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
Biography
See my personal website for details: macavaney.us
Publications
2024
Rathee, M., MacAvaney, S. and Anand, A. (2024) 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, (Accepted for Publication)
Nguyen, T., Chatterjee, S., MacAvaney, S. , Mackie, I., Dalton, J. and Yates, A. (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)
Fröbe, M., Scells, H., Elstner, T., Akiki, C., Gienapp, L., Reimer, J. H., MacAvaney, S. , Stein, B., Hagen, M. and Potthast, M. (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, X., Mishra, D., Macdonald, C. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S. and Tonellotto, N. (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, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ganguly, D. (2024) Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking. In: ReNeuIR'24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Kulkarni, H., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (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, (Accepted for Publication)
Kulkarni, H., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (2024) Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR. In: Gen-IR@SIGIR24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Weller, O., Chang, B., MacAvaney, S. , Lo, K., Cohan, A., Van Durme, B., Lawrie, D. and Soldaini, L. (2024) FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions. In: LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2024, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Parry, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ganguly, D. (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, I., Chatterjee, S., MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J. (2024) Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval. Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR@ECIR 2024), Glasgow, UK, 28 March 2024.
2023
Pandian, S., Ganguly, D. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S., Ganguly, D. , MacAvaney, S. and Greene, D. (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, E., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, A., Fröbe, M., MacAvaney, S. , Potthast, M. and Hagen, M. (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, A. V., MacAvaney, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, H., Young, Z., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (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, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (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, M., Reimer, J. H., MacAvaney, S. , Deckers, N., Reich, S., Bevendorff, J., Stein, B., Hagen, M. and Potthast, M. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, S. and Soldaini, L. (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, T., MacAvaney, S. and Yates, A. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search. In: Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2023 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 July 2023, (Accepted for Publication)
Li, C., Yates, A. , MacAvaney, S. , He, B. and Sun, Y. (2023) PARADE: passage representation aggregation for document reranking. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, (doi: 10.1145/3600088) (Early Online Publication)
Gospodinov, M., MacAvaney, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, T., MacAvaney, S. and Yates, A. (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, S. , Tonellotto, N. and Macdonald, C. (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, S. , Tonellotto, N. and Macdonald, C. (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, D., MacAvaney, S. , Nardini, F. M., Perego, R. and Tonellotto, N. (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, S., MacAvaney, S. , Ganguly, D. and Greene, D. (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, P. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, I., Owoicho, P., Gemmell, C., Fischer, S. , MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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)
Yang, E., MacAvaney, S. , Lewis, D. and Frieder, O. (2022) 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)
MacAvaney, S. , Feldman, S., Goharian, N., Downey, D. and Cohan, A. (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
Macdonald, C. , Tonellotto, N. , MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (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)
Jose, K. M., Nguyen, T., MacAvaney, S. , Dalton, J. and Yates, A. (2021) DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2595-2599. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462784)
MacAvaney, S. , Mittu, A., Coppersmith, G., Leintz, J. and Resnik, P. (2021) Community-level Research on Suicidality Prediction in a Secure Environment: Overview of the CLPsych 2021 Shared Task. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access (CLPsych 2021), 11 June 2021, pp. 70-80. ISBN 9781954085411
MacAvaney, S. , Yates, A., Feldman, S., Downey, D., Cohan, A. and Goharian, N. (2021) Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2429-2436. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463254)
Puthiya Parambath, S. , Anagnostopoulos, C. , Murray-Smith, R. , MacAvaney, S. and Zervas, E. (2021) Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy for Sequential Query Recommendations. In: 13th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2021), 17-19 Nov 2021, pp. 564-579.
Xiang, T., MacAvaney, S. , Yang, E. and Goharian, N. (2021) ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability. In: 11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2021), 19-23 Apr 2021,
Articles
Li, C., Yates, A. , MacAvaney, S. , He, B. and Sun, Y. (2023) PARADE: passage representation aggregation for document reranking. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, (doi: 10.1145/3600088) (Early Online Publication)
MacAvaney, S. , Feldman, S., Goharian, N., Downey, D. and Cohan, A. (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)
Conference or Workshop Item
Mackie, I., Chatterjee, S., MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J. (2024) Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval. Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR@ECIR 2024), Glasgow, UK, 28 March 2024.
