Yejun Wu's Research Page

Conferences

Research Projects

(The research projects are not well organized yet.)

Recent Research Projects

An interdisciplinary topic map for understanding the impact of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident, funded by British Petroleum through LSU (PI), 2011-2012
Searching and understanding digital political cartoons, funded by Louisiana Board of Regents (PI), 2010
Enriching the ERIC thesaurus, funded by LSU Summer Research Program, 2010

Earlier 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

Software for building and editing thesauri
Digital Research 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

Dissertation

Classifying Attitude by Topic Aspect for English and Chinese Document Collections, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2008. Digital Repository at UMD.

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, 2010. Enriching a thesaurus as a better retrieval aid. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), December 22-27, 2010, Pittsburg, PA. (poster paper in pdf).
- Yejun Wu, 2010. Searching digital political cartoons. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, August 14-16, 2010, San Jose, California, USA. 541-545. PDF
- 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, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (10 pages). Paper in xml.
- 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. August 15-19, 2005, Salvador, Brazil. 665-666. Poster paper in pdf or in ps
- Robert B. Allen, Yejun Wu, and Jun Luo, 2005. 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. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3815, 411-415. PDF or Spingerlink.
- 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 or Springerlink.
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. PDF1 or PDF2
- 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