Dr Debasis Ganguly
- Lecturer in Data Science (School of Computing Science)
email:
Debasis.Ganguly@glasgow.ac.uk
Room M111, Computing Science, Sir Alwyn Williams Bldg, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Publications
2025
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2025)
The "curious case of contexts” in retrieval-augmented generation with a combination of labelled and unlabelled data.
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 15(2),
e70021.
(doi: 10.1002/widm.70021)
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Fang, Jinyuan, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Meng, Zaiqiao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2025)
Am I on the Right Track? What Can Predicted Query Performance Tell Us about the Search Behaviour of Agentic RAG.
In: IR-RAG Workshop at SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Das, Susmita, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Swami, Priyanka, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Calikli, Gul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4578-1747
(2025)
In-Context Learning as an Effective Estimator of Functional Correctness of LLM-Generated Code.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Kapuriya, Janak, Kaushik, Manit, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Bhatia, Sumit
(2025)
Exploring the Role of Diversity in Example Selection for In-Context Learning.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2025)
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
pp. 67-84.
ISBN 9783031887079
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88708-6_5)
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2025)
Revisiting Query Variants: The Advantage of Retrieval Over Generation of Query Variants for Effective QPP.
In: QPP++ Workshop at ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, 10 April 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2024)
Is Relevance Propagated from Retriever to Generator in RAG?
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Chronological Evaluation of Emerging Methodology Extraction from AI Literature.
In: ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2024), Hong Kong, 16-20 Dec 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sinhababu, Nilanjan, Parry, Andrew, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Samanta, Debasis and Mitra, Pabitra
(2024)
Few-shot Pairwise Ranking Prompting: An Effective Non-Parametric Retrieval Model.
In: 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, Florida, USA, 12–16 November 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking.
ReNeuIR'24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024.
(Accepted for Publication)
Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search.
In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2024)
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence": Fact Verification via Information Retrieval-based In-Context Learning.
In: 26th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 2024), Naples, Italy, 26-28 August 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Ghosh, Madhusudan, Mukherjee, Shrimon, Ganguly, Asmit, Basuchowdhuri, Partha, Naskar, Sudip Kumar and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
AlpaPICO: Extraction of PICO frames from clinical trial documents using LLMs.
Methods, 226,
pp. 78-88.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2024.04.005)
(PMID:38643910)
Parry, Andrew, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Chandra, Manish
(2024)
In-Context Learning or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Applied Information Retrieval.
In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Vanneste, Joachim, Verma, Manisha and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Detecting and Explaining Emotions in Video Advertisements.
In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Mukherjee, Shrimon, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2024)
Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models: A Hands-On Tutorial.
In: 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Panjim, Goa, India, 15-18 Dec 2023,
pp. 149-152.
ISBN 9798400716324
(doi: 10.1145/3632754.3632943)
Satapara, Shrey, Mehta, Parth, Modha, Sandip and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Indian Language Summarization at FIRE 2023.
In: 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Panjim, Goa, India, 15-18 Dec 2023,
pp. 27-29.
(doi: 10.1145/3632754.3634662)
2023
Pandian, Saran, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and MacAvaney, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659
(2023)
Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, MacAvaney, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Greene, Derek
(2023)
A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Adhikary, Subinay, Roy, Dwaipayan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Kumar Guha, Shouvik and Ghosh, Kripabandhu
(2023)
LeDA: a system for legal data annotation.
In: Sileno, Giovanni, Spanakis, Jerry and van Dijck, Gijs (eds.)
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.
Series: Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications (379).
IOS Press, pp. 370-367.
ISBN 9781643684734
(doi: 10.3233/faia230990)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Saha, Tulika and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(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)
Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Kumar Naskar, Sudip
(2023)
Extracting Methodology Components from AI Research Papers: A Data-driven Factored Sequence Labeling Approach.
In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023,
pp. 3897-3901.
ISBN 9798400701245
(doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615258)
Saha, Tulika, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Saha, Sriparna and Mitra, Prasenjit
(2023)
Workshop on Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT).
In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023,
pp. 5290-5293.
ISBN 9798400701245
(doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615311)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Yilmaz, Emine
(2023)
Query-Specific Variable Depth Pooling via Query Performance Prediction.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 2303-2307.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592046)
Llordes, Michael, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Bhatia, Sumit and Agarwal, Chirag
(2023)
Explain Like I am BM25: Interpreting a Dense Model’s Ranked-List with a Sparse Approximation.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 1976-1980.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591982)
Singh, Ashutosh, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Datta, Suchana and McDonald, Craig
(2023)
Unsupervised Query Performance Prediction for Neural Models with Pairwise Rank Preferences.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 2486-2490.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592082)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mitra, Mandar and Greene, Derek
(2023)
A relative information gain-based query performance prediction framework with generated query variants.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(2),
38.
