Publications

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Ontology Learning
Question Answering
Near-duplicate Detection
Multimedia Retrieval
Human-computer interaction, Human guided machine learning
Opinion Detection
Human Judgments
Text Mining, Clustering, Relation Extraction

By years: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

2010

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, July 19-23, 2010.
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2009

Hui Yang. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Personal Ontology Learning. Carnegie Mellon University. Oct 9, 2009.
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Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. OntoCop: Constructing Ontologies for Public Comments. IEEE Intelligent Systems, September issue, 2009.
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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. Aug 2-7, 2009.
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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. July 19-23, 2009.
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2008

Hui Yang and Jamie Callan. Human-Guided Ontology Learning. Second Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR2008). Microsoft Research, Redmond,WA, USA. Oct, 2008.
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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. Oct, 2008.
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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. Oct, 2008.
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Hui Yang. Metric-based Ontology Learning. Invited talk at Chinese Academy of Science. Beijing, China. Aug, 15, 2008.
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Hui Yang. Introduction to Ontology Learning. Invited talk at Xi'an Jiaotong Univerisity. Xi'an, China. Sep, 5, 2008.
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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. May, 2008.
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2006

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, Nov 14-17 2006.
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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, Aug 6-11 2006.
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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 , May 21-24 2006.
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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 , May 21-24 2006.
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2005

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, 15-18 May 2005.
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2004

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, 15-16 Nov 2004.
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Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. Web-based List Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2004), Geneva, Switzerland, 23-27 Aug 2004.
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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, 25-29 Aug 2004.
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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, 17-22 May 2004.
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2003

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, Nov 2003.
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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, 2-8 Nov 2003.
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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, 2003.
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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, 28 July-1 Aug 2003.
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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, 20-24 May 2003.
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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, 12-17 April 2003.
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2002

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, 19-22 Nov 2002.
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