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he/him · Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @GlasgowCS @TerrierTeam · working at the intersection of IR&NLP · PhD from @Georgetown IRLab Website: https://t.co/TvZBNq61Ey

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Sean MacAvaney
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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.
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Glasgow IR Group
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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
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RT @rathee_mandeep: I will present our paper “Breaking the lens of the Telescope: Online Relevance Estimation over Large Retrieval Sets” at….
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RT @ntonellotto: @joelmmackenzie kicking off the #SIGIR2025 tutorial on efficient in-memory inverted indexes w/ @macavaney and @antonio_mal….
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RT @andreas_chari: Starting #SIGIR2025 with @macavaney and a tutorial on "Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes: Theory and Practice" @ir_g….
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RT @craig_macdonald: .@macavaney introducing the Learned Sparse tutorial at #sigir2024
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @MrParryParry: 🚨 New Pre-Print! You've just added your 600th model to your negative mining pool and filtered all false negatives. Does a….
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Sean MacAvaney
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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. 🤓
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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. 📝👨🏽‍💻
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RT @CLPsychOrg: CLPsych 2025 @naaclmeeting is happening soon! We're looking forward to seeing you all. Stay tuned for the Best Poster Award….
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @trec_ragtime: Want to help shape the next generation of RAG systems?. TREC RAGTIME focuses on long-form report generation, including so….
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Eval4RAG kicking off at @ecir2025 with a keynote from @Fabio_Petroni
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RT @antonio_mallia: It was a really pleasant surprise to learn that our paper “Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval” aka ConstBE….
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @andreas_chari: 🚨 New Pre-Print!🚨 with @macavaney & @iadh. Stop using "translate-train" for all your multilingual needs. We explore zer….
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Sean MacAvaney
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We re-annotated DL’19. The results? 👇.
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Andrew Parry
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🚨 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 🧵
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RT @EYangTW: 🛎️🛎️And today is the day! .Looking forward to reviewing all the fun idea on evaluating RAG systems! .Remember to submit it by….
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @EYangTW: SIGIR deadline is tomorrow. But Eval4RAG is also right at the corner! .📅 Submit your one-pager by this Friday (Feb 21) for pre….
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RT @ICDCS2025: 🚨Remember to submit your short paper abstract today at #ICDCS2025🚨. Call: Deadlines/AoE: 29 Jan (ab….
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @chrisatglasgow: The abstract submission deadline for #ICDCS2025's posters is approaching! (15 Jan). .
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RT @ICDCS2025: 🚨A week to go (!) before the poster papers abstract deadline for #ICDCS2025🚨.Submissions should be in the form of papers in….
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Sean MacAvaney
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RT @CLPsychOrg: Deadline is coming soon to submit your amazing work to CLPsych (end of January) via softconf https:….
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