CAREER: Eyes of the Foreseer - Integrative and In Situ Information Retrieval and Mining in Online Communities

National Science Foundation Award Number: NSF-IIS 1054199

Contact Information

Qiaozhu Mei

Associate Professor
School of Information
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
Office: 3348 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734)-763-0076
Email: qmei AT umich DOT edu

Participants

Qiaozhu Mei. Principal Investigator.
Wei Ai. PhD Student, University of Michigan.
Sam Carton. PhD Student, University of Michigan.
Yue Wang. PhD Student. Now at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cheng Li. PhD Student. Now at Google
Jian Tang. Visiting PhD student, Peking University. Postdoctoral Researcher. Now at HEC Montreal
Yang Liu. PhD Student. Now at Amazon Machine Learning.
Zhe Zhao. PhD Student. Now at Google Research.
Tao Sun. Visiting PhD Student, Peking University. Now at Microsoft.

Award Information

This website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1054199. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Award Number: IIS-1054199
Duration: January 15, 2011 to December 31, 2017
Award Amount: $449,531
Award title: CAREER: Eyes of the Foreseer - Integrative and In Situ Information Retrieval and Mining in Online Communities

Project Background

With the growth of online communities, the Web has evolved from networks of shared documents to networks of knowledge-sharing groups and individuals. A vast amount of heterogeneous yet interrelated information is being generated for which existing information analysis techniques are inadequate. Current tools often neglect the actual creators and consumers of information, and as a result, the findings are only useful to data analysts.

Project Goals

The user-centric Foreseer is the next generation of information analysis for online communities. It represents a new paradigm of study through the four "Cs": content, context, crowd, and cloud. Information analysis of content is put into the context of the users’ daily lives to benefit the communities (crowd) that generate information residing in the cloud. This project is the first integrative and in situ analysis of information generated in online communities that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Research of Foreseer consists of formal community models, efficient data analysis tools, advanced solutions of real applications, and novel information systems.

Project Impact

Making the results available to everyday Web users, not just data analysts, will result in improved dissemination of ideas, shared public opinions, and wise decision-making in online communities. Novel Web-based information systems will form prototypes that can be used in online social and health communities. The research will enhance the current information analysis and retrieval curricula and lead to a number of new classes in information science and health informatics.

Educational Impact

Part of research results in this project have been used in information retrieval courses (SI 650/EECS 549), network courses (SI 508), and data mining (SI 721, SI671) offered by the school of information. Online competitions through Kaggle-in-Class have been established based on the research of this project. Through the online competitions students have access to a new, in-situ classroom learning model of data analysis techniques.

