Publications
This publications collection presents research from the InfoSense lab. It focuses covers topics like deep learning, reinforcement learning, neural information retrieval, proactive conversational agents and more. The work includes contributions presented at major venues like SIGIR, ACL, CIKM, WWW, and AAAI.
Publications available: 128
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AgentIR: 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval.
Pengyue Jia, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Ling Pan, Xin Xin, Jin Huang, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)
Interactive Agents
Proactive Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Advancements and Opportunities.
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Wenqiang Lei, Grace Hui Yang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Interactive Agents
Pre-trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue-Part 1.
Wenjie Wang, Zheng Liu, Fuli Feng, Zhicheng Dou, Qingyao Ai, Grace Hui Yang, Defu Lian, Lu Hou, Nick Craswell, Aixin Sun, Hamed Zamani, Donald Metzler, Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Interactive Agents
Improving Searcher Struggle Detection Via The Reversal Theory.
Jiyun Luo, Yan Yang, Valerie Nayak, Grace Hui Yang
Discover Computing 27 (1), 51
Interactive Agents
Passage Query Methods for Retrieval and Reranking in Conversational Agents.
Victor De Lima, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2024)
Interactive Agents
Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents.
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Zhonghua Zheng, Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 47th ACM SIGIR International Conference (SIGIR ’24)
Deep Learning, Interactive Agents
Sequencing Matters: A Generate-Retrieve-Generate Model for Building Conversational Agents
Quinn Patwardhan, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 32nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2023)
Interactive Agents, Large Language Models
DRL4IR: 4th Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval
Xin Xin, Xiangyu Zhao, Jin Huang, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '23)
Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Proactive Conversational Agents in the Post-ChatGPT World
Lizi Liao, Grace Hui Yang, Chirag Shah
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23)
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
SEINE: SEgment-based Indexing for NEural information retrieval
Sibo Dong, Justin Goldstein, Grace Hui Yang
Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR) of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022)
Deep Learning
DRL4IR: 3rd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (Workshop proposal)
Xiangyu Zhao, Xin Xin, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang
45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Deep Learning, Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
A Re-classification of Information Seeking Tasks and Their Computational Solutions
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS 2022). Volume 40, Issue 4
Interactive Agents, Deep Learning, Evaluation, Foundations and Future of IR, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Incorporating Voice Instructions in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Mingze Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Grace Hui Yang
Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving on the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Interactive Systems
Zhiwen Tang
Ph.D. Dissertation
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
High-Quality Diversification for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Zhiwen Tang, Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Grace Hui Yang
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)
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval
Weinan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang
44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Comment: (Workshop proposal)
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning Meets Information Seeking: Dynamic Search Challenge
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
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)
Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Corpus Compression for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language Environments
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
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)
Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Balancing Reinforcement Learning Training Experiences in Interactive Information Retrieval (short research paper)
Limin Chen, Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Interactive Agents, Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval: Fundamentals and Advances
Weinan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang, Alex Beutel
43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Comment: (Workshop Proposal)
Deep Learning, Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Corpus Compression for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language Environments
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) workshop on the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019)
Interactive Agents, Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning Meets Information Seeking: Dynamic Search Challenge
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
Machine Learning Competitions for All (CiML) workshop on the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019)
Interactive Agents, Evaluation, Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Information Retrieval and Its Sister Disciplines
Grace Hui Yang
ACM SIGIR Forum Volume 53 Issue 2
Foundations and Future of IR
Dynamic Search - Optimizing the Game of Information Seeking
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
arXiv Preprint
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Information Retrieval Fundamentals
Grace Hui Yang
1st ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM 2019)
Foundations and Future of IR
Use of Interpersonal Deception Theory in Counter Social Engineering
Grace Hui Yang, Yue Yu
CIKM 2018 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. The Second International Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media Workshop
Interactive Agents
Overview of the CLEF Dynamic Search Evaluation Lab 2018
Evangelos Kanoulas, Leif Azzopardi, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the CLEF 2018 Conferences and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2018)
Interactive Agents, Evaluation
Dynamic Search Models and Applications
Jiyun Luo
Ph.D. Thesis
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Session search modeling by partially observable Markov decision process
Grace Hui Yang, Xuchu Dong, Jiyun Luo, Sicong Zhang
Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ). Volume 20
Interactive Agents
TREC 2017 Dynamic Domain Track Overview
Grace Hui Yang, Zhiwen Tang, Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2017 (TREC 2017)
Interactive Agents, Evaluation
Georgetown University at TREC 2017 Dynamic Domain Track
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2017 (TREC 2017)
Interactive Agents, Deep Learning
Online Learning to Rank for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Razieh Rahimi, Azadeh Shakery
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017)
Comment: (short paper)
Interactive Agents
Modeling Search Engine's Explorations in Dynamic Search: An Ontological Perspective.
