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20162022
most citedDeclarative Experimentation in Information Retrieval using PyTerrier

108 citations · 289 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.IR2022

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…

cs.IR202112 cited

On Approximate Nearest Neighbour Selection for Multi-Stage Dense Retrieval

Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto

Dense retrieval, which describes the use of contextualised language models such as BERT to identify documents from a collection by leveraging approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) te…

cs.IR202140 cited

Query Embedding Pruning for Dense Retrieval

Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald

Recent advances in dense retrieval techniques have offered the promise of being able not just to re-rank documents using contextualised language models such as BERT, but also to us…

cs.IR20215 cited

On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval

Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Iadh Ounis

The advent of contextualised language models has brought gains in search effectiveness, not just when applied for re-ranking the output of classical weighting models such as BM25,…

cs.IR20213 cited

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…

cs.IR20218 cited

Graph Neural Pre-training for Enhancing Recommendations using Side Information

Zaiqiao Meng, Siwei Liu, Craig Macdonald +1

Leveraging the side information associated with entities (i.e. users and items) to enhance the performance of recommendation systems has been widely recognized as an important mode…