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CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection
Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell +3
CODEC is a document and entity ranking benchmark that focuses on complex research topics. We target essay-style information needs of social science researchers, i.e. "How has the U…
On Survivorship Bias in MS MARCO
Prashansa Gupta, Sean MacAvaney
Survivorship bias is the tendency to concentrate on the positive outcomes of a selection process and overlook the results that generate negative outcomes. We observe that this bias…
Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
Despite its troubled past, the AOL Query Log continues to be an important resource to the research community -- particularly for tasks like search personalisation. When using the q…
IntenT5: Search Result Diversification using Causal Language Models
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Roderick Murray-Smith +1
Search result diversification is a beneficial approach to overcome under-specified queries, such as those that are ambiguous or multi-faceted. Existing approaches often rely on mas…
Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman +3
Managing the data for Information Retrieval (IR) experiments can be challenging. Dataset documentation is scattered across the Internet and once one obtains a copy of the data, the…
Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego +3
Deep pretrained transformer networks are effective at various ranking tasks, such as question answering and ad-hoc document ranking. However, their computational expenses deem them…