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Web Search and Mining

· Social Media Analytics

· Search Engines

· Web Infomediaries of Financial Information

· Web Site Topic Hierarchy

· Category Integration

· Usage Mining of P2P Networks

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang and N. Liu, “Website Topic Hierarchy Generation Based on Link Structure,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.60, no.3, 2009, pp.495-508.

C. C. Yang and F. L. Wang, “Hierarchical Summarization of Large Documents,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.59, no.6, 2008, pp.887-902.

C. C. Yang, “Information Sharing and Privacy Protection of Terrorist or Criminal Social Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2008

C. C. Yang and T. D. Ng, “Analyzing Content Development and Visualizing Social Interactions in Web Forum,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2008.

W. Lam, C. C. Yang, and F. Menczer, “Mining Web Resources for Enhancing Information Retrieval,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.58, no.12, 2007.

F. L. Wang and C. C. Yang, “Mining Web Data for Chinese Segmentation,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.58, no.12, 2007.

X. Shi and C. C. Yang, “Web Usage Mining for Query Expansion,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.58, no.12, 2007.

C. C. Yang and X. Shi, “Discovering Event Evolution Graphs from Newswires,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’06), Edinburgh, U.K., May 23-26, 2006.

X. Shi and C. C. Yang, “Mining Related Queries from Search Engines Query Logs,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’06), Edinburgh, U.K., May 23-26, 2006.

N. Liu and C. C. Yang, “Automatic Extraction of Web Site's Content Structure from Link Structure,” Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005.

N. Liu and C. C. Yang, “Mining Web Site’s Topic Hierarchy,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005.

C. C. Yang and S. H. Kwok, “Changes of Queries in Gnutella Peer-to-peer Networks,” Journal of Information Science, vol.31, no.2, 2005.

S. Zhu, C. C. Yang, and W. Lam, “CatRelate: A New Hierarchical Document Category Integration Algorithm by Learning Category Relationships,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Asia Digital Libraries, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004.

C. C. Yang and A. Chung, “Intelligent Infomediary for Web Financial Information,” Decision Support Systems, vol.38, no.1, 2004, pp.65-80.

S. H. Kwok and C. C. Yang, “Searching the Peer-to-Peer Networks: The Community and Their Queries,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Topic Issue on Research on Information Seeking, vol.55, no.9, 2004, pp.783-793.

S. H. Kwok and C. C. Yang, “P2P Information Behavior in Contrast with WWW Information Behavior,” Proceedings of the Workshop on e-Business (WEB2003) in ICIS 2003, Seattle, WA, December 13-14, 2003.

C. C. Yang and A. Chung, “A Personal Agent for Chinese Financial News on the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Issue on Web Research, vol.53, no.2, January, 2002, pp.186-196.

C. C. Yang, J. Yen, and H. Chen, “Intelligent Internet Searching Agent Based on Hybrid Simulated Annealing,” Decision Support Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Agents and Digital Community, vol.28, no.3, May, 2000, pp.269-277.

C. C. Yang, and A. Chung, “Intelligent Agents for Retrieving Chinese Web Financial News,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, December10-13, 2000, pp.288-301.

H. Chen, Y. Chung, M. Ramsey, and C. C. Yang, “An Intelligent Personal Spider (Agent) for Dynamic Internet/Intranet Searching,” Decision Support Systems, vol.23, no.1, May, 1998, pp.41-58.

H. Chen, Y. Chung, M. Ramsey, and C. C. Yang, “A Smart Itsy Bitsy Spider for the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Emerging Information Systems Applications, vol.49, no.7, 15 May 1998, pp.604-618.

Cross-lingual Information Retrieval

· Corpus Based Approach

· Mining Parallel Corpus from the Web

· Automatic Cross-lingual Thesaurus

· Cross-Lingual Concept Space

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang, C. Wei, and H. Chen, “Multilingual Knowledge Management,” Decision Support Systems, vol.45, no.3, June, 2008, pp.551-553.

C. Wei, C. C. Yang, and C. Lin, “A Latent Semantic Indexing Based Approach to Multilingual Document Clustering,” Decision Support Systems, vol.45, no.3, June, 2008, pp.606-620.

