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2023

  1. Quinn Patwardhan and Grace Hui Yang. Sequencing Matters: A Generate-Retrieve-Generate Model for Building Conversational Agents. Proceedings of the 32nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2023). Rockville, MD, USA.

    November 14-17, 2023
  2. Xin Xin, Xiangyu Zhao, Jin Huang, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang. DRL4IR: 4th Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval. In proceedings of 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '23). Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    October 21–25, 2023
  3. Lizi Liao, Grace Hui Yang, and Chirag Shah. Proactive Conversational Agents in the Post-ChatGPT World. In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23). Taipei.

    July 23-27, 2023
  4. Lizi Liao, Grace Hui Yang, and Chirag Shah. Proactive Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '23). Singapore.

    February 27 to March 3, 2023

2022

  1. Sibo Dong, Justin Goldstein, Grace Hui Yang. GazBy: Gaze-Based BERT Model to Incorporate Human Attention in Neural Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. Madrid, Spain.

    July 11-12, 2022
  2. Xiangyu Zhao, Xin Xin, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin and Grace Hui Yang. DRL4IR: 3rd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (Workshop proposal). 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Madrid, Spain.

    July 11-15, 2022
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2021

  1. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. A Re-classification of Information Seeking Tasks and Their Computational Solutions. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS 2022). Volume 40, Issue 4. New York, NY, USA.

    October, 2022
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  2. Mingze Wang, Ziyang Zhang and Grace Hui Yang. Incorporating Voice Instructions in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving Cars. Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving on the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). Virtual-only.

    December 7-14, 2021
  3. Weinan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (Workshop proposal). 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Montreal, Canada.

    July 11-15, 2021
  4. Zhiwen Tang, Hrishikesh Kulkarni and Grace Hui Yang. High-Quality Diversification for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) (Findings of ACL). Bangkok, Thailand.

    August 1-6, 2021

2020

  1. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Reinforcement Learning Meets Information Seeking: Dynamic Search Challenge. The 1st Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (DRL4IR) on the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020). Xi'an, China.

    July 25-30, 2020
  2. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Corpus Compression for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language Environments. The 1st Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (DRL4IR) on the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020). Xi'an, China.

    July 25-30, 2020
  3. Limin Chen, Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Balancing Reinforcement Learning Training Experiences in Interactive Information Retrieval (short research paper). 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Xi'an, China.

    July 25-30, 2020
  4. Weinan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang and Alex Beutel. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval: Fundamentals and Advances (Workshop Proposal). 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Xi'an, China.

    July 25-30, 2020
  5. Katherine Stasaski, Grace Hui Yang and Marti A. Hearst. More Diverse Dialogue Datasets via Diversity-Informed Data Collection. In the Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020). Seattle, WA, USA.

  6. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Corpus-Level End-to-End Exploration for Interactive Systems. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). New York, NY, USA.

    Feb 7-12, 2020

2019

  1. Grace Hui Yang. Information Retrieval and Its Sister Disciplines. ACM SIGIR Forum Volume 53 Issue 2.

    December 2019
  2. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Corpus Compression for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language Environments. Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) workshop on the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019). Vancouver, Canada.

    Dec 8-14, 2019
  3. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Reinforcement Learning Meets Information Seeking: Dynamic Search Challenge. Machine Learning Competitions for All (CiML) workshop on the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019). Vancouver, Canada.

    Dec 8-14, 2019
  4. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Dynamic Search -- Optimizing the Game of Information Seeking. arXiv Preprint.

  5. Yue Yu, Siyao Peng and Grace Hui Yang. Modeling Long-Range Context for Concurrent Dialogue Acts Recognition. In the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019). Beijing, China.

    November 3rd-7th, 2019
  6. Grace Hui Yang. Information Retrieval Fundamentals. The first ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM 2019). Cape Town, South Africa.

