named-page finding search task. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 468-480. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_42)

Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Extending weighting models with a term quality measure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4726, pp. 205-216. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75530-2_19)

Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Light syntactically-based index pruning for information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 88-100. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_11)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2007) Using relevance feedback in expert search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 431-443. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_39)

Ounis, I., Lioma, C., Macdonald, C. and Plachouras, V. (2007) Research directions in Terrier: a search engine for advanced retrieval on the Web. CEPIS Upgrade Journal, 8(1),

Peng, J. and Ounis, I. (2007) Combination of document priors in web information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 732-736. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_80)

Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2007) Multinomial randomness models for retrieval with document fields. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4425, pp. 28-39. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_6)

Chang, Y., Ounis, I. and Kim, M. (2006) Query reformulation using automatically generated query concepts from a document space. Information Processing and Management, 42, pp. 453-468. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.025)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2006) Query performance prediction. Information Systems, 31, pp. 585-594. (doi: 10.1016/j.is.2005.11.003)

Macdonald, C., Plachouras, V., He, B., Lioma, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: experiments in per-field normalisation and language specific stemming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4022, pp. 898-907. (doi: 10.1007/11878773_100)

Plachouras, V., Cacheda, F. and Ounis, I. (2006) A decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence in topic distillation. Information Retrieval, 9, pp. 139-163. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-006-7147-0)

Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) Dempster-Shafer theory for a query-biased combination of evidence on the web. Information Retrieval, 8(2), pp. 197-218. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-005-5659-7)

Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) Network analysis for distributed information retrieval architectures. Advances in Information Retrieval, 3408, pp. 527-529.

Cacheda, F., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text. Information Processing and Management, 41, pp. 1141-1161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.002)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2005) Term frequency normalisation tuning for BM25 and DFR models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3408, pp. 200-214. (doi: 10.1007/b107096)

Lioma, C., He, B., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2005) The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French monolingual Information Retrieval with terrier. Multilingual Information Access For Text, Speech and Images, 3491, pp. 253-259.

Ounis, I. (2005) Automatically Building a Stopword List for an Information Retrieval System. Journal of Digital Information Management: Special Issue on the 5th Dutch-belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (dir'05),

Ounis, I. (2005) The Static Absorbing Model for Hyperlink Analysis on the Web. Journal of Web Engineering,

Ounis, I., Amati, G., Plachouras, V., He, B., Macdonald, C. and Johnson, D. (2005) Terrier information retrieval platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3405, pp. 517-519. (doi: 10.1007/b107096)

Cacheda, F., Plachouras, V. and Ounis, I. (2004) Performance analysis of distributed architectures to index one terabyte of text. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2997, pp. 394-408.

Chang, Y., Kim, M. and Ounis, I. (2004) Construction of query concepts in a document space based on data mining techniques. Flexible Query Answering Systems, Proceedings, 3055, pp. 137-149.

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2004) Inferring query performance using pre-retrieval predictors. String Processing and Information Retrieval, Proceedings, 3246, pp. 43-54.

Ding, Y., Van Rijsbergen, C.J., Ounis, I. and Jose, J. (2003) Report on ACM SIGIR workshop on 'semantic web' SWIR 2003. ACM SIGIR Forum, 37(2), pp. 45-49. (doi: 10.1145/959258.959265)

Martinet, J., Ounis, I. , Chiaramella, Y. and Mulhem, P. (2003) A weighting scheme for star-graphs. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2633, pp. 546-554.

McEwan, C., Ounis, I. and Ruthven, I. (2002) Building bilingual dictionaries from parallel Web documents. Advances in Information Retrieval, 2291, pp. 303-323.

Books

Moshfeghi, Y., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Jose, J. , Triantafillou, P., Livingston, M. and Thakuriah, P. (2015) UCUI'15 : Proceedings of the ACM First International Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics. ACM. ISBN 9781450337861

Book Sections

Yi, Z., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2023) Contrastive Graph Learning with Positional Representation for Recommendation. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II. Springer: Cham, pp. 288-303. ISBN 9783031282386 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_19)

McCreadie, R. , Perakis, K., Srikrishna, M., Droukas, N., Pitsios, S., Prokopaki, G., Perdikouri, E., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Next-Generation Personalized Investment Recommendations. In: Soldatos, J. and Kyriazis, D. (eds.) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance: Increasing Personalization and Trust in Digital Finance using Big Data and AI. Springer: Cham, pp. 171-198. ISBN 9783030945893 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-94590-9_10)

