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Publications by Sean MacAvaney (lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Glasgow)

See also: My profiles on Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, dblp, arXiv, ACL Anthology, ACM DL, ORCID, and Enlighten (University of Glasgow). Here's my full BibTeX file (short conf names, without URLs, both).

2023

PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking

Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ben He, Yingfei Sun

TOIS

pdf arxiv bibtex 114 citations journal article

Re-Rank - Expand - Repeat: Adaptive Query Expansion for Document Retrieval Using Words and Entities

Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Sean MacAvaney, Jeff Dalton

arXiv

pdf arxiv bibtex non-refereed

Genetic Generative Information Retrieval

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Zachary Young, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney

DocEng 2023

link bibtex code slides short conference paper

Online Distillation for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback

Sean MacAvaney*, Xi Wang*

* equal contribution

arXiv

pdf arxiv bibtex non-refereed

Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

GenIR @ SIGIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex workshop paper short conference paper

The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform

Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast

SIGIR 2023

Best Paper pdf arxiv bibtex code 3 citations resource conference paper

On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models

Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis

SIGIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex code short conference paper

Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents

Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates

SIGIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex code 1 citation short conference paper

One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation

Sean MacAvaney*, Luca Soldaini*

* equal contribution

SIGIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex code poster short conference paper

Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex code 1 citation long conference paper

Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

ACL 2023

pdf bibtex poster long conference paper

Doc2Query--: When Less is More

Mitko Gospodinov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald

ECIR 2023

Best Short Paper pdf arxiv bibtex code poster 9 citations demo short conference paper

A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval

Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates

ECIR 2023

pdf arxiv bibtex code 6 citations reproducibility paper

Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

W3PHIAI@AAAI 2023

bibtex 1 citation workshop paper

2022

Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent

Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald

PASIR@CIKM 2022

pdf bibtex workshop paper

Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track

Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang

TREC 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex 5 citations non-refereed

Experiments with Adaptive ReRanking and ColBERT-PRF: University of Glasgow Terrier Team at TREC DL 2022

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

TREC 2022

pdf bibtex non-refereed

Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph

Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald

CIKM 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 13 citations long conference paper

On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO

Prashansa Gupta, Sean MacAvaney

SIGIR 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 8 citations short conference paper

A Python Interface to PISA!

Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald

SIGIR 2022

link bibtex code poster 1 citation demonstration paper

The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation

Domenico Dato, Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto

SIGIR 2022

link bibtex code 2 citations resource conference paper

A ‘Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document’ based QPP Approach

Suchana Datta, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly, Derek Greene

SIGIR 2022

link bibtex code 13 citations short conference paper

CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection

Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell, Sophie Fischer, Sean MacAvaney, Jeff Dalton

SIGIR 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex code 6 citations resource conference paper

An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

SIGIR 2022

link bibtex code slides 5 citations reproducibility paper

TBD3: A Thresholding-Based Dynamic Depression Detection from Social Media for Low-Resource Users

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

LREC 2022

pdf bibtex code slides 1 citation long conference paper

Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log

Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

ECIR 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex code 7 citations reproducibility paper

ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models

Sean MacAvaney, Sergey Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan

TACL

link bibtex code 29 citations journal article

Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures

Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

ECIR 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex code 22 citations demonstration paper

Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review

Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, David Lewis, Ophir Frieder

ECIR 2022

pdf arxiv bibtex 15 citations long conference paper

2021

University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

TREC 2021

pdf bibtex system description paper non-refereed

IntenT5: Search Result Diversification using Causal Language Models

Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Roderick Murray-Smith, Iadh Ounis

arXiv

pdf arxiv bibtex 9 citations non-refereed

Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy For Sequential Query Recommendations

Sham Puthiya, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Roderick Murray-Smith, Evangelos Zervas, Sean MacAvaney

ACML 2021

pdf arxiv bibtex code 3 citations long conference paper

PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval

Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis

CIKM 2021

Nominated for Best Paper link bibtex code poster 50 citations resource conference paper

Community-level Research on Suicidality Prediction in a Secure Environment: Overview of the CLPsych 2021 Shared Task

Sean MacAvaney, Anjali Mittu, Glen Coppersmith, Jeff Leintz, Philip Resnik

CLPsych 2021

pdf bibtex slides 29 citations workshop paper

Effective and Practical Neural Ranking

Sean MacAvaney

Georgetown University, PhD dissertation

pdf bibtex phd thesis

Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

SIGIR 2021

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides 61 citations resource conference paper

DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior

Kevin Martin Jose, Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates

SIGIR 2021

pdf bibtex code 5 citations demonstration paper

ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability

Tong Xiang, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian

WASSA @ EACL 2021

pdf arxiv bibtex 13 citations workshop paper

IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments: An ECIR 2021 tutorial with PyTerrier and OpenNIR

