Grace Hui Yang

2026

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Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access.
Kirandeep Kaur|Vinayak Gupta|Madhura Raju|Tanya G. Roosta|Grace Hui Yang|Chirag Shah
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2026, Seattle, WA, USA, March 22-26, 2026

2025

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Pre-Trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue - Part 1.
Wenjie Wang|Zheng Liu|Fuli Feng|Zhicheng Dou|Qingyao Ai|Grace Hui Yang|Defu Lian|Lu Hou|Aixin Sun|Hamed Zamani|Donald Metzler|Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 2
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Proactive Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Advancements and Opportunities.
Yang Deng|Lizi Liao|Wenqiang Lei|Grace Hui Yang|Wai Lam|Tat-Seng Chua
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 3
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Pre-Trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue - Part 2.
Wenjie Wang|Zheng Liu|Fuli Feng|Zhicheng Dou|Qingyao Ai|Grace Hui Yang|Defu Lian|Lu Hou|Aixin Sun|Hamed Zamani|Donald Metzler|Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 5
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AgentIR: 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval.
Pengyue Jia|Qingpeng Cai|Xiangyu Zhao|Ling Pan|Xin Xin|Jin Huang|Weinan Zhang|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

2024

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Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2024
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Improving searcher struggle detection via the reversal theory.
Jiyun Luo|Yan Yang|Valerie Nayak|Grace Hui Yang
Discover Computing 2024 Volume 27 Issue 1
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AgentIR: 1st Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval.
Qingpeng Cai|Xiangyu Zhao|Ling Pan|Xin Xin|Jin Huang|Weinan Zhang|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents.
Yang Deng|Lizi Liao|Zhonghua Zheng|Grace Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Passage Query Methods for Retrieval and Reranking in Conversational Agents.
Victor De Lima|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2024, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-22, 2024

2023

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DRL4IR: 4th Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval.
Xin Xin|Xiangyu Zhao|Jin Huang|Weinan Zhang|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023
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Proactive Conversational Agents in the Post-ChatGPT World.
Lizi Liao|Grace Hui Yang|Chirag Shah
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023
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Sequencing Matters: A Generate-Retrieve-Generate Model for Building Conversational Agents.
Quinn Patwardhan|Grace Hui Yang
The Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2023), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023
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Proactive Conversational Agents.
Lizi Liao|Grace Hui Yang|Chirag Shah
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2023, Singapore, 27 February 2023 - 3 March 2023.

2022

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A Re-classification of Information Seeking Tasks and Their Computational Solutions.
Zhiwen Tang|Grace Hui Yang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2022 Volume 40 Issue 4
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GazBy: Gaze-Based BERT Model to Incorporate Human Attention in Neural Information Retrieval.
Sibo Dong|Justin Goldstein|Grace Hui Yang
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022
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DRL4IR: 3rd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval.
Xiangyu Zhao|Xin Xin|Weinan Zhang|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

2021

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DRL4IR: 2nd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval.
Weinan Zhang|Xiangyu Zhao|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

2020

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval: Fundamentals and Advances.
Weinan Zhang|Xiangyu Zhao|Li Zhao|Dawei Yin|Grace Hui Yang|Alex Beutel
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020
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Balancing Reinforcement Learning Training Experiences in Interactive Information Retrieval.
Limin Chen|Zhiwen Tang|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

2019

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Information retrieval and its sister disciplines.
Grace Hui Yang
SIGIR Forum 2019 Volume 53 Issue 2
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Modeling Long-Range Context for Concurrent Dialogue Acts Recognition.
Yue Yu|Siyao Peng|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019.

