Recent Publications (A more complete list is in my CV)
- Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai, Xinghua Lu, and Hui Fang, A study of statistical
methods for function prediction of protein motifs,
To appear in Proceedings of Biological Language Modeling Conference 2003. (ps, pdf)
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Hwanjo Yu, ChengXiang Zhai, and Jiawei Han,
Text Classification from Positive and Unlabeled Documents, Proceedings of ACM CIKM 2003. ( pdf)
- Jin Rong, Luo Si, ChengXiang Zhai, and Jamie Callan
Collaborative Filtering with Decoupled Models for Preferences and Ratings,
Proceedings of ACM CIKM 2003. (ps, pdf)
- ChengXiang Zhai and John Lafferty,
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval,
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2003 Workshop on
Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR. (ps,pdf)
- Atulya Velivelli, ChengXiang Zhai, and Thomas S. Huang,
Audio Segment Retrieval Using a Synthesized HMM,
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2003 Workshop on
Multimedia Information Retrieval. (ps,pdf)
- Hui Fang, Tao Tao, and ChengXiang Zhai,
An Exploration of Formalized Information Retrieval Heuristics,
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2003 Workshop on
Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR. (ps,pdf)
- ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, and John Lafferty, Beyond Independent Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval, In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2003. (ps, pdf)
- Rong Jin, Luo Si, and ChengXiang Zhai, Preference-based Graphic Models for Collaborative Filtering, In Proceedings of UAI 2003. (ps, pdf)
- Xuehua Shen and ChengXiang Zhai, Exploiting query history to improve document ranking in interactive retrieval , In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2003 (poster). (ps, pdf)
- Xiao Hu, Sindhura Bandhakavi, and ChengXiang Zhai, Analysis of Difficult TREC topics, In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2003(poster). (ps, pdf)
- John Lafferty and Chengxiang Zhai, Probabilistic relevance models based on document and query generation, In Language Modeling and Information Retrieval, Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, Vol. 13, 2003. (ps,
pdf)
- ChengXiang Zhai and John Lafferty, Two-Stage Language Models for Information Retrieval,
2002 ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'02), 2002. (ps, pdf )
- Rong Jin, Alex G. Hauptmann, and ChengXiang Zhai, Title Language
Model for Information Retrieval, 2002 ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'02), 2002. (ps,
pdf)
- Chengxiang Zhai and John Lafferty, Model-based feedback in the language modeling approach to information retrieval, Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), 2001 (ps,
pdf)
- Chengxiang Zhai and John Lafferty, A study of smoothing methods for
language models applied to ad hoc information retrieval,
2001 ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001 (ps, pdf)
- John Lafferty and Chengxiang Zhai, Document language models, query models, and risk minimization for information
retrieval, 2001 ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001 (ps,
pdf)
- Chengxiang Zhai, Peter Jansen, and David A. Evans, Exploration of a heuristic approach to threshold learning in adaptive filtering,
2000 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'00), 2000. Poster presentation (ps,
pdf)