Sean MacAvaney*, Craig Macdonald*, Nicola Tonellotto*

* equal contribution

ECIR 2021

bibtex code tutorial

Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification

Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SDU @ AAAI 2021

pdf arxiv bibtex slides 3 citations workshop paper

Real-time Streaming of Gait Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease

Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, Gholam Motamedi

WSDM 2021

pdf bibtex 7 citations demonstration paper

2020

ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models

Sean MacAvaney, Sergey Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan

arXiv

See revised version, published in TACL link

pdf arxiv bibtex code non-refereed

SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

EMNLP 2020

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides 37 citations short conference paper

PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking

Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ben He, Yingfei Sun

arXiv

See revised version, published in TOIS 2023 link

pdf arxiv bibtex code non-refereed

SIDIR: Extending SIR with Detected and Isolated Populations for Pandemic Modeling

Joe Garman, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Ophir Frieder

medRxiv

pdf bibtex non-refereed

GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection

Sajad Sotudeh*, Tong Xiang*, Hao-Ren Yao, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

* equal contribution

SemEval @ COLING 2020

pdf arxiv bibtex 11 citations system description paper

SLEDGE: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for COVID-19 Scientific Knowledge Search

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

arXiv

See revised version, published in EMNLP 2020 link

pdf arxiv bibtex code 22 citations non-refereed

Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2020

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides 67 citations short conference paper

Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2020

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides 100 citations long conference paper

Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2020

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides 17 citations long conference paper

Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning

Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Nazli Goharian

ECIR 2020

link arxiv bibtex code slides 29 citations video short conference paper

Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ross Filice

ECIR 2020

link arxiv bibtex slides 5 citations video short conference paper

Streaming Gait Assessment for Parkinson's Disease

Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, Gholam Motamedi

HSDM @ WSDM 2020

pdf bibtex slides 5 citations workshop paper

OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline

Sean MacAvaney

WSDM 2020

pdf bibtex code poster 46 citations demonstration paper

2019

Tandem Use of Optical Sensing and Machine Learning for the Determination of Absolute Configuration, Enantiomeric and Diastereomeric Ratios, and Concentration of Chiral Samples

Zeus De los Santos, Sean MacAvaney, Katina Russell, Christian Wolf

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

link bibtex slides 16 citations journal article

Hate speech detection: Challenges and solutions

Sean MacAvaney, Hao-Ren Yao, Eugene Yang, Katina Russell, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

PLoS ONE

link bibtex slides 457 citations journal article

CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

SIGIR 2019

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 336 citations short conference paper

Content-Based Weak Supervision for Ad-Hoc Re-Ranking

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Kai Hui, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2019

pdf arxiv bibtex slides poster 56 citations blog post short conference paper

Ontology-Aware Clinical Abstractive Summarization

Sean MacAvaney*, Sajad Sotudeh*, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ish Talati, Ross Filice

* equal contribution

SIGIR 2019

pdf arxiv bibtex slides poster 67 citations short conference paper

Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

Information Retrieval Journal

link arxiv bibtex code slides 9 citations journal article

2018

PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

TREC 2018

pdf bibtex slides 1 citation system description paper non-refereed

SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions

Arman Cohan*, Bart Desmet*, Andrew Yates*, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian

* equal contribution

COLING 2018

Area Chair Favorite Paper pdf arxiv bibtex data slides poster 114 citations long conference paper

Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

SIGIR 2018

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 14 citations short conference paper

RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses

Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, Nazli Goharian

CLPsych @ NAACL 2018

pdf arxiv bibtex data slides poster 33 citations workshop paper

GU IRLAB at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification

Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

SemEval @ NAACL 2018

pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 5 citations system description paper

A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings

Sean MacAvaney, Amir Zeldes

NAACL Student Workshop 2018

pdf arxiv bibtex data slides poster 17 citations workshop paper

2017

Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval

Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Kai Hui

TREC 2017

See revised version, published in SIGIR 2018 link

pdf bibtex slides poster 7 citations system description paper non-refereed

An Approach for Weakly-Supervised Deep Information Retrieval

Sean MacAvaney, Kai Hui, Andrew Yates

Neu-IR @ SIGIR 2017

See revised version, published in SIGIR 2019 link

pdf arxiv bibtex slides poster workshop paper

GUIR at SemEval-2017 Task 12: A Framework for Clinical Temporal Information Extraction Domain Adaptation

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

SemEval @ ACL 2017

pdf bibtex slides poster 31 citations system description paper

2015

Automatic Recognition of Postoperative Shoulder Surgery Physical Therapy Exercises from Depth Camera Images

Sean MacAvaney, Jay Urbain

NCUR 2015

pdf bibtex non-refereed

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