Publications since 1999

2009

·        Ruihua Song, Zhenxiao Luo, Jian-Yun Nie, Yong Yu, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Identification of ambiguous queries in web search, Information Processing and Management, 45(2): 216-229, 2009.

2008

·      Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie and Lixin Shi, NTCIR-7 Patent Mining Experiments at RALI, Proceddings of NTCIR-7, 2008,

·      Lixin Shi, Jian-Yun Nie and Guihong Cao, RALI Experiments in IR4QA at NTCIR-7, Proceddings of NTCIR-7, 2008.

·      L. Shi, J.Y. Nie, G. Cao, Relating Dependent Indexes using Dempster-Shafer Theory, ACM-CIKM, Nov. 2008, pp. 429-438.

·      G. Cao, J.Y. Nie, J. Gao, S. Robertson, Selecting Good Expansion Terms for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback, ACM-SIGIR, 2008, pp. 243-250.

·      G. Cao, S. Robertson, J.Y. Nie, Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts, ACL-HLT, 2008.

·      J. Bai, J.Y.Nie, Adapting Information Retrieval to Query Contexts, Information Processing and Management, 44(6): 1901-1922.

·      Jian-Yun Nie et Jacques Savoy, Recherche d’information multilingue, dans Recherche d’information : État des lieux et perspectives, pp. 35-66, eds. Mohand BOUGHANEM, Jacques SAVOY, Hermès-Lavoisier, 2008.

·      M. Kovacevic, J.-Y. Nie and C. H. Davidson, Providing Answers to Questions from Automatically Collected Web Pages for Intelligent Decision-Making in the Construction Sector, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 22(1): 3-13, 2008.

·      Y. Kadri, J.Y. Nie, A Comparative Study between Linear Combination and Confidence Measures for Cross Language Information Retrieval, Int. Joint Conf. on NLP, Hydrabad, Jan. 2008.

2007

·        Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, A system to mine large-scale bilingual dictionaries from monolingual Web pages, MT Summit, 2007, pp. 57-64. (PDF)

·        Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Luo Si, Jing Bai, Learning to rank documents for ad-hoc retrieval with regularized models, Workshop of Learning to Rank for IR (with SIGIR), pp. 2007 (PDF)

·        Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai, Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with Markov chain models, ACM-CIKM, 2007. (PDF)

·        Dawes M, Pluye P, Shea L, Grad R, Greenberg A, Nie J.Y. The identification of clinically important elements within medical journal abstracts: Patient-Population-Problem, Exposure-Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Duration and Results (PECODR), Informatics in Primary Care. 15(1): 9-16, 2007.

·        Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Jian-Yun Nie, Ming Zhou, Jian Hu, Kam-Fai Wong, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Cross-Lingual Query Suggestion Using Query Logs of Different Languages, SIGIR, pp. 463-470, 2007 (PDF)

·        Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Hugues Bouchard, Guihong Cao, Using Query Contexts in Information Retrieval, SIGIR, pp. 15-22, 2007. (PDF)

·        Cao G. Nie, J.Y., Bai, J., Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships in Information Retrieval, RIAO, 2007, (15 pages) (PDF)

·        L. Shi, J.Y. Nie, J. Bai, Comparing Different Units for Query Translation for Chinese Cross Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Infoscale, 2007 (9 pages). (PDF)

·        L. Shi, J.Y. Nie, Using unigram and bigram language models for monolingual and cross-language IR, Proceedings of the 6th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access, pp. 20-25, 2007.

·        Zeng, X.Q., Wang, M.W., Nie, J.Y., Text classification based on partial least square analysis, 22th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval, pp. 834-838, 2007.

·        F. Paradis, J.Y. Nie, Filtering contents with bigrams and named entities to improve text classification, Information Processing and Management, 43(2): 344-352, 2007.

2006

·        J.Y. Nie, Toward a unified approach to cross-lingual and multilingual information retrieval, Digital Library Forum, 9: 8-11, 2006.

·        H. Bouchard, J.Y. Nie, Modèles de langue appliqués à la recherche d'information contextuelle, Information - Interaction – Intelligence, 6(2) : 51-75, 2006.

·        J. Gao, J.Y. Nie, Statistical query translation models for cross-language information retrieval, ACM Transactions on Asian Information Processing (TALIP), 5(4): 296-322, 2006.

·        J.Y. Nie, G. Cao, J. Bai, Inferential language models for information retrieval, ACM Transactions on Asian Information Processing (TALIP), 5(4): 323-359, 2006.

·        Y. Kadri, J.Y. Nie, Effective stemming for Arabic information retrieval, The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT, International Conf. at the British Computer Society (BCS), London. Oct. 2006, pp. 68-74.

·        Robert, J.-M. Moulet, L., Lizarralde, G., Davidson, C,H., Nie, J.-Y., Da Sylva, L. Finding Out: A system for providing rapid and reliable answers to questions in the construction sector. Journal of Construction Innovation, 2006, 6(4): 250-261.

