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  • 2014

    VIR Lab: A platform for privacy-preserving evaluation for information retrieval models

    Fang, H. & Zhai, C. X., 2014, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 1225, p. 37-38 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

  • 2013

    A learning approach to optimizing exploration-exploitation tradeoff in relevance feedback

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C. X., Jun 2013, In: Information Retrieval. 16, 3, p. 307-330 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • An introduction to text mining

    Aggarwal, C. C. & Zhai, C. X., Aug 1 2013, Mining Text Data. Springer, Vol. 9781461432234. p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingForeword/postscript

  • A probabilistic mixture model for mining and analyzing product search log

    Duan, H., Zhai, C., Cheng, J. & Gattani, A., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2179-2188 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Compact explanatory opinion summarization

    Kim, H. D., Castellanos, M., Hsu, M., Zhai, C. X., Dayal, U. & Ghosh, R., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1697-1702 6 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Content-aware click modeling

    Wang, H., Zhai, C., Dong, A. & Chang, Y., 2013, WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1365-1375 11 p. (WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Content coverage maximization on word networks for hierarchical topic summarization

    Wang, C., Yu, X., Li, Y., Zhai, C. & Han, J., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 249-258 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • EventCube: Multi-dimensional search and mining of structured and text data

    Tao, F., Lei, K. H., Han, J., Zhai, C. X., Cheng, X., Danilevsky, M., Desai, N., Ding, B., Ge, J., Ji, H., Kanade, R., Kao, A., Li, Q., Li, Y., Lin, C. X., Liu, J., Oza, N., Srivastava, A., Tjoelker, R. & Wang, C. & 2 others, Zhang, D. & Zhao, B., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1494-1497 4 p. 2487718. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Exploiting forum thread structures to improve thread clustering

    Pattabiraman, K., Sondhi, P. & Zhai, C. X., 2013, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2013 Proceedings. p. 64-71 8 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • FindiLike: A preference driven entity search engine for evaluating entity retrieval and opinion summarization

    Ganesan, K. & Zhai, C., 2013, LivingLab 2013 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Co-located with CIKM 2013. p. 19-22 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Information retrieval with time series query

    Kim, H. D., Nikitin, D., Zhai, C. X., Castellanos, M. & Hsu, M., 2013, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2013 Proceedings. p. 56-63 8 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

    Open Access
  • Leveraging comparable corpora for cross-lingual information retrieval in resource-lean language pairs

    Shakery, A. & Zhai, C. X., Feb 2013, In: Information Retrieval. 16, 1, p. 1-29 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Mining causal topics in text data: Iterative topic modeling with time series feedback

    Kim, H. D., Castellanos, M., Hsu, M., Zhai, C. X., Rietz, T. & Diermeier, D., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 885-890 6 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining entity attribute synonyms via compact clustering

    Li, Y., Hsu, B. J., Zhai, C. X. & Wang, K., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 867-872 6 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining text data

    Aggarwal, C. C. & Zhai, C. X., Aug 1 2013, Springer. 522 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook

  • MiTexCube: MicroTextCluster Cube for online analysis of text cells and its applications

    Zhang, D., Zhai, C. & Han, J., Jun 2013, In: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 6, 3, p. 243-259 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Ranking explanatory sentences for opinion summarization

    Kim, H. D., Castellanos, M. G., Hsu, M., Zhai, C. X., Dayal, U. & Ghosh, R., 2013, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1069-1072 4 p. (SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Real time implicit user modeling for personalized search

    Cramer, M. (Inventor), Shen, X. (Inventor), Tan, B. (Inventor) & Zhai, C.-X. (Inventor), May 14 2013, U.S. Patent No. 8442973

    Research output: Patent

  • Robust Unsupervised Feature Selection

    Qian, M. & Zhai, C., 2013, IJCAI 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 1621-1627 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Statistical translation language model for twitter search

    Karimzadehgan, M., Zhai, C. X. & Efron, M., 2013, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2013 Proceedings. p. 121-124 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Structural parse tree features for text representation

    Massung, S., Zhai, C. & Hockenmaier, J., 2013, Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2013. p. 9-16 8 p. 6693488. (Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Supporting keyword search in product database: A probabilistic approach

    Duan, H., Zhai, C. X., Cheng, J. & Gattani, A., Sep 2013, In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 6, 14, p. 1786-1797 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

  • Understanding evolution of research themes: A probabilistic generative model for citations

    Wang, X., Zhai, C. & Roth, D., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1115-1123 9 p. 2487698. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Unsupervised identification of synonymous query intent templates for attribute intents

