Dr Sean MacAvaney

Lecturer in Machine Learning (School of Computing Science)

email: Sean.MacAvaney@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room S172, Lilybank Gardens, (enter through Sir Alwyn Williams Bldg), Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659

Biography

See my personal website for details: macavaney.us

Publications

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Number of items: 67.

2025

Weller, Orion, Chang, Benjamin, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Lo, Kyle, Cohan, Arman, Van Durme, Benjamin, Lawrie, Dawn and Soldaini, Luca (2025) FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions. In: 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), Albuquerque, New Mexico, 29 April –4 May 2025, pp. 11926-11942. ISBN 9798891761896

Mackenzie, Joel, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mallia, Antonio and Siedlaczek, Michał (2025) Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes: Theory and Practice. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yates, Andrew, Lassance, Carlos, Rulli, Cosimo, Yang, Eugene, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Singh, Siddharth, Nguyen, Thong and Lei, Yibin (2025) Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Weller, Orion, Chang, Benjamin, Yang, Eugene, Yarmohammadi, Mahsa, Barham, Sam, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Cohan, Arman, Soldaini, Luca, Van Durme, Benjamin and Lawrie, Dawn (2025) mFollowIR: a Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, ISBN 9783031887109 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88711-6_19)

Chari, Andreas, Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2025) Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Fröbe, Maik, Parry, Andrew, Schlatt, Ferdinand, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Stein, Benno, Potthast, Martin and Hagen, Matthias (2025) Large Language Model Relevance Assessors Agree With One Another More Than With Human Assessors. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2025) Artifact Sharing for Information Retrieval Research. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Parry, Andrew, Fröbe, Maik, Scells, Harrisen, Schlatt, Ferdinand, Faggioli, Guglielmo, Zerhoudi, Saber, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Yang, Eugene (2025) Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Porco, Aldo, Mehra, Dhruv, Malioutov, Igor, Radhakrishnan, Karthik, Keymanesh, Moniba, Preotiuc-Pietro, Daniel, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Cheng, Pengxiang (2025) An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-doc. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Rathee, Mandeep, Venktesh, V., MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Anand, Avishek (2025) Breaking the Lens of the Telescope: Online Relevance Estimation over Large Retrieval Sets. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2025) On Precomputation and Caching in Information Retrieval Experiments with Pipeline Architectures. In: 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS), Lucca, Italy, 6-10 April 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, Mueller, Ariane, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2025) Document Quality Scoring for Web Crawling. In: 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS), Lucca, Italy, 6-10 April 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Rathee, Mandeep, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Anand, Avishek (2025) QUAM: Adaptive Retrieval through Query Affinity Modelling. In: 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2025), Hannover, Germany, 10-14 Mar 2025, pp. 954-962. ISBN 9798400713293 (doi: 10.1145/3701551.3703584)

Fröbe, Maik, Parry, Andrew, Schlatt, Ferdinand, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Stein, Benno, Potthast, Martin and Hagen, Matthias (2025) Large Language Model Relevance Assessors Agree With One Another More Than With Human Assessors. LLM4EVAL workshop at the 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2025, Hannover, Germany, 14 March 2025. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Chari, Andreas, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mallia, Antonio and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Parry, Andrew, Chen, Catherine, Eickhoff, Carsten and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2024) MechIR: A Mechanistic Interpretability Framework for Information Retrieval. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Pezzuti, Francesca, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-tuning for Cross-encoder Re-rankers. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Rathee, Mandeep, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Anand, Avishek (2024) Guiding Retrieval using LLM-based Listwise Rankers. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yang, Eugene, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, Lawrie, Dawn, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mayfield, James, Oard, Douglas and Miller, Scott (2024) MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Nguyen, Thong, Chatterjee, Shubham, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Mackie, Iain, Dalton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-8651 and Yates, Andrew (2024) DyVo: Dynamic Vocabularies for Learned Sparse Retrieval with Entities. In: 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, Florida, USA, 12–16 November 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, Goharian, Nazli, Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2024) LexBoost: Improving Lexical Document Retrieval with Nearest Neighbors. In: 24th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'24), San Jose, CA, USA, 20-23 August 2024, p. 16. ISBN 9798400711695 (doi: 10.1145/3685650.3685658)

Fröbe, Maik, Scells, Harrisen, Elstner, Theresa, Akiki, Christopher, Gienapp, Lukas, Reimer, Jan Heinrich, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Stein, Benno, Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin (2024) Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 1115-1125. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657886)

Mayfield, J. et al. (2024) On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 1904-1915. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657846)

Chang, Xuejun, Mishra, Debra, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2024) Neural Passage Quality Estimation for Static Pruning. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 174-185. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657765)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2024) A Reproducibility Study of PLAID. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 July 2024, pp. 1411-1419. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657856)

Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 (2024) Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking. ReNeuIR'24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, Goharian, Nazli, Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2024) Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR. In: Gen-IR@SIGIR24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024,

Weller, Orion, Chang, Benjamin, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Lo, Kyle, Cohan, Arman, Van Durme, Benjamin, Lawrie, Dawn and Soldaini, Luca (2024) FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions. LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2024, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Parry, Andrew, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 (2024) Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Mackie, Iain, Chatterjee, Shubham, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Dalton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-8651 (2024) Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval. Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR@ECIR 2024), Glasgow, UK, 28 March 2024.

