Publications (Google Scholar Profile)
2019
Using Customer Service Dialogues for Satisfaction Analysis with Context-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning
Kaisong Song, Lidong Bing, Wei Gao, Jun Lin, Lujun Zhao, Jiancheng Wang, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu, and Qiong Zhang
EMNLP 2019: The 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2019
Evaluating Vulnerability to Fake News in Social Networks: A Community Health Assessment Model
Bhavtosh Rath, Wei Gao, and Jaideep Srivastava
ASONAM 2019: The 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 2019
Sentence-Level Evidence Embedding for Claim Verification with Hierarchical Attention Networks
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Shafiq Joty, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2019: The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2019
Cold-Start Aware Deep Memory Networks for Multi-Entity Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Lujun Zhao, Jun Lin, Changlong Sun, and Xiaozhong Liu
IJCAI 2019: The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2019
Detect Rumors on Twitter by Promoting Information Campaigns with Generative Adversarial Learning
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
WWW 2019: The Web Conference 2019, May 2019
2018
Utilizing Computational Trust to Identify Rumor Spreaders on Twitter
Bhavtosh Rath, Wei Gao, Jing Ma, and Jaideep Srivastava
SNAM: Social Network Analysis and Mining, 8:64, December 2018, Springer
Personalized Microblog Sentiment Classification via Adversarial Cross-lingual Multi-task Learning
Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, and Yifei Zhang
EMNLP 2018: The 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, October 2018
Rumor Detection on Twitter with Tree-structured Recursive Neural Networks
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2018: The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2018
Detect Rumor and Stance Jointly by Neural Multi-task Learning
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
WWW 2018 Companion: The Web Conference 2018 Companion (Alternate Track on Journalism, MisInformation, and Fact-checking), April 2018
2017
Attention-based LSTM-CNNs for Uncertainty Identification on Chinese Social Media Texts
Binyang Li, Kaiming Zhou, Wei Gao, Xu Han, and Linna Zhou
SPAC 2017: The 2017 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis and Cybernetics, December 2017. IEEE Press
From Retweet to Believability: Utilizing Trust to Identify Rumor Spreaders on Twitter
Bhavtosh Rath, Wei Gao, Jing Ma, and Jaideep Srivastava
ASONAM 2017: The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 2017
Recommendation vs Sentiment Analysis: A Text-Driven Latent Factor Model for Rating Prediction with Cold-Start Awareness
Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, and Chengqi Zhang
IJCAI 2017: The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2017
Detect Rumors in Microblog Posts Using Propagation Structure via Kernel Learning
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2017: The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 30-August 4, 2017
Social Media Content Analysis: NLP and Beyond (Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems, Vol.3)
Kam-Fai Wong, Wei Gao, Wenjie Li, and Ruifeng Xu
World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 978-981-3223-6105, November 2017
2016
Topic Extraction from Microblog Posts Using Conversation Structures
Jing Li, Ming Liao, Wei Gao, Yulan He, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2016: The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2016
Detecting Rumors from Microblogs with Recurrent Neural Networks
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Prasenjit Mitra, Sejeong Kwon, Bernard J. Jansen, Kam-Fai Wong, and Meeyoung Cha
IJCAI 2016: The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2016
Ordinal Text Quantification
Giovanni Da San Martino, Wei Gao, and Fabrizio Sebastiani
SIGIR 2016: The 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2016
Build Emotion Lexicon from the Mood of Crowd via Topic-Assisted Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Ling Chen, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, and Chengqi Zhang
SIGIR 2016: The 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2016
QCRI at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Probabilistic Methods for Binary and Ordinal Quantification
Giovanni Da San Martino, Wei Gao, and Fabrizio Sebastiani
SemEval 2016: The 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, June 2016 (1st place in sub-task E of Sentiment Analysis in Twitter)
From Classification to Quantification in Tweet Sentiment Analysis
Wei Gao and Fabrizio Sebastiani
SNAM: Social Network Analysis and Mining, Volume:6, Issue:1, Article 19, 2016, Springer
PerSentiment: A Personalized Sentiment Classification System for Microblog Users
Kaisong Song, Ling Chen, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, and Chengqi Zhang
WWW 2016 (demo): The 25th International World Wide Web Conference, April 2016
2015
Using Content-level Structures for Summarizing Microblog Repost Trees
Jing Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, Baolin Peng, and Kam-Fai Wong
EMNLP 2015: The 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 2015