·        Y. Fataïcha, M. Chériet, J.Y. Nie, C.T. Suen, Retrieving Poorly Degraded OCR Documents, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2006, 8(1): 15-26.

·        Guoping Hu, Jingjing Liu, Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Jian-Yun Nie and Jianfeng Gao, A Supervised Learning Approach to Entity Search, Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), 2006, pp. 54-66.

·        L. Shi, J.Y. Nie, Filtering or adapting: Two strategies to exploit noisy parallel corpora for cross-language information retrieval, ACM-CIKM, 2006, pp. 814-815.

·        G. Cao, J.Y. Nie, J. Bai, Constructing better document and query models with Markov chains, ACM-CIKM, 2006, pp. 800-801.

·        Y. Kadri, J.Y. Nie, Improving query translation with confidence estimation for cross-language information retrieval, ACM-CIKM, 2006, pp. 818-819.

·        J. Gao, J.Y. Nie, A Study of Statistical Models for Query Translation: Finding a Good Unit of Translation, ACM-SIGIR, Seattle, 2006, pp.194-201.

·        J. Bai, J.Y. Nie, G. Cao, Context-dependent term relations for information retrieval, EMNLP, 2006, pp. 551-559.

·        Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wan Chen and Wei Zhang, An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search, COLING-ACL 2006, pp. 585-592.

·        H. Bouchard, J.Y. Nie, Modèles de langue appliqués à la recherche d’information contextuelle, Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications, (CORIA), Lyon, 2006.

2005

·        Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, Guihong Cao, Query Expansion Using Term Relationships in Language Models for Information Retrieval, ACM-CIKM, 2005, 688-695 [PDF]

·        Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, and G. Cao, Integrating Compound Terms in Bayesian Text Classification, Web Intelligence, sept. 2005, Compiègne, France. [PDF]

·        M.W. Wang, J.-Y. Nie, X.-Q. Zeng, A latent semantic classification model, ACM-CIKM, 2005, pp. 261-262.

·        F. Paradis, J.Y. Nie, Filtering Contents with Bigrams and Named Entities to Improve Text Classification, Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), 2005, Korea

·        Jianfeng Gao, Haoliang Qi, Xinsong Xia , Jian-Yun Nie, Linear Discriminant Model for Information Retrieval, ACM-SIGIR, Salvador, Brazil, 2005, pp. 290-297 [PDF].

·        Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai, Integrating Word Relationships into Language Models, ACM-SIGIR, Salvador, Brazil, 2005, pp. 298-305. [PDF]

·        François Paradis, Jian-Yun Nie and Arman Tajarobi, Discovery of business opportunities on the Internet with information extraction, Workshop on Multi-Agent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, IJCAI, 2005, Edinburgh, pp. 47-54 [PDF].

·        J.Y. Nie, L. Da Sylva, G. Lizarrald, C.H. Davidson, A question and answer system for the construction sector - Facilitating on-line access to information, First International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management and 2005 Annual Meeting of CIB W102, Lisbon, May 2005.[PDF]

·        F. Paradis, J.Y. Nie, Étude sur l’impact du sous-langage dans la classification automatique d’appels d’offres, Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications, (CORIA), Grenoble, France, Mars, 2005 [PDF]

·        Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie, Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval, Proc. of CLEF2004, Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: Results of the Fifth CLEF Evaluation Campaign, eds. C. Peters, P.D. Clough, G.J.F. Jones, J. Gonzalo, M. Kluck and B. Magnini, LNCS, 2005, pp. 676-687.

·        Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie, Semantic-Based Cross-Media Image Retrieval, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR), 2005, Bath, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3687, pp. 414-423.

2004

·        J. Bai, J.Y. Nie, F. Paradis, Using language models for text classification, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), October 2004, Beijing. [PDF]

·        J. Bai, F. Paradis, J.Y. Nie, Web-supported Matching and Classification of Business Opportunities, The Second International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems, WI’04, Beijing, Sept. 2004, pp. 28-36. [PDF]

·        F. Paradis, Q. Ma, J.Y. Nie, S. Vaucher, J.-F. Garneau, R. Gérin-Lajoie, A. Tajarobi, MBOI: Un outil pour la veille d'opportunités sur l'Internet, Veille Stratégique, Scientifique et Technologiqu, Toulouse, 2004.

·        Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong Cao, Dependence language model for information retrieval, 27th ACM-SIGIR, Sheffield, July, 2004, pp. 170-177.

·        Zhuo Zhang, Lyne Da Sylva, Colin Davidson, Gonzalo Lizarralde and Jian-Yun Nie , Domain-Specific QA for the Construction Sector, Workshop of IR4QA: Information Retrieval for Question Answering, 27th ACM-SIGIR, Sheffield, July, 2004 [PDF]

·        Youssef Kadri & Jian-Yun Nie, Traduction des requêtes pour la recherche d’information translinguistique anglais-arabe, JEP-TALN 2004, Traitement Automatique de l’Arabe, Fès, 20 avril 2004.