    Li, Y., Hsu, B. J. & Zhai, C., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2029-2038 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • 2012

    A discriminative model for query spelling correction with latent structural SVM

    Duan, H., Li, Y., Zhai, C. X. & Roth, D., 2012, EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference. p. 1511-1521 11 p. (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A generalized hidden Markov model with discriminative training for query spelling correction

    Li, Y., Duan, H. & Zhai, C., 2012, SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 611-620 10 p. (SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A log-logistic model-based interpretation of TF normalization of BM25

    Lv, Y. & Zhai, C., 2012, Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Proceedings. p. 244-255 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7224 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A survey of text classification algorithms

    Aggarwal, C. C. & Zhai, C. X., Aug 1 2012, Mining Text Data. Springer, Vol. 9781461432234. p. 163-222 60 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  • A survey of text clustering algorithms

    Aggarwal, C. C. & Zhai, C. X., Aug 1 2012, Mining Text Data. Springer, Vol. 9781461432234. p. 77-128 52 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  • Axiomatic analysis of translation language model for information retrieval

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C., 2012, Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Proceedings. p. 268-280 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7224 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • BiasTrust: Teaching biased users about controversial topics

    Vydiswaran, V. G. V., Zhai, C., Roth, D. & Pirolli, P., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1905-1909 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Building enriched web page representations using link paths

    Weninger, T., Zhai, C. X. & Han, J., 2012, HT'12 - Proceedings of 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. p. 53-62 10 p. (HT'12 - Proceedings of 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Click patterns: An empirical representation of complex query intents

    Duan, H., Kiciman, E. & Zhai, C. X., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1035-1044 10 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • CloudSpeller: Query spelling correction by using a unified Hidden Markov Model with Web-scale resources

    Li, Y., Duan, H. & Zhai, C. X., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion. p. 567-568 2 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Enriching text representation with frequent pattern mining for probabilistic topic modeling

    Kim, H. D., Park, D. H., Lu, Y. & Zhai, C. X., 2012, In: Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting. 49, 1, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • FindiLike: Preference driven entity search

    Ganesan, K. & Zhai, C. X., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion. p. 345-348 4 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • InCaToMi: Integrative causal topic miner between textual and non-textual time series data

    Kim, H. D., Zhai, C. X., Rietz, T. A., Diermeier, D., Hsu, M., Castellanos, M. & Ceja Limon, C. A., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2689-2691 3 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Integer linear programming for Constrained Multi-Aspect Committee Review Assignment

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C., Jul 2012, In: Information Processing and Management. 48, 4, p. 725-740 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Leveraging medical thesauri and physician feedback for improving medical literature retrieval for case queries

    Sondhi, P., Sun, J., Zhai, C. X., Sorrentino, R. & Kohn, M. S., Sep 2012, In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19, 5, p. 851-858 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Micropinion generation: An unsupervised approach to generating ultra-concise summaries of opinions

    Ganesan, K., Zhai, C. X. & Viegas, E., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web. p. 869-878 10 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining long-lasting exploratory user interests from search history

    Tan, B., Lv, Y. & Zhai, C., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1477-1481 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Opinion-based entity ranking

    Ganesan, K. & Zhai, C. X., Apr 2012, In: Information Retrieval. 15, 2, p. 116-150 35 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Predicting future popularity trend of events in microblogging platforms

    Gupta, M., Gao, J., Zhai, C. X. & Han, J., 2012, In: Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting. 49, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Query likelihood with negative query generation

    Lv, Y. & Zhai, C., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1799-1803 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Reliability prediction of webpages in the medical domain

    Sondhi, P., Vinod Vydiswaran, V. G. & Zhai, C., 2012, Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Proceedings. p. 219-231 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7224 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Score transformation in linear combination for multi-criteria relevance ranking

    Gerani, S., Zhai, C. & Crestani, F., 2012, Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Proceedings. p. 256-267 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7224 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • SympGraph: A framework for mining clinical notes through symptom relation graphs

    Sondhi, P., Sun, J., Tong, H. & Zhai, C., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 1167-1175 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Tapping into knowledge base for concept feedback: Leveraging ConceptNet to improve search results for difficult queries

    Kotov, A. & Zhai, C. X., 2012, WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. p. 403-412 10 p. (WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Unbiased learning of controversial topics

    Vydiswaran, V. G. V., Zhai, C. X., Roth, D. & Pirolli, P., 2012, In: Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting. 49, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Unsupervised discovery of opposing opinion networks from forum discussions

    Lu, Y., Wang, H., Zhai, C. X. & Roth, D., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1642-1646 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution