Craig Macdonald
10 papers · 2014–2026 · 3 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Natural Language Processing
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Applications Β· Natural Language Processing
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Machine Learning
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Artificial Intelligence
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Generation
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Deep Learning
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Knowledge & Reasoning
(2)
Core AI
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Learning Paradigms
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Representation
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Data Science & Analytics
(1)
Reinforcement Learning
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Keywords
retrieval-augmented generation
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multi-task learning
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question answering
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multi-hop reasoning
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text generation
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information retrieval
(2)
knowledge graph reasoning
(1)
dense retrieval
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query expansion
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text retrieval
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knowledge graph
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language model
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sequential recommendation
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negative sampling
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knowledge retrieval
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reasoning chain
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conversational question answering
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adaptive retrieval
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query generation
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information gap
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Papers
SPARKLE: A Structured and Plug-and-play Agentic Retrieval Policy for Adaptive RAG Models
ACL 2026
KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation
ACL 2025
gSASRec: Reducing Overconfidence in Sequential Recommendation Trained with Negative Sampling (Extended Abstract)
IJCAI 2024
REANO: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation
ACL 2024
TRACE the Evidence: Constructing Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Chains for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
EMNLP 2024
Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion
ACL 2023
Multi-Task Learning of Query Generation and Classification for Generative Conversational Question Rewriting
EMNLP 2023
monoQA: Multi-Task Learning of Reranking and Answer Extraction for Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering
EMNLP 2022
Multi-Task Learning using Dynamic Task Weighting for Conversational Question Answering
EMNLP 2020
Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media
ACL 2014