    January 14-18, 2019
  7. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. DeepTileBars: Visualizing Term Distribution for Neural Information Retrieval. The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

    January 27-February 1, 2019

2018

  1. Grace Hui Yang and Yue Yu. Use of Interpersonal Deception Theory in Counter Social Engineering. CIKM 2018 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. The Second International Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media Workshop. Turin, Italy.

    October 22-26, 2018
  2. Evangelos Kanoulas , Leif Azzopardi, and Grace Hui Yang. Overview of the CLEF Dynamic Search Evaluation Lab 2018. In Proceedings of the CLEF 2018 Conferences and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2018). Avignon, France.

    September 10-14, 2018
  3. Andrew Jie Zhou and Grace Hui Yang. Minority Report by Lemur: Supporting Search Engine with Virtual Reality (demo paper). In the 41st Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor Michigan, USA.

    July 8-12, 2018
  4. Grace Hui Yang and Sicong Zhang. Differential Privacy for Information Retrieval. Tutorial in the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018). Los Angeles, CA, USA.

    February 5-9, 2018
  5. Grace Hui Yang, Xuchu Dong, Jiyun Luo and Sicong Zhang. Session search modeling by partially observable Markov decision process. Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ). Volume 20.

    February 2018

2017

  1. Grace Hui Yang, Zhiwen Tang and Ian Soboroff. TREC 2017 Dynamic Domain Track Overview. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2017 (TREC 2017). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November 15-17, 2017
  2. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Georgetown University at TREC 2017 Dynamic Domain Track. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2017 (TREC 2017). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November 15-17, 2017
  3. Angela Yang and Grace Hui Yang. A Contextual Bandit Approach to Dynamic Search (short paper). In the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    October 1-4, 2017
  4. Sicong Zhang and Grace Hui Yang. Deriving Differentially Private Session Logs for Query Suggestion. In the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    October 1-4, 2017
  5. Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang. Investigating Per Topic Upper Bound for Session Search Evaluation. In the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    October 1-4, 2017
  6. Grace Hui Yang and Sicong Zhang. Differential Privacy for Information Retrieval. Tutorial in the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    October 1-4, 2017
  7. Razieh Rahimi and Grace Hui Yang. Modeling Exploration of Intrinsically Diverse Search Tasks as Markov Decision Processes. in the 3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2017). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

    June 11-14, 2017

2016

  1. Grace Hui Yang and Ian Soboroff. TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain Track Overview. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2016 (TREC 2016). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November, 2016
  2. Razieh Rahimi and Grace Hui Yang. An Investigation of Basic Retrieval Models for the Dynamic Domain Task. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2016 (TREC 2016). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November, 2016
  3. Sicong Zhang, Grace Hui Yang, Lisa Singh, Li Xiong. Safelog: Supporting Web Search and Mining by Differentially-Private Query Logs. AAAI Fall Symposium on Privacy and Language Technologies. (AAAI 2016 FSS). Virginia, USA.

  4. Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang and Micah Sherr. Generating Risk Reduction Recommendations to Decrease Vulnerability of Public Online Profiles (short paper). The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2016).. San Francisco, CA, USA.

    August 18-21, 2016
  5. Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang. Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling. Paperback ISBN: 9781627055253 | E-Book ISBN: 9781627055260 | Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. DC, USA.

  6. Hui Yang, Ian Soboroff, Li Xiong, Charles L. A. Clarke, Simson L. Garfinkel. Privacy-Preserving IR 2016: Differential Privacy, Search, and Social Media. The third workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security co-located with the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference 2016 (SIGIR 2016). Pisa, Italy.

    July 17-21, 2016
  7. Sicong Zhang, Grace Hui Yang, Lisa Singh. Anonymizing Query Logs by Differential Privacy (Short paper). In Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2016). Pisa, Italy.

    July 17-21, 2016
  8. Andrew Jie Zhou, Hui Yang, Hongkai Wu. Minerva II: A Novel Entity Discovery Tool. In Proceedings of 35th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) Late Breaking Work. San Jose, CA, US.

