Min Zhang, 张敏 in Chinese

Ph.D & Professor,
Information Retrieval Group
National Lab of Intelligent Tech. & Sys.
Department of Computer Sci.& Tech.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


z-m AT tsinghua.edu.cn
Telephone: +86-10-62798279

Research area: Web Information Retrieval and Recommendation, User Behavior Analysis and Profiling, Machine Learning, Data Mining.

TOIS (ACM Transactions on Information Systems) , Editor-in-Chief (Since 2020.8): paper submission site

Membership

  • Member of Tiangong AI Research Center, which is founded by Tsinghua and Sogou Inc.

  • Vice Director of The State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University
  • Vice Director of Ministry of Education (MOE) - Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Key Research Lab on Media and Search, Tsinghua University

Education and Research Experiences

  • Professor, Tsinghua University, since 2022.06
  • Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, 2008.12~2022.05
  • Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, 2003.8~2008.11
  • State Council of Informatization Office, P.R. China, 2005.3 ~ 2006.1
  • Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China.1999.9 ~ 2003.7
  • B.Sc., Tsinghua University, China. 1995.9 ~ 1999.7
  • Short Term Visitings:
    • Visiting Research Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, 2018.1
    • Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, 2010.8 ~ 2011.2
    • Visiting Researcher, Kyoto University, 2009.11 ~ 2009.12
    • Visiting Research Fellow, City University of Hongkong, 2004.10~2005.2
    • Visiting Researcher, DFKI (Germany Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence), 2004.6 ~ 2004.7

Teaching Activities

  • Excellent Teaching Award for Young Faculties in Tsinghua University, 2008
  • Introduction to Machine Learning, for undergraduates, since 2004

    2019: Feb 25 ~ June 14, Every Friday Afternoon, 15:20~16:55, No.3-1300.

  • Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval, for graduate students, since 2005

    2019: Feb 25 ~ June 14, Every Friday Afternoon, 13:30~15:05, No.6-6B206.

  • Web and in Information Retrieval (in English), for Advance Computing Master Program (for foreign students), since 2011

    2019: Feb 25 ~ June 14, Every Friday Morning, 9:50~11:25, No.3-1308.

Research Activities Highlights (Call For Papers)

Communities:

  • The State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University, Vice Director, since 2012.2

  • MOE-Microsoft Key Lab of Web and Media Technology, Tsinghua University, Vice Director, since 2011.11

  • Tsinghua-Sohu Joint Research Lab of Searching Technology, Vice Director, since 2007.4

  • Professional Committee of Machine Learning, Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), since 2010.8

  • Professional Committee of Information Retrieval, Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC), since 2010.8

  • Professional Committee of Chinese Information Technology, China Computer Federation (CCF), since 2010.12

  • CCF Senior member

Journals:

Conferences:

  • Co-organizers/Co-Chairs:
    • CHIIR 2024 PC Chair
    • CIKM 2023 PC Chair
    • RecSys 2023 PC Chair
    • ICTIR 2020 PC Co-Chair of Short Papers
    • EVIA 2019 PC Co-Chair
    • SIGIR 2019 Tutorials Co-Chair
    • WSDM 2019 Workshop Chair
    • SIGIR 2018 Short Paper Chair
    • WSDM 2017
    • IJCAI 2016 DC
    • AIRS 2016
    • NTCIR-11 IMINE Task, NTCIR-10 INTENT2 Task, NTCIR-9 INTENT Task
    • The CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures on Information Retrieval (CCF ADL 21), 2011
    • The CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures on Statistical Learning for text information processing on Web (CCF ADL 46), 2014
    • 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web in conjunction with WWW 2010(WICOW2010)
  • Senior PC Members and Area Chairs:

    • WSDM 2019 (Outstanding SPC Award)
    • Annual ACM SIGIR Conference: SIGIR 2017
    • International World Wide Web Conference: WWW 2016
    • ACM conference on Web Search and Data Mining: WSDM 2018, WSDM 2015
    • ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management: CIKM 2017, CIKM 2015, CIKM 2014, CIKM 2013, CIKM 2012, CIKM 2011
    • Aisa Information Retrieval Societies Conference: AIRS 2015, AIRS 2013, AIRS 2012, AIRS 2011, AIRS 2010, AIRS 2009
  • PC Members:

    • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: AAAI 2017
    • Annual ACM SIGIR Conference: SIGIR 2016, SIGIR 2015, SIGIR 2014, SIGIR 2013, SIGIR 2012, SIGIR 2011
    • International World Wide Web Conference: WWW 2018, WWW 2017, WWW 2015, WWW 2014, WWW 2013, WWW 2012, WWW 2011, WWW 2010, WWW 2009, WWW 2008
    • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2016, ACL 2014, ACL 2012, ACL 2011
    • IEEE International Conference on Big Data: BigData 2013
    • ACM conference on Web Search and Data Mining: WSDM 2012, WSDM 2011, WSDM 2010
    • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: KDD 2012, KDD 2010
    • The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC 2015, LREC 2014, LREC 2012
    • conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2009
    • International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing: IJCNLP 2008
    • Asia Information Retrieval Symposium: AIRS 20008(Harbin), AIRS 2006(Singapore), 2005(Korea), 2004 (Beijing)

Resources

THUIR GitHub page

Tools

  • ReChorus: a general PyTorch framework for Top-K recommendation with implicit feedback, especially for research purpose.

Datasets

Many of released datasets are located at the website of Tiangong AI Research Center (in Chinese). For example, we have a web corpus and a image dataset. Here are some datasets which are used in our recent studies:

  • User Behavior Dataset. in our WSDM’19 paper The influence of image search intents on user behavior and satisfaction.
  • Reading Attention Dataset. in our CIKM’18 paper Understanding Reading Attention Distribution during Relevance Judgement.
  • SRR Dataset. in our CIKM’18 paper Relevance Estimation with Multiple Information Sources on Search Engine Result Pages
  • Sogou-QCL Dataset. in our SIGIR’18 paper Sogou-QCL: A New Dataset with Click Relevance Label
  • SearchSuccess Dataset. in our WWW’18 paper “Satisfaction with Failure” or “Unsatisfied Success”: Investigating the Relationship between Search Success and User Satisfaction.

Selected Publications

2023

  • Yixiao Ma, Yueyue Wu, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Yunqiu Shao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Structural Information into Legal Case Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
  • Zhiyu He, Shaorun Zhang, Peijie Sun, Jiayu Li, Xiaohui Xie, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu. Understanding User Immersion in Online Short Video Interaction. The 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023).
  • Chenyang Wang, Yankai Liu, Yuanqing Yu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Haitao Zeng, Junlan Feng, and Chao Deng. Two-sided Calibration for Quality-aware Responsible Recommendation. The 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RECSYS 2023).
  • Yifan Wang, Peijie Sun, Min Zhang, Qinglin Jia, Jingjie Li, and Shaoping Ma. Unbiased Delayed Feedback Label Correction for Conversion Rate Prediction. The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023).
  • Jiayin Wang, Weizhi Ma, Chumeng Jiang, Min Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Biao Li and Peng Jiang. Measuring Item Global Residual Value for Fair Recommendation. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
  • Jiayu Li, Peijie Sun, Zhefan Wang, Weizhi Ma, Yangkun Li, Min Zhang, Zhoutian Feng and Daiyue Xue. Intent-aware Ranking Ensemble for Personalized Recommendation. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
  • Haitian Chen, Qingyao Ai, Zhijing Wu, Zhihong Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Juan Hu, Naiqiang Tan and Hua Chai. Behavior Modeling for Point of Interest Search. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
  • Bulou Liu, Yiran Hu, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, and Weixing Shen. Investigating Conversational Agent Action in Legal Case Retrieval. The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023).
  • Hongyu Lu, Weizhi Ma, Yifan Wang, Min Zhang, Xiang Wang, Yiqun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Shaoping Ma. User Perception of Recommendation Explanation: Are Your Explanations What Users Need? ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
  • Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Sequential Recommendation with Multiple Contrast Signals. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).

2022

  • Bulou Liu, Yueyue Wu, Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Query Generation and Buffer Mechanism: Towards a better conversational agent for legal case retrieval. Information Processing and Management. (IPM).
  • Zhijing Wu, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Leveraging Document-Level and Query-Level Passage Cumulative Gain for Document Ranking. Journal of Computer Science and Technology. (JCST).
  • Jingtao Zhan, Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Jiafeng Guo, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Interpolation and Extrapolation Performance of Neural Retrieval Models. The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2022).
  • Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Brain Topography Adaptive Satisfaction Modeling for Interactive Information Access. The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. (MM 2022).
  • Yangkun Li, Weizhi Ma, Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Yuekui Yang. A Survey on Dropout Methods and Experimental Verification in Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). Preprint Version.
  • Yifan Wang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. A Survey on the Fairness of Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. (TOIS). Preprint Version.
  • Jiayin Wang, Weizhi Ma, Jiayu Li, Hongyu Lu, Min Zhang, Biao Li, Yiqun Liu, Peng Jiang, Shaoping Ma. Make Fairness More Fair: Fair Item Utility Estimation and Exposure Re-distribution. The 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. (KDD 2022).
  • Chenyang Wang, Yuanqing Yu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Chong Chen, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Towards Representation Alignment and Uniformity in Collaborative Filtering. The 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. (KDD 2022). Preprint Version.
  • Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuancheng Li, Jiaji Li, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Why Don’t You Click: Understanding Non-Click Results in Web Search with Brain Signals. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2022). Preprint Version.
  • Yixiao Ma, Qingyao Ai, Yueyue Wu, Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Retrieval Information into the Truncation of Ranking Lists for Better Legal Search. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2022).
  • Jia Chen, Yiqun Liu, Yan Fang, Jiaxin Mao, Hui Fang, Shenghao Yang, Xiaohui Xie, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Axiomatically Regularized Pre-training for Ad hoc Search. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2022). Preprint Version.
  • Xuesong Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating human reading behavior during sentiment judgment. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Fei Sun, Min Zhang, and Bolin Ding. Recommendation Unlearning. The Web Conference 2022. (theWebConf 2022). Online Version
  • Shaoyun Shi, Yuexiang Xie, Zhen Wang, Bolin Ding, Yaliang Li, and Min Zhang. Explainable Neural Rule Learning. The Web Conference 2022. (theWebConf 2022). Online Version
  • Junqi Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Xiaohui Xie, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, and Qi Tian. Global or Local: Constructing Personalized Click Models for Web Search. The Web Conference 2022. (theWebConf 2022). Online Version
  • Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Towards a Better Understanding of Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals. The Web Conference 2022. (theWebConf 2022). Online Version.
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. From linear to non-linear: investigating the effects of right-rail results on complex SERPs. Advances in Computational Intelligence. Preprint Version.
  • Xuesong Chen, Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Xiaorong Gao, Weihang Su, Shuqi Zhu, Yike Sun, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Web Search via an Efficient and Effective Brain-Machine Interface. The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2022). Preprint Version.
  • Xiangsheng Li, Jiaxin Mao, Weizhi Ma, Zhijing Wu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Zhaowei Wang and Xiuqiang He. A Cooperative Neural Information Retrieval Pipeline with Knowledge Enhanced Automatic Query Reformulation. The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2022). Preprint Version.
  • Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Jiafeng Guo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Learning Discrete Representations via Constrained Clustering for Effective and Efficient Dense Retrieval. The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2022). Preprint Version. Best Paper Award

2021

  • Jiayu Li, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Pengyu Wang, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. Know Yourself: Physical and Psychological Self-awareness with Lifelog. Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021: 96. Online Version.
  • Shaoyun Shi, Weizhi Ma, Zhen Wang, Min Zhang, Kun Fang, Jingfang Xu, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. WG4Rec: Modeling Textual Content with Word Graph for News Recommendation. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Jiafeng Guo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Jointly Optimizing Query Encoder and Product Quantization to Improve Retrieval Performance. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2021).
  • Zhumin Chu, Jiaxin Mao, Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Relevance Judgments with Pairwise Discriminative Power. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Fan Zhang, Tetsuya Sakai, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Query Reformulating Behavior into Web Search Evaluation. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Jiayu Li, Hongyu Lu, Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Wei Qi, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. A Difficulty-Aware Framework forChurn Prediction and Intervention in Games. The 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. (KDD 2021). Online Version.
  • Jun Yang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Xin Zhou, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. LegalGNN: Legal Information Enhanced Graph Neural Network for Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
  • Hanyu Li, Hongyu Lu, Songhao Huang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. Privacy-Aware Remote Information Retrieval User Experiments Logging Tool. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Demo Paper. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Bulou Liu, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Yunqiu Shao, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Conversational vs Traditional: Comparing Search Behavior and Outcome in Legal Case Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021).Preprint Version.
  • Xiangsheng Li, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Session Search Behavior with Knowledge Graphs. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Short Paper. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Yixiao Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Ruizhe Zhang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. LeCaRD: A Legal Case Retrieval Dataset for Chinese Law System. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Jiafeng Guo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Optimizing Dense Retrieval Model Training with Hard Negatives. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating User Behavior in Legal Case Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Honyu Lu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Standing in Your Shoes: External Assessments for Personalized Recommender Systems. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Zhumin Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Shoubin Dong, Zhicheng Dou, Jiafeng Guo, Xuanjing Huang, Yanyan Lan, Chenliang Li, Ru Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Yiqun Liu, Jun Ma, Bing Qin, Mingwen Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Jun Xu, Min Zhang, Peng Zhang, Qi Zhang. sInformation retrieval: a view from the Chinese IR community. Frontiers Comput. Sci. 15(1): 151601 (2021)
  • Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. User behavior modeling for Web search evaluation. AI Open. Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Ziyi Ye, Weizhi Ma, Chao Wang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A Hybrid Framework for Session Context Modeling. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
  • Ruizhe Zhang, Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Constructing a Comparison-based Click Model for Web Search. The Web Conference 2021. (theWebConf 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Xiangsheng Li, Jiaxin Mao, Weizhi Ma, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Zhaowei Wang and Xiuqiang He. Topic-enhanced knowledge-aware retrieval model for diverse relevance estimation. The Web Conference 2021. (theWebConf 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Towards a Better Understanding of Query Reformulation Behavior in Web Search. The Web Conference 2021. (theWebConf 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Zhaowei Wang, Xiuqiang He, Chenyang Wang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Graph Heterogeneous Multi-Relational Recommendation. The 45th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (AAAI 2021). Preprint Version.
  • Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Chuancheng Lv, Fengyuan Wan, Huijie Lin, Taoran Tang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Temporal Cross-Effects in Knowledge Tracing. The 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2021). Preprint Version.

