
Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
he/him · Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @GlasgowCS @TerrierTeam · working at the intersection of IR&NLP · PhD from @Georgetown IRLab
Website: macavaney.us
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https://macavaney.us 17-06-2010 03:51:01
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Congrats to University of Glasgow + UofG Computing Science’ / Glasgow IR Group’s Andrew Parry on being one of the 2024-2025 Bloomberg #DataScience Ph.D. Fellows! Learn more about Andrew’s research focus and our latest cohort of Ph.D. Fellows: bloom.bg/4g4Gmh5 #AI #ML #NLProc #LLMs #NeurIPS2024


.Leif Azzopardi discussing SIMIIR3 at SIGIR-AP 2025 This paper was an outcome from the collab-a-thon at ECIR2024 😎











🚨 New Pre-Print!🚨 with Sean MacAvaney & Iadh Ounis. Stop using "translate-train" for all your multilingual needs. We explore zero-shot transfer for low-resource languages... 🧵


It was a really pleasant surprise to learn that our paper “Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval” aka ConstBERT, co-authored with Sean MacAvaney and Nicola Tonellotto received the Best Short Paper Honourable Mention at ECIR 2025! #ECIR2025 #IR #Pinecone



CLPsych 2025 NAACL HLT 2025 is happening soon! We're looking forward to seeing you all. Stay tuned for the Best Poster Award, which will be voted on the day of the workshop after the poster session.

As Harry Scells et al say: ♻️ Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It's never been easier to share indexes (Terrier, Anserini, Pisa, Dense, etc.) using HuggingFace, Zenodo, etc. 🤓


🚨 New Pre-Print! You've just added your 600th model to your negative mining pool and filtered all false negatives. Does any of this even matter when we can apply distillation? In this work with Debasis Ganguly and Sean MacAvaney, we explore data selection in modern ranking. 🧵 Below
