Xinyu Mao 0001

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 4 · 4 first-author · 4 since 2021
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2025 DenseReviewer: A Screening Prioritisation Tool for Systematic Review Based on Dense Retrieval
Xinyu Mao 0001, Teerapong Leelanupab, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
ECIR (5)1
2025 AiReview: An Open Platform for Accelerating Systematic Reviews with LLMs
abstract
Systematic reviews are fundamental to evidence-based medicine.Creating one is time-consuming and labour-intensive, mainly due to the need to screen, or assess, many studies for inclusion in the review.Existing tools help streamline this process, mostly using traditional machine learning.Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to speed up screening, yet no tool currently enables users to directly apply LLMs or ensures systematic and transparent use of these methods.This paper presents (i) a flexible framework for using LLMs in systematic review tasks, especially title and abstract screening, and (ii) a web-based interface for LLMassisted screening.Together, they form AiReview-a novel platform that connects cutting-edge LLM-assisted screening methods with real-world systematic review practice.The live tool is available at https://aireview.ielab.io.We also release the code publicly at https://github.com/ielab/ai-review.
Xinyu Mao 0001, Teerapong Leelanupab, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon
SIGIR1
2024 A Reproducibility Study of Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for TAR
Xinyu Mao 0001, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
ECIR (4)1
2024 Dense Retrieval with Continuous Explicit Feedback for Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation
abstract
The goal of screening prioritisation in systematic reviews is to identify relevant documents with high recall and rank them in early positions for review. This saves reviewing effort if paired with a stopping criterion, and speeds up review completion if performed alongside downstream tasks. Recent studies have shown that neural models have good potential on this task, but their time-consuming fine-tuning and inference discourage their widespread use for screening prioritisation. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach that still relies on neural models, but leverages dense representations and relevance feedback to enhance screening prioritisation, without the need for costly model fine-tuning and inference. This method exploits continuous relevance feedback from reviewers during document screening to efficiently update the dense query representation, which is then applied to rank the remaining documents to be screened. We evaluate this approach across the CLEF TAR datasets for this task. Results suggest that the investigated dense query-driven approach is more efficient than directly using neural models and shows promising effectiveness compared to previous methods developed on the considered datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/ielab/dense-screening-feedback.
Xinyu Mao 0001, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon
SIGIR1