10 papers
RMIT-ADM+S at the MMU-RAG NeurIPS 2025 Competition
Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Danula Hettiachchi +9
This paper presents the award-winning RMIT-ADM+S system for the Text-to-Text track of the NeurIPS~2025 MMU-RAG Competition. We introduce Routing-to-RAG (R2RAG), a research-focused…
Stairway to Fairness: Connecting Group and Individual Fairness
Theresia Veronika Rampisela, Maria Maistro, Tuukka Ruotsalo +2
Fairness in recommender systems (RSs) is commonly categorised into group fairness and individual fairness. However, there is no established scientific understanding of the relation…
Demographically-Inspired Query Variants Using an LLM
Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas +2
This study proposes a method to diversify queries in existing test collections to reflect some of the diversity of search engine users, aligning with an earlier vision of an 'ideal…
SenseSeek Dataset: Multimodal Sensing to Study Information Seeking Behaviors
Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer +2
Information processing tasks involve complex cognitive mechanisms that are shaped by various factors, including individual goals, prior experience, and system environments. Underst…
The Effects of Demographic Instructions on LLM Personas
Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat +3
Social media platforms must filter sexist content in compliance with governmental regulations. Current machine learning approaches can reliably detect sexism based on standardized…
Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?
Simon Coghlan, Hui Xian Chia, Falk Scholer +1
This paper examines the ethical question, 'What is a good search engine?' Since search engines are gatekeepers of global online information, it is vital they do their job ethically…