Research Publications

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Books and Book Chapters

2017

o   Social Media Content Analysis: Natural Language Processing and Beyond, Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems, November, 2017.

2011

o   Document-Aware Graph Models for Query-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization, in Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications, 2011 (Book Chapter).

2010

o   Experiments of Ontology Construction with Formal Concept Analysis, in Ontology and the Lexicon: A Natural Language Processing Perspective, Edited by Chu-ren Huang, Nicoletta Calzolari, Aldo Gangemi, Alessandro Lenci, Alessandro Oltramari and Laurent Prevot, March 2010 (Book Chapter).

2009

o   Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, October 2009, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pages 1-148 (doi: 10.2200/S00211ED1V01Y200909HLT004)

2005

o   A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese, in The Language of Time: A Reader, Edited by Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky and Robert Gaizauskas, Oxford University Press, ISBN:0-19-926854-1, May, 2005 (Book Chapter).


Journal Publications

2023

o   Contextualized Knowledge Graph Embedding for Explainable Talent Training Course Recommendation, accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), April, 2023.

o   A Target-driven Planning Approach for Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), January, 2023.

2022

o   Geo-Tile2Vec: A Multi-Modal and Multi-Stage Embedding Framework for Urban Analytics, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, November 2022.

o   Mutually Reinforced Network Embedding: An Integrated Approach to Research Paper Recommendation, Expert Systems with Applications, 204, No. 117616, October 2022.

o   Social Attentive Deep Q-networks for Recommender Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(5): 2443-2457, May 2022.

o   Joint Learning of User Representation with Diffusion Sequence and Network Structure, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(3):1275-1287, March 2022.

o   Dynamic Graph Reasoning for Conversational Open-domain Question Answering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 40(4), No. 821, January 2022.

o   Hierarchical Prediction and Adversarial Learning for Conditional Response Generation, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(1):314-327, January 2022.

2021

o   Empathetic Response Generation through Graph-based Multi-hop Reasoning on Emotional Causality, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 233(5), 107547, December 2021.

o   Hierarchical Attention Link Prediction Neural Network, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 232(28), 107431, November 2021.

o   Neighborhood Attention Networks with Adversarial Learning for Link Prediction, Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 32(8):3653-3663, August 2021.

o   Learning Graph Representation with Generative Adversarial Nets, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 33(8):3090-3103, August 2021. 

o   Affective Awareness in Neural Sentiment Analysis, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 226(17), No. 107137, August 2021.

o   Lexical Data Augmentation for Sentiment Analysis, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(11):1432-1447, June, 2021.

2020

o   Tracking Dynamics of Opinion Behaviors with Content-based Sequential Opinion Influence Model, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), 11(4):627-639, October, 2020.

o   Visual-Textual Emotion Analysis with Deep Coupled Video and Danmu Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 22(6):1634-1646, June 2020.

o   Joint Model of Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction with Self-attention Mechanism, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 19(4), No. 59, May 2020.

2019

o   Interactive Recommendation with User-specific Deep Reinforcement Learning, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 13(6), No. 31, October 2019.

o   Information Diffusion Prediction with Network Regularized Role-based User Representation Learning, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 13(3), No. 29, June, 2019.

o   Exploring High-Order User Preference on the Knowledge Graph for Recommender Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 37(3), No. 32, March, 2019.

o   An Evolutionary Context-aware Sequential Model for Topic Evolution of Text Stream, Information Sciences, 473:166-177, January 2019.

2018

o   A Three-Layered Mutually Reinforced Model for Personalized Citation Recommendation, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 29(12):6026-6037, December, 2018.

o   A Confident Information First Principle for Parametric Reduction and Model Selection of Boltzmann Machines, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 29(5):1608-1621, May, 2018.

2017

o   A Quasi-Current Representation for Information Needs inspired by Two-State Vector Formalism, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 482(15):627-637, September 2017.

o   Social Collaborative Filtering by Trust, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 38(8):1633-1647, August, 2017.

o   Exploring Interpersonal Influence through Tracking User Dynamic Interaction, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 32(3):28-35, May, 2017.