(doi: 10.1145/3545112)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Greene, Derek and Mitra, Mandar
(2023)
On the Feasibility and Robustness of Pointwise Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction.
In: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks, Dublin, Ireland, 06 Apr 2023,
pp. 7-12.
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mothe, Josiane and Ullah, Md Zia
(2023)
Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP.
In: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks, Dublin, Ireland, 06 Apr 2023,
pp. 13-19.
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Conrad, Jack G., Ghosh, Kripabandhu, Ghosh, Saptarshi, Goyal, Pawan, Bhattacharya, Paheli, Nigam, Shubham Kumar and Paul, Shounak
(2023)
Legal IR and NLP: The History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art.
In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023,
pp. 331-340.
ISBN 9783031282409
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_34)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Parker, Andrew and Aji Mattew, Stergious
(2023)
Automatic Videography Generation from Audio Tracks.
In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023,
pp. 281-287.
ISBN 9783031282409
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_27)
2022
Jones, Gareth J.F., Sen, Procheta, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Yilmaz, Emine
(2022)
Workshop on Proactive and Agent-Supported Information Retrieval (PASIR).
In: CIKM '22: The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, US, 17-21 Oct 2022,
pp. 5167-5168.
ISBN 9781450392365
(doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557939)
Sen, Procheta, Saha, Sourav, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Verma, Manisha and Roy, Dwaipayan
(2022)
Measuring and Comparing the Consistency of IR Models for Query Pairs with Similar and Different Information Needs.
In: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 October 2022,
pp. 4449-4453.
ISBN 9781450392365
(doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557637)
Sen, Procheta, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Jones, Gareth J.F.
(2022)
I know what you need: investigating document retrieval effectiveness with partial session contexts.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(3),
pp. 1-30.
(doi: 10.1145/3488667)
Datta, Suchana, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Greene, Derek
(2022)
A 'Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document' based Query Performance Prediction Approach.
In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022,
pp. 2148-2153.
ISBN 9781450387323
(doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531821)
Sen, Procheta, Mishra, Sonal, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Majumder, Prasenjit
(2022)
A Combination of 'Intra and Inter Collection' Relevance Models for Ad-hoc Retrieval in Precision Medicine.
CIRCLE 2022, Toulouse, France, 04-07 Jul 2022.
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Datta, Suchana, Mitra, Mandar and Greene, Derek
(2022)
An Analysis of Variations in the Effectiveness of Query Performance Prediction.
In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022,
pp. 215-229.
ISBN 9783030997359
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_15)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Greene, Derek and Mitra, Mandar
(2022)
Deep-QPP: a Pairwise Interaction-based Deep Learning Model for Supervised Query Performance Prediction.
In: WSDM '22: 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 21-25 Feb 2022,
pp. 201-209.
ISBN 9781450391320
Biswas, Chandan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mukherjee, Parthasarathi, Bhattacharya, Ujjwal and Hou, Yufang
(2022)
Privacy-aware supervised classification: An informative subspace based multi-objective approach.
Pattern Recognition, 122,
108301.
(doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108301)
Biswas, Chandan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Roy, Dwaipayan and Bhattacharya, Ujjwal
(2022)
Weakly supervised deep metric learning on discrete metric spaces for privacy-preserved clustering.
Information Processing and Management, 60(1),
103109.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103109)
2021
Mondal, Ishani, Sen, Procheta and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2021)
Multi-Objective Few-shot Learning for Fair Classification.
In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '21), Queensland, Australia (Virtual Event), 1-5 Nov 2021,
pp. 3338-3342.
(doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482146)
Pal, Dipasree and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2021)
Effective Query Formulation in Conversation Contextualization: A Query Specificity-based Approach.
In: 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021), 11 Jul 2021,
pp. 177-183.
ISBN 9781450386111
(doi: 10.1145/3471158.3472237)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mitra, Pabitra, Pal, Bithika and Thomas, James
(2021)
NIP-GCN: An Augmented Graph Convolutional Network with Node Interaction Patterns.
In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 21), 11-15 July 2021,
pp. 2242-2246.
(doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463082)
Articles
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2025)
The "curious case of contexts” in retrieval-augmented generation with a combination of labelled and unlabelled data.
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 15(2),
e70021.
