🧑‍🔬 Sean MacAvaney

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of GlasgowGlasgow · United Kingdom2020–2026 · 108 papersEmploymentcurrent🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2024–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🔬Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryNorth Laurel · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Georgetown UniversityWashington · United States2017–2024 · 29 papers🎓Delft University of TechnologyDelft · Netherlands2025 · 2 papers🎓Yale UniversityNew Haven · United States2024–2025 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions (2018 · 89 citations)
   Studying how mental health conditions show up in everyday language requires large labeled collections of users, but expert annotation is costly and hard to arrange.
2. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions (2025 · 40 citations)
   Neural retrievers are built on language models that can obey elaborate prompts, yet almost no retrieval system lets users attach detailed instructions to a query.
3. Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAG (2026 · 4 citations)
   Most retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines fetch documents once with a fixed retriever, such as BM25 or a dense dual encoder, and then generate an answer. This one-shot design struggles on tasks that need iterative evidence gathering, such as multi-hop QA, claim verification and procedural questions.

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health ConditionsInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, et al.2018 · 89 citations
2. PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation forDocument Reranking ↗ACM Transactions on Information Systems · no summary yetCanjia Li et al.2023 · 83 citations
3. The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform ↗arXiv:2305.18932 · no summary yetMaik Frobe et al.2023 · 56 citations
4. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow InstructionsConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, et al.2025 · 40 citations
5. Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAGFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsMandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, et al.2026 · 4 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Arman Cohan ×2
• Luca Soldaini ×2
• Andrew Yates
• Benjamin Van Durme
• Dawn Lawrie
• Kyle Lo
• Nazli Goharian
• Orion Weller

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): COLING 2018
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026
• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL): NAACL 2025
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 99 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 17 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 31 October 2026

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