About me

I am now working in the financial industry. Recently, I achieved a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. My supervisor is Prof. Yiqun Liu.

Education

  • 08.2018-07.2023 Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
  • 08.2014-07.2018 B.S., Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
  • 09.2015-01.2017 minor, Economics, Tsinghua University, China.

Experience

Publications

  • Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, and Shaoping Ma. Understanding Relevance Judgments in Legal Case Retrieval. Accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
  • Yixiao Ma, Qingyao Ai, Yueyue Wu, Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Retrieval Information into the Truncation of Ranking Lists for Better Legal Search. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2022).
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating User Behavior in Legal Case Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint version
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. From Linear to Non-linear: Investigating the Effects of Right-rail Results on Complex SERPs. Advances in Computational Intelligence, 2021. (ADCI 2021). Paper
  • Yixiao Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Ruizhe Zhang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. LeCaRD: A Legal Case Retrieval Dataset for Chinese Law System. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint version Dataset.
  • Bulou Liu, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Yunqiu Shao, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Conversational vs Traditional: Comparing Search Behavior and Outcome in Legal Case Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint version
  • Yixiao Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Bulou Liu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Retrieving Legal Cases from a Large-scale Candidate Corpus. Proceedings of COLIEE 2021 workshop: Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment. (COLIEE 2021) Paper
  • Yunqiu Shao, Bulou Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. THUIR@COLIEE-2020: Leveraging Semantic Understanding and Exact Matching for Legal Case Retrieval and Entailment. (JURISIN 2020) Paper
  • Yunqiu Shao. Towards Legal Case Retrieval. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Doctoral Consortium. (SIGIR 2020) Preprint version
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Weizhi Ma, Ken Satoh, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. BERT-PLI: Modeling Paragraph-Level Interactions for Legal Case Retrieval. The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020) Details
  • Yunqiu Shao and Ziyi Ye. THUIR@AILA 2019: Information Retrieval Approaches for Identifying Relevant Precedents and Statutes. (FIRE 2019). Paper
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Towards Context-Aware Evaluation for Image Search. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Short paper (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. On Annotation Methodologies for Image Search Evaluation. Accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Preprint Version
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Yunqiu Shao, Zixin Ye. Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search. The Web Conference 2019 (WWW’19). Preprint Version
  • Hongyu Lu, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Quality Effects on User Preferences and Behaviors in Mobile News Streaming User Modeling. The Web Conference 2019 (WWW’19). Preprint Version
  • Fan Zhang, Ke Zhou, Yunqiu Shao, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. How Well do Offline and Online Evaluation Metrics Measure User Satisfaction in Web Image Search? The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) Preprint Version
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Cheng Luo, Huanbo Luan, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Detect Clickbait: From the Aspect of User Behavior. International Workshop on Computational Surprise in Information Retrieval (CompS’18@SIGIR18). Preprint Version
  • Fred Morstatter, Yunqiu Shao, Aram Galstyan and Shanika Karunasekera. From Alt-Right to Alt-Rechts: Twitter Analysis of the 2017 German Federal Election. The Web Conference 2018 (WWW’18). Paper

Projects

  • Our team won the 1st place in Task 1 (Legal Case Retrieval Task) of COLIEE 2021 (Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment). Working Notes
  • Our team won the 2nd place in Task 1 (Legal Case Retrieval Task) of COLIEE 2020 (Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment). Working Notes
  • We won the 1st place in TASK 2 (Relevant Statue Retrieval Task) of AILA 2019 (Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance). Working Notes

Honors and Awards

  • 2023. Excellent Graduate, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
  • 2021. Overall Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2019. Overall Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2018. Excellent Graduate, Beijing.
  • 2018. Excellent Graduate, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
  • 2017. National Scholarship.
  • 2017. Overall Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2016. Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.

Miscellaneous

  • My name in Chinese is 邵韵秋.
  • I come from Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
  • My hobbies are travelling and reading comic books.