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Sean MacAvaney

University of Glasgow

46 papers hereh-index 243k citations88 works total

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author position
  • sole author1
  • first author19
  • middle author19
  • last author7

Across the 46 of 46 papers where every author was matched, so the position is known.

fields
  • cs.IR36
  • cs.CL10
affiliations
  • University of Glasgow
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same name
  • Sean MacAvaney — 27 papers, h 10
  • Sean MacAvaney — 8 papers, h 3
  • Sean MacAvaney — 2 papers
  • Sean MacAvaney — 1 paper, h 0

Either other researchers who publish under this name, or the same person where the external sources have not merged their records.

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activity
20182026
most citedExpansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization

72 citations · 288 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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3 papers · 1 filter

cs.IR2026

PLAID-PRF: Pseudo-Relevance Feedback with Centroid-like Tokens in PLAID

Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald

Multi-vector dense retrieval models, such as ColBERT, achieve strong retrieval effectiveness by modelling fine-grained token-level interactions between queries and documents. Metho…

cs.IR2026

Pipeline Inspection, Visualization, and Interoperability in PyTerrier

Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney

PyTerrier provides a declarative framework for building and experimenting with Information Retrieval (IR) pipelines. In this demonstration, we highlight several recent pipeline ope…

cs.IR2026

To Case or Not to Case: An Empirical Study in Learned Sparse Retrieval

Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Jia-Huei Ju, Angelos Nalmpantis +3

Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) methods construct sparse lexical representations of queries and documents that can be efficiently searched using inverted indexes. Existing LSR appro…

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