Publications

2025

  1. Don’t Get Ahead of Yourself: A Critical Study on Data Leakage in Offline Evaluation of Sequential Recommenders
    Hoang Le Huy, Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2025
    to be present.
  2. Disentangling User and Item Sequence Patterns in Sequential Recommendation Data Sets
    Kaiyue Liu, Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2025
    to be present.

2024

  1. IUI
    Sample, Nudge and Rank: Exploiting Interpretable GAN Controls for Exploratory Search
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2024
  2. On the Negative Perception of Cross-domain Recommendations and Explanations
    Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar, Yang Liu, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

2023

  1. What We Evaluate When We Evaluate Recommender Systems: Understanding Recommender Systems’ Performance using Item Response Theory
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on recommender systems, 2023
  2. On the consistency, discriminative power and robustness of sampled metrics in offline top-n recommender system evaluation
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2023

2022

  1. UMAP
    Critiquing-based Modeling of Subjective Preferences
    Alan Medlar, Jing Li, Yang Liu, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2022
  2. IPM
    Lexical ambiguity detection in professional discourse
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    Information Processing & Management, 2022
  3. ROGUE: A System for Exploratory Search of GANs
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022

2021

  1. ICTIR
    Can Language Models Identify Wikipedia Articles with Readability and Style Issues?
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2021
  2. Eval4NLP
    Statistically Significant Detection of Semantic Shifts using Contextual Word Embeddings
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems, 2021