Selected Recent Publications
Jimmy Huang

Refereed Journal Papers

  1. Mariam Daoud and Jimmy Xiangji Huang. "Modelling Geographic, Temporal and Proximity Contexts for Improving Geo-Temporal Search", accepted by Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2012. Wiley InterScience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1532-2882 and ISSN (Online): 1532-2890.

  2. Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang and Aijun An. "Mining Online Reviews for Predicting Sales Performance: A Case Study in the Movie Domain", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 24(4): 720-734, 2012. IEEE Publisher.

  3. Zheng Ye, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Ben He. "Mining Multilingual Association Dictionary from Wikipedia for Cross-Language Information Retrieval", accepted by Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2012. Wiley InterScience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1532-2882 and ISSN (Online): 1532-2890.

  4. Xiaoshi Yin, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Zhuojun Li and Xiaofeng Zhou. "A Survival Modeling Approach to Biomedical Search Result Diversification Using Wikipedia", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2011. IEEE Publisher.

  5. Ben He, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Xiaofeng Zhou. "Modeling Term Proximity for Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models" (32 pages), accepted by Information Sciences Journal, 2011. Elsevier Publisher. ISSN: 0020-0255. (online version)

  6. Qinmin Hu, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Jun Miao. "A Robust Approach to Optimizing Multi-Source Information for Enhancing Genomics Retrieval Performance" (18 pages), accepted by BMC Bioinformatics, 2011. ISSN: 1471-2105.

  7. Zheng Ye, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Hongfei Lin. "Finding a Good Query-Related Topic for Boosting Pseudo Relevance Feedback", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2011. Wiley InterScience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1532-2882 and ISSN (Online): 1532-2890. Vol.62, No.4, 2011. pp.748-760. (online version)

  8. Xiaoshi Yin, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Zhuojun Li. "Mining and Modeling Linkage Information from Citation Context for Improving Biomedical Literature Retrieval", Information Processing & Management: An International Journal (IPM), 2011. ELSEVIER Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0306-4573. Vol.47, No.1, 2011. pp.53-67. (online version)

  9. Zheng Ye, Xiangji Huang and Hongfei Lin. "Incorporating Rich Features to Boost Information Retrieval Performance: A SVM-regression Based Re-ranking Approach", accepted by Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, 2010. ELSEVIER Publisher. ISSN: 0957-4174. (online version)

  10. Yang Liu, Xiaohui Yu, Xiangji Huang and Aijun An. "Combining Integrated Sampling with SVM Ensembles for Learning from Imbalanced Datasets", accepted by Information Processing & Management: An International Journal (IPM), 2010. ELSEVIER Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0306-4573. (online version)

  11. Jianhan Zhu, Xiangji Huang, Dawei Song and Stefan Rueger. "Integrating Multiple Document Features in Language Models for Expert Finding" (32 pages), Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). Springer-Verlag Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0219-1377 and ISSN (Online): 0219-3116. Vol.23, No.1, 2010. pp.29-54. (online version)

  12. Qinmin Hu and Xiangji Huang. "Passage Extraction and Result Combination for Genomics Information Retrieval" (23 pages), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS). Springer-Verlag Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0925-9902 and ISSN (Online): 1573-7675. Vol.34, No.3, 2010. pp.249-274. (online version)

  13. Xiaoshi Yin, Xiangji Huang and Zhuojun Li. "Re-Ranking with Context for High-Performance Biomedical Information Retrieval" (14 pages), accepted by International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2010.

  14. Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang and Aijun An. "Personalized Recommendation with Adaptive Mixture of Markov Models" , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Wiley InterScience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1532-2882 and ISSN (Online): 1532-2890. Vol.58, No.12, 2007. pp.1851-1870. (pdf)

  15. Fuchun Peng and Xiangji Huang. "Machine Learning Approaches to Automatic Text Classification for Asian Languages", Journal of Documentation. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, U.K. ISSN: 0022-0418. Vol.63, No.3, 2007. pp.378-397. (pdf)

  16. Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An, Xiangji Huang and Xiaogang Wang. "Finding Molecular Complexes through Multiple Layer Clustering of Protein Interaction Networks" (22 pages), accepted by International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA). Inderscience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1744-5485 and ISSN (Online): 1744-5493. Vol.3, No.1, 2007. pp.65-85.