Publications

Yue Wang, Kai Zheng, Hua Xu, and Qiaozhu Mei, “Interactive medical word sense disambiguation through informed learning,” Journal of American Medical Informatics As- sociation (2018), to appear.
Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Yang Liu, and Qiaozhu Mei. Does team competition increase pro-social lending? evidence from online microfinance. Games and Economic Behavior, 101:311–333, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.geb.2015.02.001.
Zhuofeng Wu, Cheng Li, Zhe Zhao, Fei Wu, and Qiaozhu Mei, “Identify shifts of word se- mantics through Bayesian surprise,” In Proceedings of the 41st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR’18), to appear.
Yunhao Jiao, Cheng Li, Fei Wu, and Qiaozhu Mei, “Find the Conversation Killers: a Predictive Study of Thread-ending Posts,” Proceedings of the 27th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’18), to appear.
Zhenpeng Chen, Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Huoran Li, Qiaozhu Mei and Xuanzhe Liu, “Learning Gendered Patterns of Emoji Usage on Smartphones,” Proceedings of the 27th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’18), to appear.
Jian Tang, Yue Wang, Kai Zheng, and Qiaozhu Mei. End-to-end learning for short text expansion. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 1105–1113. ACM, 2017.
Wei Ai, Xuan Lu, Xuanzhe Liu, Ning Wang, Gang Huang, and Qiaozhu Mei. Untangling emoji popularity through semantic embeddings. In ICWSM, pages 2–11, 2017.
Xuanzhe Liu, Xuan Lu, Huoran Li, Tao Xie, Qiaozhu Mei, Hong Mei, and Feng Feng. Understanding diverse usage patterns from large-scale appstore-service profiles. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2017. doi: 10.1109/TSE.2017.2685387.
Xuan Lu, Zhenpeng Chen, Xuanzhe Liu, Huoran Li, Tao Xie, and Qiaozhu Mei, PRADO: Predicting App Adoption by Learning the Correlation between Developer-Controllable Properties and User Behaviors, in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 1, issue 3, pages 79:1--79:30, 2017
Cheng Li, Jiaqi Ma, Xiaoxiao Guo, and Qiaozhu Mei, "DeepCas: an End-to-end Predictor of Information Cascades, " in Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'17), 2017. (17% acceptance)
David A Hanauer, Danny T.Y. Wu, Lei Yang, Qiaozhu Mei, Katherine B. Murkowski-Steffy, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, and Kai Zheng, "Development and empirical user-centered evaluation of semantically-based query recommendation for an electronic health record search engine, " Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 67, pages 1-10, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2017.01.013.
Xuanzhe Liu, Wei Ai, Huoran Li, Jian Tang, Gang Huang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Derive User Preferences of Mobile Apps from their Management Activities," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) , 35(4):39, 2017.
Cheng Li, Xiaoxiao Guo, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Deep Memory Networks for Attitude Identification, " in Proceedings of the 10th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'17), pages 671-680, 2017. (16% acceptance)
Wei Ai, Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Webb Phillips, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 113, no. 52, pages 14944-14948, 2016.
Xuanzhe Liu, Wei Ai, Huoran Li, Jian Tang, Gang Huang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Derive User Preferences of Mobile Apps from their Management Activities," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) , .
Cheng Li, Xiaoxiao Guo, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Deep Memory Networks for Attitude Identification, " in Proceedings of the 10th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'17), to appear. (16% acceptance)
Cheng Li, Paul Resnick, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Multiple Queries as Bandit Arms," in Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16), pp.1089-1098, 2016. (18% acceptance)
Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Xuanzhe Liu, Qian Li, Ning Wang, Gang Huang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users," in Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP'16), pp. 770-780, 2016.
Jian Tang, Jingzhou Liu, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Visualizing Large-scale and High-dimensional Data," in Proceedings of the 25th international conference on World wide web (WWW'16), pp. 287-297, 2016. (Best Paper Nomination)
Huoran Li, Wei Ai, Xuanzhe Liu, Jian Tang, Gang Huang, Feng Feng, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Voting with Their Feet: Inferring User Preferences from App Management Activities," in Proceedings of the 25th international conference on World wide web (WWW'16) (industry track), pp. 1351-1362, 2016.
Xuan Lu, Xuanzhe Liu, Huoran Li, Tao Xie, Dan Hao, Qiaozhu Mei, Gang Huang, and Feng Feng, "PRADA: Prioritizing Android Devices for Apps by Mining Large-Scale Usage Data," in Proceedings of The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'16), pp. 3-13, 2016. (19% acceptance)
Yue Wang, Dawei Yin, Roger Jie Luo, Pengyuan Wang, Makoto Yamada, Yi Chang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Beyond Ranking: Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation," in Proceedings of the 9th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'16), pp. 103-112, 2016. (Best Paper Award)
Xin Rong, Zhe Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Eytan Adar, "EgoSet: Exploiting Word Ego-networks and User-generated Ontology for Multifaceted Set Expansion," in Proceedings of the 9th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'16), pp. 645-654, 2016. (18.2% acceptance)