2020

  • Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Chong Chen, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Towards Dynamic User Intention: Temporal Evolutionary Effects of Item Relations in Sequential Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yongfeng Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Efficient Heterogeneous Collaborative Filtering without Negative Sampling for Recommendation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Efficient Neural Matrix Factorization without Sampling for Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Volume 38 Issue 2. Preprint Version.
  • Ziyi Ye, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Investigating COVID-19-Related Query Logs of Chinese Search Engine Users. Poster. (ASIS&T 2020). Dataset.
  • Shaoyun Shi, Hanxiong Chen, Weizhi Ma, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang. Neural Logic Reasoning. to appear in the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2020). Preprint Version.
  • XiangSheng Li, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Learning Better Representations for Neural Information Retrieval with Graph Information. to appear in the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2020). Preprint Version.
  • Fan Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Cascade or Recency: Constructing Better Evaluation Metrics for Session Search. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Fan Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Models Versus Satisfaction: Towards a Better Understanding of Evaluation Metrics. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Haitian Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Preference-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. Jointly Non-Sampling Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. Make It a Chorus: Knowledge- and Time-aware Item Modeling for Sequential Recommendation. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Shaoyun Shi, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang, Xinxing Yu, Houzhi Shan, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma. Beyond User Embedding Matrix: Learning to Hash for Modeling Large-Scale Users in Recommendation. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Zhijing Wu, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Reading Behavior in Fine-grained Relevance Judgment. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Short Paper. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. An Analysis of BERT in Document Ranking. to appear in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Short Paper. (SIGIR 2020).Preprint Version.
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Weizhi Ma, Ken Satoh, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. BERT-PLI: Modeling Paragraph-Level Interactions for Legal Case Retrieval. to appear in the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020).
  • Zhijing Wu, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Jingtao Zhan, Yukun Zheng, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Leveraging Passage-level Cumulative Gain for Document Ranking. the Web Conference 2020. (WWW 2020). Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Efficient Non-Sampling Factorization Machines for Optimal Context-Aware Recommendation. The Web Conference 2020. Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yongfeng Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Efficient Heterogeneous Collaborative Filtering without Negative Sampling for Recommendation. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. A Context-Aware Click Model for Web Search. The 13th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2020). Preprint Version.
  • Yukun Zheng, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Mark Sanderson, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Examination Behavior in Mobile Search. The 13th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (WSDM 2020). Preprint Version.

2019

  • Jiaxin Mao, Zhumin Chu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Investigating the Reliability of Click Models. The 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019) (Best Short Paper Honorable Mention). Preprint Version.
  • Min Zhang. Foundations and Trends for Personalized Recommendation. NLPCC 2019 Tutorials /CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL 107). Preprint Version.
  • Yukun Zheng, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. 2019. Constructing Click Model for Mobile Search with Viewport Time. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Volume 37 Issue 4.Preprint Version.
  • Shaoyun Shi, Min Zhang, Xinxing Yu, Yongfeng Zhang, Bin Hao, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Adaptive Feature Sampling for Recommendation with Missing Content Feature Values. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Junqi Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Ruizhe Zhang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Jun Xu and Qi Tian. Context-Aware Ranking by Constructing a Virtual Environment for Reinforcement Learning. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2019). Preprint Version. Dataset.
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Qingyao Ai, Yufei Huang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Improving Web Image Search with Contextual Information. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. TianGong-ST: A New Dataset with Large-scale Refined Real-world Web Search Sessions. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Short paper. (CIKM 2019). Preprint Version. Dataset.
  • Mengyang Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Cognitive Effects in Session-level Search User Satisfaction. The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (KDD 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Yiqun Liu, Junqi Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Qi Tian, Yanxiong Lu, Leyu Lin. Search Result Reranking with Visual and Structure Information Sources. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Volume 37 Issue 4. Preprint Version.
  • Xiangsheng Li, Jiaxin Mao, Chao Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Teach Machine How to Read: Reading Behavior Inspired Relevance Estimation. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Long paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version..
  • Yukun Zheng, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Zixin Ye, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Human Behavior Inspired Machine Reading Comprehension. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Long paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version.Dataset.
  • Zhijing Wu, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Passage-level Relevance and Its Role in Document-level Relevance Judgment. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Long paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version. Corrections. Dataset.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Chenyang Wang, Weizhi Ma, Minming Li, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. An Efficient Adaptive Transfer Neural Network for Social-aware Recommendation. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Long paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Hongyu Lu, Min Zhang, Wezhi Ma, Ce Wang, Feng Xia, Yiqun Liu, Leyu Lin and Shaoping Ma. Effects of User Negative Experience in Mobile News Streaming. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Long paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Yunqiu Shao, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Towards Context-Aware Evaluation for Image Search. The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Short paper. (SIGIR 2019). Preprint Version.
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. On Annotation Methodologies for Image Search Evaluation. Accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Preprint Version.
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Yunqiu Shao, Zixin Ye, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search Search. The Web Conference 2019. Preprint Version
  • Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yue Cao, Woojeong Jin, Chenyang Wang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma and Xiang Ren. Jointly Learning Explainable Rules for Recommendation with Knowledge Graph Web Mining. The Web Conference 2019. Preprint Version
  • Hongyu Lu, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Quality Effects on User Preferences and Behaviors in Mobile News Streaming User Modeling. The Web Conference 2019. Preprint Version
  • Chenyang Wang, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Modeling Item-Specific Characteristics of Repeat Consumption for Recommender Systems. The Web Conference 2019. Preprint Version
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Social Attentional Memory Network: Modeling Aspect- and Friend-level Diferences in Recommendation. The eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019). Preprint Version
  • Zhijing Wu, Yiqun Liu, Qianfan Zhang, Kailu Wu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. The influence of image search intents on user behavior and satisfaction. The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019). Preprint Version. Datasets.