Hongkai Wu
M.S. Thesis
Interactive Agents
Modeling Exploration of Intrinsically Diverse Search Tasks as Markov Decision Processes
Razieh Rahimi, Grace Hui Yang
3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2017)
Interactive Agents, Deep Reinforcement Learning
A Contextual Approach to Dynamic Search and Topic Change
Angela Yang
B.S. Thesis
Interactive Agents
TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain Track Overview
Grace Hui Yang, Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2016 (TREC 2016)
Interactive Agents, Evaluation
An Investigation of Basic Retrieval Models for the Dynamic Domain Task
Razieh Rahimi, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2016 (TREC 2016)
Interactive Agents
Generating Risk Reduction Recommendations to Decrease Vulnerability of Public Online Profiles
Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr
2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2016)
Comment: (Short paper)
Privacy-Preserving IR
Privacy-Preserving IR 2016: Differential Privacy, Search, and Social Media
Grace Hui Yang, Ian Soboroff, Li Xiong, Charles L.A. Clarke, Simson L. Garfinkel
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)
Privacy-Preserving IR
Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling
Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang
Paperback ISBN: 9781627055253 / E-Book ISBN: 9781627055260 / Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Interactive Agents
Multimedia Metadata-based Forensics in Human Trafficking Web Data
Chris A. Mattmann, Grace Hui Yang, Harshavardhan Manjunatha, Thamme Gowda N., Andrew Jie Zhou, Jiyun Luo, Lewis John McGibbney
The Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI) workshop on the 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2016)
Multimedia
Re-ranking via User Feedback: Georgetown University at TREC 2015 DD Track
Jiyun Luo, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2015 (TREC 2015)
Interactive Agents
TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track Overview
Grace Hui Yang, John Frank, Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference 2015 (TREC 2015)
Evaluation, Interactive Agents
Applying Epsilon-Differential Private Query Log Releasing Scheme to Document Retrieval
Sicong Zhang, Grace Hui Yang, Lisa Singh
2nd International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval Workshop (PIR'15) in conjunction with SIGIR 2015
Privacy-Preserving IR
Public Information Exposure Detection: Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints
Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015)
Privacy-Preserving IR
The second workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security
Grace Hui Yang, Ian Soboroff
co-located with the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference 2015 (SIGIR 2015)
Privacy-Preserving IR
Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints
Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Yifang Wei, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Tavish Vaidya, Elchin Asgarli
Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015)
Comment: (poster)
Privacy-Preserving IR
The Query-Change Model: Modeling Session Search as a Markov Decision Process
Grace Hui Yang, Dongyi Guan, Sicong Zhang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Vol. 33, No. 4, Article 20, 33 pages
Interactive Agents
Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling
Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang
Tutorial in The Eighth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2015)
Interactive Agents
Query Aggregation in Session Search
Dongyi Guan, Grace Hui Yang
3rd Workshop on Data-driven User Behavior Modeling and Mining from Social Media (DUBMOD'14) in conjunction with CIKM 2014
Interactive Agents
Query Refinement: Negation Detection and Proximity Learning - Georgetown at TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track
Christopher Wing, Grace Hui Yang
Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2014 (TREC 2014)
Domain-Specific Search
Boosting Venue Page Rankings for Contextual Retrieval - Georgetown at TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track
Jiyun Luo, Grace Hui Yang
Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2013 (TREC 2013)
