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Information Retrieval

Publications related to the retrieval and ranking of text.
SLEDGE-Zero: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
EMNLP 2020
bibtex short conference paper
PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking
Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney, Ben He, Yingfei Sun
arXiv
pdf arxiv bibtex code non-refereed
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 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 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 slides 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 slides 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 video short conference paper
Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ross Filice
ECIR 2020
link arxiv bibtex slides video short conference paper
OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline
Sean MacAvaney
WSDM 2020
pdf bibtex code poster demonstration paper
CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
SIGIR 2019
pdf arxiv bibtex code slides poster 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 blog post short conference paper
PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
TREC 2018
pdf bibtex slides system description paper non-refereed
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 slides journal article
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 short conference paper
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 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