Detect Rumors Using Time Series of Social Context Information on Microblogging Websites
Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, Yueming Lu, and Kam-Fai Wong
CIKM 2015: The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 2015
Tweet Sentiment: From Classification to Quantification
Wei Gao and Fabrizio Sebastiani
ASONAM 2015: The 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 2015 (Best Paper Runner-Up)
Using Tweets to Help Sentence Compression for News Highlights Generation
Zhongyu Wei, Yang Liu, Chen Li, and Wei Gao
ACL-IJCNLP 2015: The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2015
Build Emotion Lexicon from Microblogs by Combining Effects of Seed Words and Emoticons in a Heterogeneous Graph
Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ling Chen, and Chengqi Zhang
Hypertext 2015: The 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, September 2015
Personalized Sentiment Classification Based on Latent Individuality of Microblog Users
Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, and Kam-Fai Wong
IJCAI 2015: The 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2015
Gibberish, Assistant, or Master? Using Tweets Linking to News for Extractive Single-Document Summarization
Zhongyu Wei and Wei Gao
SIGIR 2015: The 38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 2015
QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiment for Arabic and English
Massimo Nicosia, Simone Filice, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Iman Saleh, Hamdy Mubarak, Wei Gao, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro Moschitti, Kareem Darwish, Lluis Marquz, Shafiq Joty and Walidy Magdy
SemEval 2015: The 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, May 2015
2014
QCRI at TREC 2014: Applying the KISS Principle for the TTG Task in the Microblog Track
Walid Magdy, Wei Gao, Tarek El-Ganainy, and Zhongyu Wei
TREC 2014: The 23rd Text REtrieval Conference, November 2014 (2nd place among 13 groups in Microblog track)
Utilizing Microblogs for Automatic News Highlights Extraction
Zhongyu Wei and Wei Gao
COLING 2014: The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 2014
Detecting Semantic Uncertainty by Learning Hedge Cues in Sentences using an HMM
Xiujun Li, Wei Gao, and Jude Shavlik
SMIR 2014: SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval, July 2014
Ranking Model Selection and Fusion for Effective Microblog Search
Zhongyu Wei, Wei Gao, Tarek El-Ganainy, Walid Magdy, and Kam-Fai Wong
SoMeRA 2014: SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis, July 2014
Simple Effective Microblog Named Entity Recognition: Arabic as an Example
Kareem Darwish and Wei Gao
LREC 2014: The 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2014
Information-Theoretic Multi-view Domain Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Study
Pei Yang and Wei Gao
JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 49(2014):201-525
Democracy is Good for Ranking: Towards Multi-view Rank Learning and Adaptation in Web Search
Wei Gao and Pei Yang
WSDM 2014: The 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, February 2014
2013
QCRI at TREC 2013 Microblog Track
Tarek El-Ganainy, Zhongyu Wei, Walid Magdy, and Wei Gao
TREC 2013: The 22nd Text REtrieval Conference, November 2013 (2nd place among 65 automatic runs in Microblog track)
A Link-Bridged Topic Model for Cross-Domain Document Classification
Pei Yang, Wei Gao, Qi Tan, and Kam-Fai Wong
IP&M: Information Processing and Management, 49(6):1181-1193, 2013, Elsevier
An Empirical Study on Uncertainty Identification in Social Media Context
Zhongyu Wei, Junwen Chen, Wei Gao, Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou, Yulan He, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2013: The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2013
Multi-view Discriminant Transfer Learning
Pei Yang and Wei Gao
IJCAI 2013: The 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2013
Mainstream Media Behavior Analysis on Twitter: A Case Study on UK General Election
Zhongyu Wei, Yulan He, Wei Gao, Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou, and Kam-Fai Wong
Hypertext 2013: The 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, May 2013
A Self-Training Framework for Automatic Identification of Exploratory Dialogue
Zhongyu Wei, Yulan He, Simon Shum, Rebecca Ferguson, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
CICLing 2013: The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, March 2013
Dynamic Joint Sentiment-Topic Model
Yulan He, Chenghua Lin, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
TIST: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology – Special Issue: Social Web Mining, Volume 5, Issue 1, Article 6, 2013
2012
Cross-lingual Identification of Ambiguous Discourse Connectives for Resource-Poor Language
Lanjun Zhou, Wei Gao, Binyang Li, Zhongyu Wei, and Kam-Fai Wong
COLING 2012: The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, December 2012
Microblog Search and Filtering with Time Sensitive Feedback and Thresholding Based on BM25
Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, and Kam-Fai Wong
TREC 2012: The 21st Text REtrieval Conference, November 2012
Joint Topic Modeling for Event Summarization across News and Social Media Streams
Wei Gao, Peng Li, and Kareem Darwish
CIKM 2012: The 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 2012
