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Overview

Craig Macdonald is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their main field of study is Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Management Science and Operations Research, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research covers a range of topics such as Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Web Data Mining and Analysis, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, and Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research.

Macdonald's frequent collaborators include Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney, Richard McCreadie, Aleksandr V. Petrov, and Zixuan Yi.

Their work has been published across multiple venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, and Information Processing & Management.

Among the recent papers are:

  • "Can Twitter Replace Newswire for Breaking News?", 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Multi-modal Graph Contrastive Learning for Micro-video Recommendation", 2022, Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • "On the TREC Blog Track", 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Graph Neural Pre-training for Recommendation with Side Information", 2022, ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • "Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets", 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

In addition to journal and conference papers, Macdonald has contributed to book publications through Springer Science+Business Media. Two book titles include "Advances in Information Retrieval" (2022) and "Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction" (2022).

Best Publications

  • Terrier information retrieval platform

    Iadh Ounis;Gianni Amati;Vassilis Plachouras;Ben He

  • Exploiting query reformulations for web search result diversification

    Rodrygo L.T. Santos;Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • Overview of the TREC 2006 Blog Track

    Iadh Ounis;Craig Macdonald;Maarten de Rijke;Gilad Mishne

  • Overview of the TREC-2008 Blog Track

    Iadh Ounis;Craig Macdonald;Ian Soboroff

  • Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task

    Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • Web Services Business Process Execution Language

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  • Overview of the TREC-2007 Blog Track

    Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis;Ian Soboroff

  • Web Data Mining

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  • The TREC Blogs06 Collection: Creating and Analysing a Blog Test Collection

    C. Macdonald;I. Ounis

  • Overview of the TREC-2011 Microblog Track

    Iadh Ounis;Craig Macdonald;Jimmy Lin;Ian Soboroff

  • Using word embeddings in Twitter election classification

    Xiao Yang;Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • The whens and hows of learning to rank for web search

    Craig Macdonald;Rodrygo L. Santos;Iadh Ounis

  • Search Result Diversification

    Rodrygo L. T. Santos;Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • TREC 2014 Web Track Overview

    Kevyn Collins-Thompson;Craig Macdonald;Paul N. Bennett;Fernando Diaz

  • Overview of the TREC-2012 Microblog Track.

    Ian Soboroff;Iadh Ounis;Craig Macdonald;Jimmy J. Lin

  • Can Twitter Replace Newswire for Breaking News

    Sasa Petrovic;Miles Osborne;Richard McCreadie;Craig Macdonald

  • From Puppy to Maturity: Experiences in Developing Terrier.

    Craig Macdonald;Richard McCreadie;Rodrygo L. T. Santos;Iadh Ounis

  • Research directions in Terrier: a search engine for advanced retrieval on the Web

    I Ounis;C. Lioma;C. Macdonald;V. Plachouras

  • Intent-aware search result diversification

    Rodrygo L.T. Santos;Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • Explicit search result diversification through sub-queries

    Rodrygo L. T. Santos;Jie Peng;Craig Macdonald;Iadh Ounis

  • An effective statistical approach to blog post opinion retrieval

    Ben He;Craig Macdonald;Jiyin He;Iadh Ounis

  • Overview of the TREC-2012 Microblog Track | NIST

    Ian M. Soboroff;Iadh Ounis;Jimmy Lin;Craig Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Iadh Ounis
Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
Ian Soboroff
Ian Soboroff National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo
Pavel Serdyukov
Pavel Serdyukov Yandex (Russia)
Charles L. A. Clarke
Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo
Ryen W. White
Ryen W. White Microsoft (United States)
Raffaele Perego
Raffaele Perego Institute of Information Science and Technologies
Ian Ruthven
Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde
Miles Osborne
Miles Osborne Bloomberg LP
Joemon M. Jose
Joemon M. Jose University of Glasgow

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