  17. Xiangji Huang. "Comparison of Interestingness Measures for Web Usage Mining: An Empirical Study", accepted by International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. World Scientific Publishing Co. ISSN: 0219-6220. 6(1):15-41, 2007.

  18. Xiangji Huang, Qingsong Yao and Aijun An. "Applying Language Modeling to Session Identification from Database Trace Logs" (32 pages), Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). Springer-Verlag Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0219-1377 and ISSN (Online): 0219-3116. Vol.10, No.4, 2006. pp.473-504. (online version) (pdf)

  19. Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Aijun An and Dale Schuurmans. "Dynamic Web Log Session Identification with Statistical Language Models", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Wiley InterScience Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 1532-2882 and ISSN (Online): 1532-2890. Vol.55, No.14, 2004. pp.1290-1303. (pdf)

  20. Aijun, An, Y. Huang, Xiangji Huang and Nick Cercone. "Feature Selection with Rough Sets for Web Page Classification", LNCS Transactions on Rough Sets, Springer Verlag, Vol.2, 2004. pp.1-13. (pdf)

  21. Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone and Stephen Robertson. "Applying Machine Learning to Text Segmentation for Information Retrieval", Information Retrieval, Vol 6, Issue 4, pp.333-362, 2003. (pdf)

  22. Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Nick Cercone and Aijun An. "Probability-based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval", Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (CI), Vol.16, No.4, 2000. pp.552-569. (pdf)

  23. Xiangji Huang and Stephen E. Robertson. "Application of Probabilistic Models to Chinese Text Retrieval", Journal of Documentation (JDoc), Vol.53, No.1, 1997. pp.74-79.

Edited Books

  1. Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Irwin King, Vijay Raghavan and Stefan Ruger, "Web Intelligence". Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2010. IEEE Publisher. September 2010, ISBN 978-0-7695-4191-4. 702 pages.

  2. Yiyu Yao, Ron Sun, Tomaso Poggio, Jiming Liu, Ning Zhong and Jimmy Xiangji Huang, "Brain Informatics". Proceedings of BI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6334, Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-15313-6. 436 pages.

Refereed Book Chapters

  1. Andreopoulos, B., Huang, X., An, A., Labudde, D. and Hu, Q. "Promoting Diversity in Top Hits for Biomedical Passage Retrieval". In Zbigniew W. Ras (Ed.), Advances in Data Management, Springer-Verlag Publisher. May 2009.

  2. Liu, Y., Yu, X., Huang, X. and An, A. "Blog Data Mining: The Predictive Power of Sentiments". In Longbing Cao, Philip S. Yu and Chengqi Zhang (Ed.), Data Mining for Business Applications, Springer-Verlag Publisher. November 2008. ISBN: 978-0-38779-419-8.

  3. Xiangji Huang, "Clustering Analysis and Algorithms". In John Wang (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Information Science Publishing (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), ISBN: 2-59140-557-2. 2005.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. J. Miao, X. J. Huang and Z. Ye. "Proximity-based Rocchio's Model for Pseudo Relevance Feedback", Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'12), Portland, Oregon, August 12-16, 2012. (pdf)

  2. J. Zhao, X. J. Huang and B. He. "CRTER: Using Cross Terms to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'11), Beijing, China, July 24-28, 2011. (pdf)

  3. X. Zhou, X. J. Huang and B. He. "Enhancing Ad-hoc Relevance Weighting Using Probability Density Estimation", Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'11), Beijing, China, July 24-28, 2011. (pdf)

  4. X. Yin, X. Huang and Z. Li. "Promoting Ranking Diversity for Biomedical Information Retrieval Using Wikipedia", Proceedings of European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2010), Milton Keynes, UK, 28-31 March 2010 (The best paper award).

  5. X. Huang, A. An and Q. Hu. "Medical Search and Classification Tools for Recommendation", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'10), Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010.

  6. X. Huang and Q. Hu. "A Bayesian Learning Approach to Promoting Diversity in Ranking for Biomedical Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'09), Boston, July 19-23, 2009. (pdf)

  7. Y. Liu, X. Huang, A. An and X. Yu. "Modeling and Predicting the Helpfulness of Online Reviews", Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08), Pisa, Italy, December 15-19, 2008.

