Dr Richard McCreadie

Senior Lecturer (Computing Science)

telephone: 4932
email: Richard.Mccreadie@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 304, Computing Science, Sir Alwyn Williams Building

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Information Retrieval and Data Systems at the University of Glasgow, UK. My core research topics include real-time information retrieval, machine learning, big data stream processing and evaluation methodologies over streaming data. In particular, I specialize in real-time IR technologies to enable users to efficiently and effectively find information in big data streams; research and develop automatic (assistive) agents to detect events, extract knowledge and summarize information within big data streams; as well as methodologies to evaluate systems that process such streams

I received my Ph.D on the topic of News Vertical Search using User Generated Content in 2012 and am currently part of the Information, Data and Analytics section, and within that the Information Retrieval Group. I also work with researchers and industry partners around the world to advance the IR field as co-chair of the Incident Streams emergency informatics initiative (2018-Present) at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC).

Research interests

Information Retrieval
Disaster Informatics
Social Media
Stream Processing
Digital Finance (Fintech)
Summarization
IR Evaluation
Event Detection and Tracking

Publications

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Number of items: 58.

2023

Long, Z. , Mccreadie, R. and Imran, M. (2023) CrisisViT: A Robust Vision Transformer for Crisis Image Classification. In: 20th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2023), Omaha, NE, USA, 28-31 May 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

Mccreadie, R. and Buntain, C. (2023) CrisisFACTS: Building and Evaluating Crisis Timelines. In: 20th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2023), Omaha, NE, USA, 28-31 May 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

McCreadie, R. and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. (2023) Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers. Project Report. University of Glasgow, UK.

Pugantsov, A. and McCreadie, R. (2023) Divergence-Based Domain Transferability for Zero-Shot Classification. In: 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-6 May 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

2022

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.

Hepburn, A. J. and McCreadie, R. (2022) Identifying Suitable Tasks for Inductive Transfer Through the Analysis of Feature Attributions. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 137-143. ISBN 9783030997380 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_16)

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)

Long, Z. and McCreadie, R. (2022) Is Multi-Modal Data Key for Crisis Content Categorization on Social Media? In: 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2022), Tarbes, France, 22-25 May 2022, (In Press)

Buntain, C., McCreadie, R. and Soboroff, I. (2022) Incident Streams 2021 off the Deep End: Deeper Annotations and Evaluations in Twitter. In: 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2022), Tarbes, France, 22-25 May 2022, pp. 584-604. ISBN 9788284270999 (doi: http://idl.iscram.org/files/codybuntain/2022/2441_CodyBuntain_etal2022.pdf)

2021

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)

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)

Buntain, C., Mccreadie, R. and Soboroff, I. (2021) Incident Streams 2020: TREC-IS in the Time of COVID-19. In: 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 23-26 May 2021, pp. 621-639.

Long, Z. and McCreadie, R. (2021) Automated Crisis Content Categorization for COVID-19 Tweet Streams. In: 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 23-26 May 2021, pp. 667-678.

2020

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)

McCreadie, R. , Buntain, C. and Soboroff, I. (2020) Incident Streams 2019: Actionable Insights and How to Find Them. In: 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2020), Blacksburg, VA, USA, 24-27 May 2020, pp. 744-760. ISBN 97819493732767

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. , Buntain, C. and Soboroff, I. (2019) TREC Incident Streams: Finding Actionable Information on Social Media. In: 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019), Valencia, Spain, 19-22 May 2019, pp. 691-705. ISBN 9788409104987

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)

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)

2018

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,

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)

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)

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)

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.

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,

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,

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

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: 58.

Articles

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)

Book Sections

Research Reports or Papers

McCreadie, R. and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. (2023) Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers. Project Report. University of Glasgow, UK.

Conference or Workshop Item

Conference Proceedings

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,

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,

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2018

Mccreadie, R. (2018) Regional Sentiment Bias in Social Media Reporting During Crises. [Data Collection]

2016

Vargas, S., Mccreadie, R., Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2016) Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises. [Data Collection]

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