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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).

2025

Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR
Andreas Chari, Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney
SIGIR 2025
bibtex short conference paper to appear
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang
SIGIR 2025
pdf arxiv bibtex reproducibility paper to appear
An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-doc
Aldo Porco*, Dhruv Mehra*, Igor Malioutov*, Karthik Radhakrishnan*, Moniba Keymanesh*, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sean MacAvaney, Pengxiang Cheng
* equal contribution
SIGIR 2025
bibtex short conference paper to appear
Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling
Francesca Pezzuti, Ariane Mueller, Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto
WOWS@ECIR 2025
pdf arxiv bibtex
Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval
Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia, Nicola Tonellotto
ECIR 2025
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention pdf arxiv bibtex 1 citation short conference paper
mFollowIR: a Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval
Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Eugene Yang, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Sam Barham, Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn Lawrie
ECIR 2025
Best Full (Student) Paper Honorable Mention pdf arxiv bibtex long conference paper

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
link bibtex 1 citation demonstration 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 3 citations resource conference 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 13 citations perspective paper
Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning
Xuejun Chang, Debabrata Mishra, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
SIGIR 2024
pdf arxiv bibtex slides 3 citations long conference paper

2023

2022

On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO
Prashansa Gupta, Sean MacAvaney
SIGIR 2022
pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 14 citations short conference paper

2021

Effective and Practical Neural Ranking
Sean MacAvaney
Georgetown University, PhD dissertation
pdf bibtex phd thesis

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
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

2019

2018

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

2015