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  • 2013

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2011

    A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback

    Lv, Y., Zhai, C. X. & Chen, W., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 165-174 10 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

  • Adaptive term frequency normalization for BM25

    Lv, Y. & Zhai, C. X., 2011, CIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1985-1988 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • Automatic construction of a context-aware sentiment lexicon: An optimization approach

    Lu, Y., Castellanos, M., Dayal, U. & Zhai, C. X., 2011, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011. p. 347-356 10 p. (Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011).

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

  • Automatic query reformulation with syntactic operators to alleviate search difficulty

    Duan, H., Li, R. & Zhai, C., 2011, CIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2037-2040 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • Content-driven trust propagation framework

    Vydiswaran, V. G. V., Zhai, C. X. & Roth, D., 2011, Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD'11. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 974-982 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

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

  • Exploiting thread structures to improve smoothing of language models for forum post retrieval

    Duan, H. & Zhai, C., 2011, Advances in Information Retrieval - 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, Proceedings. Clough, P., Foley, C., Gurrin, C., Lee, H., Jones, G. J. F., Kraaij, W. & Murdoch, V. (eds.). Springer, p. 350-361 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6611 LNCS).

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

  • Gauging the internet doctor: Ranking medical claims based on community knowledge

    Vinod Vydiswaran, V. G., Zhai, C. X. & Roth, D., 2011, Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and HealthCare, DMMH'11 - Held with the KDD Conference, the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-2011. p. 42-51 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

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

  • Geographical topic discovery and comparison

    Yin, Z., Cao, L., Han, J., Zhai, C. & Huang, T., 2011, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011. p. 247-256 10 p. (Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011).

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

  • Improving retrieval accuracy of difficult queries through generalizing negative document language models

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C., 2011, CIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 27-36 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • Interactive sense feedback for difficult queries

    Kotov, A. & Zhai, C., 2011, CIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 163-172 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • Latent aspect rating analysis without aspect keyword supervision

    Wang, H., Lu, Y. & Zhai, C. X., 2011, Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD'11. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 618-626 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

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

  • Learning online discussion structures by conditional random fields

    Wang, H., Wang, C., Zhai, C. X. & Han, J., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 435-444 10 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

  • Lower-bounding term frequency normalization

    Lv, Y. & Zhai, C., 2011, CIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 7-16 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • LPTA: A probabilistic model for latent periodic topic analysis

    Yin, Z., Cao, L., Han, J., Zhai, C. & Huang, T., 2011, Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2011. p. 904-913 10 p. 6137295. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM).

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

  • Mining named entities with temporally correlated bursts from multilingual Web news streams

    Kotov, A., Zhai, C. X. & Sproat, R., 2011, Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011. p. 237-246 10 p. (Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011).

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

  • Structural topic model for latent topical structure analysis

    Wang, H., Zhang, D. & Zhai, C. X., 2011, ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. p. 1526-1535 10 p. (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; vol. 1).

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

  • Unsupervised query segmentation using clickthrough for information retrieval

    Li, Y., Hsu, B. J., Zhai, C. X. & Wang, K., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 285-294 10 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    Open Access
  • When documents are very long, BM25 fails

    Lv, Y. & Zhai, C. X., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1103-1104 2 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

  • 2010

    Aggregation of multiple judgments for evaluating ordered lists

    Kim, H. D., Zhai, C. & Han, J., 2010, Advances in Information Retrieval - 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Proceedings. Springer, p. 166-178 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5993 LNCS).

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

  • Cross-lingual latent topic extraction

    Zhang, D., Mei, Q. & Zhai, C. X., 2010, ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. p. 1128-1137 10 p. (ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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

  • Cross-lingual latent topic extraction

    Zhang, D., Mei, Q. & Zhai, C. X., 2010, ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference Proceedings. Hajic, J., Carberry, S. & Clark, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1128-1137 10 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 2010-July).

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

  • Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C. X., 2010, SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 323-330 8 p. (SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

  • Exploration-exploitation tradeoff in interactive relevance feedback

    Karimzadehgan, M. & Zhai, C. X., 2010, CIKM'10 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and Co-located Workshops. p. 1397-1400 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

  • Improving One-Class Collaborative Filtering by incorporating rich user information

    Li, Y., Hu, J., Zhai, C. & Chen, Y., 2010, CIKM'10 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and Co-located Workshops. p. 959-968 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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