Sean MacAvaney

199 papers A* 34A 7B 4C 1Misc 1Journal 90Unranked 58
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
A Picture of Agentic Search.
CoRR
Francesca Pezzuti, Ophir Frieder, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2026 — ed.
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I
ECIR (1)
Ricardo Campos, Adam Jatowt, Yanyan Lan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Nan Bai, Masoud Mansoury
2026 — ed.
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II
ECIR (2)
Ricardo Campos, Adam Jatowt, Yanyan Lan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Nan Bai, Masoud Mansoury
2026 — ed.
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part III
ECIR (3)
Ricardo Campos, Adam Jatowt, Yanyan Lan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Nan Bai, Masoud Mansoury
2026 — ed.
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part IV
ECIR (4)
Ricardo Campos, Adam Jatowt, Yanyan Lan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Nan Bai, Masoud Mansoury
2026 J jnl
NeuCLIRTech: Chinese Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Evaluation in a Challenging Domain.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ronak Pradeep, Scott Miller, Paul McNamee, Luca Soldaini
2026 — conf
Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval.
ECIR (4)
Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Cosimo Rulli, Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, Siddharth A. K. Singh, Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei
2026 J jnl
Overview of the TREC 2025 RAGTIME Track.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates
2026 — conf
Pipeline Inspection, Visualization, and Interoperability in PyTerrier.
ECIR (4)
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
2026 J jnl
Pipeline Inspection, Visualization, and Interoperability in PyTerrier.
CoRR
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
2026 — conf
Practical, Efficient, In-Memory Inverted Indexes.
ECIR (4)
Joel Mackenzie, Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia, Michal Siedlaczek
2026 — conf
Revealing MonoT5s Learning Mechanisms via Prompt-Token Adaptation.
ECIR (1)
Marco Braga, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Gabriella Pasi
2026 J jnl
Revisiting Text Ranking in Deep Research.
CoRR
Chuan Meng, Litu Ou, Sean MacAvaney, Jeff Dalton
2026 J jnl
SuiteEval: Simplifying Retrieval Benchmarks.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
2026 — conf
Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAG.
EACL (Findings)
Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2026 — conf
To Case or Not to Case: An Empirical Study in Learned Sparse Retrieval.
ECIR (1)
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Jia-Huei Ju, Angelos Nalmpantis, Casper Thuis, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2026 J jnl
To Case or Not to Case: An Empirical Study in Learned Sparse Retrieval.
CoRR
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Jia-Huei Ju, Angelos Nalmpantis, Casper Thuis, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2026 A conf
WSDM CUP 2026: Multilingual Retrieval.
WSDM
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates
2026 — conf
[inline-graphic not available: see fulltext] SuiteEval: Simplifying Retrieval Benchmarks.
ECIR (4)
Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
2025 A* conf
An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-Doc.
SIGIR
Aldo Porco, Dhruv Mehra, Igor Malioutov, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Moniba Keymanesh, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sean MacAvaney, Pengxiang Cheng
2025 J jnl
An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-Doc.
CoRR
Aldo Porco, Dhruv Mehra, Igor Malioutov, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Moniba Keymanesh, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sean MacAvaney, Pengxiang Cheng
2025 A* conf
Artifact Sharing for Information Retrieval Research.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney
2025 J jnl
Artifact Sharing for Information Retrieval Research.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney
2025 A* conf
Breaking the Lens of the Telescope: Online Relevance Estimation over Large Retrieval Sets.
SIGIR
Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 J jnl
Breaking the Lens of the Telescope: Online Relevance Estimation over Large Retrieval Sets.
CoRR
Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 J jnl
Disentangling Locality and Entropy in Ranking Distillation.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
2025 — conf
Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling.
WOWS
Francesca Pezzuti, Ariane Mueller, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 J jnl
Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling.
CoRR
Francesca Pezzuti, Ariane Mueller, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 J jnl
Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 — conf
Efficient Constant-Space Multi-vector Retrieval.
