Invited Talk at Glasgow University IR Seminar

I gave a talk at the Glasgow University IR Seminar entitled Quantifying and Applying Green IR. This talk gave an overview of Green IR, how to quantify and measure it, and an application of it for Green and reliable evaluation.

Today, Harry Scells @hscells from University of Tübingen is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Quantifying and Applying Green IR". Details: https://t.co/vy2c3wdJrq@GlasgowCS @ir_glasgow pic.twitter.com/oP44iL7CV6

— Zixuan Yi (@ZixuanYI_) April 28, 2025

The talk covered details from three papers:

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Green Information Retrieval Research

  Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

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• Beyond CO2 Emissions: The Overlooked Impact of Water Consumption of Information Retrieval Models

  Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang

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• Corpus Subsampling: Estimating the Effectiveness of Neural Retrieval Models on Large Corpora

  Maik Fröbe, Andrew Parry, Harrisen Scells, Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen

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The slides are available for download here.