    May 7-12, 2016
  9. Chris A. Mattmann, Grace Hui Yang, Harshavardhan Manjunatha, Thamme Gowda N, Andrew Jie Zhou, Jiyun Luo, Lewis John McGibbney. Multimedia Metadata-based Forensics in Human Trafficking Web Data. The Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI) workshop on the 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2016). San Francisco, USA.

    Feb 22-25, 2016

2015

  1. Jiyun Luo, Grace Hui Yang. Re-ranking via User Feedback: Georgetown University at TREC 2015 DD Track. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2015 (TREC 2015). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November 17-20, 2015
  2. Grace Hui Yang, John Frank, Ian Soboroff. TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track Overview. In Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2015 (TREC 2015). Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

    November 17-20, 2015
  3. Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang, Lisa Singh. Applying Epsilon-Differential Private Query Log Releasing Scheme to Document Retrieval. In the 2nd International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval Workshop (PIR'15) in conjunction with SIGIR 2015. Santiago, Chile.

    October, 2015
  4. Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu and Sicong Zhang. Public Information Exposure Detection:Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015). Paris, France.

    August 25-28, 2015
  5. Hui Yang and Ian Soboroff. The second workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security co-located with the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference 2015 (SIGIR 2015). Santiago, Chile.

    August 9-13, 2015
  6. Lisa Singh, Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Yifang Wei, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Tavish Vaidya, Elchin Asgarli. Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints (poster). In the Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015). Florence, Italy.

    May 18-22, 2015
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  7. Marc Sloan, Hui Yang, and Jun Wang. A Term-Based Methodology for Query Reformulation Understanding. Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ). Volume 18, Issue 2, pp 145-165.

    March, 2015
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  8. Hui Yang, Dongyi Guan, Sicong Zhang. The Query-Change Model: Modeling Session Search as a Markov Decision Process. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Vol. 33, No. 4, Article 20, 33 pages.

    May, 2015
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  9. Hui Yang. Browsing Hierarchy Construction by Minimum Evolution. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Vol. 33, No. 3, Article 13.

    March, 2015
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  10. Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang. Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling. Tutorial in The Eighth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2015). Shanghai, China.

    Januray 31 - Februrary 6, 2015
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  11. Hui Yang, Jiyun Luo, Christopher Wing. Detecting the Eureka Effect in Complex Search (short paper). In Proceedings of The 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015). Vienna, Austria.

    March 29 - April 3, 2015
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  12. Jiyun Luo, Sicong Zhang, Xuchu Dong and Hui Yang. Designing States, Actions, and Rewards for Using POMDP in Session Search. In Proceedings of The 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015). Vienna, Austria.

    March 29 - April 3, 2015
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2014

  1. Jiyun Luo, Xuchu Dong and Hui Yang. Modeling Rich Interactions in Session Search - Georgetown University at TREC 2014 Session Track. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2014 (TREC 2014). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.

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  2. Christopher Wing and Hui Yang. Query Refinement: Negation Detection and Proximity Learning - Georgetown at TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2014 (TREC 2014). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.

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  3. Dongyi Guan, Hui Yang. Query Aggregation in Session Search. In the 3rd Workshop on Data-driven User Behavior Modeling and Mining from Social Media (DUBMOD'14) in conjunction with CIKM 2014. Shanghai, China.

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  4. Hui Yang. A Fragment-Based Similarity Measure for Concept Hierarchies and Ontologies. In the 7th International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'14) in conjunction with CIKM 2014. Shanghai, China.

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  5. Dongyi Guan, Hui Yang. Is the First Query the Most Important: An Evaluation of Query Aggregation Schemes in Session Search. In Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference 2014 (AIRS'2014). Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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  6. Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang, Lisa Singh. Increased Information Leakage from Text. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR (PIR 2014) in SIGIR 2014. Gold Coast, Australia.

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  7. Christopher Wing and Hui Yang. FitYou: Integrating Health Profiles to Real-Time Contextual Suggestion (demo paper). In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia.