Conference Proceedings
Rathee, M., MacAvaney, S. and Anand, A. (2024) 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, (Accepted for Publication)
Nguyen, T., Chatterjee, S., MacAvaney, S. , Mackie, I., Dalton, J. and Yates, A. (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)
Fröbe, M., Scells, H., Elstner, T., Akiki, C., Gienapp, L., Reimer, J. H., MacAvaney, S. , Stein, B., Hagen, M. and Potthast, M. (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, X., Mishra, D., Macdonald, C. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S. and Tonellotto, N. (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, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ganguly, D. (2024) Top-Down Partitioning for Efficient List-Wise Ranking. In: ReNeuIR'24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Kulkarni, H., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (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, (Accepted for Publication)
Kulkarni, H., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (2024) Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR. In: Gen-IR@SIGIR24, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Weller, O., Chang, B., MacAvaney, S. , Lo, K., Cohan, A., Van Durme, B., Lawrie, D. and Soldaini, L. (2024) FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions. In: LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2024, Washington, DC, USA, 18 July 2024, (Accepted for Publication)
Parry, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ganguly, D. (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)
Pandian, S., Ganguly, D. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S., Ganguly, D. , MacAvaney, S. and Greene, D. (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, E., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, A., Fröbe, M., MacAvaney, S. , Potthast, M. and Hagen, M. (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, A. V., MacAvaney, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, H., Young, Z., Goharian, N., Frieder, O. and MacAvaney, S. (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, A., MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (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, M., Reimer, J. H., MacAvaney, S. , Deckers, N., Reich, S., Bevendorff, J., Stein, B., Hagen, M. and Potthast, M. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, S. and Soldaini, L. (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, T., MacAvaney, S. and Yates, A. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2023) Generative Query Reformulation for Effective Adhoc Search. In: Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2023 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 July 2023, (Accepted for Publication)
Gospodinov, M., MacAvaney, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, T., MacAvaney, S. and Yates, A. (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)
MacAvaney, S. , Tonellotto, N. and Macdonald, C. (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, S. , Tonellotto, N. and Macdonald, C. (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, D., MacAvaney, S. , Nardini, F. M., Perego, R. and Tonellotto, N. (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, S., MacAvaney, S. , Ganguly, D. and Greene, D. (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, P. and MacAvaney, S. (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, S. and Macdonald, C. (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, I., Owoicho, P., Gemmell, C., Fischer, S. , MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J. (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, X., MacAvaney, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (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, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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, S. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (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)
Yang, E., MacAvaney, S. , Lewis, D. and Frieder, O. (2022) 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, C. , Tonellotto, N. , MacAvaney, S. and Ounis, I. (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)
Jose, K. M., Nguyen, T., MacAvaney, S. , Dalton, J. and Yates, A. (2021) DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2595-2599. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462784)
MacAvaney, S. , Mittu, A., Coppersmith, G., Leintz, J. and Resnik, P. (2021) Community-level Research on Suicidality Prediction in a Secure Environment: Overview of the CLPsych 2021 Shared Task. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access (CLPsych 2021), 11 June 2021, pp. 70-80. ISBN 9781954085411
MacAvaney, S. , Yates, A., Feldman, S., Downey, D., Cohan, A. and Goharian, N. (2021) Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets. In: SIGIR 2021: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 11-15 July 2021, pp. 2429-2436. (doi: 10.1145/3404835.3463254)
Puthiya Parambath, S. , Anagnostopoulos, C. , Murray-Smith, R. , MacAvaney, S. and Zervas, E. (2021) Max-Utility Based Arm Selection Strategy for Sequential Query Recommendations. In: 13th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2021), 17-19 Nov 2021, pp. 564-579.
Xiang, T., MacAvaney, S. , Yang, E. and Goharian, N. (2021) ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability. In: 11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2021), 19-23 Apr 2021,
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