Published in CIKM 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Yongfeng Zhang, Xu Chen, Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, and W. Bruce Croft. Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond. To appear in Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate=17% (147 out of 862).
Published in ACL 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Wei Zhou, Weipeng Zhao, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen, W. Bruce Croft,Wei Lin. Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversation Systems in E-commerce. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018. Short Paper. (CCF Rank A)
Published in SIGIR 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Daniel Cohen, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft. WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval, In Proceedings of the 41th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. July 8-12, 2018. Short Paper. Acceptance rate=30% (98 out of 327). (CCF Rank A)
Published in SIGIR 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu. Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations, In Proceedings of the 41th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. July 8-12, 2018. Short Paper. Acceptance rate=30% (98 out of 327). (CCF Rank A)
Published in SIGIR 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen. Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems, In Proceedings of the 41th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. July 8-12, 2018. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate=21% (86 out of 409). (CCF Rank A)
Published in SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, 2017
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Hamed Zamani, Yongfeng Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft. Neural Matching Models for Question Retrieval and Next Question Prediction in Conversation, To appear in Neu-IR 2017: The SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (SIGIR Neu-IR 2017), Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017. Oral Presentation.
Published in SIGIR 2017, 2017
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Susan T. Dumais, Paul N. Bennett and Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior, To appear in Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate=22% (78 out of 362). (CCF Rank A)
Published in CIKM 2016, 2016
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft, aNMM: Ranking Short Answer Texts with Attention-Based Neural Matching Model, In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, IN, USA. October 24-28, 2016. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate=17.6% (165 out of 935).
Published in ICTIR 2016, 2016
Recommended citation: Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft, Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval, In Proceedings of The 2nd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieva (ICTIR 2016). Newark, DE, USA. September 12-16, 2016. Full Oral Paper.
Published in SIGIR 2016, 2016
Recommended citation: Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft, Improving Language Estimation with the Paragraph Vector Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval, In Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016). Pisa, Italy. July 18-10, 2016. Short Paper. (CCF Rank A)
Published in ECIR 2016, 2016
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald and W. Bruce Croft. Modelling User Interest for Zero-query Ranking. In Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), Padova, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate = 21%.
Published in ECIR 2016, 2016
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo and Falk Scholer. Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), Padova, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate = 21%.
Published in ICDM 2014, 2014
Recommended citation: Jianguang Du, Jing Jiang, Liu Yang, Dandan Song, Lejian Liao. ShellMiner: Mining Organizational Phrases in Argumentative Texts in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014 ), Shenzhen, China, December 14-17, 2014. Short Paper. Acceptance rate = 19.7% (143 out of 727).
Published in COLING 2014, 2014
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Jing Jiang, Lifu Huang, Minghui Qiu and Lizi Liao. Generating Supplementary Travel Guides from Social Media. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, Ireland, August 23-29 2014. Full Oral Paper.
Published in PAKDD 2014, 2014
Recommended citation: Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang. An Integrated Model for User Attribute Discovery: A Case Study on Political Affiliation Identification. In Proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2014), Tainan, Taiwan, May 2014. Full Oral Paper. Acceptance rate=10.8% (40 out of 371).
Published in SocInfo 2013, 2013
Recommended citation: Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida Zhu and Jing Jiang. PredictingUser's Political Party using Ideological Stances. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013), Kyoto, Japan. November 2013. Full Oral Paper, Best Paper Runner-ups .
Published in CIKM 2013, 2013
Recommended citation: Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang and Jing Jiang. Modeling Interaction Features for Debate Side Clustering. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA. October 2013. Short Paper, Acceptance rate=12.5% (106 out of 848).
Published in CIKM 2013, 2013
Recommended citation: Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Swapna Gottipati, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang, Huiping Sun and Zhong Chen. CQARank: Jointly Model Topics and Expertise in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA. October 2013. Full Oral Paper, Top 3 Cited Papers in CIKM'13 . Acceptance rate=16.8% (143 out of 848).
Published in NAACL 2013, 2013
Recommended citation: Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang and Jing Jiang. Mining User Relations from Online Discussions using Sentiment Analysis and Probabilistic Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA. June 2013. Long Paper, Acceptance rate=30% (88 out of 293).