2016

o   Featuring, Detecting, and Visualizing Human Sentiment in Chinese Micro-blog, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 10(4):1-23, June, 2016.

o   Information Ordering with an Event-Enriched Vector Space Model for Multi-Document News Summarization, Computational Intelligence (CI), 32(2):323-351, May, 2016.

o   Coherent Narrative Summarization with a Cognitive Model, Computer Speech and Language (CSL), 35(1):134-160, January 2016.

2015

o   Cross-Lingual Sentiment Lexicon Learning with Bilingual Word Graph Label Propagation, Computational Linguistics (CL), 41(1):21-40, March 2015.

o   Dynamic Business Network Analysis for Correlated Stock Price Movement Prediction, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 30(2):26-33, March, 2015.

2014

o   Feature-Frequency-Adaptive Online Training for Natural Language Processing with Massive Features, Computational Linguistics (CL), 40(3):563-586, September 2014.

o   Enhancing Diversity and Coverage of Document Summaries through Subspace Clustering and Clustering-based Optimization, Information Science, 279(20):764-779, September, 2014.

o   Extending the Extreme Physical Information to Universal Cognitive Models via a Confident Information First Principle, Entropy, 16(7):3670-3688, July, 2014.

o   Quadratic Tsallis Entropy Bias and Generalized Maximum Entropy Models, Computational Intelligence (CI), 30(2):233-262, May, 2014. 

o   Sequential Summarization: A Full View of Twitter Trending Topics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 22(2):293-302, February, 2014.

2013

o   Combining Co-clustering with Noise Detection for Theme-based Summarization, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), 10(4), Number 16, December, 2013.

o   Latent Structured Perceptrons for Large-Scale Learning with Hidden Information, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(9):2063-2075, September, 2013.

o   Mining Pure High-Order Word Association via Information Geometry for Information Retrieval, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 31(3), Number 12, July, 2013.

o   Ranking through Clustering: An Integrated Approach to Multi-Document Summarization, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 21(7):1424-1433, July, 2013.

o   Exploring Hypergraph-based Semi-supervised Ranking for Query-oriented Summarization, Information Science (IS), 237(10):71-286, July, 2013.

o   Towards Content-level Coherence with Aspect-Guided Summarization, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), 10(1), Number 2, March, 2013.

o   Automatic Twitter Topic Summarization with Speech Acts, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 21(3):649-658, March, 2013.

o   A Progressive Sentence Selection Strategy for Document Summarization, Information Processing and Management (IPM), 49(1):213-221 January, 2013.

2012

o   Mutually Reinforced Manifold-Ranking based Relevance Propagation Model for Query-Focused Summarization, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 20(5):1597-1607, July, 2012.

2011

o   Enhancing Sentence Level Clustering with Integrated and Interactive Frameworks for Theme-based Summarization, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(10):2067-2082, October 2011. 

o   Developing Position Structure Based Classification Framework for Chinese Entity Relation Extraction, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 10(3), September 2011.

o   A Spectral Analysis Approach to Document Summarization: Clustering and Ranking Sentences Simultaneously, Information Sciences, 81(18):3816-3827, September 2011. 

o   Document Sentiment Classification by Exploring Description Model of Topical Terms, Computer Speech and Language (CSL), 25(2):386-403, April, 2011. (2008 ISI Impact Factor: 1.413)

o   Applying Regression Models to Query-focused Multi-document Summarization, Information Processing and Management (IPM), 47(2):227-237, March, 2011.

2010

o   iRANK: A Rank-Learn-Combine Framework for Unsupervised Ensemble Ranking, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 61(6):1232-1243, June, 2010. 

o   Inter-Topic Information Mining for Query-based Summarization, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 61(5):1062-1072, May, 2010. 

o   Beyond Redundancies: A Metric-Invariant Method for Unsupervised Feature Selection, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 22(3):348-364, March, 2010.  

o   A Document-Sensitive Graph Model for Multi-Document Summarization, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 22(2):245-259, February, 2010. (2008 ISI Impact Factor: 1.733)

2009

o   Applying Two-Level Mutual Reinforcement Ranking in Query-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60(10):2119-2131, October, 2009. (ISI 5-YearImpact Factor: 2.178)

o   Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Inlaying, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN), 20(2):300-315, February 2009. 