2018

  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Missing Data Modeling with User Activity and Item Popularity in Recommendation. The fourteenth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Jia Chen, Yiqun Liu, Cheng Luo, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Improving Session Search Performance with a Multi-MDP Model. The fourteenth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Shaoyun Shi, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Attention-based Adaptive Model to Unify Warm and Cold Starts Recommendation. The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Xiangsheng Li, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Zexue He, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Understanding Reading Attention Distribution during Relevance Judgement. The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018). Preprint Version. Datasets
  • Yingying Wu, Yiqun Liu, Fei Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Beyond Greedy Search: Pruned Exhaustive Search for Diversified Result Ranking. The 4th ACM SIGIR Informational Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, (ICTIR 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Noriko Kando, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. How does Domain Expertise Affect User’s Search Interaction and Outcome in Exploratory Search? Accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Preprint Version.
  • Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Chenyang Wang, Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Your Tweets Reveal What You Like: Introducing Cross-media Content Information into Multi-domain Recommendation. The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI-ECAI-18). Preprint Version.
  • Hongyu Lu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Between Clicks and Satisfaction: Study on Multi-Phase User Preferences and Satisfaction for Online News Reading. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Full Paper. (SIGIR 2018). Preprint Version. Datasets
  • Fan Zhang, Ke Zhou, Yunqiu Shao, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. How Well do Offline and Online Evaluation Metrics Measure User Satisfaction in Web Image Search? The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Full paper. (SIGIR 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Jiaxin Mao, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Constructing Click Models for Mobile Search. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Full paper. (SIGIR 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Yingying Wu, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Xiaochuan Wang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Treating Each Intent Equally? The Equilibrium of IA-Select. The Web Conference 2018. Poster paper. (WWW 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Xiao Lin, Wenpeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Peilin Zhao, Wenwu Zhu, Jian Pei and Junzhou Huang. Online Compact Convexified Factorization Machine. The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018). Preprint Version
  • Mengyang Liu, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. “Satisfaction with Failure” or “Unsatisfied Success”: Investigating the Relationship between Search Success and User Satisfaction. The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Ning Su, Yiqun Liu, Zhao Li, Yuli Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Detecting Crowdturfing “Add to Favorites” Activities in Online Shopping. The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Chong Chen, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Neural Attentional Rating Regression with Review-level Explanations. The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018). Preprint Version [Code in this work]
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Zexue He, Noriko Kando, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A Two-Stage Model for User’s Examination Behavior in Mobile Search. The third ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2018). Preprint Version.
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Noriko Kando, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Investigating Result Usefulness in Mobile Search. The 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018) Preprint Version
  • Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Jiyin He, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Why People Search for Images using Web Search Engines. The eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018) Preprint Version
  • Ning Su, Jiyin He, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. User Intent, Behaviour, and Perceived Satisfaction in Product Search. The eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining(WSDM 2018) Preprint Version

2017

  • Wang Yewen, Zhang Min, Soleimaninejadian Pouneh, Tong Haoyue, Feng Zehui, Big five personality measurement based on lifelog. 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Lifelogging Tools and Applications, LTA 2017, Mountain View, CA, United states, October 23, 2017. Online Version
  • Xiao Lin, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang, Joint factorizational topic models for cross-city recommendation. 1st Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2017, Beijing, China. Online Version
  • Xiao Lin, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, and Shaopin Ma, A Neural Network Model for Social-Aware Recommendation. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2017). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10648) pp125-137. Online Version
  • Shaoyun Shi, Min Zhang, Hongyu Lu, Yiqun Liu, and Shaopin Ma, Wide & Deep Learning in Job Recommendation: An Empirical Study. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2017). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10648) pp112-124. Online Version
  • Pouneh Soleimaninejadian, Yewen Wang, Haoyue Tong, Zehui Feng, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma,THIR2 at the NTCIR-13 Lifelog Task: Bridging Technology and Psychology through the Lifelog, Proceedings of the NTCIR-13 Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 2017 Tokyo Japan (NTCIR-13) Online Version
  • Thiago Silveira, Min Zhang, Xiao Lin, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, How good your recommender system is? A survey on evaluations in recommendation, Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. (2017)., Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp1-19, Online Version
  • Lu HY, Zhang M, Liu YQ, Ma SP. Convolution Neural Network Feature Importance Analysis and Feature Selection Enhanced Model[J]. Journal of Software, 2017, 28(11): 2879-2890 (in Chinese). Online Version
  • Andrew Tomkins, Min Zhang, William D Heavlin. Reviewer bias in single-versus double-blind peer review. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol 114, Issue48, p12708-12713. Online Version
  • ZHANG Min, DING Biyuan, MA Weizhi, TAN Yunzhi, LIU Yiqun, MA Shaoping. Hybridrecommendation approach enhanced by deep learning. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology) 57 (10), 1014-1021.
  • Cheng Guo, Hongyu Lu, Shaoyun Shi, Bin Hao, Bin Liu, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. How Integration helps on Cold-Start Recommendations. Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2017 (RecSys Challenge 2017
  • Yiqun Liu, Chao Wang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. User behavior modeling for better web search ranking. Frontiers in Computer Science 2017. Preprint Version.
  • Ye Chen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. User Satisfaction Prediction with Mouse Movement Information in Heterogeneous Search Environment. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE) Preprint Version
  • Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Xin Li, Min Zhang, Yinghui Xu and Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Web Search with a Bejeweled Player Model. The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017 Best Student Paper Award). Preprint Version
  • Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Mobile Search with Height-Biased Gain. The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017). Preprint Version
  • Ye Chen, Ke Zhou, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Meta-evaluation of Online and Offline Web Search Evaluation Metrics. The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017). Preprint Version Data Description Dataset
  • Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Xiaochuan Wang, Meng Wang, Zhijing Wu, Yingying Wu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Examination Behavior of Image Search Users. The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017). Preprint Version
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Huanbo Luan, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Understanding and Predicting Usefulness Judgment in Web Search. (Short paper). The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017). Preprint Version
  • Cheng Luo, Yukun Zheng, Yiqun Liu, Xiaochuan Wang, Jingfang Xu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. SogouT-16: A New Web Corpus to Embrace IR Research. (Short paper). The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017). Preprint Version
  • Xiao Lin, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Learning and Transferring Social and Item Visibilities for Personalized Recommendation. The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017). Online Version [Code in this work]
  • Bin Liu, Min Zhang, Weizhi Ma, Xin Li, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. A Two-step Information Accumulation Strategy for Learning from Highly Imbalanced Data. The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017). Online Version
  • Yuli Liu, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Detecting Collusive Spamming Activities in Community Question Answering. The 26th International World Wide Web Conference(WWW 2017). Preprint PDF Dataset
  • Cheng Luo, Xue Li, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Users’ Time Perception during Web Search. The 2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2017). Preprint PDF

2016

  • Yiqun Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Chao Wang, Jian-Yun Nie, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Time-Aware Click Model. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Vol. 35, No. 3, Article 16. Preprint PDF Code Sample Data
  • Yuli Liu, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Detecting Promotion Campaigns in Query Auto Completion. The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Preprint PDF Dataset
  • Invited Panel Talk: Artificial Intelligence for Youth: Opportunity or Bubble? 2016 Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence (CCAI 2016).
  • Yunzhi Tan, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Rating-Boosted Latent Topics: Understanding Users and Items with Ratings and Reviews. The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2016)
  • Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Multi-grained Role Labeling Based on Multi-modality Information for Real Customer Service Telephone Conversation. The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2016)
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Qi Zhao, Yi Zhang, Daniel Friedman, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Economic Recommendation with Surplus Maximization. In Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016). Preprint PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Zeyang Liu, Ke Zhou, Meng Wang, Chao Wang, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Predicting Search User Examination with Visual Saliency Information. The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research on Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2016). Preprint PDF
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Jian-Yun Nie, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. When does Relevance Mean Usefulness and User Satisfaction in Web Search? The 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research on Development in Information Retrieval(SIGIR2016). Preprint PDF
  • Yuli Liu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Pay Me and I’ll Follow You: Detection of Crowdturfing Following Activities in Microblog Environment. The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2016). Preprint PDF Dataset
  • Cheng Luo, Fan Zhang, Xue Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Manipulating Time Perception of Web Search Users. First ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016). Preprint PDF Poster