C. C. Yang, C. Wei, and K. W. Li, “Cross-lingual Thesaurus for Multilingual Knowledge Management,” Decision Support Systems, vol.45, no.3, June, 2008, pp.596-605.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, “An Associate Constraint Network Approach to Extract Multi-lingual Information for Crime Analysis,” Decision Support Systems, accepted for publication.

C. C. Yang and W. Lam, “Multilingual Information Systems,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.629-631.

K. W. Li and C. C. Yang, “Conceptual Analysis of Parallel Corpus Collected from the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.684-696.

K. W. Li and C. C. Yang, “Automatic Cross-Lingual Thesaurus Generated from the Hong Kong SAR Police Department Web Corpus for Crime Analysis,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.56, no.3, February, 2005, pp.272-282.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, “Building Parallel Corpora by Automatic Title Alignment using Length-based and Text-based Approaches,” Information Processing & Management, vol.40, no.6, 2004, pp.939-955.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, “Automatic Construction of English/Chinese Parallel Corpora,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.54, no.8, June, 2003, pp.730-742.

C. C. Yang and J. Luk, “Automatic Generation of English/Chinese Thesaurus Based on a Parallel Corpus in Law,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Topic Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining: A Machine Learning Perspective, vol.54, no.7, May, 2003, pp.671-682.

¨C. C. Yang, and K. W. Li, “Generating Cross-lingual Concept Space from Parallel Corpora on the Web,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.

¨C. C. Yang, and K. W. Li, “Mining English/Chinese Parallel Documents from the World Wide Web,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 7-11, 2002.

Summarization

· Fractal Summarization

· Hierarchical Summarization

· Multi-document Summarization

· Application on Mobile Devices

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang and F. L. Wang, “Hierarchical Summarization of Large Documents,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.59, no.6, 2008, pp.887-902.

C. C. Yang, and F. L. Wang, "An Information Delivery System with Automatic Summarization for Mobile Commerce," Decision Support Systems, accepted for publication.

F. L. Wang and C. C. Yang, "The Impact Analysis of Language Difference on Automatic Multilingual Text Summarization System," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.632-644.

F. L. Wang and C. C. Yang, "Automatic Summarization of Chinese and English Parallel Documents," Proceedings of the International Conference on Asia Digital Libraries, Malaysia, December 8 – 11, 2003.

C. C. Yang, and F. L Wang, "Fractal Summarization: Summarization Based on Fractal Theory," Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference: Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, July 28 to August 1, 2003.

C. C. Yang, and F. L. Wang, "Automatic Summarization for Financial News Delivery on Mobile Devices," Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.

C. C. Yang, and F. L. Wang, "Fractal Summarization for Mobile Device to Access Large Documents on the Web," Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.

Information Visualization

· Self-Organizing Map

· Fisheye Views

· Fractal Views

· Social Network Analysis

· Web Categorization

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang, N. Liu, and M. Sageman, “Analyzing the Terrorist Social Networks with Visualization Tools,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, San Diego, CA, US, May 23 – 24, 2006.

C. C. Yang, H. Chen, and K. Hong, “Visualization of Large Category Map for Internet Browsing,” Decision Support Systems, Special Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining, vol.35, no.1, April, 2003, pp.89-102.

C. C. Yang, H. Chen, K. Hong, “Exploring the World Wide Web with Self-Organizing Map,” Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 7-11, 2002.

C. C. Yang, H. Chen, and K. Hong, “Visualization Tools for Self-Organizing Maps,” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, CA, August 11-14, 1999.

Multimedia Retrieval

· Content-based Retrieval

· Link Analysis

· Image Browsing Maps

· Color Image Processing

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang, "Content Based Image Retrieval: A Comparison between Query by Example and Image Browsing Map Approaches," Journal of Information Science, vol.30, no.3, 2004, pp.257-270. (Top 10 Most Popular Downloaded Full Text Articles in JIS)

C. C. Yang and S. H. Kwok, "Efficient Gamut Clipping for Color Image Processing using LHS and YIQ," Optical Engineering, vol.42, no.3, March, 2003, pp.701-711.

C. C. Yang, and J. J. Rodriguez, "Efficient Luminance and Saturation Processing Techniques for Color Images," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol.8, no.3, September, 1997, pp.263-277.

