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/0000-0002-2751-2087Biography
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
2024
Takayanagi, T., Suzuki, M., Izumi, K., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2024) FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advisory. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)
Lee, Y., Kim, Y., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Lee, Y. (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling. In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Long, Z., Zhuang, L., Killick, G., Mccreadie, R. , Aragon-Camarasa, G. and Henderson, P. (2024) Understanding and Mitigating Human-Labelling Errors in Supervised Contrastive Learning. In: 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024, Milan, Italy, 29 Sep-04 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Long, Z. , Zhuang, L., Killick, G., Aragon-Camarasa, G. , Meng, Z. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19-24 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Guo, L., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization. Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024. (Accepted for Publication)
Guo, L., Sanz-Cruzado, J. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Lee, Y., Kim, Y., Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Lee, Y. (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Droukas, N. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Long, Z. , Ge, X. , Mccreadie, R. and Jose, J. M. (2024) CFIR: Fast and Effective Long-Text To Image Retrieval for Large Corpora. 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)
Long, Z. , Killick, G., McCreadie, R. and Aragon Camarasa, G. (2024) Multiway-adapter: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Models for Scalable Image-Text Retrieval. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 6580-6584. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446792)
Long, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Aragon Camarasa, G. and Meng, Z. (2024) LACVIT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 5275-5279. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447982)
Long, Z. , Killick, G., Mccreadie, R. and Aragon-Camarasa, G. (2024) RoboLLM: Robotic Vision Tasks Grounded on Multimodal Large Language Models. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024), 13-17 May 2024, Yokohama, Japan, (Accepted for Publication)
2023
Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Richards, E. and McCreadie, R. (2023) FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
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, pp. 309-319. ISBN 9798218217495 (doi: 10.59297/SDSM9194)
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, pp. 320-339. ISBN 9798218217495 (doi: 10.59297/JVQZ9405)
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, pp. 1649-1654. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.122)
McCreadie, R. and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. (2023) Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers. Project Report. University of Glasgow, UK.
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.
Articles
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. , 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)
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)
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. , 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)
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
Guo, L., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization. Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024. (Accepted for Publication)
Guo, L., Sanz-Cruzado, J. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Lee, Y., Kim, Y., Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Lee, Y. (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Droukas, N. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
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.
Conference Proceedings
Takayanagi, T., Suzuki, M., Izumi, K., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Ounis, I. (2024) FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advisory. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)
Lee, Y., Kim, Y., Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Mccreadie, R. and Lee, Y. (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling. In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Long, Z., Zhuang, L., Killick, G., Mccreadie, R. , Aragon-Camarasa, G. and Henderson, P. (2024) Understanding and Mitigating Human-Labelling Errors in Supervised Contrastive Learning. In: 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024, Milan, Italy, 29 Sep-04 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Long, Z. , Zhuang, L., Killick, G., Aragon-Camarasa, G. , Meng, Z. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19-24 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Long, Z. , Ge, X. , Mccreadie, R. and Jose, J. M. (2024) CFIR: Fast and Effective Long-Text To Image Retrieval for Large Corpora. 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)
Long, Z. , Killick, G., McCreadie, R. and Aragon Camarasa, G. (2024) Multiway-adapter: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Models for Scalable Image-Text Retrieval. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 6580-6584. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446792)
Long, Z. , McCreadie, R. , Aragon Camarasa, G. and Meng, Z. (2024) LACVIT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 5275-5279. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447982)
Long, Z. , Killick, G., Mccreadie, R. and Aragon-Camarasa, G. (2024) RoboLLM: Robotic Vision Tasks Grounded on Multimodal Large Language Models. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024), 13-17 May 2024, Yokohama, Japan, (Accepted for Publication)
Sanz-Cruzado, J. , Richards, E. and McCreadie, R. (2023) FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
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, pp. 309-319. ISBN 9798218217495 (doi: 10.59297/SDSM9194)
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, pp. 320-339. ISBN 9798218217495 (doi: 10.59297/JVQZ9405)
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, pp. 1649-1654. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.122)
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)
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)
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.
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
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
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)
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. , 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)
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)
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.
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,
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. 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,
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)
Grants
Supervision
- Guo, Lubingzhi
Graph-enhanced Abstractive Summarization of Financial texts - Nurdin, James
Optimising Data Services for Sustainability Using Machine Learning-Based Forecasting
Research datasets
2024
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Droukas, N. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. [Data Collection]
2018
Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2018) Automatic Ground Truth Expansion for Timeline Evaluation. [Data Collection]
Mccreadie, R. (2018) Regional Sentiment Bias in Social Media Reporting During Crises. [Data Collection]
2017
Yang, X., Ounis, I. , Fang, A., Mccreadie, R. and Macdonald, C. (2017) On the Reproducibility and Generalisation of the Linear Transformation of Word Embeddings. [Data Collection]
Sim Smith, K., Mccreadie, R. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2017) Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter. [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]
