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2013

  • Jian Tang, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei. One theme in all views: Modeling consensus topics in multiple contexts. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13), to appear. (17% acceptance)

  • Tao Sun, Ming Zhang, and Qiaozhu Mei. Unexpected relevance: An empirical study of serendipity in retweets. Proceedings of the Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ( ICWSM'13), to appear. (20% acceptance)

  • Zhe Zhao, Qiaozhu Mei. Questions about Questions: An Empirical Analysis of Information Needs on Twitter. Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13), to appear. (15% acceptance)

  • Danny T.Y. Wu, David Hanauer, Qiaozhu Mei, Patricia M. Clark, Lawrence C. An, Jianbo Lei, Joshua Proulx, Qing Zeng-Treitler, Kai Zheng. Applying multiple methods to assess the readability of a large corpus of medical documents. In Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO'13) , to appear.

  • Yukun Chen, Hongxin Cao, Qiaozhu Mei, Kai Zheng, and Hua Xu. Applying active learning to supervised word sense disambiguation in MEDLINE. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). 2013. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23364851

  • Yi Chang, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei and Yan Liu. Towards Twitter Context Summarization with User Influence Models. Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM'13). (19% acceptance)

2012

  • He, Jingrui, Hanghang Tong, Qiaozhu Mei, and Boleslaw Szymanski. GenDeR: A Generic Diversified Ranking Algorithm. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS), pp. 1151-1159. 2012.

  • David Hanauer, Yang Liu, Qiaozhu Mei, Frank Manion, Ulysses Balis, Kai Zheng. Hedging their Mets: The Use of Uncertainty Terms in Clinical Documents and its Potential Implications when Sharing the Documents with Patients. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA'12), pages 321-330, 2012. Link

  • Lei Yang, Tao Sun, Ming Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei. We Know What @You #Tag: Does the Dual Role Affect Hashtag Adoption? In Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'12). pp. 261-270, 2012. (12% acceptance)

  • Yang Liu, Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, 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. (20.7% acceptance)

2011

  • Cindy Xide Lin, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han, Yunliang Jiang, and Marina Danilevsky. The Joint Inference of Topic Diffusion and Evolution in Social Communities. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'11), to appear. (12.9% acceptance)

  • Lei Yang, Qiaozhu Mei, Kai Zheng, 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), pages 915-924, 2011. Link

  • Kai Zheng, Qiaozhu Mei, Lei Yang, Frank J. Manion, Ulysses J. Balis, David A. Hanauer. Voice-Dictated versus Typed-in Clinician Notes: Linguistic Properties and the Potential Implications on Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA'11), pages 1630-1638, 2011. Link

  • Vahed Qazvinian, Emily Rosengren, Dragomir R. Radev and Qiaozhu Mei. Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'11), pages 1589--1599, 2011. (24% acceptance)

  • Moushumi Sen Sarma, David Arcoleo, Radhika S. Khetani, Brant Chee, Xu Ling, Xin He, Jing Jiang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. BeeSpace Navigator: exploratory analysis of gene function using semantic indexing of biological literature . Nucleic Acids Research 2011; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr285. Link

  • Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Dragomir Radev and Qiaozhu Mei. Simultaneous Similarity Learning and Feature-Weight Learning for Document Clustering . In Proceeding of the ACL TextGraphs-6 workshop, 2011.

  • Daniel Zhou, Paul Resnick, Qiaozhu Mei. Classifying the Political Leaning of News Articles and Users from User Votes . Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011).

  • Kai Zheng, Qiaozhu Mei, David A. Hanauer. Collaborative search in electronic health records . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). 2011;18(3), pages 282-291. Link. (6% acceptance)

2010

  • Yunliang Jiang, Cindy Xide Lin, Qiaozhu Mei. Context Comparison of Bursty Events in Web Search and Online Media. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'10), pages 1077-1087, 2010. (25% acceptance). [pdf]

  • Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Dragomir R. Radev, Qiaozhu Mei. Edge Weight Regularization over Multiple Graphs for Similarity Learning. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'10), pages 374-383, 2010. (9% acceptance). [pdf]

  • Yue Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Investigating Task Performance of Probabilistic Topic Models - An Empirical Study of PLSA and LDA. Information Retrieval. Volume 14, Number 2, 178-203, DOI: 10.1007/s10791-010-9141-9. [Link]

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Jian Guo, Dragomir Radev. DivRank: the Interplay of Prestige and Diversity in Information Networks. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGKDD Interational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'10), pages 1009-1018, 2010. (17% acceptance). [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Cindy Xide Lin, Bo Zhao, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han. A Statistical Model for Popular Event Tracking in Social Communities. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGKDD Interational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'10), pages 929-938, 2010. (17% acceptance). [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Duo Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Cross-Lingual Latent Topic Extraction. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '10), pages 1128-1137, 2010. (25% acceptance). [pdf] [summary] [slides]

  • Hanauer DA, Zheng K, Mei Q, SW Choi. Full-Text search in electronic health records: Challenges and opportunities . In: Kutais BG, ed. Internet Policies and Issues. Volume 7. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2010. Link.

  • Kai Zheng, Qiaozhu Mei, David Hanauer. Patterns of Collaborative Search in Narrative Patient Care Documents Stored in Electronic Health Records. The 2010 ACM Conference of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010) workshop on CSCW Research in Healthcare, February, 2010.