2023

Pandian, Saran, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2023) Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Datta, Suchana, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Greene, Derek (2023) A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Frayling, Erlend, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) Effective Adhoc Retrieval through Traversal of a Query-Document Graph. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Parry, Andrew, Fröbe, Mark, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Potthast, Martin and Hagen, Matthias (2023) Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Petrov, Aleksandr V., MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir (2023) Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection. In: 7th International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI-23), Washington, DC, USA, 13-14 February 2023, pp. 175-191. ISBN 9783031369384 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36938-4_14)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, Young, Zachary, Goharian, Nazli, Frieder, Ophir and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2023) Genetic Generative Information Retrieval. In: 23rd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'23), Limerick, Ireland, 22-25 Aug 2023, ISBN 9798400700279 (doi: 10.1145/3573128.3609340)

Chari, Andreas, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) On the Effects of Regional Spelling Conventions in Retrieval Models. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2220-2224. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592030)

Fröbe, Maik, Reimer, Jan Heinrich, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Deckers, Niklas, Reich, Simon, Bevendorff, Janek, Stein, Benno, Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin (2023) The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2826-2836. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591888)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir (2023) Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 152-162. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591715)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Soldaini, Luca (2023) One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 2230-2235. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3592032)

Nguyen, Thong, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Yates, Andrew (2023) Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR23), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023, pp. 1781-1785. ISBN 9781450394086 (doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591943)

Wang, Xiao, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) Effective Contrastive Weighting for Dense Query Expansion. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, pp. 12688-12704. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.710)

Wang, Xiao, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search. In: Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2023 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 July 2023, (Accepted for Publication)

Li, Canjia, Yates, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-4483, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, He, Ben and Sun, Yingfei (2023) PARADE: passage representation aggregation for document reranking. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, (doi: 10.1145/3600088) (Early Online Publication)

Gospodinov, Mitko, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) Doc2Query--: When Less is More. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), Dublin, Ireland, 02-06 Apr 2023, pp. 414-422. ISBN 9783031282379 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_31)

Nguyen, Thong, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Yates, Andrew (2023) A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2023), Dublin, Ireland, 2-6 April 2023, pp. 101-116. ISBN 9783031282409 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_7)

2022

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2022) Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph. In: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 October 2022, pp. 1491-1500. ISBN 9781450392365 (doi: 10.1145/3511808.3557231)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Tonellotto, Nicola and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2022) Adaptive Re-Ranking as an Information-Seeking Agent. In: First Workshop on Proactive and Agent-Supported Information Retrieval (PASIR 2022), 17-21 October 2022, Atlanta, GA, USA,

Dato, Domenico, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Nardini, Franco Maria, Perego, Raffaele and Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001 (2022) The Istella22 Dataset: Bridging Traditional and Neural Learning to Rank Evaluation. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 3099-3107. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531740)

Datta, Suchana, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138 and Greene, Derek (2022) A 'Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document' based Query Performance Prediction Approach. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2148-2153. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531821)

Gupta, Prashansa and MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 (2022) On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2214-2219. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531832)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2022) A Python Interface to PISA! In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 3339-3344. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531656)

Mackie, Iain, Owoicho, Paul, Gemmell, Carlos, Fischer, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3324-3426, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Dalton, Jeffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-8651 (2022) CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 3067-3077. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531712)

Wang, Xiao, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2022) An Inspection of the Reproducibility and Replicability of TCT-ColBERT. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2790-2800. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531721)

Kulkarni, Hrishikesh, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Goharian, Nazli and Frieder, Ophir (2022) TBD3: A Thresholding-Based Dynamic Depression Detection from Social Media for Low-Resource Users. In: 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, France, 20-25 June 2022, pp. 2157-2165. ISBN 9791095546726

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2022) Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 627-640. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_42)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2022) Streamlining Evaluation with ir-measures. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 305-310. ISBN 9783030997359 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_38)

MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Feldman, Sergey, Goharian, Nazli, Downey, Doug and Cohan, Arman (2022) ABNIRML: Analyzing the behavior of neural IR models. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 10, pp. 224-239. (doi: 10.1162/tacl_a_00457)

2021

Yang, Eugene, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659, Lewis, David and Frieder, Ophir (2021) Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for Technology-Assisted Review. In: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 Apr 2022, pp. 502-517. ISBN 9783030997366 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_34)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Tonellotto, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-1001, MacAvaney, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-2659 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2021) PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval. In: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event Queensland, Australia, 01-05 Nov 2021, pp. 4526-4533. ISBN 9781450384469 (doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482013)

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