Mccreadie, R. et al. (2021) Leveraging data-driven infrastructure management to facilitate AIOps for big data applications and operations. In: Curry, E., Auer, S., Berre, A. J., Metzger, A., Perez, M. S. and Zillner, S. (eds.) Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value. Springer: Cham, pp. 135-158. ISBN 9783030783068 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-78307-5_7)

Mccreadie, R. , Albakour, D., Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Searching the Internet of Things. In: John, S. (ed.) Building Blocks for IoT Analytics. River Publishers, pp. 39-80. ISBN 9788793519039 (doi: 10.13052/rp-9788793519046)

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2013) Exploiting query logs and field-based models to address term mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ retrieval system. In: Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V. and Vadera, S. (eds.) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB2013, Salford, UK, June 2013, Proceedings. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7934). Springer: Berlin, pp. 77-89. ISBN 9783642388231

Bouamrane, M.-M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Mair, F. (2011) Protocol-driven searches for medical and health-sciences systematic reviews. In: Amati, G. and Crestani, F. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6931. Springer: Berlin, pp. 188-200. ISBN 9783642233180 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_18)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025

He, B., Peng, J. and Ounis, I. (2009) Fitting score distribution for blog opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, pp. 688-689. ISBN 9781605584836

Research Reports or Papers

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) The TREC Blogs06 Collection: Creating and Analysing a Blog Test Collection. Technical Report. Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Mccreadie, R. , Droukas, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations. 3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) The FACTS of Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR (SIGIR'19 Workshop)), Paris, France, 25 Jul 2019.

Conference Proceedings

Janich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2024) Fairness-Aware Exposure Allocation via Adaptive Reranking. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Jaenich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Improving Exposure Allocation in Rankings by Query Generation. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Frayling, E., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Adhoc Retrieval through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Jaenich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Query Exposure Prediction for Groups of Documents in Rankings. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Z., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. and Yi, Z. (2023) Knowledge Graph Cross-View Contrastive Learning for Recommendation. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Displaying Evolving Events via Hierarchical Information Threads for Sensitivity Review. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Multi-Task Learning of Query Generation and Classification for Generative Conversational Question Rewriting. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 6-10 Dec 2023, pp. 13667-13678. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.913)

Chandra, M., Ganguly, D. , Saha, T. and Ounis, I. (2023) 'Choose Your Data Wisely’: Active Learning based Selection with Multi-Objective Optimisation for Mitigating Stereotypes. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023, pp. 3768-3772. ISBN 9798400701245 (doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615261)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Goal-Oriented Multi-Modal Interactive Recommendation with Verbal and Non-Verbal Relevance Feedback. In: 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023), Singapore, 18-22 Sept 2023, pp. 362-373. ISBN 9798400702419 (doi: 10.1145/3604915.3608775)

Chari, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (2023) On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2220-2224. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592030)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2023) Reproducibility, Replicability, and Insights into Dense Multi-Representation Retrieval Models: from ColBERT to Col*. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2552-2561. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591916)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, pp. 12688-12704. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.710)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search. In: Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2023 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 July 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

Janich, T. B., McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Colbert-FairPRF: Towards Fair Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Dense Retrieval. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023, pp. 457-465. ISBN 9783031282379 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_36)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2023) Effective Hierarchical Information Threading using Network Community Detection. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023, pp. 701-706. ISBN 9783031282430 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28244-7_44)

Huang, J., Chen, B. , Luo, L., Yue, S. and Ounis, I. (2023) DVM-CAR: A Large-Scale Automotive Dataset for Visual Marketing Research and Applications. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022), Osaka, Japan, 17-20 Dec 2022, pp. 4140-4147. ISBN 9781665480451 (doi: 10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020634)

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) monoQA: Multi-Task Learning of Reranking and Answer Extraction for Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering. In: 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Abu Dhabi, 7-11 December 2022, pp. 7207-7218.