Comment: Won the 1st position in TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion evaluation (ClueWeb)
Domain-Specific Search
Applying the Query Change Retrieval Model on Session Search - Georgetown at TREC 2013 Session Track
Sicong Zhang, Grace Hui Yang
Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2013 (TREC 2013)
Interactive Agents
Query Formulation for Prior Art Search - Georgetown University at CLEF-IP 2013
Jiyun Luo, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the CLEF 2013 Conferences and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2013)
Comment: Won the 1st position in CLEF-IP 2013 Patent Prior Art Retrieval evaluation
Domain-Specific Search
Structured Query Formulation and Result Organization for Session Search
Dongyi Guan
M.S. Thesis
Interactive Agents
(Not Too) Personalized Learning to Rank for Contextual Suggestion
Andrew Yates, Dave DeBoer, Grace Hui Yang, Nazli Goharian, Steve Kunath, Ophir Frieder
Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2012 (TREC 2012)
Comment: Won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion evaluation
Domain-Specific Search
Effective Structured Query Formulation for Session Search
Dongyi Guan, Grace Hui Yang, Nazli Goharian
Notebook of the Text REtrieval Conference 2012 (TREC 2012)
Comment: Won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Session evaluation for effective use of the entire session information (RL2-RL4)
Interactive Agents
Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Ad-hoc Document Collections
Grace Hui Yang
The 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (ECDL/TPDL2012)
Ontology
Automatic and Interactive Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Scientific Publication Collections
Grace Hui Yang
Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2012)
Ontology
Automatic and Interactive Browsing Hierarchy Construction for Scientific Publication Collections
Grace Hui Yang
D-Lib Magazine. The Magazine of Digital Library Research, Volume 18, Number 7/8. ISSN 1082-9873
Ontology
Personalized Concept Hierarchy Construction
Grace Hui Yang
Ph.D. Dissertation. Technical Report CMU-LTI-11-018
Ontology
Human-Guided Ontology Learning
Grace Hui Yang, Jamie Callan
Second Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR2008)
Ontology
Knowledge Transfer and Opinion Detection in the TREC2006 Blog Track
Grace Hui Yang, Luo Si, Jamie Callan
Notebook of Text REtrieval Conference 2006 (TREC2006)
Opinion and Sentiment Detection
Confounded Expectations: Informedia at TRECVID 2004
Alex. Hauptmann, Ming-Yu Chen, Mike Christel, C. Huang, W.-H. Lin, Toubin Ng, N. Papernick, A. Velivelli, J. Yang, Rong Yan, Grace Hui Yang, H.D. Wactlar
Notebook of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference Video Workshop (TRECVID2004)
Comment: Won the 1st position in TRECVID 2004 evaluation
Multimedia
Effective Web Page Classification for Finding List Answers
Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2004)
Question Answering
FAD on the Web: Find All Distinct Answers
Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)
Question Answering
QUALIFIER in TREC-12 QA Main Task
Grace Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Tat-Seng Chua
Notebook of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2003)
Comment: Won the 2nd position in TREC 2003 QA evaluation
Question Answering
TREC 2003 Video Retrieval and Story Segmentation Task at NUS PRIS
Tat-Seng Chua, Yunlong Zhao, Lekha Chaisorn, Chun-Keat Koh, Grace Hui Yang, Huaxin Xu, Qi Tian
Notebook of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference Video Workshop (TRECVID 2003)
Comment: Won the 2nd position in TRECVID 2003 evaluation
Multimedia
Structured Use of External Knowledge for Event-based Open Domain Question Answering
Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2003)
Question Answering
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang
The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003)
Question Answering
The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering
Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2002)
Comment: Won the 2nd position in TREC 2002 QA evaluation
Question Answering
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