Information-Theoretic Multi-view Domain Adaptation
Pei Yang, Wei Gao, Qi Tan, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2012: The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2012
Tracking Sentiment and Topic Dynamics from Social Media
Yulan He, Chenghua Lin, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
ICWSM 2012: The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, June 2012
2011
Exploring Tweets Normalization and Query Time Sensitivity for Twitter Search
Zhongyu Wei, Wei Gao, Lanjun Zhou, Binyang Li, and Kam-Fai Wong
TREC 2011: The 20th Text REtrieval Conference, November 2012
An Effective Approach for Topic-Specific Opinion Summarization
Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong and Zhongyu Wei
AIRS 2011: The 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference, December 2011
Generating Aspect-oriented Multi-Document Summarization with Event-aspect Model
Peng Li, Yinglin Wang, Wei Gao, and Jing Jiang
EMNLP 2011: The 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 2011
Unsupervised Discovery of Discourse Relations for Eliminating Intra-Sentence Polarity Ambiguities
Lanjun Zhou, Binyang Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, and Kam-Fai Wong
EMNLP 2011: The 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 2011
Relevant Knowledge Helps in Choosing Right Teacher: Active Query Selection for Ranking Adaptation
Peng Cai, Wei Gao, Aoying Zhou, and Kam-Fai Wong
SIGIR 2011: The 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2011
Query Weighting for Ranking Model Adaptation
Peng Cai, Wei Gao, Aoying Zhou, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL-HLT 2011: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2011
Weight-based Boosting Model for Cross-Domain Relevance Ranking Adaptation
Peng Cai, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, and Aoying Zhou
ECIR 2011: The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 2011
Before 2010
Extracting Common Emotions from Blogs Based on Fine-grained Sentiment Clustering
Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Wei Gao, and Kam-Fai Wong
KAIS: Knowledge and Information Systems, 27(2):281-302, 2010
Learning to Rank Only Using Training Data from Related Domain
Wei Gao, Peng Cai, Kam-Fai Wong, and Aoying Zhou
SIGIR 2010: The 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2010
Exploiting Query Logs for Cross-Lingual Query Suggestions
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Jian-Yun Nie, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon
TOIS: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 28, No.2, Article 6, 2010
Cross-Language Mining and Retrieval
Wei Gao and Cheng Niu
In Ling Liu and Tamer Özsu (Eds.) “Encyclopedia of Database Systems”, 523-528, Springer US 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-35544-3,978-0-387-39940-9
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve (Monolingual) Web Search
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, and Kam-Fai Wong
ACL-IJCNLP 2009: The 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, and Kam-Fai Wong
ECIR 2009: The 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 2009 (Best Student Paper)
Using English Information in Non-English Web Search
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, and Ming Zhou
iNEWS 2008: ACM International Workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching, October 2008
Cross-Lingual Query Suggestion Using Query Logs of Different Languages
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Jian-Yun Nie, Ming Zhou, Jian Hu, Kam-Fai Wong, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon
SIGIR 2007: The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2007
Experimental Studies Using Statistical Algorithms on Transliterating Phoneme Sequences for English-Chinese Name Translation
Wei Gao and Kam-Fai Wong
IJCPOL: International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 19(1):63-88, 2006, World Scientific Publish Co., Imperial College Press
Clique Percolation Method for Finding Naturally Cohesive and Overlapping Document Clusters
Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Yunqing Xia, and Ruifeng Xu
ICCPOL 2006: The 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, November 2006
Natural Document Clustering by Clique Percolation in Random Graphs
Wei Gao and Kam-Fai Wong
AIRS 2006: The 3rd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, October 2006
NIL Is Not Nothing: Recognition of Chinese Network Informal Language Expressions
Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, and Wei Gao
SIGHAN 2005: The 4th SIGHAN workshop on Chinese Language Processing, October 2005
Improving Transliteration with Precise Alignment of Phoneme Chunks and Using Contextual Features
Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, and Wai Lam
AIRS 2004: The First Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, October 2004
Phoneme-based Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV Problem
Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, and Wai Lam
IJCNLP 2004: The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, March 2004
Design Issues in a Chinese Financial Information Extraction System
Qingzhong Li, Wei Gao, Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Chunfa Yuan, and Yun Wang
ICCPOL 2003: The 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, August 2003