Selected Publications:

Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Koji Hino, Yihong Gong, and Yi Zhang, iOLAP: A Framework for Analyzing the Internet, Social Networks, and Other Networked Data, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2009 [online version]

Sarah Tyler, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Yi Zhang,Ordering Innovators and Laggards for Product Categorization and Recommendation, ACM Recommender Systems, New York, 2009

Yi Zhang, Complex Adaptive Filtering User Profile Using Graphical Models, Journal of Information Processing and Management 44 , pp. 1886-1900 (2008)[pdf]

Jonathan Koren, Y. Zhang, and X. Liu. Personalized Interactive Faceted Search. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, Beijing, China (WWW '08) [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Jonathan Koren, Efficient Bayesian Hierarchical User Modeling for Recommendation Systems, In Proceedings of the 30st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, Netherland, (SIGIR 2007) [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Wei Xu, Fast Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Mixture of Language Models, In IPM Information Processing and Management Journal. [Source code]

Yi Zhang Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Information Filtering (Ph.D. Dissertation 2005) [pdf]

Yi Zhang Using Bayesian Priors to Combine Classifiers for Adaptive Filtering, In Proceedings of the 27st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield , United Kingdom, 2004 (SIGIR 2004) [ pdf]

Yi Zhang, Wei Xu, Jamie Callan, Exploration and Exploitation in Adaptive Filtering Based on Bayesian Active Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003) [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan and Thoma Minka Novelty and Redundancy Detection in Adaptive Filtering. In Proceedings of the 25st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere , Finland , 2002. (Best Paper Award in SIGIR 2002) Data [pdf]

Yi Zhang and Jamie Callan "Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Filtering Thresholds". In Proceedings of the 24st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, 2001. (SIGIR 2001) [pdf]

All Publications:

Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Koji Hino, Yihong Gong, and Yi Zhang, iOLAP: A Framework for Analyzing the Internet, Social Networks, and Other Networked Data, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2009 [online version]

Sarah Tyler, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Yi Zhang,Ordering Innovators and Laggards for Product Categorization and Recommendation, to appear in ACM Recommender Systems, New York, 2009

Shawn Wolf, Yi Zhang, User-Centric Multi-Criteria Information Retrieval, to appear in Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval as a Poster Paper, Boston, 2009

Sarah Tyler, Yi Zhang, Collaborative Advertising, to appear in Information Retrieval and Advertising Workshop in ACM SIGIR, Boston, 2009

Jesse Kirchner, Justin Nuger and Yi Zhang, An Extensible Crosslinguistic Readability Framework, to appear in Second Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: from Parallel to Non-parallel Corpora in;ACL/IJCNLP, Singapore, 2009[pdf]

Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, Yi Zhang, Probabilistic polyadic factorization and its application to personalized recommendation. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, 2008 [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Complex Adaptive Filtering User Profile Using Graphical Models, Journal of Information Processing and Management 44 , pp. 1886-1900 (2008)[pdf]

Yi Zhang, Adaptive Information Filtering, To appear as a book chapter in Text Mining: Theory, Application, and Visualization, Ashok Srivastava (Editor), Mehran Sahami (Editor),Chapman & Hall/Crc Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series [book]

Jonathan Koren, Y. Zhang, and X. Liu. Personalized Interactive Faceted Search. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, Beijing, China (WWW '08) [pdf]

James G. Shanahan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Diane Kelly, Yi Zhang, Aleksander Kolcz, Abdur Chowdhury: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008 ACM 2008 [more]

Sarah K. Tyler, Yi Zhang: Open Domain Recommendation: Social Networks and Collaborative Filtering. ADMA 2008: 330-341. A longer version will appear in Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology

Qiaozhu Mei, Yi Zhang: Automatic Web Tagging and Person Tagging Using Language Models. ADMA 2008: 741-748

Sung Kim, James Whitehead, Yi Zhang, Classifying Software Changes: Clean or Buggy? IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, 2008 [more]