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  8. Sicong Zhang, Jiyun Luo, Hui Yang. A POMDP Model for Content-Free Document Re-ranking (short paper). In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia .

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  9. Jiyun Luo, Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang. Win-Win Search: Dual-Agent Stochastic Game in Session Search. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia.

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  10. Luo Si and Hui Yang. The first workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security co-located with the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference 2014 (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia.

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  11. Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang. Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling. Tutorial in the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference 2014 (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia.

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2013

  1. Dongyi Guan and Hui Yang. Increasing Stability of Result Organization for Session Search. In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013). Moscow, Russia.

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  2. Jiyun Luo, Dongyi Guan, and Hui Yang. InfoLand: Information Lay-of-Land for Session Search (demo paper). In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013). Dublin, Ireland.

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  3. Sicong Zhang, Dongyi Guan, and Hui Yang. Query Change as Relevance Feedback in Session Search (short paper). In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013). Dublin, Ireland.

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  4. Dongyi Guan, Sicong Zhang, and Hui Yang. Utilizing Query Change for Session Search. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013). Dublin, Ireland.

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  5. Jiyun Luo and Hui Yang. Query Formulation for Prior Art Search - Georgetown University at CLEF-IP 2013. In Proceedings of the CLEF 2013 Conferences and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2013). Valencia, Spain.
    Won the 1st position in CLEF-IP 2013 Patent Prior Art Retrieval evaluation.

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  6. W. Brad Moore, Yifang Wei, Adam Orshefsky, Micah Sherr, Lisa Singh, and Hui Yang. Understanding Site-Based Inference Potential for Identifying Hidden Attributes. The 5th ASE/IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2013). Washington, DC, USA.

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  7. Jiyun Luo, Christopher Wing, Hui Yang, and Marti Hearst. The Water Filling Model and The Cube Test: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for Professional Search. The 22nd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013). Burlingame, CA, USA.

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  8. Jiyun Luo and Hui Yang. Boosting Venue Page Rankings for Contextual Retrieval - Georgetown at TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2013 (TREC 2013). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.
    Won the 1st position in TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion evaluation (ClueWeb).

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  9. Sicong Zhang and Hui Yang. Applying the Query Change Retrieval Model on Session Search - Georgetown at TREC 2013 Session Track. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2013 (TREC 2013). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.

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2012

  1. Hui Yang. Automatic and Interactive Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Scientific Publication Collections. In Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2012). Washington, DC, USA.

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  2. Hui Yang. Resolving Task Specification and Path Inconsistency in Taxononomy Construction. In the People's Web Meets NLP workshop of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Lingistics (ACL2012). Jeju, Korea.

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  3. Hui Yang. Constructing Task-Specific Taxonomies for Document Collection Browsing. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL2012). Jeju, Korea.

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  4. Hui Yang. Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Ad-hoc Document Collections. Tutorial in the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (ECDL/TPDL2012). Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus.

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  5. Hui Yang. Automatic and Interactive Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Scientific Publication Collections. D-Lib Magazine. The Magazine of Digital Library Research. Volume 18, Number 7/8. ISSN 1082-9873.

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  6. Hui Yang. Personal Concept Hierarchy Construction. ACM SIGIR Forum Volume 46 Issue 1. page 90-91. ACM New York, USA.

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  7. Andrew Yates, Dave DeBoer, Hui Yang, Nazli Goharian, Steve Kunath, Ophir Frieder. (Not Too) Personalized Learning to Rank for Contextual Suggestion. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2012 (TREC 2012). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.
    Won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion evaluation.

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  8. Dongyi Guan, Hui Yang, Nazli Goharian. Effective Structured Query Formulation for Session Search. In Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2012 (TREC 2012). Gaithersburgh, MD, USA.
    Won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Session evaluation for effective use of the entire session information (RL2-RL4).

