Yejun Wu's Research Page

Research Projects

• Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE)
  TDT Link Detection

• TREC Blog Track
  Blog Track Wiki

  access to Blogs06

  NTCIR opinion extraction pilot task

• Weblog Analysis
  AAAI Weblog Conference

  AAAI-EAAT(Attitude & Affect) 2004

• Email Project

  EmailProject Resources

  JIKD

• CEAS 2006

• TREC 2005 Enterprise Track wiki, relevance judging interface, Glasgow search system

• TREC-HARD

• TREC 2004 Web Track

• Brooklyn Eagle TimeLine

• Web Mining for Word Associations; Measuring the Coverage of Collection Labels

• Semantic Metrics for Measuring the Generality and Coverage of Texts

• Semantic Metrics for Measuring the Scope of Document Collections

• Metrics for Measuring the Structure of Documents

• Web Turtoring

tools

• NTU Lexicons

• Stanford Parser

• Berkeley Parser (By far the best Chinese parser?)

• Stanford Parser Javadoc
  Packages --> lexparser.
  All Classes --> LexicalizedParser.

• Weka clustering & classfication

• Rainblow, Arrow, Crossbow

• Minnen's English Morphological Analyzer (MORPHA)

Resources

• UMD Linguistics Resources

• Wikipedia Blog Terms

• Urban Dictionary

Recent Publications

• Journal Papers

  • Robert B. Allen and Yejun Wu, 2005. Metrics of the scope of a collection, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56 (12), 2005, 1243-1249. (The copyright for the article has been signed over to the publisher, so it is not posted here.)

• Conference Papers (Refereed)

  • Yejun Wu and Douglas Oard, 2009. Beyond topicality: finding opinionated Chinese documents. Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), November 6-11, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (to appear).

  • Yejun Wu and Douglas Oard, 2008. Bilingual topic aspect classification with A few training examples. Proceedings of 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 20-24, 2008, Singapore, 203-210. PDF.

  • Yejun Wu, Douglas Oard, and Ian Soboroff, 2006. An Exploratory Study of the W3C Mailing List Test Collection for Retrieval of Emails with Pro/Con Arguments. The Third Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, July 27-28, 2006, Mountain View, California. Available at www.ceas.cc/2006/26.pdf (10 pages).

  • Yejun Wu, 2006. Retrieval of Opinions and Attitudes in Weblogs and Emails. ACM SIGIR 2006 Doctoral Consortium paper. August 6-11, 2006, Seatle, Washington. (This was adapted from an earlier version of my dissertation proposal. Discussed my proposal with Prof. Bruce Croft and Dr. Dave Hawking.)

  • Yejun Wu and Douglas W. Oard, 2005. Indexing Emails and Email Threads for Retrieval, Proceedings of 28th Proceedings of 28st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (poster paper), August 15-19, 2005, Salvador, Brazil. Poster paper in pdf or in ps

  • Robert B. Allen, Yejun Wu, and Jun Luo, 2005. paper in pdf (or from springerlink). Interactive Causal Schematics for Qualitative Scientific Explanations, In Edward A. Fox, Erich J. Neuhold, Pimrumpai Premsmit, Vilas Wuwongse (Ed.) Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2005), December 12-15, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. 411-415

  • Robert B. Allen and Yejun Wu, 2002. Generality of Texts, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Digital Libraries (ICADL 2002), Dec. 11-14, 2002, Singapore, Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 2555, 111-116. pdf

• Conference Papers (Unrefereed)

  • Yejun Wu and Douglas W. Oard, 2007. NTCIR-6 at Maryland: Chinese Opinion Analysis Pilot Task. The 6th NTCIR Workshop Meeting, May 15-18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan. pdf or pdf

  • Douglas Oard, Tamer Elsayed, Jianqiang Wang, Yejun Wu, Pengyi Zhang, Eileen Abels, Jimmy Lin, and Dagobert Soergel, 2006. TREC-2006 at Maryland: Blog, Enterprise, Legal and QA Tracks. TREC 2006. Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 14-17, 2006. pdf (Dr. Oard and I participated in the Blog Track.)

  • Jimmy Lin, Eileen Abels, Dina Demner-Fushman, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Wu, and Yejun Wu, 2005. A Menagerie of Tracks at Maryland: HARD, Enterpise, QA, and Genomics, Oh My! (Authors listed alphabetically with the exception of the first author.) TREC 2005. Gaithersburg, Maryland, 11, 2005. pdf (Dr. Oard and I participated in the Enterprise Track.)

• Technical Reports

  • Yejun Wu and Douglas W. Oard, 2007. Computing the Sentiment Polarity of Chinese Words and Sentences. Technical Report, LAMP-TR-143, CS-TR-4871, UMIACS-TR-2007-24. May 2007. Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. pdf

Selected Previous Publications

• Journal Papers

  • Yejun Wu, Research on the Government Procurement Policy for Accelerating the Development of China's High-tech Industry, China Soft Science, 1998(10), 48-52

  • Yejun Wu, Siyi Li, Yan Wang, Fan Ding, Zhengzhong Huang, A System Dynamics Simulation Model for the Sustainable Development of China -- Energy Sector, Computer Simulation, 1998(1), 11-13

  • Siyi Li, Yan Wang, Zhengzhong Huang, Fan Ding, Yejun Wu, A System Dynamics Simulation Model for the Sustainable Development of China, Computer Simulation, 1997(4), 3-7

  • Yejun Wu, What Can Internet do for us information researchers? China Information Review, 1996(4), P13-15

  • Yejun Wu, A New Trend of USA Technology Policy ---- Selection of Key Technologies and New Policy of the Clinton Administration, Science, Technology and Development, 1995, vol.4, 19-26

• Book Chapters

  • Yejun Wu, Selection of Key Technologies in USA, Korea and Taiwan, in Selection of National Key Technologies ---- A New Contest of Technology Superiority, Beijing: Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, 1995

  • Yejun Wu, The Structure of Internet, in INTERNET Tutorial, Zhang, Z. (Ed.), Beijing: Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, 1995

  • Yejun Wu, Science and Technology in New Zealand, in An overview of World Science and Technology in 1990s, Liu, Z. (Ed.), Beijing: The Seismology Publishing House, 1995.

  • Yejun Wu, A study on Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in the Pacific Rim, in Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Pacific Rim, Liang, Z. (ed.) Beijing: Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, 1993.

  • Yejun Wu, China's Information Services: Present and Future, Information and Libraries in the Developing World South-East Asia and China, 1993, London: Library Association Publishing

Some notes on technical writing

• H. J. Tichy's advice on passive voice and the use of "I"
• The text of the 1918 edition of Strunk and White's "Elements of Style"

Grants opportunities (or grants courtesy to Miriam Matteson)

Technology as Art - Taking yourself too seriously is the greatest of all obstacles to intellectual growth

The Role of The PHD in A Professional Field

What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School (for a faculty career)

Theory clusters

Information Science theories

Bates' Information Science Bibliography

Creativity and Intrinsic Interest Diminish if Task is Done for Gain

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Readings