@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 = {NCUR}, 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 = {SemEval @ ACL}, 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 = {Neu-IR @ SIGIR}, year = {2017} } @inproceedings{macavaney:trec2017-car, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew and Hui, Kai}, title = {Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval}, booktitle = {TREC}, 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 = {CLPsych @ NAACL}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {NAACL Student 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 = {SemEval @ NAACL}, 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 = {COLING}, 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 = {TREC}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {WSDM}, 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 = {HSDM @ WSDM}, 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 = {ECIR}, 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 = {ECIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SemEval @ COLING}, 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 = {EMNLP}, 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 = {WSDM}, 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 = {SDU @ AAAI}, 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 = {ECIR}, 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 = {WASSA @ EACL}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {CLPsych}, 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 = {CIKM}, 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 = {ACML}, 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 = {TREC}, 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 = {ECIR}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:ecir2022-irm, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures}, booktitle = {ECIR}, 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 = {ECIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2022-pisa, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {A Python Interface to PISA!}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{gupta:sigir2022-survivor, author = {Gupta, Prashansa and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {LREC}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{macavaney:cikm2022-adaptive, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Tonellotto, Nicola and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph}, booktitle = {CIKM}, 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 = {PASIR@CIKM}, year = {2022} } @inproceedings{gospodinov:ecir2023-doc2querymm, author = {Gospodinov, Mitko and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig}, title = {Doc2Query--: When Less is More}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{nguyen:ecir2023-lsr, author = {Nguyen, Thống and MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew}, title = {A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval}, booktitle = {ECIR}, 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 = {W3PHIAI@AAAI}, 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 = {SIGIR}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{kulkarni:sigir2023-ladr, author = {Kulkarni, Hrishikesh and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir}, title = {Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2023-autoqrels, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Soldaini, Luca}, title = {One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2023} } @inproceedings{nguyen:sigir2023-llsr, author = {Nguyen, Thống and MacAvaney, Sean and Yates, Andrew}, title = {Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, 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 = {SIGIR}, 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 = {ACL}, 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 = {GenIR @ SIGIR}, 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 = {DocEng}, 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 = {TREC}, 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 = {TREC}, 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} } @inproceedings{datta:ecir2024-adprf, author = {Datta, Suchana and Ganguly, Debasis and MacAvaney, Sean and Greene, Derek}, title = {A Deep Learning approach for Selective Relevance Feedback}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{parry:ecir2024-llmadv, author = {Parry, Andrew and Fröbe, Maik and MacAvaney, Sean and Potthast, Martin and Hagen, Matthias}, title = {Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{frayling:ecir2024-reverted, author = {Frayling, Erlend and MacAvaney, Sean and Macdonald, Craig and Ounis, Iadh}, title = {Effective Adhoc Retrieval through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{petrov:ecir2024-gbce, author = {Petrov, Aleksandr A. and Macdonald, Craig and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{pandian:ecir2024-xair, author = {Pandian, Saran and Ganguly, Debasis and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Ranking Models}, booktitle = {ECIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{chang:sigir2024-pprune, author = {Chang, Xuejun and Mishra, Debabrata and Macdonald, Craig and MacAvaney, Sean}, title = {Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{mayfield:sigir2024-argue, author = {Mayfield, James and Yang, Eugene and Lawrie, Dawn and MacAvaney, Sean and McNamee, Paul and Oard, Douglas and Soldaini, Luca and Soboroff, Ian and Weller, Orion and Kayi, Efsun and Sanders, Kate and Mason, Marc and Hibbler, Noah}, title = {On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{macavaney:sigir2024-plaidrepro, author = {MacAvaney, Sean and Tonellotto, Nicola}, title = {A Reproducibility Study of PLAID}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2024} } @inproceedings{fröbe:sigir2024-ttrex, author = {Fröbe, Maik and Scells, Harrisen and Elstner, Theresa and Akiki, Christopher and Gienapp, Lukas and Reimer, Jan Heinrich and MacAvaney, Sean and Stein, Benno and Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin}, title = {Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework}, booktitle = {SIGIR}, year = {2024} }