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) Sensitivity Review of Large Collections by Identifying and Prioritising Coherent Documents Groups. In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’22), Atlanta, GA, USA, 17-21 October 2022, pp. 4931-4935. ISBN 9781450392365 (doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557182)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Multimodal Conversational Fashion Recommendation with Positive and Negative Natural-Language Feedback. In: CUI 2022, Glasgow, UK, 26-28 Jul 2022, p. 6. ISBN 9781450397391 (doi: 10.1145/3543829.3543837)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Multi-Modal Dialog State Tracking for Interactive Fashion Recommendation. In: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), Seattle, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022, pp. 124-133. ISBN 9781450392785 (doi: 10.1145/3523227.3546774)

Puthiya Parambath, S. A. , Liu, S., Anagnostopoulos, C. , Murray-Smith, R. and Ounis, I. (2022) Parameter Tuning of Reranking-based Diversification Algorithms using Total Curvature Analysis. In: 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2022), Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 2022, ISBN 9781450394123 (doi: 10.1145/3539813.3545135)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) An MLP-based Algorithm for Efficient Contrastive Graph Recommendations. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2431-2436. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531874)

Wang, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2790-2800. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531721)

Yi, Z., Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) Multi-modal Graph Contrastive Learning for Micro-video Recommendation. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 1807-1811. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3532027)

MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 627-640. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_42)

MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2022) Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 305-310. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_38)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2022) Effective Rating Prediction Using an Attention-Based User Review Sentiment Model. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 487-501. ISBN 9783030997366 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_33)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) The Role of Latent Semantic Categories and Clustering in Enhancing the Efficiency of Human Sensitivity Review. In: Seventh ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (ACM CHIIR 2022), Regensburg, Germany, 14-18 Mar 2022, pp. 56-66. ISBN 9781450391863 (doi: 10.1145/3498366.3505824)

Frayling, E., Macdonald, C. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2022) Using Entities in Knowledge Graph Hierarchies to Classify Sensitive Information. In: 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2022), Bologna, Italy, 5-8 Sept 2022, pp. 125-132. ISBN 9783031136429 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_10)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2021) RelDiff: Enriching Knowledge Graph Relation Representations for Sensitivity Classification. In: 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 07-11 Nov 2021, pp. 3671-3681. ISBN 9781955917100

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. , MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (2021) PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event Queensland, Australia, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 4526-4533. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482013)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning for Dialog-based Interactive Recommendation. In: 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys21), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 Sep - 01 Oct 2021, pp. 241-251. (doi: 10.1145/3460231.3474256)

Wang, X., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2021) Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Multiple Representation Dense Retrieval. In: 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021), 11 Jul 2021, pp. 297-306. ISBN 9781450386111 (doi: 10.1145/3471158.3472250)

Ueda, A., Santos, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2021) Structured Fine-Tuning of Contextual Embeddings for Effective Biomedical Retrieval. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2031-2035. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463075)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2021) Leveraging Review Properties for Effective Recommendation. In: The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021, pp. 2209-2219. ISBN 9781450383127 (doi: 10.1145/3442381.3450038)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2021) On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval. In: 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Bari, Italy, 13-15 Sep 2021,

Kongyoung, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Multi-Task Learning using Dynamic Task Weighting for Conversational Question Answering. In: 5th Edition of the Search-Oriented Conversational AI workshop held at EMNLP 2020, 19 Nov 2020, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9781952148675 (doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.scai-1.3)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2020) Negative Confidence-Aware Weakly Supervised Binary Classification for Effective Review Helpfulness Classification. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020), 19-23 Oct 2020, pp. 1565-1574. ISBN 9781450368599 (doi: 10.1145/3340531.3411978)

Meng, Z. , Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for the Evaluation of Recommendation Models. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 681-686. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3418479)

Meng, Z. et al. (2020) BETA-Rec: Build, Evaluate and Tune Automated Recommender Systems. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 588-590. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3411524)

Wu, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) A Hybrid Conditional Variational Autoencoder Model for Personalised Top-n Recommendation. In: ICTIR 2020: The 6th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Stavanger, Norway, 14-18 Sep 2020, pp. 89-96. ISBN 9781450380676 (doi: 10.1145/3409256.3409835)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Using Exploration to Alleviate Closed-Loop Effects in Recommender Systems. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2025-2028. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401230)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. and Meng, Z. (2020) A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Model for Cold-Start Recommendation. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2029-2032. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401252)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2020) Active Learning Stopping Strategies for Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2053-2056. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401267)