ECIR (3)
Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 A* conf
Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes: Theory and Practice.
SIGIR
Joel Mackenzie, Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia, Michal Siedlaczek
2025 — conf
Eval4RAG: Workshop on Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems.
ECIR (5)
Eugene Yang, Ronak Pradeep, Dake Zhang, Sean MacAvaney, Maria Maistro, Mohammad Aliannejadi
2025 — conf
Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-Tuning for Cross-Encoder Re-rankers.
ECIR (3)
Francesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 J jnl
Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-tuning for Cross-encoder Re-rankers.
CoRR
Francesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 — conf
FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn J. Lawrie, Luca Soldaini
2025 — conf
GRIT: Graph-based Recall Improvement for Task-oriented E-commerce Queries.
WWW (Companion Volume)
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Surya Kallumadi, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2025 J jnl
GRIT: Graph-based Recall Improvement for Task-oriented E-commerce Queries.
CoRR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Surya Kallumadi, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2025 — conf
Guiding Retrieval Using LLM-Based Listwise Rankers.
ECIR (1)
Mandeep Rathee, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 J jnl
Guiding Retrieval using LLM-based Listwise Rankers.
CoRR
Mandeep Rathee, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 — conf
Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness Using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer.
ECIR (4)
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2025 J jnl
Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer.
CoRR
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2025 A* conf
Large Language Model Relevance Assessors Agree With One Another More Than With Human Assessors.
SIGIR
Maik Fröbe, Andrew Parry, Ferdinand Schlatt, Sean MacAvaney, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
2025 A* conf
Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR.
SIGIR
Andreas Chari, Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney
2025 J jnl
Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR.
CoRR
Andreas Chari, Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney
2025 — conf
MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream.
ECIR (1)
Eugene Yang, Nicola Tonellotto, Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Douglas W. Oard, Scott Miller
2025 J jnl
MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream.
CoRR
Eugene Yang, Nicola Tonellotto, Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Douglas W. Oard, Scott Miller
2025 — conf
MechIR: A Mechanistic Interpretability Framework for Information Retrieval.
ECIR (5)
Andrew Parry, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff, Sean MacAvaney
2025 J jnl
MechIR: A Mechanistic Interpretability Framework for Information Retrieval.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff, Sean MacAvaney
2025 J jnl
NeuCLIRBench: A Modern Evaluation Collection for Monolingual, Cross-Language, and Multilingual Information Retrieval.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ronak Pradeep, Scott Miller, Paul McNamee, Luca Soldani
2025 A* conf
Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval.
SIGIR
Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Cosimo Rulli, Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, Siddharth A. K. Singh, Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei
2025 Misc conf
Neural Prioritisation for Web Crawling.
ICTIR
Francesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 J jnl
Neural Prioritisation for Web Crawling.
CoRR
Francesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 — conf
Neural Web Crawling.
IIR
Francesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2025 — conf
On Precomputation and Caching in Information Retrieval Experiments with Pipeline Architectures.
WOWS
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2025 J jnl
On Precomputation and Caching in Information Retrieval Experiments with Pipeline Architectures.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2025 — conf
On the Interplay Between Graph Quality, Traversal Strategies, and Performance of ANN Retrieval Methods.
SIGIR-AP
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2025 J jnl
Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2025 A conf
Quam: Adaptive Retrieval through Query Affinity Modelling.
WSDM
Mandeep Rathee, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 J jnl
Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAG.
CoRR
Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2025 A* conf
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections.
SIGIR
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang
2025 J jnl
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang
2025 — conf
mFollowIR: A Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval.
ECIR (2)
Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Eugene Yang, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Samuel Barham, Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn J. Lawrie
2025 J jnl
mFollowIR: a Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval.
CoRR
Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Eugene Yang, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Samuel Barham, Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn J. Lawrie
2024 — conf
A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback.
