@inproceedings{macavaney:ncur2015-shoulder, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Urbain, Jay}, title = {Automatic Recognition of Postoperative Shoulder Surgery Physical Therapy Exercises from Depth Camera Images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the National Conference of Undergraduate Research}, year = {2015} } @inproceedings{macavaney:semeval2017-clinicaltempeval, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {GUIR at SemEval-2017 Task 12: A Framework for Clinical Temporal Information Extraction Domain Adaptation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation}, year = {2017}, pages = {1024--1029} } @inproceedings{macavaney:neuir2017-nyt, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Hui, Kai and Yates, Andrew}, title = {An Approach for Weakly-Supervised Deep Information Retrieval}, booktitle = {SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval}, year = {2017} } @inproceedings{macavaney:trec2017-car, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Hui, Kai}, title = {Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th Text REtrieval Conference}, year = {2017} } @inproceedings{macavaney:clpsych2018-rsddtime, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Desmet, Bart and Cohan, Arman and Soldaini, Luca and Yates, Andrew and Zirikly, Ayah and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology}, year = {2018}, pages = {168--173} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2018-car, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Cohan, Arman and Soldaini, Luca and Hui, Kai and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2018}, pages = {1205--1208} } @inproceedings{macavaney:naaclsrw2018-depwembed, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Zeldes, Amir}, title = {A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2018 Student Research Workshop}, year = {2018}, pages = {40--45} } @inproceedings{macavaney:semeval2018-scienceie, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Soldaini, Luca and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {GU IRLAB at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation}, year = {2018}, pages = {831--835} } @inproceedings{cohan:coling2018-smhd, author = {Cohan, Arman and Desmet, Bart and Yates, Andrew and Soldaini, Luca and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics}, year = {2018}, pages = {1485--1497} } @article{macavaney:irj2019-car, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Cohan, Arman and Soldaini, Luca and Hui, Kai and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval}, year = {2019}, issue = {3-4}, journal = {Information Retrieval Journal}, pages = {395--418}, volume = {22} } @inproceedings{macavaney:trec2018-car, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Text REtrieval Conference}, year = {2018} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2019-radsum, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Sotudeh, Sajad and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli and Talati, Ish and Filice, Ross}, title = {Ontology-Aware Clinical Abstractive Summarization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2019}, pages = {1013--1016} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2019-nyt, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Hui, Kai and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Content-Based Weak Supervision for Ad-Hoc Re-Ranking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2019}, pages = {993--996} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2019-cedr, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2019}, pages = {1101--1104} } @article{macavaney:plosone2019-hate, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yao, Hao-Ren and Yang, Eugene and Russell, Katina and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Hate speech detection: Challenges and solutions}, year = {2019}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, pages = {1--16}, volume = {14} } @article{delossantos:angewandte2019-antimers, author = {De los Santos, Zeus and MacAvaney, Sean and Russell, Katina and Wolf, Christian}, title = {Tandem Use of Optical Sensing and Machine Learning for the Determination of Absolute Configuration, Enantiomeric and Diastereomeric Ratios, and Concentration of Chiral Samples}, year = {2019}, issue = {6}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition}, pages = {2440--2448}, volume = {59} } @inproceedings{macavaney:wsdm2020-onir, author = {MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining}, year = {2020}, pages = {845--848} } @inproceedings{flagg:hsdm2020-gait, author = {Flagg, Cristopher and Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean and Motamedi, Gholam}, title = {Streaming Gait Assessment for Parkinson's Disease}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the first Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining}, year = {2020} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2020-multiling, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Soldaini, Luca and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2020}, pages = {246--254} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2020-radsigdiff, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli and Filice, Ross}, title = {Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2020}, pages = {238----245} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2020-cl, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Nardini, Franco Maria and Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2020}, pages = {529--538} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2020-eff, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Nardini, Franco Maria and Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2020}, pages = {49--58} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2020-epic, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Nardini, Franco Maria and Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2020}, pages = {1573--1576} } @article{macavaney:arxiv2020-sledge, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {SLEDGE: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for COVID-19 Scientific Knowledge Search}, year = {2020}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2005.02365} } @inproceedings{sotudeh:semeval2020-offenseval, author = {Sotudeh, Sajad and Xiang, Tong and Yao, Hao-Ren and MacAvaney, Sean and Yang, Eugene and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation}, year = {2020} } @article{garman:medrxiv2020-sidir, author = {Garman, Joe and MacAvaney, Sean and Yang, Eugene and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {SIDIR: Extending SIR with Detected and Isolated Populations for Pandemic Modeling}, year = {2020}, journal = {medRxiv}, volume = {10.1101/2020.07.20.20157834v1} } @article{li:arxiv2020-parade, author = {Li, Canjia and Yates, Andrew and MacAvaney, Sean and He, Ben and Sun, Yingfei}, title = {PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking}, year = {2020}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2008.09093} } @inproceedings{macavaney:emnlp2020-sledge, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, year = {2020} } @article{macavaney:arxiv2020-abnirml, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Feldman, Sergey and Goharian, Nazli and Downey, Doug and Cohan, Arman}, title = {ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models}, year = {2020}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2011.00696} } @inproceedings{flagg:wsdm2021-gait, author = {Flagg, Cristopher and Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean and Motamedi, Gholam}, title = {Real-time Streaming of Gait Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sdu2021-extr, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Dernoncourt, Franck and Chang, Walter and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification}, booktitle = {The AAAI-21 Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2021-tutnir, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Tonellotto, Nicola}, title = {IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments: An ECIR 2021 tutorial with PyTerrier and OpenNIR}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{xiang:wassa2021-toxic, author = {Xiang, Tong and MacAvaney, Sean and Yang, Eugene and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability}, booktitle = {11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{jose:sigir2021-diffir, author = {Jose, Kevin Martin and Nguyen, Thống and MacAvaney, Sean and Dalton, Jeff and Yates, Andrew}, title = {DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2021-irds, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Feldman, Sergey and Downey, Doug and Cohan, Arman and Goharian, Nazli}, title = {Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2021} } @article{macavaney:gu2021-diss, author = {MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Effective and Practical Neural Ranking}, year = {2021}, journal = {Georgetown University, PhD dissertation} } @inproceedings{macavaney:clpsych2021-sharedtask, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Mittu, Anjali and Coppersmith, Glen and Leintz, Jeff and Resnik, Philip}, title = {Community-level Research on Suicidality Prediction in a Secure Environment: Overview of the CLPsych 2021 Shared Task}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology}, year = {2021} } @article{macavaney:arxiv2021-intent5, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Murray-Smith, Roderick and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {IntenT5: Search Result Diversification using Causal Language Models}, year = {2021}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2108.04026} } @inproceedings{macdonald:cikm2021-pyterrier, author = {Macdonald, Craig and Tonellotto, Nicola and MacAvaney, Sean and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval}, booktitle = {30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{puthiya:acml2021-bandit, author = {Puthiya, Sham and Anagnostopoulos, Christos and Murray-Smith, Roderick and Zervas, Evangelos and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy For Sequential Query Recommendations}, booktitle = {Asian Conference on Machine Learning}, year = {2021} } @inproceedings{wang:trec2021-dl, author = {Wang, Xiao and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th Text REtrieval Conference}, year = {2021} } @article{macavaney:taclc2022-abnirml, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Feldman, Sergey and Goharian, Nazli and Downey, Doug and Cohan, Arman}, title = {ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models}, year = {2022}, journal = {TACL} } @inproceedings{yang:ecir2022-tar, author = {Yang, Eugene and MacAvaney, Sean and Lewis, David and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2022-irm, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2022-aolia, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{wang:sigir2022-tctrepro, author = {Wang, Xiao and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2022-pisa, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {A Python Interface to PISA!}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{gupta:sigir2022-survivor, author = {Gupta, Prashansa and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{datta:sigir2022-qpp, author = {Datta, Suchana and MacAvaney, Sean and Ganguly, Debasis and Greene, Derek}, title = {A ‘Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document’ based QPP Approach}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{mackie:sigir2022-codec, author = {Mackie, Iain and Owoicho, Paul and Gemmell, Carlos and Fischer, Sophie and MacAvaney, Sean and Dalton, Jeff}, title = {CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{dato:sigir2022-istella, author = {Dato, Domenico and MacAvaney, Sean and Nardini, Franco Maria and Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola}, title = {The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{kulkarni:lrec2022-tbd, author = {Kulkarni, Hrishikesh and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {TBD3: A Thresholding-Based Dynamic Depression Detection from Social Media for Low-Resource Users}, booktitle = {The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:cikm2022-adaptive, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Tonellotto, Nicola and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph}, booktitle = {31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:pasir2022-gagent, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Tonellotto, Nicola and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent}, booktitle = {First Workshop on Proactive and Agent-Supported Information Retrieval}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{gospodinov:ecir2023-doc2querymm, author = {Gospodinov, Mitko and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {Doc2Query--: When Less is More}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{nguyen:ecir2023-lsr, author = {Nguyen, Thống and MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew}, title = {A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{kulkarni:w3phiai-stbound, author = {Kulkarni, Hrishikesh and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection}, booktitle = {The 7th International Workshop on Health Intelligence}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{fröbe:sigir2023-tirex, author = {Fröbe, Maik and Reimer, Jan Heinrich and MacAvaney, Sean and Deckers, Niklas and Reich, Simon and Bevendorff, Janek and Stein, Benno and Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin}, title = {The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{kulkarni:sigir2023-ladr, author = {Kulkarni, Hrishikesh and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2023-autoqrels, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Soldaini, Luca}, title = {One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{nguyen:sigir2023-llsr, author = {Nguyen, Thống and MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew}, title = {Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{chari:sigir2023-spelling, author = {Chari, Andreas and MacAvaney, Sean and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{wang:acl2023-wdqe, author = {Wang, Xiao and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{wang:genir2023-t5qe, author = {Wang, Xiao and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search}, booktitle = {The First Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval}, year = {2023} } @article{macavaney:arxiv2023-odis, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Wang, Xi}, title = {Online Distillation for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback}, year = {2023}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2306.09657} } @inproceedings{kulkarni:doceng2023-gen2ir, author = {Kulkarni, Hrishikesh and Young, Zachary and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Genetic Generative Information Retrieval}, booktitle = {The 23rd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{lawrie:trec2022-neuclir, author = {Lawrie, Dawn and MacAvaney, Sean and Mayfield, James and McNamee, Paul and Oard, Douglas and Soldaini, Luca and Yang, Eugene}, title = {Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Text REtrieval Conference}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{wang:trec2022-dl, author = {Wang, Xiao and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Experiments with Adaptive ReRanking and ColBERT-PRF: University of Glasgow Terrier Team at TREC DL 2022}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Text REtrieval Conference}, year = {2022} } @article{mackie:arxiv2023-lee, author = {Mackie, Iain and Chatterjee, Shubham and MacAvaney, Sean and Dalton, Jeff}, title = {Re-Rank - Expand - Repeat: Adaptive Query Expansion for Document Retrieval Using Words and Entities}, year = {2023}, journal = {arXiv}, volume = {abs/2306.17082} } @article{li:tois2023-parade, author = {Li, Canjia and Yates, Andrew and MacAvaney, Sean and He, Ben and Sun, Yingfei}, title = {PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking}, year = {2023}, journal = {TOIS} }