Jordi Mondria, Thomas Wu, Yi Zhang, The Determinants of International Investment and Attention Allocation: Using internet search query data (working paper) [pdf

Yi Zhang, Jonathan Koren, Efficient Bayesian Hierarchical User Modeling for Recommendation Systems, In Proceedings of the 30st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, Netherland, (SIGIR 2007) [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Wei Xu, Fast Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Mixture of Language Models, In Proceedings of the 30st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, Netherland, (SIGIR poster 2007) [pdf] A longer version to appear in IPM Information Processing and Management Journal. [Source code]

Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan Miller. Searching and Navigating Petabyte Scale File Systems Based on Facets. In Proceeding of 2007 ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 07), International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07). [pdf].

Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella, Yi Zhang, Incorporating Diversity and Density in Active Learning for Relevance Feedback. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 2007 [pdf]

Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Yi Zhang. Web Based Linkage. In Proceedings of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management. Lisboa, Portugal (WIDM 2007). [pdf]

Philip Zigoris, Yi Zhang Bayesian Adaptive User Profiling with Explicit & Implicit Feedback, In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2006 [pdf] [data]

Haward Jie, Yi Zhang, Personalized Faceted Query Expansion, ACM SIGIR Faceted Search workshop 2006 [pdf]

Ethan Zhang, Yi Zhang , UCSC at TREC 2006 Blog Opinion Mining, In Proceedings of the 2006 Text REtrieval Conference. National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. (TREC 2006) [pdf]

Philip Zigoris, Damian Eads and Yi Zhang, Unsupervised Learning of Tree Alignment Models for Information Extraction, Workshop on Mining Structured Data, International Conference on Data Mining, 2006. [pdf]

A. Srivastava, R Akella, V. Diev, S. Preethi, D. McIntosh, E. Pontikakis, Z. Xu and Y. Zhang, Enabling the Discovery of Recurring Anomalies in Aerospace Problem Reports using High-Dimensional Clustering Techniques, IEEE Aerospace Conference 2006 [pdf]

Yi Zhang Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Information Filtering (Ph.D. Dissertation 2005) [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan, Combine Multiple Forms of Evidence while Filtering, In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , Vancouver, Canada, 2005 (HLT 2005) [pdf]

Yi Zhang Using Bayesian Priors to Combine Classifiers for Adaptive Filtering, In Proceedings of the 27st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield , United Kingdom, 2004 (SIGIR 2004) [ pdf]

Yi Zhang, Wei Xu, Jamie Callan, Exploration and Exploitation in Adaptive Filtering Based on Bayesian Active Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003) [pdf]

Byron Dom, Iris Eiron, Alex Cozzi, Yi Zhang "Graph-Based Ranking Algorithms for E-mail Expertise Analysis, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Workshop(DMKD2003) in ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD2003). [pdf

Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan and Thoma Minka Novelty and Redundancy Detection in Adaptive Filtering. In Proceedings of the 25st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere , Finland , 2002. (Best Paper Award in SIGIR 2002) Data [pdf]

Yi Zhang, Wei Xu and Jamie Callan Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Word Mixtures Text Learning Workshop in International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, Australia, 2002.  (ICML 2002) [pdf]

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Yi Zhang, and J. Callan. "Information filtering, novelty detection, and named-page finding." In Proceedings of the 2002 Text REtrieval Conference. National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. (TREC 2002) [pdf]

Yi Zhang and Jamie Callan. "The Bias Problem and Language Models in Adaptive Filtering." In Proceedings of the 2001 Text REtrieval Conference. National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. (TREC 2001) [pdf]

Yi Zhang and Jamie Callan "Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Filtering Thresholds". In Proceedings of the 24st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, 2001. (SIGIR 2001) [pdf]

Yi Zhang and Jamie Callan. "YFilter at TREC-9". In Proceedings of the Ninth Text REtrieval Conference. National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. (TREC 2000)

DataSet: Dataset for Novelty and Redundancy Detection while Filtering

Data set for learning from implicit and explicit user feedback