Weize Kong

2026

Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering.

Alireza Salemi|Cheng Li|Mingyang Zhang|Qiaozhu Mei|Zhuowan Li|Spurthi Amba Hombaiah|Weize Kong|Tao Chen|Hamed Zamani|Michael Bendersky

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026.

2024

Learning to Rewrite Prompts for Personalized Text Generation.

Cheng Li|Mingyang Zhang|Qiaozhu Mei|Weize Kong|Michael Bendersky

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024

2023

Learning Sparse Lexical Representations Over Specified Vocabularies for Retrieval.

Jeffrey M. Dudek|Weize Kong|Cheng Li|Mingyang Zhang|Michael Bendersky

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023

SparseEmbed: Learning Sparse Lexical Representations with Contextual Embeddings for Retrieval.

Weize Kong|Jeffrey M. Dudek|Cheng Li|Mingyang Zhang|Michael Bendersky

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2021

Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT.

Chen Qu|Weize Kong|Liu Yang|Mingyang Zhang|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

Improving Cloud Storage Search with User Activity.

Rolf Jagerman|Weize Kong|Rama Kumar Pasumarthi|Zhen Qin|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021

2016

Extending Faceted Search to the Open-Domain Web.

SIGIR Forum 2016 Volume 50 Issue 1

Precision-Oriented Query Facet Extraction.

Weize Kong|James Allan

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

2015

Predicting Search Intent Based on Pre-Search Context.

Weize Kong|Rui Li|Jie Luo|Aston Zhang|Yi Chang|James Allan

Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

adaQAC: Adaptive Query Auto-Completion via Implicit Negative Feedback.

Aston Zhang|Amit Goyal|Weize Kong|Hongbo Deng|Anlei Dong|Yi Chang|Carl A. Gunter|Jiawei Han

Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

2014

Extending Faceted Search to the General Web.

Weize Kong|James Allan

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014

2013

Improving passage ranking with user behavior information.

Weize Kong|Elif Aktolga|James Allan

22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

Extracting query facets from search results.

Weize Kong|James Allan

The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013

2012

Identifying Web Spam with the Wisdom of the Crowds.

Yiqun Liu|Fei Chen|Weize Kong|Huijia Yu|Min Zhang|Shaoping Ma|Liyun Ru

ACM Transactions on the Web 2012 Volume 6 Issue 1

2010

Detecting epidemic tendency by mining search logs.

Weize Kong|Yiqun Liu|Shaoping Ma|Liyun Ru

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30, 2010