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Publications by
Sean MacAvaney
(lecturer (assistant professor) at the
University of Glasgow
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2025
QUAM: Adaptive Retrieval through Query Affinity Modelling
Mandeep Rathee
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Avishek Anand
WSDM 2025
bibtex
long conference paper
to appear
2024
SimIIR 3: A Framework for Simulating Interactive Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi
,
Timo Breuer
,
Bjoern Engelmann
,
Christin Kreutz
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
David Maxwell
,
Andrew Parry
,
Adam Roegiest
,
Xi Wang
,
Saber Zerhoudi
SIGIR-AP 2024
bibtex
demonstration paper
to appear
DyVo: Dynamic Vocabularies for Learned Sparse Retrieval with Entities
Thống Nguyen
,
Shubham Chatterjee
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Iain Mackie
,
Jeff Dalton
,
Andrew Yates
EMNLP 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
long conference paper
to appear
Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search
Andrew Parry
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Debasis Ganguly
Findings of ACL 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
long conference paper
LexBoost: Improving Lexical Document Retrieval with Nearest Neighbors
Hrishikesh Kulkarni
,
Nazli Goharian
,
Ophir Frieder
,
Sean MacAvaney
DocEng 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
long conference paper
Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking
Andrew Parry
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Debasis Ganguly
ReNeuIR@SIGIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
3 citations
workshop paper
Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni
,
Nazli Goharian
,
Ophir Frieder
,
Sean MacAvaney
GENIR@SIGIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
workshop paper
FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions
Orion Weller
,
Benjamin Chang
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Kyle Lo
,
Arman Cohan
,
Benjamin Van Durme
,
Dawn Lawrie
,
Luca Soldaini
LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
14 citations
workshop paper
Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework
Maik Fröbe
,
Harrisen Scells
,
Theresa Elstner
,
Christopher Akiki
,
Lukas Gienapp
,
Jan Heinrich Reimer
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Benno Stein
,
Matthias Hagen
,
Martin Potthast
SIGIR 2024
Nominated for Best Paper
link
bibtex
2 citations
resource conference paper
A Reproducibility Study of PLAID
Sean MacAvaney
,
Nicola Tonellotto
SIGIR 2024
Best Paper Runner Up
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
slides
3 citations
reproducibility paper
On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports
James Mayfield
,
Eugene Yang
,
Dawn Lawrie
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Paul McNamee
,
Douglas Oard
,
Luca Soldaini
,
Ian Soboroff
,
Orion Weller
,
Efsun Kayi
,
Kate Sanders
,
Marc Mason
,
Noah Hibbler
SIGIR 2024
Nominated for Best Paper
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
3 citations
perspective paper
Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning
Xuejun Chang
,
Debabrata Mishra
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Sean MacAvaney
SIGIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
slides
long conference paper
Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval
Iain Mackie
,
Shubham Chatterjee
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Jeff Dalton
KEIR@ECIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
1 citation
workshop paper
Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers
Saran Pandian
,
Debasis Ganguly
,
Sean MacAvaney
ECIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
6 citations
Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval
Aleksandr A. Petrov
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Sean MacAvaney
ECIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
1 citation
long conference paper
Effective Adhoc Retrieval through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph
Erlend Frayling
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Iadh Ounis
ECIR 2024
link
bibtex
1 citation
long conference paper
Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models
Andrew Parry
,
Maik Fröbe
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Martin Potthast
,
Matthias Hagen
ECIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
9 citations
long conference paper
A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback
Suchana Datta
,
Debasis Ganguly
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Derek Greene
ECIR 2024
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
long conference paper
2023
PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking
Canjia Li
,
Andrew Yates
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Ben He
,
Yingfei Sun
TOIS
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
169 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
2 citations
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
15 citations
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
34 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
1 citation
short conference paper
Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents
Thống Nguyen
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Andrew Yates
SIGIR 2023
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
8 citations
short conference paper
One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation
Sean MacAvaney
*,
Luca Soldaini
*
* equal contribution
SIGIR 2023
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
slides
poster
43 citations
short conference paper
Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval
Hrishikesh Kulkarni
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Nazli Goharian
,
Ophir Frieder
SIGIR 2023
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
17 citations
long conference paper
Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion
Xiao Wang
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Iadh Ounis
ACL 2023
pdf
bibtex
poster
4 citations
long conference paper
Doc2Query--: When Less is More
Mitko Gospodinov
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
ECIR 2023
Best Short Paper
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
poster
35 citations
demo
short conference paper
A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval
Thống Nguyen
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Andrew Yates
ECIR 2023
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
26 citations
reproducibility paper
Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection
Hrishikesh Kulkarni
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Nazli Goharian
,
Ophir Frieder
W3PHIAI@AAAI 2023
link
bibtex
5 citations
workshop paper
2022
Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent
Sean MacAvaney
,
Nicola Tonellotto
,
Craig Macdonald
PASIR@CIKM 2022
pdf
bibtex
2 citations
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
24 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
34 citations
long conference paper
On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO
Prashansa Gupta
,
Sean MacAvaney
SIGIR 2022
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
slides
poster
13 citations
short conference paper
A Python Interface to PISA!
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
SIGIR 2022
link
bibtex
code
poster
7 citations
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
17 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
22 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
14 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
11 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
2 citations
long conference paper
Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Iadh Ounis
ECIR 2022
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
19 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
54 citations
journal article
Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures
Sean MacAvaney
,
Craig Macdonald
,
Iadh Ounis
ECIR 2022
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
code
34 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
37 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
16 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
6 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
94 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
44 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
110 citations
resource conference paper
DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior
Kevin Martin Jose
,
Thống Nguyen
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Jeff Dalton
,
Andrew Yates
SIGIR 2021
pdf
bibtex
code
10 citations
demonstration paper
ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability
Tong Xiang
,
Sean MacAvaney
,
Eugene Yang
,
Nazli Goharian
WASSA @ EACL 2021
pdf
arxiv
bibtex
20 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
6 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
14 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
39 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
1 citation
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
14 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
102 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
125 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
25 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
34 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
7 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
6 citations
workshop paper
OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline
Sean MacAvaney
WSDM 2020
pdf
bibtex
code
poster
50 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
23 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
678 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
415 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
60 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
85 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
10 citations
journal article
2018
PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018
Sean MacAvaney
,
Andrew Yates
,
Nazli Goharian
,
Ophir Frieder
TREC 2018
pdf
bibtex
slides
2 citations
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
185 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
15 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
51 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
6 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
20 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
8 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
33 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