2018

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Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2018, Tianjin, China, September 14-17, 2018
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) 2018
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Session search modeling by partially observable Markov decision process.
Grace Hui Yang|Xuchu Dong|Jiyun Luo|Sicong Zhang
Discover Computing 2018 Volume 21 Issue 1
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Use of Interpersonal Deception Theory in Counter Social Engineering.
Grace Hui Yang|Yue Yu
Proceedings of the CIKM 2018 Workshops co-located with 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy, October 22, 2018.
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Overview of the CLEF Dynamic Search Evaluation Lab 2018.
Evangelos Kanoulas|Leif Azzopardi|Grace Hui Yang
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018, Avignon, France, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings
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Minority Report by Lemur: Supporting Search Engine with Virtual Reality.
Andrew Jie Zhou|Grace Hui Yang
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018
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Differential Privacy for Information Retrieval.
Grace Hui Yang|Sicong Zhang
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

2017

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Information Retrieval Technology - 13th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2017, Jeju Island, South Korea, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings
Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2017
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Investigating per Topic Upper Bound for Session Search Evaluation.
Zhiwen Tang|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1-4, 2017
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A Contextual Bandit Approach to Dynamic Search.
Angela Yang|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1-4, 2017
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Differential Privacy for Information Retrieval.
Grace Hui Yang|Sicong Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1-4, 2017
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Deriving Differentially Private Session Logs for Query Suggestion.
Sicong Zhang|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1-4, 2017
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dynamic Search.
Zhiwen Tang|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-17, 2017
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TREC 2017 Dynamic Domain Track Overview.
Grace Hui Yang|Zhiwen Tang|Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-17, 2017

2016

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Privacy-Preserving IR 2016: Differential Privacy, Search, and Social Media.
Grace Hui Yang|Ian Soboroff|Li Xiong|Charles L. A. Clarke|Simson L. Garfinkel
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016
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Anonymizing Query Logs by Differential Privacy.
Sicong Zhang|Grace Hui Yang|Lisa Singh
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016
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An Investigation of Basic Retrieval Models for the Dynamic Domain Task.
Razieh Rahimi|Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2016, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2016
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TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain Track Overview.
Grace Hui Yang|Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2016, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2016

2015

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A term-based methodology for query reformulation understanding.
Marc Sloan|Hui Yang|Jun Wang
Discover Computing 2015 Volume 18 Issue 2
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Privacy Preserving IR 2015: A SIGIR 2015 Workshop.
Grace Hui Yang|Ian Soboroff
SIGIR Forum 2015 Volume 49 Issue 2
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Browsing Hierarchy Construction by Minimum Evolution.
Hui Yang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2015 Volume 33 Issue 3
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The Query Change Model: Modeling Session Search as a Markov Decision Process.
Hui Yang|Dongyi Guan|Sicong Zhang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2015 Volume 33 Issue 4
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Designing States, Actions, and Rewards for Using POMDP in Session Search.
Jiyun Luo|Sicong Zhang|Xuchu Dong|Hui Yang
Advances in Information Retrieval - 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29 - April 2, 2015. Proceedings
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Detecting the Eureka Effect in Complex Search.
Hui Yang|Jiyun Luo|Christopher Wing
Advances in Information Retrieval - 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29 - April 2, 2015. Proceedings
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Session Search by Direct Policy Learning.
Jiyun Luo|Xuchu Dong|Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015
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Learning to Reinforce Search Effectiveness.
Jiyun Luo|Xuchu Dong|Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015
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Privacy-Preserving IR 2015: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security.
Hui Yang|Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015
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DUMPLING: A Novel Dynamic Search Engine.
Andrew Jie Zhou|Jiyun Luo|Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015
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TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track Overview.
Hui Yang|John R. Frank|Ian Soboroff
Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2015, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2015
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Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling.
Hui Yang|Marc Sloan|Jun Wang
Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2015, Shanghai, China, February 2-6, 2015
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Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints.
Lisa Singh|Grace Hui Yang|Micah Sherr|Yifang Wei|Andrew Hian-Cheong|Kevin Tian|Janet Zhu|Sicong Zhang|Tavish Vaidya|Elchin Asgarli
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, WWW 2015, Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015 - Companion Volume