J. J. Rodriguez, and C. C. Yang, "High Resolution Histogram Modification of Color Images," Graphical Models and Image Processing, vol.57, no.5, September, 1995, pp.432-440.

J. J. Rodriguez, and C. C. Yang, "Effects of Luminance Quantization Error on Color Image Processing," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , vol.3, no.6, November, 1994, pp.850-854.

C. C. Yang and K. Y. Chan, "Retrieving Multimedia Web Objects Based on Page Rank Algorithm," Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005.

C. C. Yang, S. H. Kwok, and M. K. Yip, "Image Browsing of Feature-based Products," Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology, Photonics Asia, Shanghai, China, October 14-18, 2002.

C. C. Yang and S. H. Kwok, "Gamut Clipping in Color Image Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing , Vancouver, B.C., Canada, September 10-13, 2000.

C. C. Yang, and J. J. Rodriguez, "Saturation Clipping in the LHS and YIQ Color Spaces," Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology -- Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hard Copy, and Graphic Arts, San Jose, CA, February, 1996.

C. C. Yang, and J. J. Rodriguez, "Efficient Luminance and Saturation Processing Techniques for Bypassing Color Coordinate Transformations," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics , Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 22-25, 1995.

Rights Management

· Watermarking

· Rights Management Systems

Selected Publications

S. H. Kwok, C. C. Yang, K. Y. Tam, and J. Wong, “An SDMI-Based Rights Management Systems for Electronic Media Using Digital Watermarking,” Decision Support Systems, vol.38, no.1, 2004, pp.33-46.

S. H. Kwok, C. C. Yang, and K. Y. Tam “Intellectual Property Protection for Electronic Commerce Applications,” Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, vol.5, no.1, 2004, pp.1-13.

S. H. Kwok and C. C. Yang, “Copyright Protection Schemes for Online Media Distribution E-Services,” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, vol.8, no.2, Winter, 2003-4, pp.119-137.

Computer Vision

· Visual Inspection

· Aspect Graphs

· Tolerance Design

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang and V.N.A. Naikan, “Optimum Tolerance Design for Complex Assemblies using Hierarchical Interval Constraint Networks,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol.54, no.3, October, 2003, pp.511-543.

C. C. Yang and V.N.A. Naikan, “Optimum Tolerance Design using Constraint Networks and Relative Sensitivity Ration Algorithm,” Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol.17, no.7, August, 2003, pp.631-660.

C. C. Yang, F. W. Ciarallo, and M. M. Marefat, “Handling Uncertainties of Robot Manipulators and Active Vision by Constraint Propagation,” Journal of Robotic Systems, vol.19, no.9, September, 2002, pp.427-441.

C. C. Yang and F. W. Ciarallo, “Optimized Sensor Placement for Active Visual Inspection,” Journal of Robotic Systems, vol.18, no.1, January, 2001, pp.1-15.

C. C. Yang, M. M. Marefat, and F. W. Ciarallo, “Analysis of Errors and Planning Accuracy on Dimensional Measurement in Active Vision Inspection,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol.14, no.3, June, 1998, pp.476-487.

C. C. Yang, M. M. Marefat, and E. J. Johnson, “Entity-Based Aspect Graph: Making Viewer Centered Representations More Efficient,” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.19, no.3-4, March 1998, pp.265-77.

Chinese Text Segmentation

· Boundary Detection

· Heuristic Method

· Mutual Information and Significance Estimation

Selected Publications

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, “Heuristic Method Based on Statistical Approach for Chinese Text Segmentation,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.56, no.13, November, 2005, pp.1438-1447.

C. C. Yang, J. Luk, S. Yung, and J. Yen, “Combination and Boundary Detection Approach for Chinese Indexing,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Special Topic Issue on Digital Libraries, vol.51, no.4, March, 2000, pp.340-351.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, “Error Analysis of Chinese Text Segmentation using Statistical Approach,” Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A., June 7-11, 2004.

C. C. Yang and J. Luk, “A Heuristic Method for Chinese Segmentation,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Asia Digital Library, Seoul, South Korea, December 6-8, 2000.

Last updated: July 2005