Publications

Conference & Workshop Papers

2008

· Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon. Recommending Questions Using the MDL-based Tree Cut Model, in Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008.
· Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu. Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15-20, 2008.
· Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15-20, 2008.
· Gao Cong, Long Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, and Young-In Song. Finding Question-Answer Pairs from Online Forums. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008.
· Young-In Song, Chin-Yew Lin, Yunbo Cao, and Hae-Chang Rim. Question Utility: A Novel Static Ranking of Question Search. In Proceedings of AAAI 2008 (AI and the Web Special Track), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 13-17, 2008.
· Yuanjie Liu, Shasha Li, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Dingyi Han, and Yong Yu. Understanding and Summarizing Answers in Community-Based Question Answering Services. In Proceedings of COLING 2008, Manchester, UK, August 18-22, 2008.

2007

· 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, Volume 43, Issue 5, Patent Processing, September 2007, Pages 1332-1347.
· Guihua Sun, Gao Cong, Xiaohua Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Ming Zhou. Detecting Erroneous Sentences using labeled sequential Patterns and Tree Patterns. In Proceedings of AAAI 2007, Vancouver, Canada, July 22 - 26, 2007.
· Guihua Sun, Xiaohua Liu, Gao Cong, Ming Zhou, Zhongyang Xiong, John Lee and Chin-Yew Lin. Detecting Erroneous Sentences Using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 23 - 30, 2007.
· Liang-Chih Yu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy and Chia-Ling Lin. Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 23 - 30, 2007.
· Jingjing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yalou Huang and Ming Zhou. Low-Quality Product Review Detection in Opinion Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Poster Session, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 23 - 30, 2007.
· Yang Ye, Ming Zhou, and Chin-Yew Lin. Sentence Level Machine Translation Evaluation as a Ranking Problem: One Step aside from BLEU. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 23, 2007.
· Rutu Mulkar, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eduard Hovy, Hans Chalupsky, and Chin-Yew Lin. Learning by Reading: Two Experiments. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Question Answering (KRQA'07), Hyderabad, India, January 6, 2007.

2006

· Fredric C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin, and Carol Peters. New Directions in Multilingual Information Access, SIGIR 2006 Workshop Report, In SIGIR Forum, December 2006, Volume 40 Number 2.
· Fredric C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin, and Carol Peters. New Directions in Multilingual Information Access: Introduction to the Workshop at SIGIR 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 10, 2006.
· Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006), Sydney, Australia, July 22 - 23, 2006.
· Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, and Jian-Yun Nie. An Information-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Evaluation of Summaries. In Proceedings of 2006 Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-NAACL 2006), New York, USA, June 5 - 7, 2006.
· Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos S. Munteanu, and Eduard Hovy. ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically. In Proceedings of 2006 Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-NAACL 2006), New York, USA, June 5 - 7, 2006.
· Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, and Junichi Fukumoto. Automated Summarization Evaluation with Basic Elements. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy, May 24 - 26, 2006.
· Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Summarizing Answer for Complicated Questions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy, May 24 - 26, 2006.

2005

· Liang Zhou, Erin Shaw, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Classummary: Introducing Discussion Summarization to Online Classrooms. In Proceedings of 2005 Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/EMNLP 2005 demo), Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
· Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, and Liang Zhou. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of Multilingual Summarization Evaluation (ACL 2005 workshop), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
· Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Query Interpretation. In Proceedings of Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2005), Vancouver, Canada.
· Lin, Chin-Yew, Liang Zhou, and Eduard Hovy. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report. In Proceedings of Multilingual Summarization Evaluation (ACL 2005 workshop), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

2004

· Lin, Chin-Yew and Franz Josef Och. ORANGE: a Method for Evaluating Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 23 - August 27, 2004.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and Franz Josef Och. Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 21 - 26, 2004.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. ROUGE: a Package for Automatic Evaluation of Summaries. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Summarization Branches Out (WAS 2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 25 - 26, 2004.
· Gao, Jianfeng and Chin-Yew Lin. Introduction to the Special Issue on Statistical Language Modeling. In ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2004.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. Looking for a Few Good Metrics: Automatic Summarization Evaluation - How Many Samples Are Enough?. In Proceedings of the NTCIR Workshop 4, Tokyo, Japan, June 2 - June 4, 2004.

2003

· Leuski, Anton, Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, Ulrich Germann, Franz Josef Och, and Eduard Hovy. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information. In ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2003.
· Leuski, Anton, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. iNeATS: Interactive Multi-Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003), Interactive Posters and Demos Session, Sapporo, Japan, July 7 - 12, 2003.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. Improving Summarization Performance by Sentence Compression - A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL 2003), Sapporo, Japan, July 7, 2003.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics. In Proceedings of 2003 Language Technology Conference (HLT-NAACL 2003), Edmonton, Canada, May 27 - June 1, 2003.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy 2003. The Potential and Limitations of Sentence Extraction for Summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization post-conference workshop of HLT-NAACL-2003, Edmonton, Canada, May 31 - June 1, 2003.

