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Information Retrieval

Publications related to the retrieval and ranking of text.
PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval
Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis
CIKM 2021
bibtex resource conference paper to appear
IntenT5: Search Result Diversification using Causal Language Models
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Roderick Murray-Smith, Iadh Ounis
arXiv
pdf arxiv bibtex non-refereed
Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review
Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, David Lewis, Ophir Frieder
arXiv
pdf arxiv bibtex non-refereed
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 resource conference paper
DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior
Kevin Martin Jose, Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates
SIGIR 2021
bibtex demonstration 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
ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models
Sean MacAvaney, Sergey Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
arXiv
pdf arxiv bibtex 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 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