Short Text Conversation

Wang, J. & Sun, Y. (2019). Improving explicit term matching with implicit topic matching for short text conversation. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October 19-23, 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

Wang, J. , Sun, Y., & Soergel, D. (2019). Expanding comments using previously responded posts for short text conversation in open social media. DEStech Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering.

Wang, J. (2018). Document expansion for short text conversation. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management. November 9-10, Vancouver, Canada.

Wang, J. (2017). UB at the NTCIR-13 STC-2 task: exploring syntactic similarities and sentiments. Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 5-8, 2017, Tokyo Japan

Information Retrieval under Uncertainty

Wang, J. & Oard, D. W. (2012). Matching meaning for cross-language information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 48(4), 631-653. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2011.09.003. (PDF).

Ruiz, M. E., Sun, Y., Wang, J., & Liu., H. (2008). Exploring traits of adjectives to predict polarity opinion in blogs and semantic filters in genomics. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-16), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 5-7, 2007. (PDF).

Wang, J. & Oard, D. W. (2007). CLEF 2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and Czech. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730, pp. 786-793. (PDF).

Oard, D. W., Wang, J., Jones, G. J. F., White, R. W., Pecina, P., Soergel, D., Huang X., & Shafran, I. (2007). Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730, pp. 744-758. (PDF).

Ircing, P, Pecina, P., Oard, D. W., Wang, J., White, R. W., & Hoidekr, J. (2007). Information retrieval test collection for searching spontaneous Czech speech. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, pp. 439-446. Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sep. 3-7, 2007. (PDF).

Wang, J. & Oard, D. W. (2006). Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-Language Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the 29th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval, pp. 202-209. (PDF).

Wang, J. & Oard, D. W. (2006). CLEF 2005 CL-SR at Maryland: document and query expansion using side collections and thesauri. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4022, pp. 800-809. (PDF).

Oard, D. W., Soergel, D., Doermann, D., Huang, X., Murray, G. C., Wang, J., Ramabhadran, B., Franz, M., Gustman, S., Mayfield, J., Kharevych, L., & Strassel, S. (2004). Building an Information Retrieval Test Collection for Spontaneous Conversational Speech. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2004, pp. 41-48. (PDF).

Meng, H. M., Chen, B, Khudanpur, S., Levow, G. A., Lo, W. K., Oard, D. W., Schone, P., Tang, K., Wang, H., & Wang, J. (2004). Mandarin-English Information (MEI): investigating translingual speech retrieval. Computer Speech and Language, 18(2), 163-179. (PDF). (publisher).

Ma, H., Karagol-Ayan, B., Doermann, D., Oard, D. W., & Wang, J. (2003). Parsing and tagging of bilingual dictionaries. Traitement Automatique Des Langues, 44(2), 125-150. (PDF).

Meng, H. M., Chen, B., Grams, E., Khudanpur, S., Lo, W. K., Anne-Levow, G., Oard, D. W., Schone, P., Tang, K., Wang, H., &amp Wang, J. (2001). Mandarin-English information (MEI): investigating translingual speech retrieval. Human Language Technology Conference (HLT'2001), San Diego, CA, Mar. 18-21, 2001. (PDF).

Oard, D. W. & Wang, J. (2001). NTCIR-2 ECIR experiments at Maryland: comparing Pirkola's structured queries and balanced translation. Proceedings of the 2nd National Institute of Informatics Test Collection Information Retrieval (NTCIR) Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, March 7-9, 2001. (PDF).

Oard, D. W. & Wang, J. (1999). NTCIR CLIR experiments at Maryland. Proceedings of the 1st National Institute of Informatics Test Collection Information Retrieval (NTCIR) Workshop. Tokyo, Japan, August 30 - Sept. 1, 1999. (PDF).

Oard, D. W., Wang, J., Lin, D., & Soboroff, I. (1999). TREC-8 experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing. Proceedings of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 17-19 1999. (PDF).

Oard, D. W. & Wang, J. (1999). Effects of term segmentation on Chinese/English cross-language information retrieval. Proceedings of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'99), Cancun, Mexico, Sept. 22-24, 1999. (PDF).

Multilingual Information Access

He, D. & Wang, J.. (2009). Cross-language information retrieval. In A. Goker & J. Davies (Eds.), Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century, John Wiley and Sons, 2009. (publisher).

Oard, D. W., He, D., & Wang, J.. (2008). User-assisted query translation for cross-language information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 44 (1), 181-211. (PDF) (publisher).

He, D., Wang, J., Luo, J., & Oard, D. W. (2005). Summarization design for interactive cross-language question answering. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech, and Images. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3491, pp. 348-362. (PDF).

Oard, D. W., Gonzalo, J., Sanderson, M., Lopez-Ostenero, F., & Wang, J.. (2004). Interactive cross-language document selection. Information Retrieval, 7(1-2), 205-228. (PDF) (publisher).

Dorr, B. J., He, D., Luo, J., Oard, D. W., Schwartz, R., Wang, J., & Zajic, D. (2004). iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: translation selection and document selection. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3237, pp. 435-449. (PDF).

He, D., Oard, D. W., Wang, J., Luo, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Darwish, D., Resnik, P., Khudanpur, S., Nossal, M., & Leuski, A. (2003). Making MIRACLEs: interactive translingual search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing, 2(3), 219-244. (PDF).

He, D., Wang, J., Oard, D. W., & Nossal, M. (2003). Comparing user-assisted and automatic query translation. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2785, pp. 400-415. (PDF)

He, D., Wang, J., Oard, D. W., & Nossal, M. (2003). User-assisted query translation for interactive CLIR. Proceedings of the 26th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval, pp. 461. (short paper, PDF).

Wang, J. & Oard, D. W. (2002). iCLEF 2001 at Maryland: comparing term-for-term gloss and MT. In C. Peters et al. (Eds.), Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2406, pp. 167-185. (PDF).

E-Discovery

Wang, J. (2011). Accuracy, agreement, speed, and perceived difficulty of users' relevance judgments for e-discovery. SIGIR 2011 Information Retrieval for E-Discovery (SIRE) Workshop, Beijing, China, July 28, 2011. (PDF).

Wang, J. & Soergel, D. (2011). A user study of relevance judgments for e-discovery. Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 22-27, 2010. (PDF).

Wang, J., Sun, Y., & Thompson, P. (2010). TREC 2009 at the University at Buffalo: interactive search of Enron emails. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-18), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 17-20, 2009. (PDF).

Wang, J., Sun, Y., Mukhtar, O., & Srihari, R. (2009). TREC 2008 at the University at Buffalo: Legal and Blog track. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-17), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 18-20, 2008. (PDF).

Oard, D. W., Elsayed, T., Wang, J., Wu, Y., Zhang, P., Abels, E., Lin, J. & Soergel, D. (2007). TREC-2006 at Maryland: Blog, Enterprise, Legal and QA Tracks. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-15), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 14-17, 2006. (PDF).