Dr Nicola Tonellotto

  • Honorary Research Fellow (School of Computing Science)

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2025

Petrov, Aleksandr V., Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2025) Efficient Recommendation with Millions of Items by Dynamic Pruning of Sub-Item Embeddings. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, Mueller, Ariane, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2025) Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling. In: 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS), Lucca, Italy, 6-10 April 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mallia, Antonio and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-tuning for Cross-encoder Re-rankers. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yang, Eugene, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, Lawrie, Dawn, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mayfield, James, Oard, Douglas and Miller, Scott (2024) MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Petrov, Aleksandr V., Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Efficient Inference of Sub-Item Id-based Sequential Recommendation Models with Millions of Items. In: 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Bari, Italy, 14-18 Oct 2024, pp. 912-917. ISBN 97984007-05052 (doi: 10.1145/3640457.3688168)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) A Reproducibility Study of PLAID. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 1411-1419. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657856)

2023

Acquavia, Antonio, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) Static Pruning for Multi-Representation Dense Retrieval. In: 23rd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'23), Limerick, Ireland, 22-25 Aug 2023, ISBN 9798400700279 (doi: 10.1145/3573128.3604896)

Wang, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

2022

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2022) Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph. In: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 October 2022, pp. 1491-1500. ISBN 9781450392365 (doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557231)

Dato, Domenico, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Nardini, Franco Maria, Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2022) The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 3099-3107. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531740)

2021

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2021) On Approximate Nearest Neighbour Selection for Multi-Stage Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 3318-3322. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482156)

Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2021) Query Embedding Pruning for Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event Queensland, Australia, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 3453-3457. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482162)

Wang, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2021) On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval. In: 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Bari, Italy, 13-15 Sep 2021,

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Number of items: 17.

Articles

Wang, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

Conference Proceedings

Petrov, Aleksandr V., Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2025) Efficient Recommendation with Millions of Items by Dynamic Pruning of Sub-Item Embeddings. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, Mueller, Ariane, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2025) Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling. In: 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS), Lucca, Italy, 6-10 April 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mallia, Antonio and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-tuning for Cross-encoder Re-rankers. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yang, Eugene, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, Lawrie, Dawn, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mayfield, James, Oard, Douglas and Miller, Scott (2024) MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Petrov, Aleksandr V., Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Efficient Inference of Sub-Item Id-based Sequential Recommendation Models with Millions of Items. In: 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Bari, Italy, 14-18 Oct 2024, pp. 912-917. ISBN 97984007-05052 (doi: 10.1145/3640457.3688168)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) A Reproducibility Study of PLAID. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 1411-1419. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657856)

Acquavia, Antonio, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) Static Pruning for Multi-Representation Dense Retrieval. In: 23rd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'23), Limerick, Ireland, 22-25 Aug 2023, ISBN 9798400700279 (doi: 10.1145/3573128.3604896)

Wang, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2022) Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph. In: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 October 2022, pp. 1491-1500. ISBN 9781450392365 (doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557231)

Dato, Domenico, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Nardini, Franco Maria, Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2022) The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 3099-3107. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531740)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2021) On Approximate Nearest Neighbour Selection for Multi-Stage Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 3318-3322. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482156)

Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2021) Query Embedding Pruning for Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event Queensland, Australia, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 3453-3457. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482162)

Wang, Xiao, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (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)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2021) On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval. In: 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Bari, Italy, 13-15 Sep 2021,

This list was generated on Sat Jun 14 17:18:48 2025 BST.