Publication List

 

Conference Papers

 

1. John A. Bateman and Hang Li

The Application of Systemic-functional Grammar to Japanese and Chinese for Use in Text Generation

Proceedings of the 1988 International Conference on Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, pp.443-447.

 

2. Naoki Abe, Hang Li, and Atsuyoshi Nakamura

On-line Learning of Binary Lexical Relations Using Two-dimensional Weighted Majority Algorithms

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML¡¯95), pp.3-11.

 

3. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Generalizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle

Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP¡¯95), pp.230-248.

 

4. Naoki Abe and Hang Li

Learning Word Association Norms Using Tree Cut Pair Models

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML¡¯96), pp.3-11.

 

5. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Clustering Words with the MDL Principle

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING¡¯96), pp.5-9.

 

6. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Learning Dependencies between Case Frame Slots

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING¡¯96), pp.10-15.

 

7. Hang Li

A Probabilistic Disambiguation Method based on Psycholinguistic Principles

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Very Large Corpora (VLC¡¯96), pp.141-154.

 

8. Hang Li  and Kenji Yamanishi

Document Classification Using a Finite Mixture Model

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL¡¯97), pp.39-47.

 

9. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Word Clustering and Disambiguation based on Co-occurrence Data

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL¡¯98), pp.749-755.

 

10. Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

Text Classification Using ESC-based Stochastic Decision Lists

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM¡¯99), pp.122-130.

 

11. Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

Topic Analysis Using a Finite Mixture Model

Proceedings of Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large (EMNLP-VLC¡¯00), pp.35-44.

 

12. Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

Mining from Open Answers in Questionnaire Data

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD¡¯01), pp.443-449.

 

13. Jianfeng Gao, Joshua T. Goodman, Guihong Cao, and Hang Li

Exploring Asymmetric Clustering for Statistical Language Modeling

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL¡¯02), pp.183-190.

 

14. Cong Li and Hang Li

Word Translation Disambiguation Using Bilingual Bootstrapping

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL¡¯02), pp.343-351.

 

15. Yunbo Cao and Hang Li

Base Noun Phrase Translation Using Web Data and the EM Algorithm

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING¡¯02), pp.127-133.

 

16. Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, and Li Lian

Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL¡¯03), pp.327-334.

 

17. Cong Li, J-Rong Wen, and Hang Li

Text Classification Using Stochastic Keyword Generation

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Machine Learning  (ICML¡¯03), pp.464-471.

 

18. Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, and Min Zhao

Ranking Definitions with Supervised Learning Method

Proceedings of the 14th World Wide Web Conference  (WWW¡¯05), pp.811-819.

 

19. Yunhua Hu, Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Dmitriy Meyerzon, and Qinghua Zheng

Automatic Extraction of Titles from General Documents using Machine Learning

Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Digital Library 2005 (ACM-JCDL¡¯05), pp.145-154.

 

20. Yunhua Hu, Guomao Xin, Ruihua Song, Guoping Hu, Shuming Shi, Yunbo Cao, and Hang Li

Title Extraction from Bodies of HTML Documents and Its Application to Web Page Retrieval

Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (ACM-SIGIR¡¯05), pp.250-257.

 

21. Jie Tang, Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, and Zhaohui Tang

Email Data Cleaning

Proceedings of the 11th ACM KDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2005 (ACM-SIGKDD¡¯05), pp.489-498.

 

22. Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Yunhua Hu, Shenjie Li, and Dmitriy Meyerzon

A New Approach to Intranet Search Based on Information Extraction

Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM-CIKM¡¯05), industry track, pp.460-468.

 

23. Yunbo Cao, Jingjing Liu, Shenghua Bao, and Hang Li

Research on Expert Search at Enterprise Track of TREC 2005

Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC'05).

 

24. Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Adapting Ranking SVM to Document Retrieval

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (ACM-SIGIR¡¯06), pp. 186-193.

 

25. Min Zhao, Hang Li, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, and Jue Wang

Adapting Document Ranking to Users Preferences using Click-through Data

Proceedings of Asian Information Retrieval Symposium 2006, pp.26-42.

 

26. Guoping Hu, Jingjing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Jian-Yun Nie, and Jianfeng Gao

A Supervised Learning Approach to Entity Search

Proceedings of Asian Information Retrieval Symposium 2006, pp.54-66.

 

27. Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, and Yalou Huang

Cost Sensitive Learning of SVM for Ranking

Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML¡¯06), pp. 833-840.

 

28. Shenghua Bao, Yunbo Cao, Bing Liu, Yong Yu, and Hang Li

Mining Latent Associations of Objects Using a Typed Mixture Model - A Case Study on Expert/Expertise Mining

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM¡¯06), pp. 803-807.

 

29. Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Shiji Song, and Hang Li

Detecting Link Spam using Temporal Information

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM¡¯2006), pp.1049-1053.

