Journals

Krisztian Balog, Yi Fang, Maarten de Rijke, Pavel Serdyukov and Luo Si. Expertise retrieval. In Foundation and Trends in Information Retrieval, to appear, 2012. (A survey monograph)
Yi Fang, Luo Si and Aditya Mathur. Discriminative probabilistic models for expert search in heterogeneous information sources. In Information Retrieval, 14: pp. 158-177, Springer, 2011.
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Yi Fang, Luo Si and Aditya Mathur. Discriminative graphical models for faculty homepage discovery. In Information Retrieval, 13: pp. 618-635, Springer, 2010.
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Yi Fang, Jong Park, Youngseon Jeong, Myongkee Jeong, Seung Baek and Hyun Woo Cho. Enhanced predictions of wood properties using hybrid models of PCR and PLS with high-dimensional NIR spectral data. In Annals of Operations Research, 190: pp. 3-15, Springer, 2011.
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Yi Fang, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Auroop R. Ganguly. Incremental anomaly detection approach for characterizing unusual profiles. In Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, 5840: pp. 190-202, Springer, 2010.
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Luo Si, Danni Yu, Daisuke Kihara and Yi Fang. Combining gene sequence similarity and textual information for gene function annotation in the literature. In Information Retrieval, 11(5): pp. 283-404, Springer, 2008.
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Yi Fang and Myongkee Jeong. Robust probabilistic multivariate calibration. In Technometrics, 50: pp. 305-316, 2008. (Invited for the panel discussion in the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) conference), 2008
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Conferences and Workshops

Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram, Zhengtao Yu. Mining contrastive opinions on political texts using cross-perspective topic model. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), , Seattle, USA, 2012. (Spotlight presentation)
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Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram, Zhengtao Yu and Yantuan Xian. Purdue at TREC 2010 Entity Track: a probabilistic framework for. matching types between candidate and target entities. In Proceedings of the 19th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, USA, 2011.
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No.1 in Entity List Completion Task of TREC Entity Track

No.3 in Related Entity Finding Task of TREC Entity Track

Yi Fang, Naveen Somasundaram, Luo Si, Jeongwoo Ko, Aditya P. Mathur. Analysis of an expert search query log. In Proceedings of the 34rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1189-1190, Beijing, China, 2011.
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Yi Fang, and Luo Si. Matrix co-factorization for recommendation with rich side information and implicit feedback. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems, Chicago, USA, 2011.
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Yi Fang, Luo Si and Aditya Mathur. Discriminative models of integrating document evidence and document-candidate associations for expert search. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), pp. 683-690, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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Suleyman Cetintas, Monica Rogati, Luo Si, and Yi Fang. Identifying Similar People in Professional Social Networks with Discriminative Probabilistic Models. In Proceedings of the 34rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1209-1210, Beijing, China, 2011.
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Yi Fang, Luo Si, Zhengtao Yu, Yantuan Xian, and Yangbo Xu. Entity retrieval by hierarchical relevance model, exploiting the structure of tables and learning homepage classifiers. In Proceedings of the 18th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, USA, 2010.
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No.1 in Entity Track of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

Yi Fang, Luo Si and Aditya Mathur. Ranking experts with discriminative probabilistic models. In SIGIR Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (LR4IR), , Boston, USA, 2009.
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Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Yi Fang, and Auroop R. Ganguly. Anomaly detection from sensor data for real-time decisions. In SIGKDD workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD), Paris, France, 2009.
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Yi Fang, Hyunwoo Cho, and Myong K. Jeong. Health monitoring of a shaft transmission system via hybrid models of PCR and PLS. In In Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Washington D.C., USA, 2006.
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Yi Fang, Auroop Ganguly, Nagendra Singh, Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Neal Feierabend, and David Potere. Online change detection: Monitoring land cover from remotely sensed data. In In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Conference on Data Mining-Workshops, Hong Kong, China, 2006.
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Auroop Ganguly and Yi Fang. Online alarm generation in sensor-cyber networks. In In the 9th ONR/GTRI Workshop on Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion, Gatlinburg, USA, 2006.
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Book Chapters

Auroop Ganguly, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Yi Fang, Shiraj Khan and Budhendra L. Bhaduri. Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data For Scientific Applications. In Learning from Data Streams: Processing Techniques in Sensor Networks, pp. 205-229, Springer, 2007.
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Doctoral Consortium

Yi Fang. Entity information management in complex networks. In SIGIR Doctoral Consortium, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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Technical Reports

Yi Fang, Luo Si and Aditya Mathur. FacFinder: Search for expertise in academic institutions. In Technical Report: SERC-TR-294, Purdue University, 2008.
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Yi Fang and Auroop Ganguly. Mixtures of probabilistic mponent analyzers for anomaly detection. In Technical Report: ORNL/PTS-6661, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), 2007.
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