Jian Tang, Meng Qu, and Qiaozhu Mei, "PTE: Predictive Text Embedding through Large-scale Heterogeneous Text Networks," in Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'15), to appear.
Cheng Li, Yue Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, Dong Wang, and Sandeep Pandey, "Click-through Prediction for Advertising in Twitter Timeline," in Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'15), (industry track), to appear.
Jian Tang, Meng Qu, Mingzhe Wang, Ming Zhang, Jun Yan, and Qiaozhu Mei, " LINE: Large-scale Information Network Embedding," in Proceedings of the 24th international conference on World wide web (WWW'15), to appear. (14.1% acceptance). Source Code: https://github.com/tangjianpku/LINE
Zhe Zhao, Paul Resnick, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Enquiring Minds: Early Detection of Rumors in Social Media from Enquiry Posts," in Proceedings of the 24th international conference on World wide web (WWW'15), to appear. (14.1% acceptance)
Samuel Carton, Souneil Park, Nicole Zeffer, Eytan Adar, Qiaozhu Mei, and Paul Resnick, "Audience Analysis for Competing Memes in Social Media," in the 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'15), to appear. (19% acceptance)
Danny T. Wu, David A. Hanauer, Qiaozhu Mei, Patty M. Clark, Lawrence C. An, Joshua Proulxe, Qing T. Zeng, Vinod Vydiswaran, Kevyn Collins-Thompson K, and Kai Zheng. "Assessing the readability of ClinicalTrials.gov," Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (2015), forthcoming.
Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Yang Liu, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Does team competition increase pro-social lending? Evidence from online microfinance," Games and Economic Behavior (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2015.02.001.
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Qiaozhu Mei, David A. Hanauer, and Kai Zheng, "Mining consumer health vocabulary from community-generated\ text," in AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings (AMIA'14). (Distinguished Paper Award)
Jian Tang, Zhaoshi Meng, Xuanlong Nguyen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Ming Zhang, "Understanding the Limiting Factors of Topic Modeling via Po\ sterior Contraction Analysis," in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'14), pp. 190-198, 2014. (Best Paper Award)
Cheng Li, Yue Wang, Paul Resnick, and Qiaozhu Mei, "ReQ-ReC: High-Recall Retrieval with Rate-Limited Queries," in Proceedings\ of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'14), pp. 163-172, 2014. (21% acceptance)
Shoubin Kong, Qiaozhu Mei, Ling Feng, Fei Ye, and Zhe Zhao, "Predicting Bursts and Popularity of Hashtags in Real-Time," in Proceedings of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'14), pp. 927-930, 2014. (short paper)
Tianyi Lin, Wentao Tian, Qiaozhu Mei, and Hong Cheng, "The dual-sparse topic model: mining focused topics and focused terms in short \ text," in Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web (WWW'14), pp. 539-550, 2014. (13% acceptance)
VG Vinod Vydiswaran, Yang Liu, Kai Zheng, and Qiaozhu Mei, "User-Created Groups in Health Forums: What Makes Them Special?" i\ n Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'14), 2014. (23% acceptance)
Xin Rong and Qiaozhu Mei, "Diffusion of Innovations Revisited: from Social Network to Innovation Network," in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), pp. 499-508, 2013. (17% acceptance)
Jian Tang, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "One theme in all views: modeling consensus topics in multiple contexts," in Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13), pp. 5-13, 2013. (17% acceptance)
Tao Sun, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Unexpected relevance: an empirical study of serendipity in retweets," in Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'13), 2013. (20% acceptance)
Zhe Zhao and Qiaozhu Mei, "Questions about questions: an empirical analysis of information needs on Twitter," in Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13), pp. 1545-1556, 2013. (15% acceptance)
Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong, Qiaozhu Mei, and Boleslaw Szymanski, "GenDeR: A Generic Diversified Ranking Algorithm," in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS'12), pp. 1151-1159, 2012.
Lei Yang, Tao Sun, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei, "We know what@ you# tag: does the dual role affect hashtag adoption?," in Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'12), pp. 261-270, 2012.
Yang Liu, Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Suzy Salib, "I loan because...: understanding motivations for pro-social lending," in Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'12), pp. 503-512, 2012.
Cindy Xide Lin, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han, Yunliang Jiang, and Marina Danilevsky, "The joint inference of topic diffusion and evolution in social communities," in 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'11), pp. 378-387, 2011.
Lei Yang, Qiaozhu Mei, Kai Zheng, and David Hanauer, "Query Log Analysis of an Electronic Health Record Search Engine," in Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA'11), pp. 915-924, 2011.
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick, and Qiaozhu Mei, "Classifying the Political Leaning of News Articles and Users from User Votes," in Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'11), 2011.

Collaborators

We have established collaboration with Twitter.com, Yahoo!, Kiva.org, IBM, DiDi, Haodf.com, Tsinghua University, and Peking University in the scope of this project. Thanks to our excellent collaborators, We have got access to real datasets and applications through the collaborations.

Resources

Last Updated: July 2018.