2014

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PIR 2014 The First International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security.
Luo Si|Hui Yang
SIGIR Forum 2014 Volume 48 Issue 2
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Is the First Query the Most Important: An Evaluation of Query Aggregation Schemes in Session Search.
Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang
Information Retrieval Technology - 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, Kuching, Malaysia, December 3-5, 2014. Proceedings
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Query Aggregation in Session Search.
Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Data-Driven User Behavioral Modeling and Mining from Social Media, DUBMOD@CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 3, 2014
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A Fragment-Based Similarity Measure for Concept Hierarchies and Ontologies.
Seungsu Kam|Hui Yang|Hui Yang|Seungsu Kam
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, ESAIR '14, Shanghai, China, November 7, 2014
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Win-win search: dual-agent stochastic game in session search.
Jiyun Luo|Sicong Zhang|Hui Yang
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
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Privacy-preserving IR: when information retrieval meets privacy and security.
Luo Si|Hui Yang
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
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FitYou: integrating health profiles to real-time contextual suggestion.
Christopher Wing|Hui Yang
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
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Dynamic information retrieval modeling.
Hui Yang|Marc Sloan|Jun Wang
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
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A POMDP model for content-free document re-ranking.
Sicong Zhang|Jiyun Luo|Hui Yang
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
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Modeling Rich Interactions in Session Search - Georgetown University at TREC 2014 Session Track.
Jiyun Luo|Xuchu Dong|Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-21, 2014
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Query Refinement: Negation Detection and Proximity Learning Georgetown at TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track.
Christopher Wing|Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-21, 2014

2013

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The water filling model and the cube test: multi-dimensional evaluation for professional search.
Jiyun Luo|Christopher Wing|Hui Yang|Marti A. Hearst
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013
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Query Formulation for Prior Art Search - Georgetown University at CLEF-IP 2013.
Jiyun Luo|Hui Yang
Working Notes for CLEF 2013 Conference , Valencia, Spain, September 23-26, 2013.
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Increasing Stability of Result Organization for Session Search.
Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang
Advances in Information Retrieval - 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings
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Utilizing query change for session search.
Dongyi Guan|Sicong Zhang|Hui Yang
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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InfoLand: information lay-of-land for session search.
Jiyun Luo|Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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Query change as relevance feedback in session search.
Sicong Zhang|Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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Boosting Venue Page Rankings for Contextual Retrieval-Georgetown at TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track.
Jiyun Luo|Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013
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Applying the Query Change Retrieval Model on Session Search-Georgetown at TREC 2013 Session Track.
Sicong Zhang|Hui Yang
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013

2012

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Personal concept hierarahy construction.
Hui Yang
SIGIR Forum 2012 Volume 46 Issue 1
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Effective Structured Query Formulation for Session Search.
Dongyi Guan|Hui Yang|Nazli Goharian
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012
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(Not Too) Personalized Learning to Rank for Contextual Suggestion.
Andrew Yates|Dave DeBoer|Hui Yang|Nazli Goharian|Steve Kunath|Ophir Frieder
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012

2010

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Collecting high quality overlapping labels at low cost.
Hui Yang|Anton Mityagin|Krysta M. Svore|Sergey Markov
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010

2009

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Feature selection for automatic taxonomy induction.
Hui Yang|Jamie Callan
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

2008

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Metric-based ontology learning.
Hui Yang|Luis Galárraga|Guoliang Li|Guoliang Li|Jamie Callan|Hui Yang|Jianhua Feng|Jianhua Feng|Jamie Callan
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web, ONISW 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008
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Learning the distance metric in a personal ontology.
Hui Yang|Jamie Callan
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web, ONISW 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008

2006

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Near-duplicate detection by instance-level constrained clustering.
Hui Yang|James P. Callan
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006
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Knowledge Transfer and Opinion Detection in the TREC 2006 Blog Track.
Hui Yang|Jamie Callan|Luo Si
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

2004

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Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers.
Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004
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FADA: find all distinct answers.
Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web - Alternate Track Papers & Posters, WWW 2004, New York, NY, USA, May 17-20, 2004

2003

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Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering.
Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua|Shuguang Wang|Chun-Keat Koh
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada
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QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task.
Hui Yang|Hang Cui|Mstislav Maslennikov|Long Qiu|Min-Yen Kan|Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003
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Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions.
Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua|Shuguang Wang
Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference - Posters, WWW 2003, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003

2002

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The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering.
Hui Yang|Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002