 

30. Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, and Yalou Huang

Searching Documents based on Relevance and Type

Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR¡¯07), 629-636.

 

31. Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhi-Ming Ma, and Hang Li

Supervised Rank Aggregation

Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW¡¯07), 481-490. 

 

32. Zhe Cao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Hang Li

Learning to Rank: From Pairwise Approach to Listwise Approach

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML¡¯07), 129-136. 

       

33. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei Lai, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, and Hang Li

Ranking with Multiple Hyperplanes

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (ACM-SIGIR¡¯07), 279-286. 

 

34. Jun Xu and Hang Li

AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (ACM-SIGIR¡¯07), 391-398. 

 

35. Xiuobo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, and Hang Li

Feature Selection for Ranking

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (ACM-SIGIR¡¯07), 407-414. 

 

36. Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Tao Qin, Wenying Xiong, and Hang Li

LETOR: Benchmark Dataset for Research on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval. 

 

37. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, Wen-Ying Xiong, and Hang Li

Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search

Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), to appear.

 

38. Rong Jin, Hamed Valizadegan, and Hang Li

Ranking Refinement and Its Application to Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), to appear.

 

39. Gu Xu, Hang Li, and Wei-Ying Ma

Fora: Leveraging the Power of Internet Communities for Question Answering

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Question Answering on the Web (QAWeb 2008), to appear.

 

40. Xiaonan Ji, Gu Xu, James Bailey, and Hang Li

Mining, Ranking, and Using Acronym Patterns

Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2008). 

 

Journal Papers

 

1. Hang Li

A Probabilistic Disambiguation Method based on Psycholinguistic Principles (in Japanese)

Computer Software, 13(6), pp.53-65, Iwanami Shoten, 1996.

 

2. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Clustering Words with the MDL Principle

Journal of Natural Language Processing, 4(2), pp.71-88, The Natural Language Processing Society of Japan, 1997.

 

3. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Generalizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle

Computational Linguistics, 24(2), pp.217-244, MIT Press, 1998.

 

4. Hang Li and Naoki Abe

Learning Dependencies between Case Frame Slots

Computational Linguistics, 25(3), pp. 283-291, MIT Press,  1999.

 

5. Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

Text Classification Using ESC-based Stochastic Decision Lists

Information Processing & Management, 38(3), pp.343-361, Elsevier Science, 2002.

 

6. Hang Li

Word Clustering and Disambiguation based on Co-occurrence Data.

Natural Language Engineering, 8(1), pp.25-42, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

 

7. Kenji Yamanishi and Hang Li

Mining Open Answers in Questionnaire Data

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(5), pp.58-63, 2002.

 

8. Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi

Topic Analysis Using a Finite Mixture Model

Information Processing & Management, 39(4), pp.521-541, Elsevier Science, 2003.

 

9. Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, and Cong Li

Using Bilingual Web Data to Mine and Rank Translations

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 39(4), pp.54-59, (2003).

 

10. Hang Li and Cong Li

Word Translation Disambiguation Using Bilingual Bootstrapping

Computational Linguistics, 30(1), pp.1-22, MIT Press, 2004.

 

11. Yunhua Hu, Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Li Teng, Dmitriy Meyerzon, and Qinghua Zheng

Automatic Extraction of Titles from General Documents using Machine Learning

Information Processing & Management, 42(5), pp.1276-1293, Elsevier Science, 2006.

 

12. Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Min Zhao, and Yalou Huang

A Supervised Learning Approach to Search of Definitions

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 21(3), pp.439-449, Springer, 2006.

 

13. Yewei Xue, Yunhua Hu, Guomao Xin, Ruihua Song, Shuming Shi, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, and Hang Li

Web Page Title Extraction and Its Application

Information Processing & Management, 43(5), 1332-1347, Elsevier Science, 2007.

 

14. Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng Wang, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li

Query-level Loss Functions for Information Retrieval

Information Processing and Management, 44, 838-855, Elsevier Science, 2008.

 

Articles

 

1. I. Dan Melamed and Hang Li

Review of Ambiguity Resolution in Language Learning: Computational and Cognitive Models, by Hinrich Sch¨¹tze

Computational Linguistics, 25(3), pp.436-439, MIT Press, 1998.

 

2. Hang Li

Text Classification Using Machine Learning Techniques (in Japanese)

Journal of SICE, 38(7), pp.456-460, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 1999.

 

3. Hang Li

Introduction to Model Selection - Using Natural Language Processing Problems as Examples (in Japanese)

IPSJ Magazine, 42(1), The Information Processing Society of Japan, 2001.

 

4. Hang Li

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (in Chinese)

Issues in Chinese Information Processing, Science Press 2003.

 

5. Hang Li

Text Mining (in Chinese)

Machine Learning and Its Applications, Tsinghua University Press, 2005.