Sean MacAvaney
I'm a Computer Science PhD student at Georgetown University. I am a member of the IR Lab where I work on information retrieval, information extraction, and computational linguistics. My academic advisors are Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder. Check out what I'm up to now!
News
2018-06-14
Our Self-reported Mental Health Diagnoses paper is recognized as an Area Chair Favorite Paper at COLING 2018
2018-04-11
I'll be presenting my work at SIGIR 2018 and NAACL 2018
2018-03-08
I'll be interning at Adobe Research this summer
2017-11-15
Our Conextualized PACRR model performed well at TREC CAR 2017
2017-10-27
I was awarded best poster (2nd place) at the 2017 ICBI Symposium
Education
Employment
Publications
2018
COLING 2018
KG4IR @ SIGIR 2018
SIGIR 2018
CLPsych @ NAACL 2018
SemEval @ NAACL 2018
NAACL Student Workshop 2018
2017
TREC 2017
Neu-IR @ SIGIR 2017
SemEval @ ACL 2017
2015
Et cetera
Projects
- Complex Answer Retrieval
- Neural Weak Supervision for IR
- Clinical TempEval
- PropBank-Dict
- smac.pub
- Photoblog
- CampusSpire
- IR PT
- OutdoorGrid
- BARS2
- DJ DRS
Following
Conferences, Groups, Associations
- Georgetown University Information Retrieval Lab
- Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown
- Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) (2017 [presenter])
- ICBI Big Data in Biomedicine Symposium (2017 [**awarded 2nd best poster**])
- Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (2017 [2 posters])
- Twin Cities Code Camp (20 [presenter], 18 [presenter], 17, 15)
- Milwaukee Code Camp (2015 [presenter])
- National Conference on Undergraduate Research (2015 [presenter])
- Chicago Code Camp (2014, 2013, 2012)
- BarCamp MKE (7, 6, 5)
- Milwaukee AngularJS Meetups
- Milwaukee JavaScript User Group