2015

  • Invited Talk: User’s examination behavior study on Web and vertical search, Vertical Search Relevance Workshop on WSDM 2015
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. Daily-Aware Personalized Recommendation based on Feature-Level Time Series Analysis. The 24th International World Wide Web conference (WWW2015)
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Yunzhi Tan, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Catch the Black Sheep: Unified Shilling Attack Detection based on Fraudulent Action Propagation. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015).
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Phrase-level Sentiment Analysis on Textual Reviews for Personalized Recommendation. The 8th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2015), Feb. 2 - 6, 2015, Shanghai, China.
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Chua Tat-Seng, Yi Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Task-based Recommendation on a Web-Scale, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data£¬ (BigData 2015) October 29-November 1, 2015, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Ma W, Zhang M, Liu Y, et al. Beyond Your Interests: Exploring the Information Behind User Tags[M], Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. Springer International Publishing, 2015:257-269.
  • Ye Chen, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Does Vertical Bring more Satisfaction? Predicting Search Satisfaction in a Heterogeneous Environment. The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015) Preprint PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Ye Chen, Jinhui Tang, Jiashen Sun, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Xuan Zhu, Different users, Different Opinions: Predicting Search Satisfaction with Mouse Movement Information. Proceedings of the 38th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research on Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2015).Preprint PDF
  • Zeyang Liu, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Influence of Vertical Result in Web Search Examination. Proceedings of the 38th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research on Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2015).Preprint PDF
  • Xin Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Xuan Zhu, Jiashen Sun, Detecting Promotion Campaigns in Community Question Answering, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015).Preprint PDF
  • Fei Jiang, Yiqun Liu, Huanbo Luan, Jiashen Sun, Xuan Zhu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Microblog Sentiment Analysis with Emoticon Space Model. Journal of Computer Science and Technology(JCST). 2015 Preprint PDF

2014

  • Shuai Huo, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Improving Tail Query Performance by Fusion Model. The 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014)
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Understanding the Sparsity: Augmented Matrix Factorization with Sampled Constraints on Unobservables. The 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014)
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Guokun Lai, Min Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Explicit Factor Models for Explainable Recommendation based on Phrase-level Sentiment Analysis, The 37th ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2014). Preprint PDF
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Haochen Zhang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Do users rate or review?: boost phrase-level sentiment labeling with review-level sentiment classification. The 37th ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2014).
  • Xin Li, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Yijiang Jin and Liyun Ru. Search Engine Click Spam Detection Based on Bipartite Graph Propagation. Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014). Preprint PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Ruihua Song, Min Zhang, Zhicheng Dou, Takehiro Yamamoto, Makoto Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Ke Zhou. Overview of the NTCIR-11 IMine Task. Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR conference.
  • Yiqun Liu, Chao Wang, Ke Zhou, Jianyun Nie, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, From Skimming to Reading: A Two-stage Examination Model for Web Search, The 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014) Preprint PDF Data Set SLIDES
  • Xin Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Fraudulent Support Telephone Number Identification Based on Co-occurrence Information on the Web,** Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014)**. Preprint PDF Data Set
  • Fei Chen, Yiqun Liu, Jian Li, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A Pruning Algorithm for Optimal Diversified Search. Poster proceedings of the 23th International World Wide Web conference (WWW2014). Preprint PDF
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Social Influence Analysis for Microblog User based on User Behavior. Chinese Journal of Computer. 37(4):1-10. (in Chinese) Preprint PDF
  • Zeyang Liu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. How Do Sponsored Search Results Affect User Behavior in Web Search? Proceedings of the 10th Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference (AIRS 2014). Preprint PDF Data Set
  • Fei Chen, Yiqun Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Keyang Xu, Yujie Cao, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Revisiting the Evaluation of Diversified Search Evaluation Metrics with User Preferences. Proceedings of the 10th Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference (AIRS 2014). Preprint PDF
  • Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Query Ambiguity Identification Based on User Behavior Information. Proceedings of the 10th Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference (AIRS 2014). Preprint PDF
  • Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Estimating Credibility of User Clicks with Mouse Movement and Eye-tracking Information. The 3rd CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2014). Preprint PDF
  • Bin Liang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru, Kuo Zhang: Searching for people to follow in social networks. Expert System with Applications 41(16): 7455-7465 (2014)
  • Fei Jiang, Yiqun Liu, Huanbo Luan, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Microblog Sentiment Analysis with Emoticon Space Model. The 3rd National Conference on Social Media Processing (SMP2014). Preprint PDF

2013

  • Invited Talk: Understanding and Modeling User Behavior in Search. The 5th International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and Information Management for Young Researchers (iDB2013), 2013.
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma and Shi Feng. Localized Matrix Factorization for Recommendation based on Matrix Block Diagonal Forms.** The 22nd International World Wide Web conference (WWW2013)**. pp.1511-1520. PDF
  • Yongfeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma. Improve Collaborative Filtering Through Bordered Block Diagonal Form Matrices. The 36th ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2013).
  • Chao Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Meihong Zheng, Jing Qian, Kuo Zhang. Incorporating Vertical Results into Search Click Models. **The 36th ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2013). **Preprint PDF
  • Qianli Xing, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Jianyun Nie, Kuo Zhang. Incorporating User Preferences into Click Models. The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)Preprint PDF
  • Jian Liu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Kuo Zhang. A Study of Long-term Search Engine Users’ Behavior. The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013) (short paper) Preprint PDF
  • Qianli Xing, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, and Kuo Zhang. Characterizing Expertise of Search Engine Users. The ninth Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013) Preprint PDF
  • Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, and Kuo Zhang. Pornography Detection with the Wisdom of Crowds. The ninth Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013) Preprint PDF

2012

  • Anqi Cui, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Kuo Zhang. Discover breaking events with popular hashtags in twitter. Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM 2012).
  • Yiqun Liu, Yufei Xue, Danqing Xu, Ronwei Cen, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Constructing a Reliable Web Graph with Information on Browsing Behavior. Decision Support Systems (2012) 54:390-401. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2012.06.001. Preprint PDF
  • Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Kuo Zhang. Fighting against Web Spam: A Novel Propagation Method based on Click-through Data. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR2012). Preprint PDF
  • Danqing Xu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Revisiting Behaviors into Click Models. Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining . WSDM 2012 (Seattle, U.S.). pp. 303-312. PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Fei Chen, Weize Kong, Huijia Yu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Identifying Web Spam with the Wisdom of the Crowds. ACM Transaction on the Web. Volume 6, Issue 1, Article No. 2, 30 pages. March 2012. Preprint PDF
  • Yuchen Tian, Yiqun Liu, Danqing Xu, Ting Yao, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Seasonal Time Series Analysis with Search Behavior Information in Sales Forecasting. Proceedings of the 21th international Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012). pp. 615-616. Preprint PDF