Narvala, H. , McDonald, G. and Ounis, I. (2020) Receptor: a Platform for Exploring Latent Relations in Sensitive Documents. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2161-2164. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401407)

Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Castells, P. (2020) Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective. In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9783030454388 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)

Meng, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Variational Bayesian Context-aware Representation for Grocery Recommendation. In: 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys19) - CARS 2019 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,

Jadidinejad, A. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) How Sensitive is Recommendation Systems' Offline Evaluation to Popularity? In: REVEAL 2019 Workshop at RecSys, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 Sep 2019,

Su, T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Ensembles of Recurrent Networks for Classifying the Relationship of Fake News Titles. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'19), Paris, France, 21-25 Jul 2019, pp. 893-896. ISBN 9781450361729 (doi: 10.1145/3331184.3331305)

Thomas, C., McCreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2019) Event Tracker: a Text Analytics Platform for Use During Disasters. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'19), Paris, France, 21-25 Jul 2019, pp. 1341-1344. ISBN 9781450361729 (doi: 10.1145/3331184.3331406)

Manotumruksa, J., Rafailidis, D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) On Cross-Domain Transfer in Venue Recommendation. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 443-456. ISBN 9783030157111 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_29)

Wang, X., Fang, A., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Evaluating Similarity Metrics for Latent Twitter Topics. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 787-794. ISBN 9783030157128 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_54)

Wang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Comparison of Sentiment Analysis and User Ratings in Venue Recommendation. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 Apr 2019, pp. 215-228. ISBN 9783030157128 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_14)

Mcdonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) How Sensitivity Classification Effectiveness Impacts Reviewers in Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR), Glasgow, UK, 10-14 Mar 2019, pp. 337-341. ISBN 9781450360258 (doi: 10.1145/3295750.3298962)

Jadidinejad, A. H. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Unifying Explicit and Implicit Feedback for Rating Prediction and Ranking Recommendation Tasks. In: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 02-05 Oct 2019, pp. 149-151. ISBN 9781450368810 (doi: 10.1145/3341981.3344225)

Liu, S., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2019) Social Regularisation in a BPR-based Venue Recommendation Systems. In: 9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) and 12th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), Milan, Italy, 15-19 July 2019,

Su, T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2019) Entity Detection for Check-worthiness Prediction: Glasgow Terrier at CLEF CheckThat! 2019. In: CLEF 2019, Lugano, Switzerland, 09-12 Sep 2019,

Fang, A., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Habel, P., Xiong, X. and Yu, H. (2018) An Effective Approach for Modelling Time Features for Classifying Bursty Topics on Twitter. In: 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy, 22-26 Oct 2018, pp. 1547-1550. ISBN 9781450360142 (doi: 10.1145/3269206.3269253)

Gonzalez Paule, J. D., Moshfeghi, Y., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Learning to Geolocalise Tweets at a Fine-Grained Level. In: 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy, 22-26 Oct 2018, pp. 1675-1678. ISBN 9781450360142 (doi: 10.1145/3269206.3269291)

Macdonald, C. , McCreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2018) Agile Information Retrieval Experimentation with Terrier Notebooks. In: 1st Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018), Bertinoro, Italy, 29-31 Aug 2018,

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Contextual Attention Recurrent Architecture for Context-aware Venue Recommendation. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 8-12 Jul 2018, pp. 555-564. ISBN 9781450356572 (doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210042)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Automatic Ground Truth Expansion for Timeline Evaluation. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 8-12 Jul 2018, pp. 685-694. ISBN 9781450356572 (doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210034)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Active Learning Strategies for Technology Assisted Sensitivity Review. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 439-453. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_33)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Towards Maximising Openness in Digital Sensitivity Review using Reviewing Time Predictions. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 699-706. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_65)

Su, T., Fang, A., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) On Refining Twitter Lists as Ground Truth Data for Multi-Community User Classification. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 765-772. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_74)

Yang, X., Ounis, I. , McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Fang, A. (2018) On the Reproducibility and Generalisation of the Linear Transformation of Word Embeddings. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), Grenoble, France, 25-29 Mar 2018, pp. 263-275. ISBN 9783319769400 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_20)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2017) Efficient & Effective Selective Query Rewriting with Efficiency Predictions. In: SIGIR 2017: The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 Aug 2017, pp. 495-504. ISBN 9781450350228 (doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080827)