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2011

  1. Hui Yang. Personalized Concept Hierarchy Construction. Ph.D. Dissertation. Technical Report CMU-LTI-11-018. Carnegie Mellon University.

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2010

  1. Hui Yang, Anton Mityagin, Krysta Svore, and Sergey Markov. Collecting High Quality Overlapping Labels at Low Cost. In Proceedings of the 33th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR2010). Geneva, Switzerland.

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2009

  1. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Feature Selection for Automatic Taxonomy Induction (poster). In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR2009). Boston, MA, USA.

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  2. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. A Metric-based Framework for Automatic Taxonomy Induction. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2009). Singapore.

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  3. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. OntoCop: Constructing Ontologies for Public Comments. IEEE Intelligent Systems, September issue.

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2008

  1. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Ontology generation for large email collections. In Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Digital Government Research (Dg.O2008). Montreal, Canada.

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  2. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Metric-Based Ontology Learning. Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web of 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008). Napa Valley, California, USA.

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  3. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Learning the Distance Metric in a Personal Ontology. Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web of 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008). Napa Valley, California, USA.

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  4. Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Human-Guided Ontology Learning. Second Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR2008). Microsoft Research, Redmond,WA, USA.

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2006

  1. Hui Yang , Jamie Callan , Stuart Shulman. DURIAN: A demo for near-duplicate detection (demo description). In Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O2006). San Diego, California.

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  2. Hui Yang, Jamie Callan, Stuart Shulman. Next Steps in Near-Duplicate Detection for eRulemaking. In Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O2006). San Diego, California.

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  3. Hui Yang , Jamie Callan. Near-Duplicate Detection by Instance-level Constrained Clustering. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2006). Seattle, WA.

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  4. Hui Yang , Luo Si, and Jamie Callan. Knowledge Transfer and Opinion Detection in the TREC2006 Blog Track. In the Notebook of Text REtrieval Conference 2006 (TREC2006). Gathersburgh, MD.

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2005

  1. Hui Yang, Jamie Callan. Near-Duplicate Detection for eRulemaking. In Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O2005). Atlanta, GA, USA.

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2004

  1. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. FAD on the Web: Find All Distinct Answers (poster). In the Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004). New York, USA.

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  2. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. Effective Web Page Classification for Finding List Answers (poster). In the Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2004). Sheffield, UK.

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  3. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. Web-based List Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2004). Geneva, Switzerland.

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  4. Alex. Hauptmann, Ming-Yu Chen, Mike Christel, C. Huang, W.-H. Lin, Toubin Ng, N. Papernick, A. Velivelli, J. Yang, Rong Yan, Hui Yang, and H.D. Wactlar. Confounded Expectations: Informedia at TRECVID 2004. In the notebook of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference Video Workshop (TRECVID2004). Maryland, USA.
    Won the 1st position in TRECVID 2004 evaluation.

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2003

  1. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources. In the Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2003). Budapest, HUNGARY.

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  2. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang. Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions (poster). In the Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003). Budapest, HUNGARY.

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  3. Hui Yang , Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh. Structured Use of External Knowledge for Event-based Open Domain Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2003). Toronto, CANADA.

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  4. Tat-Seng Chua, Yunlong Zhao, Lekha Chaisorn, Chun-Keat Koh, Hui Yang, Huaxin Xu, Qi Tian. TREC 2003 Video Retrieval and Story Segmentation Task at NUS PRIS. In the notebook of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference Video Workshop (TRECVID 2003). Maryland, USA.
    Won the 2nd position in TRECVID 2003 evaluation.

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  5. Hui Yang, Lekha Chaison, Yunlong Zhao, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua. VideoQA: Question Answering on News Video. In the Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2003). Berkeley, California, USA.

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  6. Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Tat-Seng Chua. QUALIFIER in TREC-12 QA Main Task. In the notebook of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2003). Maryland, USA.
    Won the 2nd position in TREC 2003 QA evaluation.

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2002

  1. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2002). Maryland, USA.
    Won the 2nd position in TREC 2002 QA evaluation.

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