  8. Y. Liu, X. Huang, A. An and X. Yu. "ARSA: A Sentiment-Aware Model for Predicting Sales Performance Using Blogs", Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'07), Amsterdam, July 23-27, 2007. (pdf)

  9. Xiangji Huang, YanRui Huang, Miao Wen, Aijun An, Yang Liu and Josiah Poon. "Applying Data Mining to Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for High Performance Text Retrieval", Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06), Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006. (pdf)

  10. Xiangji Huang, Miao Wen, Aijun An and YanRui Huang. "A Platform for Okapi-Based Contextual Information Retrieval", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2006, Seattle, Washington, August 6-11, 2006.

  11. Ming Zhong and Xiangji Huang. "Concept-Based Biomedical Text Retrieval", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2006, Seattle, Washington, August 6-11, 2006.

  12. Yang Liu, Aijun An and Xiangji Huang. "Boosting Prediction Accuracy on Imbalanced Datasets with SVM Ensembles", Proceedings of 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April 9-12, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag Publisher.

  13. Xiangji Huang, YanRui Huang and Miao Wen. "A Dual Index Model for Contextual Information Retrieval", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2005, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005.

  14. Luo Si, T. Kanungo and Xiangji Huang. "Boosting Performance of Bio-Entity Recongition by Combining Results from Multiple Systems", Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Chicago, USA, August 21, 2005. (pdf)

  15. Xiangji Huang. "Incorporating Contextual Retrieval into Okapi", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Workshop on IR in Context (IRiX'05), Salvador, Brazil, August 19, 2005. ISBN: 87-7415-290-4

  16. Qingsong Yao, Q. Aijun An and Xiangji Huang. "A Distance-based Algorithm for Clustering Database User Sessions", Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2005), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 25-28, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3488: 562-572. Springer-Verlag Publisher.

  17. Qingsong Yao, Q. Aijun An and Xiangji Huang. "Finding and Analyzing Database User Sessions", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005), Beijing, China, April 18-20, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3453: 851-862. Springer-Verlag Publisher. (pdf)

  18. Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang and Aijun An. "Clustering Web Surfers with Probabilistic Models in a Real Application", Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004. 851-862.

  19. Yang Liu, Aijun An and Xiangji Huang. "Web Surfing Recommendations in a Real Application", Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD'04 workshop on Statistical Approaches for Web Mining, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004. 2-13.

  20. Aijun An, Shakil Khan and Xiangji Huang. "Objective and Subjective Algorithms for Grouping Association Rules", Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003), Florida, USA, November 19-22, 2003.

  21. Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Aijun An and Dale Schuurmans. "Session Boundary Detection for Association Rule Learning Using N-Gram Language Models", Proceedings of the Sixteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI-03), Halifax, Canada, June 11-13, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2671: 237-251. Springer-Verlag Publisher.

  22. Xiangji Huang, Aijun An, Nick Cercone and Gary Promhouse. "Discovery of Interesting Association Rules from Livelink Web Log data", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'02), Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9-12, 2002. (pdf)

  23. Xiangji Huang, Aijun An, Nick Cercone and Gary Promhouse. "Comparison of Interestingness Functions for Learning Web Usage Patterns", Proceedings of the 11th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'02), McLean, VA, USA, November 4-9, 2002. (pdf)

  24. Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans and Nick Cercone. "Waterloo at NTCIR-3: Comparing and Analysing Different Text Extraction Methods''", Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarization (NTCIR'02), ISBN:4-86049-016-9, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Japan, October 8-10, 2002.

  25. Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans and Nick Cercone. "Investigating the Relationship of Word Segmentation Performance and Retrieval Performance in Chinese IR", Proceedings of the 19th Biennial International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'02), Taipei, Taiwan, August 24-September 1, 2002.

  26. Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone and Stephen Robertson. "Using Self-Supervised Word Segmentation in Chinese Information Retrieval", Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'02), Tampere, Finland, August 11-15, 2002.

  27. Xiangji Huang and Stephen Robertson. "Comparisons of Probabilistic Compound Unit Weighting Methods''", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Text Mining, San Jose, USA, November 29-December 2 2001. 1-15.

  28. Aijun An, Nick Cercone and Xiangji Huang. "A Case Study for Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets", Proceedings of the 14th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI-03), Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2056: 1-15. Springer-Verlag Publisher. (pdf)

  29. Xiangji Huang and Stephen E. Robertson. "A Probabilistic Approach to Chinese Information Retrieval: Theory and Experiments", Proceedings of the 22nd Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, Cambridge, England, April 2000. 178-193.