Mcdonald, G. , García-Pedrajas, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Study of SVM Kernel Functions for Sensitivity Classification Ensembles with POS Sequences. In: SIGIR 2017: The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 Aug 2017, pp. 1097-1100. ISBN 9781450350228 (doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080731)

Smith, K. S., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter. In: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '17), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 317-320. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110066)

Yang, X., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Transfer Learning for Multi-language Twitter Election Classification. In: The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 341-348. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110059)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Habel, P. and Yang, X. (2017) Exploring Time-Sensitive Variational Bayesian Inference LDA for Social Media Data. In: 39th European Conference in Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 252-265. ISBN 9783319566078 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_20)

Akcay, M., Altingovde, I. S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) On the Additivity and Weak Baselines for Search Result Diversification Research. In: ICTIR 2017: The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1-4 Oct 2017, pp. 109-116. ISBN 9781450344906 (doi: 10.1145/3121050.3121059)

de Lira, V. M., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Renso, C. and Times, V. C. (2017) Exploring Social Media for Event Attendance. In: The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, 31 Jul - 03 Aug 2017, pp. 447-450. ISBN 9781450349932 (doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110080)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Deep Recurrent Collaborative Filtering Framework for Venue Recommendation. In: 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, 6-10 Nov 2017, pp. 1429-1438. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi: 10.1145/3132847.3133036)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Matrix Factorisation with Word Embeddings for Rating Prediction on Location-Based Social Networks. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 647-654. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_61)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) A Personalised Ranking Framework with Multiple Sampling Criteria for Venue Recommendation. In: 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, 6-10 Nov 2017, pp. 1469-1478. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi: 10.1145/3132847.3132985)

McDonald, G. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Enhancing Sensitivity Classification with Semantic Features using Word Embeddings. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-13 April 2017, pp. 450-463. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_35)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Topics in Tweets: A User Study of Topic Coherence Metrics for Twitter Data. In: ECIR 2016: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Padua, Italy, 21-23 March 2016, pp. 492-504. ISBN 9783319306704 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_36)

Dinçer, B. T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Risk-Sensitive Evaluation and Learning to Rank using Multiple Baselines. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 483-492. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2911511)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Examining the Coherence of the Top Ranked Tweet Topics. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914731)

Fang, A., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Habel, P. (2016) Using Word Embedding to Evaluate the Coherence of Topics from Twitter Data. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 Jul 2016, ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914729)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Modelling User Preferences using Word Embeddings for Context-Aware Venue Recommendation. In: Neu-IR ’16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, 21 Jul 2016,

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Predicting Contextually Appropriate Venues in Location-Based Social Networks. In: CLEF 2016: 7th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Évora, Portugal, 5-8 Sept 2016, pp. 96-109. ISBN 9783319445632 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-44564-9_8)

Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Regularising Factorised Models for Venue Recommendation using Friends and their Comments. In: CIKM 2016: 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Indianapolis, United States, 24-28 Oct 2016, ISBN 9781450340731 (doi: 10.1145/2983323.2983889)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) EAIMS: Emergency Analysis Identification and Management System. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 1101-1104. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2911460)

Moran, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Enhancing First Story Detection using Word Embeddings. In: SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 17-21 July 2016, pp. 821-824. ISBN 9781450340694 (doi: 10.1145/2911451.2914719)

Vargas, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises. In: 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016), Cologne, Germany, 17-20 May 2016,

Yang, X., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Using Word Embeddings in Twitter Election Classification. In: Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, 21 July 2016,

Yang, X., Ounis, I. and Macdonald, C. (2016) Monitoring Electoral Violence through Social Media: A Machine Learning Approach. In: International Conference on Computational Social Science, Evanston, IL, USA, 24-26 Jun 2016,

Mccreadie, R. , Kappler, K., Kaltenbrunner, A., Kardara, M., Macdonald, C. , Soldatos, J. and Ounis, I. (2015) SUPER: Towards the Use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, Florence, Italy, 18-22 May 2015, pp. 1217-1220. ISBN 9781450334730 (doi: 10.1145/2740908.2741723)

