Le Zhao's Publications

2012

L. Zhao. "How to make manual Conjunctive Normal Form queries work in patents search". In Proceedings of the Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011). Gaithersburg, Maryland. 2012. pdf slides.

2011

L. Zhao. "Modeling and predicting term mismatch for full-text retrieval". PhD Thesis Proposal. Carnegie Mellon University. 2011. proposal slides.
Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao. "Passage retrieval for information extraction using distant supervision". In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011). 2011b.
Wei Xu, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao. "Exploiting syntactic and distributional information for spelling correction with Web-scale n-gram models". In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011). 2011a.

2010

L. Zhao and J. Callan. "Term necessity prediction". In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010). Toronto, Canada. paper slides. An extended version of this work appears as my thesis proposal.

2009

L. Zhao and J. Callan. "Formulating simple structured queries using temporal and distributional cues in patents". TREC 2009. Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 17-20, 2009 paper slides
L. Zhao and J. Callan. "Effective and efficient structured retrieval" (poster description). In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009). Hong Kong. paper poster

2007-2008

L. Zhao, C. Liang and J. Callan. "Extending relevance model for relevance feedback". TREC 2008. Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 18-21, 2008. pdf (see our TREC poster)
L. Zhao and J. Callan. "A generative retrieval model for structured documents". In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa valley, USA paper slides
M. Bilotti, L. Zhao, E. Nyberg, and J. Callan. "Focused retrieval over richly-annotated collections". SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval. Singapore. pdf
M. Heilman, L. Zhao, J. Pino, and M. Eskenazi. "Retrieval of reading materials for vocabulary and reading practice". The 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2008
Y. Zhu, L. Zhao and J. Callan. "Structured queries for legal search". TREC 2007. November 2007. pdf (see our TREC poster) // For the main task, we used boolean queries directly obtained from Legal track. For the routing task, for each query an SVM is trained, and a feedback query is issued that approximates the SVM.

2002-2006 refereed

L. Zhao, M. Zhang, S. Ma. "The nature of novelty detection". Journal of Information Retrieval, 9(5): pp. 521-541, November 2006 pdf
L. Zhao, M. Zhang, S. Ma. "The empirical impact of the nature of novelty detection" (poster description). In Proceeding of the 2nd Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2005), (Springer LNCS Vol. 3689/2005 pp. 497-502). Jeju Island, Korea, October 13-15, 2005 e-copy

2002-2006 non-refereed

L. Zhao, et al. 2005 "THUIR report for 863 information retrieval evaluation". Journal of Chinese Information, special issue, 2006 (In Chinese) doc
L. Zhao, R. Ceng, M. Zhang, S. Ma, "THUIR at TREC 2005 terabyte track". In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), November, 2005 pdf
L. Ru, L. Zhao, M. Zhang, S. Ma, "THUIR at TREC 2004 novelty track". In Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), page 81, November, 2004 e-copy
M. Zhang, C. Lin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, S. Ma, "THUIR at TREC 2003: novelty, robust and web". In Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), page 556 Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 18-21, 2003 e-copy
M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, "THU TREC 2002: novelty track experiments". In Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002). Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 19-22, 2002 e-copy

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Last Update: 2011-08-16