2011

  • Bo Zhou, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Shaoping Ma£¬ Incorporating Web Browsing Information into Anchor Texts for Web Search£¬Information Retrieval, Springer£¬Volume 14, Issue 3 (2011), Pages 290-314.
  • Yiqun Liu, Junwei Miao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru, How do users describe their information need: Query recommendation based on snippet click model, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 38, Issue 11, July 2011, Pages 13847-13856.
  • Danqing Xu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Predicting Epidemic Tendency through Search Behavior Analysis. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) (Barcelona, Spain. July 16-22, 2011).
  • Yiqun Liu, Fei Chen, Weize Kong, Huijia Yu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Identifying Web Spam with the Wisdom of the Crowds. ACM Transaction on the Web. 2011.
  • Ruihua Song, Min Zhang, Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto P. Kato, Yiqun Liu, Miho Sugimoto, Qinglei Wang and Naoki Orii, Overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT Task, In Proceeding of The 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-9), Tokyo, Japan, Dec 6-9, 2011. PDF
  • Yufei Xue, Fei Chen, Tong Zhu, Chao Wang, Zhichao Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Shaoping Ma, THUIR at NTCIR-9 INTENT Task. In Proceeding of The 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-9). (Tokyo, Japan, Dec 6-9, 2011)
  • Ting Yao, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru; Empirical Study on Rare Query Characteristics, in the Proceedings of 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Aug 2011,p7-14
  • Anqi Cui, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma: Emotion Tokens: Bridging the Gap Among Multilingual Twitter Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS2011£¬Regular Paper, to be published.
  • Anqi Cui, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma: Are the URLs really popular in microblog messages? Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems, CCIS2011: 1¨C5. Regular Paper.
  • Guichun Hua, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Hang Yin. Construct Weak Ranking Functions for Learning Linear Ranking Function. AIRS 2011.
  • Guichun Hua, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Automatically Generating Labels Based on Unified Click Model. ACM WWW2011 (poster), New York, NY, USA, 59-60.
  • Zhichao LI, Hang YIN,Min ZHANG, Shaoping MA. Extraction and Polarity Determination for Opinion Expression. Accepted by Journal of computational information systems.

2010

  • Cen, R., Liu, Y., Zhang, M., Ru, L., and Ma, S. ,Study language models with specific user goals.Proceedings of the 19th international Conference on World Wide Web. ACM, New York, 1073-1074.
  • Xing, Q., Liu, Y., Cen, R., Zhang, M., Ma, S., and Ru, L.Are search engine users equally reliable? Proceedings of the 21th international Conference on World Wide Web. ACM, New York. 1207-1208.
  • Guichun Hua, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Hierarchical Feature Selection for Ranking. Proceedings of the 22th international Conference on World Wide Web ACM, New York. 1113-1114.
  • Ting Yao, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Yongfeng Zhang, Liyun Ru. Investigating Characteristics of Non-click Behavior Using Query Logs.Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference. Springer.LNCS 6458. pp.85¨C96. (Best Paper Nominator)
  • Yufei Xue, Yiqun Liu, Tong Zhu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru.Query Recommendation Considering Search Performance of Related Queries. Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference. Springer. LNCS 6458. pp.410¨C419.
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Search Engine User Behavior Analysis Based on Log Mining,(in Chinese) Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol.24(3): pp49-54
  • Bo Zhou, Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Shaoping Ma. A Document Relevance Based Search Result Re-Ranking.(in Chinese) Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol.24(3):pp19-24.

2009

  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu,Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun Ru, and Shaoping Ma. Exploring Relevance for Clicks. In Proceeding of the 18th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2009), Nov. 2009. ACM, New York, NY, 1847-1850.
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Web Observation from a User Perspective. 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence(WI 2009), Volume 01, 291-294, September 15 - 18, 2009.
  • Min Zhang, Da Kuang, Guichun Hua, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Is learning to rank effective for Web search? SIGIR2009 workshop: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (LR4IR 2009), 19-23 July 2009, Boston, US. PDF
  • ZC Li, F Chen, QL Xing, JW Miao, YF Xue, T Zhu, B Zhou, RW Cen, YQ Liu, M Zhang, YJ Jin, SP Ma. THUIR at TREC 2009 Web Track: finding relevant and diverse results for large scale Web Search. TREC 2009, pp 145-153, 2009.
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Reliability Analysis for the Behavior of Web Retrieval Users, (in Chinese)Journal of Software, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp1055-1066, 2009.
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Study on the Click Context of Web Search Users for Reliability Analysis. The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2009 (AIRS2009), pp. 397¨C408, 2009.
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with the Wisdom of Crowds. The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2009 (AIRS2009),pp. 351¨C362. 2009.
  • Zhichao LI, Min Zhang, Shaoping MA. Mining Synonymous Entities using Search Engine Query Logs. **Journal of Computational Information Systems **5:3(2009) pp.1217-1224
  • Zhichao LI, Min Zhang, Shaoping MA, Bo ZHOU, Yu SUN. Automatic Product Feature Words Extraction from Comments on the Web. The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2009 (AIRS2009) pp. 112-123, 2009.
  • Huijia Yu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Web Spam Identification with User Browsing Graph. The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2009 (AIRS2009), pp. 38-49, 2009.
  • Huijia Yu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Web Spam Taxonomy via Spam Intention Analaysis. **Jounral of Chinese Information Processing, **(in Chinese), Vol23, No.2, pp95-101. 2009.
  • Yiqun Liu, Yijiang Jin, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma and Liyun Ru. User Browsing Graph: Structure, Evolution and Application. Late breaking result session in Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009). 2009.2
  • Yiqun LIU, Bo ZHOU, Min Zhang, Shaoping MA, Liyun RU, Effectiveness of Online Sponsored Search Based on User Log Analysis. Journal of Computational Information Systems. Vol 5, No.3, 2009. pp1185-1192.
  • Yufei Xue, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Analysis and comparison to Web page quality evaluation algorithms based on user browsing graph. The 10th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics, (CNCCL 2009). Jul. 24-26. 2009. pp482-488.
  • Bo Zhou, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Yiqun Liu, Liyun Ru, Log-Mining Based Query Spelling Correction for Chinese Search Engines, Journal of Computational Information Systems, Volume 5, Number 3, pp1225-1234, 2009.
  • Huijia Yu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Web Spam Taxonomy via Spam Intention Analysis, (in Chinese) Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol 23, No.2, pp95-101, 2009.
  • Bo Zhou, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Yiqun Liu, Liyun Ru, Query Spelling Correction For Multi-Language Search Engines, Journal of Computational Information Systems, Volume 5, Number 3, pp1521-1528, 2009.