Limsopatham, N., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Tweeting Behaviour during Train Disruptions within a City. In: Workshop on Digital Placemaking: Augmenting Physical Places with Contextual Social Data, Oxford, 26 May 2015,

Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Using Sensor Metadata Streams to Identify Topics of Local Events in the City. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 711-714. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767837)

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Experiments with a Venue-Centric Model for Personalised and Time-Aware Venue Suggestion. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015, (doi: 10.1145/2806416.2806484)

Di Santo, G., McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Comparing Approaches for Query Autocompletion. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 775-778. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767829)

Fang, A., Ounis, I. , Habel, P., Macdonald, C. and Limsopatham, N. (2015) Topic-centric Classification of Twitter User's Political Orientation. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 791-794. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767833)

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Generalized Team Draft Interleaving. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Optimised Scheduling of Online Experiments. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 453-462. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767706)

Kharitonov, E., Vorobev, A., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2015) Sequential Testing for Early Stopping of Online Experiments. In: 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 9-13 Aug 2015, pp. 473-482. ISBN 9781450336215 (doi: 10.1145/2766462.2767729)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Modelling the Usefulness of Document Collections for Query Expansion in Patient Search. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Macdonald, C. , Dincer, B. T. and Ounis, I. (2015) Transferring Learning To Rank Models for Web Search. In: ICTIR 2015: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Northampton, MA, USA, 27-30 Sep 2015, pp. 41-50. ISBN 9781450338332 (doi: 10.1145/2808194.2809463)

Macdonald, G., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Using Part-of-Speech N-grams for Sensitive-text Classification. In: ICTIR 2015: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Northampton, MA, USA, 27-30 Sep 2015, pp. 381-384. ISBN 9781450338332 (doi: 10.1145/2808194.2809496)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Crowdsourced Rumour Identification During Emergencies. In: 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, Florence, Italy, 18-22 May 2015, pp. 965-970. ISBN 9781450334730 (doi: 10.1145/2740908.2742573)

McDonald, G., Deveaud, R., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Tweet Enrichment for Effective Dimensions Classification in Online Reputation Management. In: 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Oxford, UK, 26-29 May 2015, pp. 654-657.

Moshfeghi, Y., Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. , Jose, J. M. , Triantafillou, P., Livingston, M. and Thakuriah, P. (2015) UCUI'15: The 1st International Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics. In: 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '15), Melbourne, Australia, 19-12 Oct 2015, pp. 1955-1956. ISBN 9781450337946 (doi: 10.1145/2806416.2806878)

Sebastiani, F., Esuli, A., Macdonald, C. , Berardi, G. and Ounis, I. (2015) Semi-Automated Text Classification for Sensitivity Identification. In: CIKM 2015: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia, 19-23 Oct 2015,

Vargas, S., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2015) Analysing Compression Techniques for In-Memory Collaborative Filtering. In: RecSys 2015 Poster Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 16-20 Sep 2015,

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) On the Importance of Venue-Dependent Features for Learning to Rank Contextual Suggestions. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 1827-1830. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661956)

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Manotumruksa, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) SmartVenues: Recommending Popular and Personalised Venues in a City. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 2078-2080. (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661855)

McCreadie, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Incremental Update Summarization: Adaptive Sentence Selection based on Prevalence and Novelty. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 301-310. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661951)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Modelling Relevance towards Multiple Inclusion Criteria when Ranking Patients. In: CIKM '14: 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Shanghai, China, 3-7 Nov 2014, pp. 1639-1648. ISBN 9781450325981 (doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661958)

Osborne, M. et al. (2014) Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media. In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, Baltimore, MD, USA, 23-24 Jun 2014, pp. 37-42.

Albakour, M.-D., Deveaud, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Diversifying contextual suggestions from location-based social networks. In: Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX), Regensburg, Germany, 26-30 Aug 2014,

Deveaud, R., Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Challenges in recommending venues within smart cities. In: ECIR 2014 Workshop on Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC 2014), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 Apr 2014,

Dinçer, B. T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Hypothesis testing for the risk-sensitive evaluation of retrieval systems. In: 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, 6-11 Jul 2014, pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.1145/2600428.2609625)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2014) A self-adapting latency/power tradeoff model for replicated search engines. In: WSDM (Web Search and Data Mining) 2014, New York, NY, 24-28 February 2014, pp. 13-22. (doi: 10.1145/2556195.2556246)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2014) Towards green information retrieval: studying the suitability of queueing theory in reducing power consumption. In: CERI 2014: 3rd Spanish Conference on Information RetrievaL, A Coruña, Spain, 19-20 Jun 2014,