2008

o   Pattern-based Opinion Mining for Stock Market Trend Prediction, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Special Issue on Opinion Mining, 21(4):347-361, December, 2008.

o   Attributes Selection in Chinese Ontology Acquisition with FCA, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 21(1):77-95, March, 2008.

2007

o   Chinese Entity Detection and Tracking: The Experience in ACE, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 20(4):219-236, 2007.

2006

o   Topic Tracking with Time Granularity Reasoning, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Special Issue on Reasoning in Natural Language Information Processing, 5(4):388-412, December 2006.

o   Automatic Chinese Aspectual Classification Using Linguistic Indicator, International Journal of Information Technology, 12(4):99-109, April, 2006.

o   Integrating Temporal Distribution Information into Event-based Summarization, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 19(2&3):201-222, June-September, Combined Issue, 2006.

o   Linguistic and Behavioral Studies of Chinese Chat Language, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 19(2&3): 133-152, June-September, Combined Issue, 2006.

2005

o   An Overview of Temporal Information Extraction, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (Special Issue on Advanced Technologies for Oriental Information Processing), 18(2):137-152, June 2005.

2003

o   A Design of Temporal Event Extraction from Chinese Financial News, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language, 16(1):21-40, March, 2003.

o   The Design of a Statistical Algorithm for Resolving Structural Ambiguity in 'V NP1 usde NP0', Computational Intelligence (CI), 19(1):63-84, February, 2003.

Before 2003

o   A Word-based Approach for Modeling and Discovering Temporal Relations Embedded in Chinese Sentences, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 1(3):173-206, September, 2002.

o   Temporal Representation and Classification in Chinese, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language, 15(2):221-230, June, 2002.

o   An Effective Method for Chinese Grammar Rule Learning, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language, 14(4): 361-374, 2001.

o   Towards Automatic Chinese Temporal Information Extraction, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9):748-762, July 2001.

o   Identifying Temporal Components in a Chinese Temporal Information System, International Journal of Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Language, 13(2):131-140, 2000.


Conference Publication

2023

o   Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.

o   ORGAN: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.  

o   Enhancing Event Causality Identification with Counterfactual Reasoning, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.  

o   Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Dialogue Generation, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.

o   Separating Context and Pattern: Learning Disentangled Sentence Representations for Low-Data Extractive Summarization, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.

o   Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling, accepted by the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.  

o   Improving Sentence Similarity Estimation for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization, in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2023), Greek island of Rhodes, Greece June 4-10, 2023.

o   Preserve Context Information through Interpretability for Extract-Generate Long-Input Summarization Framework, in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023.

o   COLA: Improving Conversational Recommender Systems by Collaborative Augmentation, in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023.

2022

o   Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning, in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp3014-3026.

o   Few-shot Query-Focused Summarization with Prefix-Merging, in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp3704-3714.

o   CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph Generation, in Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp729-741.

o   Addressing Token Uniformity in Transformers via Singular Value Transformation, in Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Eindhoven, Netherlands (UAI'2022), August 1-5, 2022, PMLR 180:2181-2191.

o   Enhancing Text Generation via Multi-Level Knowledge Aware Reasoning, in Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2022), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4310-4316.

o   'My nose is running.' 'Are you also coughing?': Building A Medical Diagnosis Agent with Interpretable Inquiry Logics, in Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2022), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4266-4272.

o   MMCoQA: Conversational Question Answering over Text, Tables, and Images, in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2022), Dublin, May 22-27, 2022, pp4220-4231. 