ECIR (2)
Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney, Derek Greene
2024 J jnl
A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback.
CoRR
Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney, Derek Greene
2024 A* conf
A Reproducibility Study of PLAID.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2024 J jnl
A Reproducibility Study of PLAID.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
2024 — conf
Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models.
ECIR (2)
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Sean MacAvaney, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
2024 J jnl
Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Sean MacAvaney, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
2024 A* conf
DyVo: Dynamic Vocabularies for Learned Sparse Retrieval with Entities.
EMNLP
Thong Nguyen, Shubham Chatterjee, Sean MacAvaney, Iain Mackie, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates
2024 J jnl
DyVo: Dynamic Vocabularies for Learned Sparse Retrieval with Entities.
CoRR
Thong Nguyen, Shubham Chatterjee, Sean MacAvaney, Iain Mackie, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates
2024 — conf
Effective Adhoc Retrieval Through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph.
ECIR (3)
Erlend Frayling, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2024 — conf
Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers.
ECIR (4)
Saran Pandian, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
2024 J jnl
Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers.
CoRR
Saran Pandian, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
2024 — conf
Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search.
ACL (Findings)
Andrew Parry, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly
2024 J jnl
Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly
2024 J jnl
FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions.
CoRR
Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn J. Lawrie, Luca Soldaini
2024 J jnl
Generative Relevance Feedback and Convergence of Adaptive Re-Ranking: University of Glasgow Terrier Team at TREC DL 2023.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Thomas Jänich, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2024 J jnl
Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR.
CoRR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
2024 B conf
LexBoost: Improving Lexical Document Retrieval with Nearest Neighbors.
DocEng
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
2024 J jnl
LexBoost: Improving Lexical Document Retrieval with Nearest Neighbors.
CoRR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
2024 — conf
Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval.
SIGIR-AP
Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Sean MacAvaney, Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei
2024 A* conf
Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning.
SIGIR
Xuejun Chang, Debabrata Mishra, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
2024 J jnl
Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning.
CoRR
Xuejun Chang, Debabrata Mishra, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
2024 A* conf
On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports.
SIGIR
James Mayfield, Eugene Yang, Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Ian Soboroff, Orion Weller, Efsun Selin Kayi, Kate Sanders, Marc Mason, Noah Hibbler
2024 J jnl
On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports.
CoRR
James Mayfield, Eugene Yang, Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Ian Soboroff, Orion Weller, Efsun Selin Kayi, Kate Sanders, Marc Mason, Noah Hibbler
2024 J jnl
Overview of the TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2024 — conf
Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track.
TREC
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2024 J jnl
PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation forDocument Reranking.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.
Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ben He, Yingfei Sun
2024 J jnl
Quam: Adaptive Retrieval through Query Affinity Modelling.
CoRR
Mandeep Rathee, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand
2024 J jnl
Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Sean MacAvaney, Adam Roegiest, Aldo Lipani, Andrew Parry, Björn Engelmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Chuan Meng, Erlend Frayling, Eugene Yang, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Harrisen Scells, Iana Atanassova, Jana Friese, Janek Bevendorff, Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Johanne R. Trippas, Kanaad Pathak, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Leif Azzopardi, Maik Fröbe, Marc Bertin, Nishchal Prasad, Saber Zerhoudi, Shuai Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Thomas Jänich, Udo Kruschwitz, Xi Wang, Zijun Long
2024 A* conf
Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework.
SIGIR
Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Theresa Elstner, Christopher Akiki, Lukas Gienapp, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
2024 — conf
Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval.
ECIR (3)
Aleksandr V. Petrov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2024 J jnl
Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval.
CoRR
Aleksandr V. Petrov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2024 — conf
SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval.
SIGIR-AP
Leif Azzopardi, Timo Breuer, Björn Engelmann, Christin Kreutz, Sean MacAvaney, David Maxwell, Andrew Parry, Adam Roegiest, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 A* conf
The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (Extended Abstract).