2008

  • Min Zhang, Xingyao Ye, A generative model to unify topic relevance and lexicon-based sentiment for opinion retrieval, The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR2008), 20-24 July 2008, Singapore, p411-419. PDF and Slides
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. An Automatic Online News Topic Keyphrase Extraction System. In Proceedings of 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence(WI’08), Sydney, Australia, 2008. pp214~219.
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping ma, Liyun Ru, Automatic Online News Issue Construction in Web Environment, the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, April, 2008, p457-466. PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. User Behavior Oriented Web Spam Detection. the 17th World Wide Web conference (WWW2008),Beijing, April, 2008, p1039-1040. PDF
  • Lu Jing, Ma ShaoPing and Zhang Min. Multi-Instance Clustering for Web Image. Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODM 2008) for 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. pp 467~470.
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Automatic Online News Topic Ranking Using Media Focus and User Attention Based on Aging Theory, the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), October, 2008, Napa Valley California, USA. pp1033-1042 PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Rongwei Cen, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Identifying Web Spam with User Behavior Analysis. The Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb). 2008.4. PDF
  • Liu Yi-Qun, Cen Rong-Wei, Zhang Min, Ru Li-Yun, Ma Shao-Ping, Automatic search engine performance evaluation based on user behavior analysis. Journal of Software, (in Chinese) 2008, 19(11):3023-3032. Preprint PDF
  • T. Zhu, M. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Ma, THUIR at TREC 2008: Blog Track, Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), page 346-350, Nov., 2008.
  • Y. Xue, T. Zhu, G. Hua, M. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Ma, THUIR at TREC 2008: Enterprise Track, Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), page 351-354. Nov., 2008.
  • B. Zhou, Q. Fang, R. Cen, M. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Ma, THUIR at TREC 2008: Relevance Feedback Track, Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), page 355-359. Nov., 2008.
  • Lu Jing, Ma ShaoPing and Zhang Min. A Multi-Instance Clustering Approach for Web Image Using One-Class Support Vector Machine. Journal of Computational Information Systems, 2008, 4(3):1231-1240.
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru. Automatic Hot Event Detection Using Both Media and User Attention. Journal of Computational Information Systems, Vol.4(3), June, 2008. pp.985-992.
  • Zhichao LI, Min ZHANG, Shaoping MA. Mining Synonymous Entities using Search Engine Query Logs, **Journal of Computational Information Systems **. (to appear)
  • Bo ZHOU, Min ZHANG, Shaoping MA, Yiqun LIU, Liyun RU£¬Log-Mining-Based Query Spelling Correction for Chinese Search Engine, Journal of Computational Information Systems)
  • Wang Yong, Liu Yiqun, Min Zhang, Ma Shaoping, Ru Liyun, Modeling Lifetime of Web Pages Based on User Interest Analysis, **Journal of Chinese Information Processing **(in Chinese), Vol 22(2):76~80. Mar. 2008.
  • Yu Huijia, Liu Yiqun, Zhang Min, Ma Shaoping, Ru Liyun, Web spam taxonomy via spam intent analysis, the 3rd National Conference of Information Retrieval and Content Security (NCIRCS’08), (in Chinese), pp405-414, 2008.
  • Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Email discussion and Retrieval on Enterprise Search, Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese), Vol 22(2), p76~80, March, 2008.
  • Yong Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun Ru, Identify Temporal Websites Based on User Behavior Analysis, The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, India, January 7-12, 2008
  • Yong Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, News Page Discovery Policy for Instant Crawlers, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2008, Harbin, China, January 16-18, 2008

2007

  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. Data Cleansing for Web Information Retrieval using Query Independent Features. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 58, Issue 12, Pages 1884-1898, 2007. Preprint PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma. 2007. Automatic search engine performance evaluation with click-through data analysis. In **Proceedings of the 16th international Conference on World Wide Web (Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 08 - 12, 2007). WWW ‘07. **ACM, New York, NY, 1133-1134. PDF POSTER
  • Yupeng Fu, YuFei Xue, Tong Zhu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. THUIR at TREC2007: Enterprise Track. In Proceedings of NIST Special Publication: the Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2007). Maryland, USA, November 2007,p594~598
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. A Survey of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval. **Journal of Chinese Information Processing **(in Chinese), Vol 21(2):35~45, 2007. PDF
  • Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang, Looking inside SIGIR: the Past and the Future of Information Retrieval. Search Engine and Web Mining conference (SEWM2007) (in Chinese), 2007. (invited talk)
  • Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma: Finding Experts Using Social Network Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international Conference on Web intelligence (Web Intelligence) 2007: 77-80.
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Automatic Chinese keyword extraction based on adjacent words. Journal of Guangxi Normal University(Natural Science Edition) (in Chinese), Vol 25(2):161-164, 2007.
  • Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Survey of Enterprise Information Retrieval. Journal of Guangxi Normal University(Natural Science Edition) (in Chinese), Vol 25(2):90-98, 2007.
  • Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma: A CDD-based formal model for expert finding. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 881-884. 2007
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Web key resource page selection based on non-content information (in Chinese). CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems, 2(1), 2007. PDF
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Web Page Quality Estimation Based on Linear Discriminant Function, **Journal of Computational Information Systems. **2007.
  • Huijia Yu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru and Shaoping Ma, Research in Search Engine User Behavior Based on Log Analysis (in Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing. Vol. 21(1): pp. 109-114, 2007. PDF

2006

  • Le Zhao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, The Nature of Novelty Detection, Information Retrieval,vol 9(5): 521-542, 2006. PDF
  • Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, A PDD-based Searching Approach for Expert Finding in Intranet Information Management, in the proceedings of Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2006,p43-53, singapore,2006.10
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma, Automatic Query Type Identification Based on Click Through Information, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4182: pp. 593-600, 2006. PDF POSTER
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Web Data Cleansing for Effective Information Retrieval (in Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing. Vol. 20(3): pp. 70-77, 2006. PDF
  • Jianlong Wang, Zhichao Li, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, THUIR at TREC 2006: Blog Track (Draft), The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, Nov, 2006.
  • Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang. Information Retrieval: how far have we been going in the past 30 years. In the proceedings of the 25th anniversary of Chinese information processing. (in Chinese), (invited talk), Nov., 2006. PDF
  • Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Yong Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, THUIR at TREC 2006: Enterprise track, Maryland, America, Nov 11
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru and Shaoping Ma, Data Cleansing for Web Information Retrieval using Query Independent Features. Proceedings of the 1st China-Kyoto International Student Workshop on Digital Content and Web Computing. 2006.3. PDF
  • Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Shaoping Ma, THUIR at TREC 2006 Terabyte Track, Notebook proceedings of the The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006). pp. 673-676. PDF
  • Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, A PDD-based Searching Approach for Expert Finding in Intranet Information Management. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.4182. 2006.