2021

o   Event Graph based Sentence Fusion, in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021, pp4075-4084.

o   Effect Generation based on Causal Reasoning, in Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021, pp527-533.

o   Template-guided Clarifying Question Generation for Web Search Clarification, in Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2021), November 1-5, 2021, pp3468-347.

o   Target-guided Knowledge-aware Recommendation Dialogue System: An Empirical Investigation, in Proceedings of RECSYS 2021 Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender System, Amsterdam, September 27 to October 1, 2021.

o   Graph-Structured Context Understanding for Knowledge-grounded Response Generation, in Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2021), July 11-15, 2021, pp1930-1934.

2020

o   POLYU at TREC 2020 Conversational Assistant Track: Query Reformulation with Heuristic Topic Phrases Discovery, in Proceedings of TREC'2020.

o   Fact-level Extractive Summarization with Hierarchical Graph Mask on BERT, in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020), December 8-11, 2020, Barcelona, Spain.

o   Reinforcement Learning based Recommendation with Graph Convolutional Q-network, in Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2020), July 25-30, 2020, Xi'an, China.

2019

o   Neighborhood Interaction Attention Network for Link Prediction, in Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2019), Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019, pp2153-2156.

o   Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems with Label Smoothness Regularization, in Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2019), Alaska, USA, August 4-8, 2019, pp968-977.

o   Jointly Learning Semantic Parser and Generator via Dual Information Maximization, in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2019), Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2, 2019, pp2090-2101.

o   Hierarchical Diffusion Attention Network, in Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2019), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019, pp3828-3834.

o   Social Attentive Deep Q-network for Recommendation, in Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2019), Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019, pp1189-1192.

o   Multi-Task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation, in Proceedings of the Web Conference 2019 (WWW'2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019, pp2000-2010.

o   Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems, in Proceedings of the Web Conference 2019 (WWW'2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019, pp3307-3313.

o   Meta-path Augmented Response Generation, in Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2019), Hawaii, USA, January 29-31, 2019, pp9971-9972.

2018

o   Nexus Network: Connecting the Preceding and the Following in Dialogue Generation, in Proceedings of 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2018), Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4 2018, pp4316-4327.

o   Variational Autoregressive Decoder for Neural Response Generation, in Proceedings of 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2018), Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4 2018, pp3154-3163.

o   A Sequential Neural Information Diffusion Model with Structure Attention, in Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018, pp1795-1798.

o   Variational Recurrent Model for Session-based Recommendation, in Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018, pp1839-1842.

o   Ripple Network: Propagating User Preferences on the Knowledge Graph for Recommender Systems, in Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018, pp417-426.

o   Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Neural Summarization, in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018.

o   Unpaired Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation Using Cycled Reinforcement Learning, in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018.

o   Query and Output: Generating Words by Querying Distributed Word Representations for Paraphrase Generation, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT'2018), Louisiana, USA, June 1-6, 2018.

o   Attention Network for Information Diffusion Prediction, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on World Wide Web, The Web Conference (WWW'2018), Lyon, France, April 23-27, 2018, pp65-66.

o   Modeling Scientific Influence for Research Trending Topic Prediction, in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.

o   Faithful to the Original: Fact Aware Neural Abstractive Summarization, in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.

o   Deep Representation Decoupling Neural Networks for Monaural Music Mixture Separation, in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.

o   Dialogue Generation with GAN, in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.

2017

o   DailyDialog: A Manually Labeled Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset, in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'2017), Taiwan, November-December 1, 2017, pp986-995.

o   Modeling Language Discrepancy for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2017), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp117-126.

o   Alternating Pointwise-Pairwise Learning for Personalized Item Ranking, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2017), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp2155-2158.

o   Modeling Opinion Influence with User Dual Identity, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2017), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp2019-2022.

o   Predictive Network Representation Learning for Link Prediction, in Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2017), Tokyo, Japan. August 7-11, 2017, pp969-972.

o   Neural Network based Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Pushing on Text Stream, in Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2017), Tokyo, Japan. August 7-11, 2017, pp913-916. 

o   A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation, in Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, pp504-509.

o   Improving Semantic Relevance for Chinese Social Media Text Summarization, in Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, pp635-640.

o   Determining Gains Acquired from Word Embedding Quantitatively using Discrete Distribution Clustering, in Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, pp1847-1856.

o   Mode Regularized Generative Adversarial Networks, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'2017), Toulon, France, April 24 - 26, 2017.

o   Cross-lingual Sentiment Relation Capturing for Cross-lingual Sentiment Analysis, in Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'2017), Scotland UK, April 8-13, 2017, pp54-67.

o   A Part-of-Speech Enhanced Neural Conversation Model, in Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'2017), Scotland UK, April 8-13, 2017, pp173-185.

o   Improving Multi-Document Summarization via Text Classification, in Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2017), San Francisco, California, February 4-9, 2017, pp3053-3059.

o   Joint Copying and Restricted Generation for Paraphrase, in Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2017), San Francisco, California, February 4-9, 2017, pp3152-3158.

2016

o   AttSum: Joint Learning of Focusing and Summarization with Neural Attention, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2016), Osaka, Japan, December 11-16, 2016, pp547-556.

o   Content-based Influence Modeling for Opinion Behavior Prediction, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2016), Osaka, Japan, December 11-16, 2016, pp2207-2216.

o   Emotion Corpus Construction Based on Selection from Hashtags, in Proceedings of the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16), Portorož, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016, pp1845-1849.

o   PolyU at CL-SciSumm, in Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL'16), Newark, USA, June 23, 2016, pp132-138.

o   TGSUM: Build Tweet Guided Multi-Document Summarization Dataset, in Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2016), Arizona USA, February 12-17, 2016, pp 2906-2912.

o   Iterative Project Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Training RBM, in Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2016), Arizona USA, February 12-17, 2016, pp4236-4237.

2015

o   User Preference Modeling by Trust Propagation for Rating Prediction, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom'15), Chengdu, China, December 19-21, 2015, pp500-506.

o   Component-Enhanced Chinese Character Embeddings, in Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2015), Lisboa, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015, pp829-834.

o   Reinforcing the Topic of Embeddings with Theta Pure Dependence for Text Classification, in Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2015), Lisboa, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015, pp2551-2556.

o   Modeling Quantum Entanglements in Quantum Language Models, in Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25 - August 1, 2015, pp1362-1368.

o   A Constrained Multi-view Clustering Approach to Influence Role Detection, in Proceedings of the IJCAI 2015 Workshop on Social Influence Analysis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 27, 2015, pp29-34.

o   Learning to Adapt Credible Knowledge in Cross-lingual Sentiment Analysis, in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'15), Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015, pp419-429.

o   A Hierarchical Knowledge Representation for Expert Finding on Social Media, in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2015), Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015, pp616-622.

o   Learning Summary Prior in Extractive Summarization, in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2015), Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015, pp829-833.

o   A Novel Neural Topic Model and its Supervised Extension, in Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'15), Austin Texas, USA, January 25-30, 2015, pp2210-2216.

2014

o   Inferring Topic-Dependent Influence Roles of Twitter Users, in Proceedings of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'14), Cold Coast, Australia, July 6-11, 2014, pp1203-1206.

o   Text-level Discourse Dependency Parsing, in Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'14), Baltimore, USA, June 22-27, 2014, pp60-68.

2013

o   A Unified Graph Model for Personalized Query-Oriented Reference Paper Recommendation, in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), San Francisco, USA, October 27-November 1, 2013, pp1509-1512.

o   Generalized Abbreviation Prediction with Negative Full Forms and Its Application on Improving Chinese Web Search, in Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'2013), Nagoya, Japan, October 14-18, 2013, pp641-647.

o   Sequential Summarization: A New Application for Timely Updated Twitter Trending Topics, in Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'13), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013, pp567-571.

o   A Novel Topic Model for Automatic Term Extraction, in Proceedings of the 36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'13), Dublin, Ireland, July 28-August 1, 2013, pp885-888.

o   Co-training Based Bilingual Sentiment Lexicon Learning, in Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'13), Washington, USA, July 14-18, 2013, pp26-28.

2012

o   LDA-based Topic Formation and Topic-Sentence Reinforcement for Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the eighth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS'12), Tianjin, China, December 17-19, 2012, pp376-385.

o   Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Selecting Typical Training Examples, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'12), Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2012, pp2757-2772.

o   Efficient Feedback-based Feature Learning for Blog Distillation as a Terabyte Challenge, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'12), Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2012, pp147-154. 

o   Beyond Twitter Text: A preliminary Study on Twitter Hyperlink and its Application, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'12), Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2012, pp155-162.

o   Latent Business Networks Mining: A Probabilistic Generative Model, in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'2012), Macau, December 4-7, 2012, pp558-562.

o   Twitter Hyperlink Recommendation with User-Tweet-Hyperlink Three-Way Clustering, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), Maui Hawaii, USA, October 29 - November 2, 2012, pp2535-2538.

o   Generating Coherent Summaries with Textual Aspects, in Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012, pp1727-1733.

o   Query-oriented Multi-document Summarization via Unsupervised Deep Learning, in Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012, pp1699-1705. 

o   Fast Online Training with Frequency-Adaptive Learning Rates for Chinese Word Segmentation and New Word Detection, in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'12), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, July 8-14, 2012, pp253-262.

o   Towards Scalable Speech Act Recognition in Twitter: Tackling Insufficient Training Data, in Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks, Avignon, France, April 23, 2012.

2011

o   Simultaneous Clustering and Noise Detection for Theme-based Summarization, in Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'11), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011, pp491-499.

o   What Are Tweeters Doing: Recognizing Speech Acts in Twitter, in Proceedings of AAAI 2011 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext, San Francisco, USA, August 8, 2011.

o   Learning Features through Feedback for Blog Distillation, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'11), Beijing, China, July 24-28, 2011, pp1085-1086.

2010

o   Exploring Deep Belief Network for Chinese Relation Extraction, in Proceedings of the CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP'10), Beijing, China, August 28-29, 2010.

o   A Context-Sensitive Manifold Ranking Approach to Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'10), Daegu, Korea, August 30-September 2, 2010, pp27-38.

o   Simultaneous Ranking and Clustering of Sentences: An Reinforcement Approach to Multi-Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'10), Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010, pp134-142.

o   A Study on Position Information in Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'10), Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010, pp919-927.

o   Sentence Ordering with Event-Enriched Semantics and Two-Layered Clustering for Multi-Document News Summarization, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'10), Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010, pp1489-1497.

o   A Semi-Supervised Key Phrase Extraction Approach: Learning from Title Phrases through a Document Semantic Network, in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'10), Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010, pp296-300.

o   Using Deep Belief Nets for Chinese Named Entity Categorization, in Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop - Named Entities Workshop (NEWS'10), July 16, 2010, pp102-109.

o   Key Phrase Extraction Based on Core Word Identification and Word Expansion, in Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop - the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval'10), July 15-16, 2010.

2009

o   HyperSum: A Hypergraph Based Semi-Supervised Sentence Ranking for Query-Oriented Summarization, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), Hong Kong, November 2-6, 2009, pp1855-1858.

o   iRANK: An Interactive Ranking Framework and Its Application in Query-Focused Summarization, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), Hong Kong, November 2-6, 2009, pp1557-1560.

o   Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Temporal Relation Graph and Critical Chain, in Proceedings of the fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'09), Sapporo, Japan, October 21-23, 2009, pp87-99.

o   An Integrated Multi-document Summarization Approach based on Word Hierarchical Representation, in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'09), Singapore, July 3-5, 2009, pp113-116.

o   Co-feedback Ranking for Query-focused Summarization, in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'09), Singapore, July 3-5, 2009, pp117-120.

o   A Study on Dynamic Keyword Extraction for Contextual Advertising, in Proceedings of the SIGIR'09 Workshop on Information Retrieval and Advertising, Boston, US, July 23, 2009.

o   Learning Similarity Functions in Graph-based Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'09), Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009, pp193-204.

o   Event-based Summarization Using Critical Temporal Event Term Chain, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'09), Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009, pp383-390.

o   A Novel Composite Kernel Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'09), Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009, pp240-251.

o   Query-Oriented Summarization Based on Neighborhood Graph Model, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'09), Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009, pp160-171.

2008

o   Developing Evaluation Model of Topical Term for Document-Level Sentiment Classification, in Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'08), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008, pp175-186, LNCS 5351/2008.

o   Exploiting the Role of Named Entities in Query-Oriented Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'08), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008, pp740-749, LNCS 5351/2008.

o   Learning Knowledge from Relevant Webpage for Opinion Analysis, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008, pp307-313.

o   PNR2: Ranking Sentences with Positive and Negative Reinforcement for Query-Oriented Update Summarization, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, August 18-22, 2008, pp489-496.

o   Extractive Summarization Using Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, August 18-22, 2008, pp985-992.

o   Query-Sensitive Mutual Reinforcement Chain for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'08), Singapore, July 20-24, 2008, pp283-290.

o   A Novel Feature-based Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction, in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), Columbus, Ohio, June 16-18, 2008, pp89-92.

o   Exploiting the Role of Position Feature in Chinese Relation Extraction, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Morocco, MAY 28-30, 2008. 

o   A Query-Sensitive Graph-Based Sentence Ranking Algorithm for Query-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization, in Proceedings of 2008 International Symposium on Information Processing (ISIP'08), Moscow, Russia, May 23-25, 2008, pp9-13.

o   A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization, in Proceedings of European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'08), Glasgow, Scotland, March 30-April 3, 2008, pp446-453, LNCS 4956/2008.

2007

o   Developing Learning Strategies for Topic-based Summarization, in Proceedings of the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'07), Lisboa, Portugal, November 6-9, 2007, pp79-86.

o   Integrating Linguistic Patterns and Term-Entity Associations in Chinese Person Description Extraction, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP/KE'07), Beijing, China, August 30-September 1, 2007, pp301-307.

o   Measuring Relevance with Named Entity Based Patterns in Topic-Focused Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP/KE'07), Beijing, China, August 30-September 1, 2007, pp111-118.

o   Exploiting Surface, Content and Relevance Features for Learning-Based Extractive Summarization, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP/KE'07), Beijing, China, August 30-September 1, 2007, pp234-241.

o   Event-based Extractive Summarization using Event Semantic Relevance from External Linguistic Resource, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Language Processing and Web Information Technology (ALPIT'07), Luoyang, China, August 22-24, 2007, pp117-122.

o   Domain Extension of Chinese Named Entity Recognition, in Proceedings of the 9th National Joint Symposium on Computational Linguistics, Dalian, China, August 6-8, 2007, pp503-508.

o   Detecting, Categorizing and Clustering Entity Mentions in Chinese Text, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'07), July 23-27, 2007, pp647-654, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

o   Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Clustering, in Proceedings the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007, pp185-188.

o   Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Entity Detection and Tracking, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CiCling'07), Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007, pp154-165, LNCS 4394/2007.

o   Event-Based Summarization Using Time Features, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CiCling'07), Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007, pp563-574, LNCS 4394/2007.

2006

o   Building Document Graph for Text Summarization: An Event-based Approach, in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'06), LNCS 4285, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006, pp181-188, LNCS 4285/2006.

o   Investigations on Event-Based Summarization, in Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006 Student Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July 17-21 2006, pp37-42.

o   Enhancing Topic Tracking with Temporal Information, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'06), Seattle, USA, August 6-11, 2006, pp667-668.

o   Extractive Summarization using Intra- and Inter- Event Relevance, in Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006 (ACL'06), Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006, pp369-376.

o   Mining Implicit Entities in Queries, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, MAY 24-26, 2006.

o   Interaction between Lexical Base and Ontology with Formal Concept Analysis, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, MAY 24-26, 2006.

o   Deriving Event Relevance from the Ontology Constructed with Formal Concept Analysis, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CiCling'06), Mexico City, Mexico, February 19-25, 2006, pp480-489, LNCS 3878/2006.

2005

o   Normalizing Chinese Temporal Expressions With Multi-Label Classification, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE 2005), Wuhan, China, 30 Oct 30-Nov 1, 2005, pp318-323.

o   A Framework for Modeling and Representing Temporal Discourse Structure, in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE 2005), Wuhan, China, 30 Oct 30-Nov 1, 2005, pp213-218.

o   CTEMP: A Chinese Temporal Parser for Extracting and Normalizing Temporal Information, in Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'05), Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005, pp694-706, LNCS 3651/2005.

o   A Preliminary Work on Classifying Time Granularity of Temporal Questions, in Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'05), Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005, pp414-425, LNCS 3651/2005.

o   Experiments of Ontology Construction with Formal Concept Analysis, in Proceedings of the IJCNLP Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources (OntoLex'05), Jeju Island, Korea, October 15, 2005, pp.67-75.

o   Verifying Person Descriptions with Term-Entity Association, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC'05), Guangzhou, China, August 18-21, 2005, pp50-55.

o   Profile-based Event Tracking, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'05), Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005, pp631-632. 

2004

o   Combining Linguistic Features with Weighted Bayesian Classifier for Temporal Reference Processing, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'04), Geneva, Switzerland, August 23-25, 2004, pp702-708.

o   Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Temporal Relation Resolution, in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2004, pp583-589.

o   Using Fuzzy Sets and Genetic Algorithm for Chinese Verb Classification, in Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Hangzhou, China, June 14-18, 2004, pp2112-2116.

Before 2004

o   Back to the Future: A Logical Framework for Temporal Information Representation and Inferencing from Financial News, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE'03), Beijing, China, October 27-29, 2003, pp95-101.

o   Application and Difficulty of Natural Language Processing in Chinese Temporal Information Extraction, in Proceedings of the 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium of Chinese Computing (NLPRS'01), Tokyo, Japan, November 27-29, 2001, pp501-506.

o   A Model for Temporal References in Chinese, in Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Information Processing, ACL'2001 Conference, Toulouse, France, July 7, 2001, pp33-40.

o   Extracting Temporal Events from Hong Kong Financial News, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'01), Seoul, Korea, 14-16 May 2001, pp47-53.

o   An Algorithm for Situation Classification of Chinese Verbs, in Proceedings of the second Chinese Language Processing Workshop, Hong Kong, October 8, 2000, pp140-145.


Other Competition Activities

Text Analysis Conferences (TAC) Evaluation, July-September 2008, Sponsored by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) program. (Main Participants: Ouyang You, Wei Furu and Hu Yi)

Automatic Content Extraction (ACE), September 2006-March 2007, Ranked the first in Chinese Entity Detection and Recognition (EDR), Chinese Mention Detection and Recognition (MDR) and Chinese Time Expression Recognition and Normalization (TERN) Tasks . (Main Participant: Qian Donglei and Wu Mingli)

Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) Evaluation, February-May 2006, Sponsored by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) program, Ranked the in ROUGEs and  in Human Evaluations among  systems, 2006. (Main Participants: Li Baoli and Wu Mingli)

Automatic Content Extraction (ACE), June-November 2005, Ranked the forth in Chinese Entity Detection and Recognition (EDR) Task and the sixth in English EDR Task. (Main Participant: Li Wei)

Time Expression Recognition and Normalization (TERN) Evaluation, June-November 2005, Sponsored by the Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) program, Ranked the first in Chinese Time Expression Recognition Task. (Main Participant: Wu Mingli)

Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) Evaluation, January-October 2005, Sponsored by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) program, Ranked the second in ROUGEs and within the seventh in Human Evaluations among 31 systems, 2005. (Main Participants: Li Wei and Li Baoli)

Time Expression Recognition and Normalization (TERN) Evaluation, April-September 2004, Sponsored by the Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) program, Ranked the first in Chinese Time Expression Recognition Task. (Main Participant: Wu Mingli)