IJCAI
Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
2024 J jnl
Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly
2024 J jnl
Training on the Test Model: Contamination in Ranking Distillation.
CoRR
Vishakha Suresh Kalal, Andrew Parry, Sean MacAvaney
2023 — conf
A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval.
ECIR (3)
Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2023 J jnl
A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval.
CoRR
Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2023 A* conf
Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents.
SIGIR
Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2023 J jnl
Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents.
CoRR
Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates
2023 — conf
Doc2Query-: When Less is More.
ECIR (2)
Mitko Gospodinov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2023 J jnl
Doc2Query-: When Less is More.
CoRR
Mitko Gospodinov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2023 — conf
Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion.
ACL (1)
Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2023 J jnl
Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search.
CoRR
Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2023 — conf
Generative Relevance Feedback and Convergence of Adaptive Re-Ranking: University of Glasgow Terrier Team at TREC DL 2023.
TREC
Andrew Parry, Thomas Jänich, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2023 B conf
Genetic Generative Information Retrieval.
DocEng
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Zachary Young, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
2023 A* conf
Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval.
SIGIR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2023 J jnl
Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval.
CoRR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2023 A* conf
On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models.
SIGIR
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2023 J jnl
On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models.
CoRR
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2023 A* conf
One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini
2023 J jnl
One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini
2023 J jnl
Online Distillation for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Xi Wang
2023 J jnl
Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track.
CoRR
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2023 — conf
Overview of the TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track.
TREC
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2023 J jnl
Re-Rank - Expand - Repeat: Adaptive Query Expansion for Document Retrieval Using Words and Entities.
CoRR
Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton
2023 — conf
Re-Thinking Re-Ranking.
IIR
Sean MacAvaney
2023 — conf
The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform.
LWDA
Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
2023 A* conf
The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform.
SIGIR
Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
2023 J jnl
The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform.
CoRR
Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
2022 A* conf
A 'Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document' based Query Performance Prediction Approach.
SIGIR
Suchana Datta, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly, Derek Greene
2022 — conf
A Comprehensive Dataset for Modern Learning to Rank Solutions (Abstract).
IIR
Domenico Dato, Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
2022 A* conf
A Python Interface to PISA!
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
2022 J jnl
ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Sean MacAvaney, Sergey Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
2022 — conf
Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent.
CIKM Workshops
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald
2022 A conf
Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph.
CIKM
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald
2022 J jnl
Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald
2022 A* conf
An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT.
SIGIR
Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2022 A* conf
CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection.
SIGIR
Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell, Sophie Fischer, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton
2022 J jnl
CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection.
CoRR
Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell, Sophie Fischer, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton
2022 — conf
Experiments with Adaptive ReRanking and ColBERT-PRF: University of Glasgow Terrier Team at TREC DL 2022.
TREC
Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2022 — conf
Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review.
ECIR (1)
Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
2022 A* conf
On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO.
SIGIR
Prashansa Gupta, Sean MacAvaney
2022 J jnl
On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO.
CoRR
Prashansa Gupta, Sean MacAvaney
2022 — conf
Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track.
TREC
Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
2022 — conf
Reproducing Personalised Session Search Over the AOL Query Log.
ECIR (1)
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2022 J jnl
Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2022 — conf
Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures.
ECIR (2)
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2022 B conf
TBD3: A Thresholding-Based Dynamic Depression Detection from Social Media for Low-Resource Users.
LREC
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2022 A* conf
The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation.
SIGIR
Domenico Dato, Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
2021 A* conf
DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior.
SIGIR
Kevin Martin Jose, Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton, Andrew Yates
2021 J jnl
Effective and practical neural ranking.
SIGIR Forum
Sean MacAvaney
2021 J jnl
Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review.
CoRR
Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
2021 A conf
IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments.