Mackie, S., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2014) Choosing an effective automatic evaluation metric for microblog summarisation. In: IIIX 2014, Regensburg, Germany, 26-30 Aug 2014,

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Brassey, J. (2014) A study of personalised medical literature search. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 2014,

McDonald, G., Deveaud, R., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. , Gollins, T. and Ounis, I. (2014) University of Glasgow terrier team / project abaca at RepLab 2014: reputation dimensions task. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 2014,

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2014) Detecting missing content queries in an SMS-Based HIV/AIDS FAQ retrieval system. In: 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13-16 April 2014, pp. 247-259. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_21)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) News Vertical Search: When and What to Display to Users. In: SIGIR 2013: 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28th July - 1st August 2013,

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Efficient and effective retrieval using selective pruning. In: 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Rome, Italy, 6-8 February, 2013, (doi: 10.1145/2433396.2433407)

Albakour, M.-D., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Identifying local events by using microblogs as social sensors. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C. , Orlando, S., Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Silvestri, F. and Tonellotto, N. (2013) Load-sensitive selective pruning for distributed search. In: CIKM '13: 22nd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, San Francisco CA, USA, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, pp. 379-388. (doi: 10.1145/2505515.2505699)

Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C. , Orlando, S., Ounis, I. , Perego, R., Silvestri, F. and Tonellotto, N. (2013) Query Processing in Highly-Loaded Search Engines. In: 20th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Jerusalem, Israel, Oct 7-9 2013, pp. 49-55. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-02432-5_9)

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2013) Hybrid query scheduling for a replicated search engine. In: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 Mar 2013, pp. 435-446. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_37)

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2013) User model-based metrics for offline query suggestion evaluation. In: SIGIR 2013: 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28 Jul - 01 Aug 2013,

Kharitonov, E., Macdonald, C. , Serdyukov, P. and Ounis, I. (2013) Using historical click data to increase interleaving sensitivity. In: CIKM 2013: 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, San Francisco CA, USA, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, pp. 679-688. (doi: 10.1145/2505515.2505687)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Inferring conceptual relationships to improve medical records search. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) A task-specific query and document representation for medical records search. In: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 Mar 2013, pp. 747-751. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_75)

McCreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Osborne, M. and Petrovic, S. (2013) Scalable distributed event detection for Twitter. In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 6-9 Oct 2013, (doi: 10.1109/BigData.2013.6691620)

Petrovic, S., Osborne, M., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Can twitter replace newswire for breaking news? In: ICWSM - 13, Boston, MA, USA, 8-10 Jul 2013,

Thuma, E., Rogers, S. and Ounis, I. (2013) Evaluating Bad Query Abandonment in an Iterative SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval System. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 May 2013, pp. 117-120. ISBN 9782905450098

Vargas, S., Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2013) Selecting effective expansion terms for diversity. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

Freire, A., Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N., Ounis, I. and Cacheda, F. (2012) Scheduling queries across replicas. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1139-1140. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348508)

Limsopatham, N., Macdonald, C. , Mccreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2012) Exploiting term dependence while handling negation in medical search. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1065-1066. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348471)

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Tonellotto, N. (2012) Learning to predict response times for online query scheduling. In: 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2012, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348367)

Macdonald, C. , Santos, R.L.T. and Ounis, I. (2012) On the usefulness of query features for learning to rank. In: CIKM 2012: 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui HI, USA, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012, pp. 2559-2562. (doi: 10.1145/2396761.2398691)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2012) Effect of dynamic pruning safety on learning to rank effectiveness. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1051-1052. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348464)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) CrowdTerrier: automatic crowdsourced relevance assessments with terrier. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, p. 1005. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348430)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. , Giles, J. and Jabr, F. (2012) An examination of content farms in web search using crowdsourcing. In: CIKM 2012: 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui HI, USA, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012, pp. 2551-2554. (doi: 10.1145/2396761.2398689)

Mccreadie, R. , Soboroff, I., Lin, J., Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and McCullough, D. (2012) On building a reusable Twitter corpus. In: SIGIR 2012: 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Portland OR, USA, 12-16 Aug 2012, pp. 1113-1114. (doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348495)

Soldatos, J., Draief, M., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2012) Multimedia search over integrated social and sensor networks. In: 21st International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, Lyon, France, pp. 283-286. (doi: 10.1145/2187980.2188029)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Learning models for ranking aggregates. In: European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April 2011, pp. 517-529. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_52)

Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. and Ounis, I. (2011) On upper bounds for dynamic pruning. In: 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 313-317. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_29)

Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) A learned approach for ranking news in real-time using the blogosphere. In: 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), Pisa, Italy, pp. 104-116. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_11)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Aggregated search result diversification. In: 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 250-261. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_23)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Effectiveness beyond the first crawl tier. In: 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK, 24-28 October 2011, (doi: 10.1145/2063576.2063859)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Intent-aware search result diversification. In: 34th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, p. 595. (doi: 10.1145/2009916.2009997)

Tonellotto, N., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2011) Query efficiency prediction for dynamic pruning. In: LSDS-IR: Large-Scale and Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval 2011, Glasgow, 28 October 2011, p. 3. (doi: 10.1145/2064730.2064734)

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Selectively diversifying Web search results. In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM'10), Toronto, ON, Canada, 26-30 October 2010, pp. 1179-1188. (doi: 10.1145/1871437.1871586)

Chalmers, S., Gray, N. , Ounis, I. and Gray, A. (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.

Santos, R.L.T., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Exploiting query reformulations for web search result diversification. In: 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, Raleigh NC, 26-30 April 2010, p. 881. (doi: 10.1145/1772690.1772780)

Gray, A. J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) Finding good feedback documents. In: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, China, 2-6 Nov 2009, pp. 2011-2014. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646289)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) The influence of the document ranking in expert search. In: 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, 2-6 Nov 2009, pp. 1983-1986. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646282)

Macdonald, C. , Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2009) Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search? In: 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Boston, USA, 19-23 Jul 2009,

Mccreadie, R., Mcdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) Comparing distributed indexing: to MapReduce or not? In: In 7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, 2009,

Peng, J., Macdonald, C. , He, B. and Ounis, I. (2009) A study of selective collection enrichment for enterprise search. In: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, Oct 26-30 2008, pp. 1999-2002. (doi: 10.1145/1645953.1646286)

Santos, R.L.T., He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009) Integrating proximity to subjective sentences for blog opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), Toulouse, France, 6-9 April, 2009, pp. 325-336. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_30)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,

He, B., Macdonald, C. , He, J. and Ounis, I. (2008) An effective statistical approach to blog post opinion retrieval. In: 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, USA, 26-30 Oct 2008, p. 1063. (doi: 10.1145/1458082.1458223)

He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Ranking opinionated blog posts using OpinionFinder. In: 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008, pp. 727-728. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390473)

He, B., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Retrieval sensitivity under training using different measures. In: 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008, p. 67. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390348)

Macdonald, C. , He, B., Ounis, I. and Soboroff, I. (2008) Limits of opinion-finding baseline systems. In: SIGIR '08, Singapore, 20-24 Jul 2008, p. 747. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390483)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Key blog distillation. In: 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, California, USA, 26-30 Oct 2008, pp. 1043-1052. (doi: 10.1145/1458082.1458221)

Peng, J., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2008) Automatic document prior feature selection for web retrieval. In: SIGIR '08, Singapore, 20-24 Jul 2008, p. 761. (doi: 10.1145/1390334.1390490)

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) Combining fields in known-item email search. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, 6-11 August 2006, pp. 675-676. ISBN 1595933697 (doi: 10.1145/1148170.1148312)

MacDonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task. In: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 6-11 November 2006, pp. 387-396. ISBN 1595934332 (doi: 10.1145/1183614.1183671)

He, B. and Ounis, I. (2005) A study of the Dirichlet Priors for term frequency normalisation. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 August 2005, pp. 465-471. ISBN 1595930345 (doi: 10.1145/1076034.1076114)

Purchase, H.C. , Mitchell, C. and Ounis, I. (2004) Gauging Students' Understanding Through Interactive Lectures. In: BNCOD 21, Edinburgh, UK, 7-9 July, 2004, pp. 234-243. (doi: 10.1007/b98625)