2005 and before

  • Min Zhang, Chuan Lin, Shaoping Ma, How Effective Is Query Expansion for Finding Novel Information? First Internatinal Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, LNAI 3248, 2005, pp149-157 PDF
  • Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Ruihua Song, DF or IDF? On the use of primary feature model for Web IR. Journal of Software, (in Chinese), 2005,16(5):1012~1020. PDF
  • Min Zhang, Chuan Lin, Shaoping Ma, Dynamic parameter learning approach for information retrieval with genetic algorithm. Journal of Computer Research and Development, (in Chinese), Vol. 42, No.3, pp486-493, Mar. 2005.
  • Yiqun Liu, Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Learning-based Web Data Cleansing for Information Retrieval, Journal of Computational Information Systems, Vol 1(n4): pp. 709-716, 2005. Preprint PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. 2005. Web data cleansing for information retrieval using key resource page selection. In Special interest Tracks and Posters of the 14th international Conference on World Wide Web (Chiba, Japan, May 10 - 14, 2005). WWW ‘05. ACM, New York, NY, 1136-1137. PDF POSTER
  • L. Wenyin, G. Huang, L. Xiaoyue, Min Zhang, X. Deng, Detecting Phishing pages based visual similarity, the 14th World Wide Web conference (www2005), (poster), May, Japan, pp1060~1062, 2005.
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Web Key Resource Page Selection Based On Improved Decision Tree Algorithm. (in Chinese) Journal of software, Vol. 16(11): pp. 1958-1966, 2005. PDF
  • Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Survey on Web spaming and anti-spaming techniques. in the proceedings of Information Retrieval and Content Security Conferent, (NCIRCS 2005), (in Chinese), pp279-285.
  • Le Zhao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. The Empirical Impact of the Nature of Novelty Detection. LNCS 3689, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2005.
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Effective Web IR Based on Virtual Site Entry Page Selection (in Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol. 19(2): pp. 44-50, 2005. PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Review of User Behavior Analysis in Web IR Research (in Chinese). The 7th Joint Symposium on Computational Linguistics (JSCL2005). pp 488-494, 2005. PDF
  • Canhui Wang, Liyun Run, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Text retrieval based pseduo relevance feeadback and classficiation. The 7th Joint Symposium on Computational Linguistics (JSCL2005). (in Chinese), pp481-487.
  • Canhui Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Topic-Independent Web High-Quality Page Selection Based on K-Means Clustering. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3689, pp.516-521. PDF
  • Jing Lu, Shao-ping Ma, Min Zhang. Automatic Image Annotation Based-on Model Space. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering(IEEE NLP-KE’05). Wuhan, China. Oct. 30-Nov. 1,2005. pp455-460
  • Yupeng Fu, Wei Yu, Yize Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. THUIR at TREC 2005: Enterprise Track. NIST Special Publication: SP 500-266, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference.
  • Min Zhang, Ruihua Song, Shaoping Ma, Document Refinement Based On Semantic Query Expansion.Journal of Computer,(in Chinese), Vol.27,No.10,pp1395-1401, 2004. PDF
  • Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, How Effective is Query Expansion for Finding Novel Information?, The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04), Hainan, pp219~224, March, 2004.
  • Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Shaoping Ma. Rank-based Weighted Insertion Results Fusion Algorithm in Web IR, Journal of Chinese Information Retrieval, (in Chinese),Vol 18, NO. 2, pp8~15, 2004.
  • Min Zhang, Jianfeng Gao, Shaoping Ma. Anchor text and its context based Web Information Retrieval. Journal of Computer Research and Development, (in Chinese), Vol. 41, No.1, pp221~226, 2004.
  • Chuan Lin, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Using Classification-based Approach to Improve Text Retrieval, Asia Information retrieval Symposium (AIRS04),pp209~212, Beijing, October, 2004
  • Liyun Ru, Le Zhao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Improved Feature Selection and Redundance Computing –THUIR at TREC 2004 Novelty Track, Proceedings of 13th Text Retrireval Conference (TREC2004), pp 81-86, Gaithersburg, USA, November 2004.
  • Yijiang Jin, Wei Qi, Min Zhang,Shaoping Ma, Using Normal PC to Index and Retrieval Terabyte Document–THUIR at TREC 2004 Terabyte Track, Proceedings of 13th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2004), Gaithersburg, USA, November 2004.
  • Chuan Lin, Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang,Parameter optimization for information retrieval with Genetic Algorithm, the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC’03), Washington, D.C., Oct 5-8 2003.
  • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Effective Topic Distillation with Key Resource Pre-selection, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3411, pp. 129-140, 2004. PDF
  • Yiqun Liu, Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Finding “Abstract Fields” of Web Pages and Query Specific Retrieval–THUIR at TREC 2004 Web Track, NIST Special Publication: SP 500-261, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004). PDF from TREC website
  • Min Zhang, Chuan Lin, Yiqun Liu, Leo Zhao, Shaoping Ma: THUIR at TREC 2003: Novelty, Robust and Web. TREC 2003: 556-567.
  • Min Zhang, Ruihua Song, Shaoping Ma, DF or IDF? On the Use of HTML Primary Feature Fields for Web IR, the 12th World Wide Web conference, (www2003), (poster) May, Hungarian, 2003.
  • Min Zhang, Qing Ma, Shaoping Ma, Optimizing Feature Encoding for Self-Organizing Chinese Semantic Maps. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, (in Chinese), Vol17,No.3,2003.
  • Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Jianfeng Gao, Study on Link-Based Approaches for Web IR in TREC Experiments. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, (in Chinese),Vol17, NO.1, 2003.
  • Min Zhang, et al, Expansion-Based Technologies in Finding Relevant and New Information: THU TREC2002 Novelty Track Experiments, the 11th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2002), U.S.A, Nov., 2002.
  • Min Zhang, et al, THU TREC2002 Web Track Experiments, the 11th Text REtrieval Conference, U.S.A, Nov., 2002.
  • Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Efficient Information Retrieval Based on a Combination of Vector Space and Probabilistic Models, the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics ( IEEE SMC2002). October 10~12, 2002.
  • Qing Ma, Min Zhang, Ming Zhou, Masaki Murata, and Hitoshi Isahara, Self-Organizing Chinese and Japanese Semantic Maps, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING02). August, 2002.Taiwan. PDF
  • Jianfeng Gao, Min Zhang, Improving Language Model Size Reduction using Better Pruning Criteria. the Association for Computational Linguistics 40th Anniversary Meeting, 2002 (ACL2002). July 7 - 12, 2002 PDF
  • ZHANG Min,MA Shaoping,GAO Jianfeng,Study on Link-Based Approaches for Web IR in TREC Experiments, Student Workshop on Computer Linguistics (SWCL) 2002.8.(Best Paper Award)
  • Ruihua Song, Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang, Passage Retrieval osn Web Data, The First International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2002.11.4, Beijing, China.
  • Chuan Lin, Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang, Yijiang Jin, Genetic Algorithm Based Dynamic Parameter Learning for Text Retrieval, The First International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2002.11.4, Beijing, China.
  • Min Zhang, Qing Ma, Ming Zhou, and Shaoping Ma. Optimizing Feature Encoding for Self-organizing Chinese Semantic Map. the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks (NLPNN2001), Tokyo, Japan, November, 2001.
  • Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Zhe Jiang, et al, Statistical Learning and Analyses on Chinese Ancient Books for Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, v2, Oct 7-10 2001.
  • Min Zhang, Ma Shaoping and Jiang Zhe, Digitizing Chinese Ancient Books: Information Extraction and Retrieval. The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE’2001), June 25-28, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.
  • Qing Ma, Min Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang, Hitoshi Isahara1. Emergence of Chinese Semantic Maps from Self-Organization. the 8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2001), Shanghai, China, November, 2001.