(doi: 10.1002/widm.70021)
Ghosh, Madhusudan, Mukherjee, Shrimon, Ganguly, Asmit, Basuchowdhuri, Partha, Naskar, Sudip Kumar and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
AlpaPICO: Extraction of PICO frames from clinical trial documents using LLMs.
Methods, 226,
pp. 78-88.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2024.04.005)
(PMID:38643910)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mitra, Mandar and Greene, Derek
(2023)
A relative information gain-based query performance prediction framework with generated query variants.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(2),
38.
(doi: 10.1145/3545112)
Sen, Procheta, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Jones, Gareth J.F.
(2022)
I know what you need: investigating document retrieval effectiveness with partial session contexts.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(3),
pp. 1-30.
(doi: 10.1145/3488667)
Biswas, Chandan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mukherjee, Parthasarathi, Bhattacharya, Ujjwal and Hou, Yufang
(2022)
Privacy-aware supervised classification: An informative subspace based multi-objective approach.
Pattern Recognition, 122,
108301.
(doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108301)
Biswas, Chandan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Roy, Dwaipayan and Bhattacharya, Ujjwal
(2022)
Weakly supervised deep metric learning on discrete metric spaces for privacy-preserved clustering.
Information Processing and Management, 60(1),
103109.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103109)
Book Sections
Adhikary, Subinay, Roy, Dwaipayan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Kumar Guha, Shouvik and Ghosh, Kripabandhu
(2023)
LeDA: a system for legal data annotation.
In: Sileno, Giovanni, Spanakis, Jerry and van Dijck, Gijs (eds.)
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.
Series: Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications (379).
IOS Press, pp. 370-367.
ISBN 9781643684734
(doi: 10.3233/faia230990)
Conference or Workshop Item
Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking.
ReNeuIR'24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024.
(Accepted for Publication)
Sen, Procheta, Mishra, Sonal, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Majumder, Prasenjit
(2022)
A Combination of 'Intra and Inter Collection' Relevance Models for Ad-hoc Retrieval in Precision Medicine.
CIRCLE 2022, Toulouse, France, 04-07 Jul 2022.
Conference Proceedings
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Fang, Jinyuan, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Meng, Zaiqiao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2025)
Am I on the Right Track? What Can Predicted Query Performance Tell Us about the Search Behaviour of Agentic RAG.
In: IR-RAG Workshop at SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Das, Susmita, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Swami, Priyanka, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Calikli, Gul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4578-1747
(2025)
In-Context Learning as an Effective Estimator of Functional Correctness of LLM-Generated Code.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Kapuriya, Janak, Kaushik, Manit, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Bhatia, Sumit
(2025)
Exploring the Role of Diversity in Example Selection for In-Context Learning.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2025)
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
pp. 67-84.
ISBN 9783031887079
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88708-6_5)
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2025)
Revisiting Query Variants: The Advantage of Retrieval Over Generation of Query Variants for Effective QPP.
In: QPP++ Workshop at ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, 10 April 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tian, Fangzheng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X
(2024)
Is Relevance Propagated from Retriever to Generator in RAG?
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Chronological Evaluation of Emerging Methodology Extraction from AI Literature.
In: ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2024), Hong Kong, 16-20 Dec 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sinhababu, Nilanjan, Parry, Andrew, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Samanta, Debasis and Mitra, Pabitra
(2024)
Few-shot Pairwise Ranking Prompting: An Effective Non-Parametric Retrieval Model.
In: 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, Florida, USA, 12–16 November 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search.
In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2024)
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence": Fact Verification via Information Retrieval-based In-Context Learning.
In: 26th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 2024), Naples, Italy, 26-28 August 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Parry, Andrew, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Chandra, Manish
(2024)
In-Context Learning or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Applied Information Retrieval.
In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Vanneste, Joachim, Verma, Manisha and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Detecting and Explaining Emotions in Video Advertisements.
In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Santra, Payel, Ghosh, Madhusudan, Mukherjee, Shrimon, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Naskar, Sudip Kumar
(2024)
Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models: A Hands-On Tutorial.
In: 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Panjim, Goa, India, 15-18 Dec 2023,
pp. 149-152.
ISBN 9798400716324
(doi: 10.1145/3632754.3632943)
Satapara, Shrey, Mehta, Parth, Modha, Sandip and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2024)
Indian Language Summarization at FIRE 2023.
In: 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Panjim, Goa, India, 15-18 Dec 2023,
pp. 27-29.
(doi: 10.1145/3632754.3634662)
Pandian, Saran, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and MacAvaney, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659
(2023)
Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, MacAvaney, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Greene, Derek
(2023)
A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Saha, Tulika and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(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)
Ghosh, Madhusudan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Basuchowdhuri, Partha and Kumar Naskar, Sudip
(2023)
Extracting Methodology Components from AI Research Papers: A Data-driven Factored Sequence Labeling Approach.