2009

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Kristina Klinkner, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins. An Analysis Framework for Search Sequences. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), pages 1991-1996, 2009. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Zhijun Yin, Rui Li, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han. Exploring social tagging graph for web object classification. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09), pages 957-966, 2009. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Ziyu Guan, Jiajun Bu, Qiaozhu Mei, Chun Chen, Can Wang. Personalized tag recommendation using graph-based ranking on multi-type interrelated objects. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'09), pages 540-547, 2009. (16\% acceptance) [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin, Qiaozhu Mei, and Jiawei Han. Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space. In Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), pages 109-120, 2009. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Mu Xia, ChengXiang Zhai, Bin Tan, Yue Lu, Qiaozhu Mei. "You Are What You Write" --Understanding User Online Behavior through Text Mining. In CHI 2009 workshop of Social Mediating Technologies, 2009.

2008

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Dengyong Zhou, Kenneth Church. Query Suggestion Using Hitting Time, Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), pages 469-478, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 17%)

  • Deng Cai, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai. Modeling Hidden Topics on Document Manifold, Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), pages 911-920, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 17%)

  • Xu Ling, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Mining Multi-Faceted Overviews of Arbitrary Topics in a Text Collection, Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'08), pages 497-505, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Yi Zhang. Automatic Web Tagging and Person Tagging Using Language Models, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'08), pages 741-748, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. A General Optimization Framework for Smoothing Language Models on Graph Structures, Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '08), pages 611-618, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 17%)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Generating Impact-Based Summaries for Scientific Literature, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '08), pages 816-824, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 25%)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Deng Cai, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic Modeling with Network Regularization, Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 08), pages 101-100, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides]

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Kenneth Church. Entropy of Search Logs: How Hard is Search? With Personalization? With Backoff?, The First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'08 ), pages 45-54, 2008. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] [video] (Acceptance = 16%)

2007

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Dong Xin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai. Semantic Annotation of Frequent Patterns, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 1(3), 2007. [pdf] [Summary]

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai. Automatic Labeling of Multinomial Topic Models, Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07), pages 490-499. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 8%) Runner-up Best Student Paper Award

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai. A Study of Poisson Query Generation Model for Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '07), pages 319-326. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 17.5%)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Mattew Wondra, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic Sentiment Mixture: Modeling Facets and Opinions in Weblogs, Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 07), pages 171-180. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 14.7%)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Jing Jiang, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. Search and Tagging: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. 2919, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUCDCS-R-2007-2919), 2007. [pdf] [Summary]

  • Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz, Generating Semi-Structured Gene Summaries from Biomedical Literature: A study of semi-structured summarization, Information Processing and Management (IP & M) 43, pages 1777-1791, 2007. [Link] [Summary]

2006

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Dong Xin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai. Generating Semantic Annotations for Frequent Patterns with Context Analysis. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 337-346. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 11%) Runner-up Best Student Paper Award

  • Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. A Mixture Model for Contextual Text Mining. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 649-655. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 23%)

  • Dong Xin, Xuehua Shen, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han. Discovering Interesting Patterns Through User's Interactive Feedback. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 06), pages 773-778. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 23%)

  • Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Language Model Information Retrieval with Document Expansion. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2006, pages 407-414. [pdf] [Summary] (Acceptance = 25%)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Chao Liu, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. A Probabilistic Approach to Spatiotemporal Theme Pattern Mining on Weblogs. Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW' 06), pages 533-542. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] (Acceptance = 11%)

  • Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Automatically Generating Gene Summaries from Biomedical Literature. In Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006 (PSB'06), pages 40-51. [pdf ] [PSB06]

2005

  • Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Discovering Evolutionary Theme Patterns from Text - An Exploration of Temporal Text Mining. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD' 05), pages 198-207. [pdf] [Summary] [slides] [data] (Acceptance = 12%)

  • Tao Tao, Xuanhui Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. Accurate Language Model Estimation with Document Expansion. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ( CIKM'05), pages 273-274.

  • Bei Yu, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai. English Usage Comparison between Native and non-Native English Speakers in Academic Writing. Proceedings of (ACH/ALLC 2005).

  • Hang Su, Qiaozhu Mei. Template Extraction from Candidate Template Set Generation: A Structure and Content Approach. In Proceeding of the 43rd ACM Southeast Regional Conference (ACMSE' 05).

2004

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Junfeng Hu. From Text to Exhibitions: A New Approach for E-Learning on Language and Literature based on Text Mining. In Proceeding of COLING 2004 Workshop "e-Learning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for e-Learning"

  • Qiaozhu Mei. A Knowledge Processing Oriented Life Cycle Study from a Digital Museum System. In Proceeding of the 42rd ACM Southeast Regional Conference (ACMSE' 04).

  • Qiaozhu Mei. A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Poetry Art: Its Design, Realization and Related Researches on Computational Linguistics. Book Chapter. "Literature and Information Science & Technology", p219-p262. Taiwan Tsinghua University Press, 2004. ISBN: 957-28986-8-x (a compressed version of Bachelor's Thesis, in Chinese)

Prior to 2004

  • Qiaozhu Mei. A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Poetry Art: Its Design, Realization and Related Researches on Computational Linguistics. Bachelor's Thesis, Peking University, 2003. (in Chinese)

  • Junfeng Hu, Qiaozhu Mei, Shiwen Yu. Computer Assisted Archaeology Research on Tang and Song Poetry. Conference Presentation, Literature and information Technology Workshop, City University of Hong Kong, 2003.

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Junrong Shen. A Knowledge Flow Driven E-Learning Architecture Design: What is its Stratification and How is it Personalized. Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002), pages 1307-1308, 12.2002. (Poster Presentation)

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