Yang Song
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Research Group
Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligene Lab (SQ-CIL), Redmond, WA, USA
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Search Engine, Digital Libraries
Professional Activities
- Program Committee of ECML/PKDD 2009
- Journal Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- Journal Reviewer for Journal of Information Retrieval
- Journal Reviewer for Journal of Pattern Recognition
- Journal Reviewer for Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal Publications
- Yang Song, Alek Kolcz, and C. Lee Giles, Better Naive Bayes Classification for High-Precision Spam Detection, in Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), Wiley, 2009
- Yang Song, Lu Zhang, and C. Lee Giles, Automatic Tag Recommendation Algorithms for Social Recommender Systems, in ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Umer Farooq, Yang Song, John M. Carroll, and C. Lee Giles, Social Bookmarking for Scholarly Digital Libraries, in IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE, December 2007
Referred Conference Proceedings
- Yang Song, Anca Sailer, and HIdayatullah Shaikh, Problem Classification Method to Enhance the ITIL Incident, Problem and Change Management Process, in the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009), IEEE, June 2009
- Yang Song and C. Lee Giles, Efficient User Preference Predictions Using Collaborative Filtering, in the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), IEEE, December 2008
- Yang Song, Lu Zhang, and C. Lee Giles, A Non-parametric Approach to Pair-wise Dynamic Topic Correlation Detection, in IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2008), IEEE, December 2008
- Yang Song, Lu Zhang, and C. Lee Giles, Sparse Gaussian Processes Classification for Fast Tag Recommendation, in ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Yang Song, Ziming Zhuang, Huajing Li, Qiankun Zhao, Jia Li, Wang-Chien Lee, and C. Lee Giles, Real-time Automatic Tag Recommendation, in the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008) , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2008
- Umer Farooq, Thomas G. Kannampallil, Yang Song, Crag H. Ganoe, John Carroll, and C. Lee Giles, Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics, in the 2007 international ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '07), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2007
- Yang Song, Jian Huang, Ding Zhou, Hongyuan Zha, and C. Lee Giles, IKNN: Informative K-Nearest Neighbor Classification, in PKDD 2007, Springer Verlag, September 2007
- Jian Huang, Seyda Erekia, Yang Song, Hongyuan Zha, and C. Lee Giles, Efficient Multiclass Boosting Classification with Active Learning, in Seventh SIAM International Conference (SDM 2007), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, September 2007
- Yang Song, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Jia Li, and C. Lee Giles, Efficient Topic-based Unsupervised Name Disambiguation, in the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL 2007), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2007
- Yang Song, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Jia Li, and C. Lee Giles, Generative Models for Name Disambiguation, in the 16th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2007), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Yang Song, Ding Zhou, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Hongyuan Zha, and C. Lee Giles, Boosting the Feature Space: Text Categorization for Unstructured Data on the Web, in the Sixth IEEE international Conference on Data Mining, (ICDM 2006), IEEE, December 2006
- Ding Zhou, Yang Song, Ya Zhang, and Hongyuan Zha, Towards Discovering Organizational Structure from Email Corpus, in the 4th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Los Angeles , CA, U.S.A. 2005 (ICMLA 2005). , IEEE, August 2005
- Huajing Li, Isaac G. Councill, Levent Bolelli, Ding Zhou, Yang Song, Wang-Chien Lee, A. Sivasubrana, and C. Lee Giles, CiteSeerX - A scalable autonomous scientific digital library, in the First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 06), IEEE, August 2005
Microsoft Research
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Redmond, WA 98052
Office phone: 425-704-9449
Fax: 425-936-7329
EMail: yangsong at microsoft dot com