In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023,
pp. 3897-3901.
ISBN 9798400701245
(doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615258)
Saha, Tulika, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Saha, Sriparna and Mitra, Prasenjit
(2023)
Workshop on Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT).
In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023,
pp. 5290-5293.
ISBN 9798400701245
(doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615311)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Yilmaz, Emine
(2023)
Query-Specific Variable Depth Pooling via Query Performance Prediction.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 2303-2307.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592046)
Llordes, Michael, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Bhatia, Sumit and Agarwal, Chirag
(2023)
Explain Like I am BM25: Interpreting a Dense Model’s Ranked-List with a Sparse Approximation.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 1976-1980.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591982)
Singh, Ashutosh, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Datta, Suchana and McDonald, Craig
(2023)
Unsupervised Query Performance Prediction for Neural Models with Pairwise Rank Preferences.
In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023,
pp. 2486-2490.
ISBN 9781450394086
(doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592082)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Greene, Derek and Mitra, Mandar
(2023)
On the Feasibility and Robustness of Pointwise Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction.
In: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks, Dublin, Ireland, 06 Apr 2023,
pp. 7-12.
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mothe, Josiane and Ullah, Md Zia
(2023)
Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP.
In: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks, Dublin, Ireland, 06 Apr 2023,
pp. 13-19.
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Conrad, Jack G., Ghosh, Kripabandhu, Ghosh, Saptarshi, Goyal, Pawan, Bhattacharya, Paheli, Nigam, Shubham Kumar and Paul, Shounak
(2023)
Legal IR and NLP: The History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art.
In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023,
pp. 331-340.
ISBN 9783031282409
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_34)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Parker, Andrew and Aji Mattew, Stergious
(2023)
Automatic Videography Generation from Audio Tracks.
In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023,
pp. 281-287.
ISBN 9783031282409
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_27)
Jones, Gareth J.F., Sen, Procheta, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Yilmaz, Emine
(2022)
Workshop on Proactive and Agent-Supported Information Retrieval (PASIR).
In: CIKM '22: The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, US, 17-21 Oct 2022,
pp. 5167-5168.
ISBN 9781450392365
(doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557939)
Sen, Procheta, Saha, Sourav, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Verma, Manisha and Roy, Dwaipayan
(2022)
Measuring and Comparing the Consistency of IR Models for Query Pairs with Similar and Different Information Needs.
In: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 October 2022,
pp. 4449-4453.
ISBN 9781450392365
(doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557637)
Datta, Suchana, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Ganguly, Debasis
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Greene, Derek
(2022)
A 'Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document' based Query Performance Prediction Approach.
In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022,
pp. 2148-2153.
ISBN 9781450387323
(doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531821)
Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Datta, Suchana, Mitra, Mandar and Greene, Derek
(2022)
An Analysis of Variations in the Effectiveness of Query Performance Prediction.
In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022,
pp. 215-229.
ISBN 9783030997359
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_15)
Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Greene, Derek and Mitra, Mandar
(2022)
Deep-QPP: a Pairwise Interaction-based Deep Learning Model for Supervised Query Performance Prediction.
In: WSDM '22: 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 21-25 Feb 2022,
pp. 201-209.
ISBN 9781450391320
Mondal, Ishani, Sen, Procheta and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2021)
Multi-Objective Few-shot Learning for Fair Classification.
In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '21), Queensland, Australia (Virtual Event), 1-5 Nov 2021,
pp. 3338-3342.
(doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482146)
Pal, Dipasree and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138
(2021)
Effective Query Formulation in Conversation Contextualization: A Query Specificity-based Approach.
In: 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021), 11 Jul 2021,
pp. 177-183.
ISBN 9781450386111
(doi: 10.1145/3471158.3472237)
Chandra, Manish, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Mitra, Pabitra, Pal, Bithika and Thomas, James
(2021)
NIP-GCN: An Augmented Graph Convolutional Network with Node Interaction Patterns.
In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 21), 11-15 July 2021,
pp. 2242-2246.
(doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463082)
Supervision
- Bosman, Isak
Optimizing Natural Language Processing on Edge Devices - Chang, Xuejun
Improving Information Retrieval Systems using Large Language Model Reasoning - Clark, Hamish
Personalized and Proactive Information Retrieval through Simulated User Agents - Parry, Andrew
Modelling Uncertainties in Neural Networks for Improved Defence against Adversarial Attacks