2002

· Lin, Chin-Yew. 2002. The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, August 24 - September 1, 2002.
· E.H. Hovy, U. Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, and Deepak Ravichandran. 2002. Using Knowledge to Facilitate Pinpointing of Factoid Answers. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, August 24 - September 1, 2002.
· U. Hermjakob, E.H. Hovy, and Chin-Yew Lin. 2002. Knowledge-Based Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI-2002), Orlando, FL, U.S.A., July 14-18, 2002.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Manual and Automatic Evaluations of Summaries. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization post-conference workshop of ACL-02, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., July 11-13, 2002.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 2002. From Single to Multi-document Summarization: A Prototype System and its Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., July 7-12, 2002.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Automated Multi-document Summarization in NeATS. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT2002), San Diego, CA, U.S.A., March 23-27, 2002.

2001

· Hovy, E.H., U. Hermjakob, and Chin-Yew Lin. 2001. The Use of External Knowledge of Factoid QA. In Proceedings of the 10th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2001), Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A., November 13-16, 2001.
· Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, and Chin-Yew Lin and D. Ravichandran. 2001. Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT2001), San Diego, CA, U.S.A., March 18-21, 2001.

2000

· Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob and M. Junk and Chin-Yew Lin. 2000. Question Answering in Webclopedia. In Proceedings of the 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC9), Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A., November 13-16, 2000.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 2000. The Automated Acquisition of Topic Signatures for Text Summarization. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), Saarbrücken, Germany, July 31- August 4, 2000.

1999

· Lin, Chin-Yew. Training a Selection Function for Extraction. In the 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 99), Kansa City, Missouri, November 2-6, 1999. (Slides)
· Lin, Chin-Yew. 1999 Machine Translation for Information Access across Language Barrier: the MuST System. In Machine Translation Summit VII, Singapore, September 13-17, 1999.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1999. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST. In I. Mani and M. Maybury (eds.), Advances in Automated Text Summarization. MIT Press.

1998

· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1998. Automated Text Summarization and the SUMMARIST system. TIPSTER Text Program Phase III final report, October 1998.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. 1998. Assembly of Topic Extraction Module in SUMMARIST. In Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization. Stanford, California, March 1998.

1997

· Lin, Chin-Yew. 1997. Robust Automated Topic Identification. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Southern California, August 1997.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1997. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST. In the Proceedings of the ACL97/EACL97 Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization. Madrid, Spain, July 1997.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 1997. Identifying Topics by Position. In the Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP97). Washington, D.C., March 1997.

1995

· Lin, Chin-Yew 1995. Knowledge Based Automated Topic Identification. In the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 1995.

Demonstration and Presentation

· Hermjakob, U., E.H. Hovy, and Chin-Yew Lin. 2002. Automated Question Answering in Webclopedia - A Demonstration. In Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., July 7-12, 2002.
· Hermjakob, U., E.H. Hovy, and Chin-Yew Lin. 2002. Automated Question Answering in Webclopedia - A Demonstration. In the Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT2002), San Diego, CA, U.S.A., March 23-27, 2002.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. 2000. Text Summarization, Q&A, and Multilingual Information Access. In the Workshop on Interactive Searching in Foreign-Language Collections, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland, MD, U.S.A., June 1, 2000.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. 1999. Multilingual Information Access: The MuST System and its Integration with Systran. In the Information Management and Intelligent Collaboration & Visualization Principal Investigators' Meeting, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., November 2-5, 1999.
· Lin, Chin-Yew. 1999. Information Access across the Language Barrier: the MuST System. In the Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A, August 15-19, 1999.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1998. SUMMARIST: Current Status and Future Work. In the Notebook of TIPSTER Text Phase III 24-Month Workshop, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., October 13-15, 1998.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1998. Current and Future Developments of SUMMARIST. In the Notebook of TIPSTER Text Phase III 18-Month Workshop, Fairfax, VA, U.S.A., May 4-6, 1998.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin. 1997. The Assembly of Topic Extraction Modules in SUMMARIST. In the Notebook of TIPSTER Text Phase III 12-Month Workshop, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., October 19-22, 1997.
· Lin, Chin-Yew and E.H. Hovy. 1997. Identifying Topics by Signatures. In the Notebook of TIPSTER Text Phase III 6-Month Workshop, Columbia, MD, U.S.A., May 11-14, 1997.

Teaching

· Chin-Yew Lin. Personalized Information Delivery with NLP and Search Technolgies. In Microsoft Research Asia Summer School 2006 on Next Generation World Wide Web Technologies, Shenzhen, China, July 9 - 11, 2006.
· Chin-Yew Lin. Automated Text Summarization. In Tutorial of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05), Jeju Island, Korea, October 11 - 13, 2005.
· Chin-Yew Lin. Text Summarization. In Microsoft Research Asia Summer School 2005 on Information Extraction Technologies, Harbin, China, June 1 - 3, 2005.
· Hovy, E.H. and Chin-Yew Lin and Daniel Marcu 1999. Automated Text Summarization. In the tutorial of the 22nd International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A, August 15-19, 1999.