CIKM
Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Sean MacAvaney
2021 J jnl
IntenT5: Search Result Diversification using Causal Language Models.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Roderick Murray-Smith, Iadh Ounis
2021 — conf
Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification.
SDU@AAAI
Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2021 C conf
Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy For Sequential Query Recommendations.
ACML
Shameem Ahamed Puthiya Parambath, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Roderick Murray-Smith, Sean MacAvaney, Evangelos Zervas
2021 J jnl
Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy For Sequential Query Recommendations.
CoRR
Shameem Ahamed Puthiya Parambath, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Roderick Murray-Smith, Sean MacAvaney, Evangelos Zervas
2021 A conf
PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval.
CIKM
Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
2021 A conf
Real-time Streaming of Gait Assessment for Parkinson's Disease.
WSDM
Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, Gholam Motamedi
2021 A* conf
Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2021 J jnl
Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2021 J jnl
Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2021 — conf
ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability.
WASSA@EACL
Tong Xiang, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian
2021 J jnl
ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability.
CoRR
Tong Xiang, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian
2020 J jnl
ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Sergey Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
2020 A* conf
Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 J jnl
Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 A* conf
Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 J jnl
Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 — conf
GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection.
SemEval@COLING
Sajad Sotudeh, Tong Xiang, Hao-Ren Yao, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 J jnl
GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection.
CoRR
Sajad Sotudeh, Tong Xiang, Hao-Ren Yao, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 J jnl
Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 A conf
OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline.
WSDM
Sean MacAvaney
2020 J jnl
PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking.
CoRR
Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ben He, Yingfei Sun
2020 — conf
Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports.
ECIR (2)
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ross W. Filice
2020 J jnl
Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ross W. Filice
2020 — conf
SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search.
EMNLP (1)
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2020 J jnl
SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2020 J jnl
SLEDGE: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Coronavirus Scientific Knowledge Search.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2020 — conf
Streaming Gait Assessment for Parkinson's Disease.
HSDM@WSDM
Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, Gholam Motamedi
2020 — conf
Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-Shot Learning.
ECIR (2)
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Nazli Goharian
2020 A* conf
Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2020 J jnl
Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2019 A* conf
CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2019 J jnl
CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2019 A* conf
Content-Based Weak Supervision for Ad-Hoc Re-Ranking.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Kai Hui, Ophir Frieder
2019 A* conf
Ontology-Aware Clinical Abstractive Summarization.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Sajad Sotudeh, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ish A. Talati, Ross W. Filice
2019 J jnl
Ontology-Aware Clinical Abstractive Summarization.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Sajad Sotudeh, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ish A. Talati, Ross W. Filice
2019 J jnl
Overcoming low-utility facets for complex answer retrieval.
Inf. Retr. J.
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2019 J jnl
Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Nazli Goharian
2018 — conf
A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings.
NAACL-HLT (Student Research Workshop)
Sean MacAvaney, Amir Zeldes
2018 J jnl
A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Amir Zeldes
2018 A* conf
Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval.
SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2018 J jnl
Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2018 — conf
GU IRLAB at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification.
SemEval@NAACL-HLT
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2018 J jnl
GU IRLAB at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
2018 — conf
Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval.
ProfS/KG4IR/Data:Search@SIGIR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2018 J jnl
Overcoming low-utility facets for complex answer retrieval.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
2018 — conf
PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018.
TREC
Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Andrew Yates
2018 — conf
RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses.
CLPsych@NAACL-HTL
Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, Nazli Goharian
2018 J jnl
RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, Nazli Goharian
2018 J jnl
SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions.
CoRR
Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian
2018 B conf
SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions.
COLING
Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian
2017 J jnl
An Approach for Weakly-Supervised Deep Information Retrieval.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Kai Hui, Andrew Yates
2017 — conf
Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval.
TREC
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Kai Hui
2017 — conf
GUIR at SemEval-2017 Task 12: A Framework for Cross-Domain Clinical Temporal Information Extraction.
SemEval@ACL
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian