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Mr Richard McCreadie

  • Research Associate (Computing Science)

telephone: 6292
email: Richard.Mccreadie@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Richard McCreadie is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is an information retrieval specialist, as well as developer and manager for the Terrier open source IR platform, which has been downloaded over 40,000 times since 2004. His research is focused on the interface between streaming IR and social media, tackling topics such information retrieval architectures for real-time stream processing; leveraging social media for event sensing (detecting events, extracting knowledge and summarizing those events); evaluation methodologies for streaming IR; and social media analytics, particularly when applied to security-related use-cases such as disaster management.

Richard received his Ph.D on the topic of News Vertical Search using User Generated Content in 2012 and is currently a senior researcher within the Terrier Team IR research group in Glasgow. Furthermore, he works with researchers and industry partners around the world to advance the IR field as co-chair of the streaming summarization evaluation initiatives (2014-Present) and 2018 Incident Streams emergency informatics initiative (2018) at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). He is active in the research community with 26 published conference papers in the areas of IR and social media, in addition to articles in longer formats, such as a book on Search in Social Media published in the highly-cited FnTIR series. Richard is also a current PC member for the top-tier conferences in the IR field (ACM CIKM, ACM SIGIR, AAAI ICWSM and ACM WSDM).

Research interests

  • Information Retrieval
  • Emergency Management
  • Social Media
  • Stream Processing
  • Summarization
  • IR Evaluation
  • Event Detection and Tracking

Publications

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Jump to: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009
Number of items: 37.

2018

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, (Accepted for Publication)

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

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)

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

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)

Baruah, G., Mccreadie, R. and Lin, J. (2017) A Comparison of Nuggets and Clusters for Evaluating Timeline Summaries. In: ACM Conference On Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '17), Singapore, 06-10 Nov 2017, pp. 67-76. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi:10.1145/3132847.3133000)

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)

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)

Ekstrand-Abueg, M., McCreadie, R., Pavlu, V. and Diaz, F. (2016) A Study of Realtime Summarization Metrics. In: 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, IN, USA, 24-28 Oct 2016, pp. 2125-2130. ISBN 9781450340731 (doi:10.1145/2983323.2983653)

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,

2015

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)

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)

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.

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)

2014

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)

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.

Mackie, S., Mccreadie, R. and Macdonald, C. (2014) Comparing algorithms for microblog summarisation. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 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,

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,

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,

2013

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)

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)

Mccreadie, R. and Macdonald, C. (2013) Relevance in microblogs: enhancing tweet retrieval using hyperlinked documents. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

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,

2012

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)

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)

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)

2011

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)

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.

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Number of items: 37.

Articles

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

Book Sections

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)

Conference Proceedings

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, (Accepted for Publication)

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)

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)

Baruah, G., Mccreadie, R. and Lin, J. (2017) A Comparison of Nuggets and Clusters for Evaluating Timeline Summaries. In: ACM Conference On Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '17), Singapore, 06-10 Nov 2017, pp. 67-76. ISBN 9781450349185 (doi:10.1145/3132847.3133000)

Ekstrand-Abueg, M., McCreadie, R., Pavlu, V. and Diaz, F. (2016) A Study of Realtime Summarization Metrics. In: 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, IN, USA, 24-28 Oct 2016, pp. 2125-2130. ISBN 9781450340731 (doi:10.1145/2983323.2983653)

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,

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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.

Mackie, S., Mccreadie, R. and Macdonald, C. (2014) Comparing algorithms for microblog summarisation. In: CLEF 2014: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, UK, 15-18 Sep 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,

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,

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,

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., 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)

Mccreadie, R. and Macdonald, C. (2013) Relevance in microblogs: enhancing tweet retrieval using hyperlinked documents. In: OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 May 2013,

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,

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)

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)

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)

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