Sean MacAvaney (@macavaney) / X

Sean MacAvaney

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Sean MacAvaney

@macavaney

he/him · Reader (Assoc. Professor) at @GlasgowCS @TerrierTeam · working at the intersection of IR&NLP · PhD from @Georgetown IRLab

Glasgow, Scotland

Joined June 2010

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Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
Jul 16, 2025
I'm delighted to have received the SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award! Thanks to all my wonderful students, colleagues, and collaborators for their support and countless discussions about wild new ideas for the field.
Glasgow IR Group
@ir_glasgow
Jul 16, 2025
Huge congratulations to @macavaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research category! This well-deserved recognition highlights the excellence & impact of his work in the IR community 👏🎉#sigir2025 Cc @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR
Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
Sep 11, 2025
Indeed, awesome to see another method leverage rerankers with document proximity to overcome first-stage recall limitations 🤓
Mandeep Rathee
@rathee_mandeep
Sep 11, 2025
Happy to see another research group, @haike_xu working in the same direction and our SlideGAR in the BRIGHT world. However, Reranker-Guided Search is not new. There are papers like Quam (WSDM'25), ORE (SIGIR'25), ReFIT(SIGIR'25), TOUR (ACL'23) that use the ranker's guidance.
Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
May 9, 2025
As @hscells et al say: ♻️ Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It's never been easier to share indexes (Terrier, Anserini, Pisa, Dense, etc.) using HuggingFace, Zenodo, etc. 🤓
Sumit
@_reachsumit
May 9, 2025
Artifact Sharing for Information Retrieval Research @macavaney introduces a flexible way to share artifacts like indices and models for Information Retrieval research, improving both accessibility and usability. 📝arxiv.org/abs/2505.05434 👨🏽‍💻github.com/seanmacavaney/…
Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
Apr 10, 2025
Eval4RAG kicking off at @ecir2025 with a keynote from @Fabio_Petroni
Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
Mar 3, 2025
We re-annotated DL’19. The results? 👇
Andrew Parry
@MrParryParry
Mar 3, 2025
🚨 New Pre-Print! 🚨 Reviewer 2 has once again asked for DL’19, what can you say in rebuttal? We have re-annotated DL’19 in the form of classic evaluation stability studies. Work done with @maik_froebe, @hscells, @fschlatt1, @guglielm0f, @saber_zerhoudi, @macavaney, @EYangTW 🧵