·        C. Brouard, J.-Y. Nie, Relevance as resonance: a new theoretical perspective and a practical utilization in information filtering, Information Processing and Management, 40(1): 1-19, 2004. [HTML]

·        J.Y. Nie, J. Savoy, Modèles probabilistes en recherche d’information, dans Les systèmes de recherche d’informations - Modèles conceptuels, ed. M. Ihadjadene, Hermes, pp. 55-76, 2004.

·        M. Boughanem, W. Kraaij, J.Y. Nie, Modèles de langue pour la recherche d’informations, dans Les systèmes de recherche d’informations - Modèles conceptuels, ed. M. Ihadjadene, Hermes, pp. 163-184, 2004.

·        Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais and Jian-Yun Nie, Mots composés dans les modèles de langue pour la recherche d'information, 11è édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), 19-22 avril, Fès, Maroc, pp. 11-16, 2004

·        Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais and Jian-Yun Nie (2004), Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, 7th Conference on Computer Assisted Information Retrieval (RIAO) Avignon, France, April 26-28, pp. 686-705, 2004.

2003

·      M.-W. Wang, J.-Y. Nie, A latent semantic structure model for text classification, Workshop on Mathematical/Formal methods in information retrieval, 26th ACM-SIGIR, Toronto, Aug. 2003.

·      Y. Fataïcha, M. Chériet, J.Y. Nie, C.T. Suen, Information retrieval based on OCR errors in scanned documents, DIAR-03: Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Retrieval, In conjunction with IEEE CVPR'03, Madison, Wisconsin, June 21, 2003

·      Jian-Yun Nie, Cross-Language Information Retrieval. IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin 2(1): 19-24, 2003

·      W. Kraaij, J.-Y. Nie, M. Simard, Embedding Web-based Statistical Translation Models in Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, 29(3): 381-419, 2003

·      H. Cui, J-R. Wen, J.-Y. Nie, W-Y. Ma, Query expansion by mining user logs, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(4): 829-839, 2003.

·      J.Y. Nie, Query expansion and query translation as logical inference, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(4): 335-346, 2003.

2002

·      J. Wen, J.Y. Nie, H. Zhang, Query Clustering Using User Logs, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20 (1): 59-81, 2002.[PDF]

·      J. Gao, G. Cao, H. He, M. Zhang, J-Y. Nie, S. Walker, S. Robertson, TREC-10 Web track experiments at MSRA, TREC-10, NIST Special Publication 500-250, 2002 [pdf][ps]

·      Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Hongzhao He, Weijun Chen, Ming Zhou, Resolving Query Translation Ambiguity using a Decaying Co-occurrence Model and Syntactic Dependence Relations, 25th ACM-SIGIR, Tampere, Finland, August 2002 [pdf]

·      Jian-Yun Nie, Towards a Unified Approach to CLIR and Multilingual IR, Workshop on Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Research Roadmap, 25th ACM-SIGIR, Tampere, Finland, August 2002 [PDF]

·      Jian-Yun Nie and Fuman Jin, Integrating Logical Operators in Query Expansion in VSM, Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval, 25th ACM-SIGIR, Tampere, Finland, August 2002.[ps]

·      Jian-Yun Nie, Jean-François Dufort, Combining Words and Compound Terms for Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Information 2002, Beijing, July 2002. [PDF] [ps]

·      J.Y. Nie, J. Chen, Exploiting the Web as Parallel Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval, in Web Intelligence, eds. N. Zhong, J. Liu, Y. Yao, Springer, pp. 218-239, 2002.[PDF]

·      Y. Fataicha, J.Y. NIE, M. Cheriet, C.Y. Suen, "Content analysis in document images: A Scale Space Approach ". ICPR'2002, Québec, Canada, August 2002.

2001

·      J.Y. Nie, J. Chen, Building English-Chinese statistical translation models from semi-structured parallel texts, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 15(1): 1-12, 2001.[PS]

·      J.Y. Nie, A General Logical Approach to Inferential Information Retrieval, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Ed. A. Kent and J.G. Williams, Vol. 44: 203-226, 2001.

·      J-Y. Nie, M. Simard, Using Statistical Translation Models for Bilingual IR, CLEF2001, [PS]

·      J-Y. Nie, Jian Cai, Filtering noisy Parallel Corpora of Web Pages, IEEE symposium on NLP and Knowledge Engineering, Tucson, Oct. 2001. pp. 453-458. [PS]

·      J. Wen, J.Y. Nie, H. Zhang, Query Clustering Using Content Words and User Feedback, 24th ACM-SIGIR, New Orleans, Sept. 2001, pp. 442-443.

·      J. Gao, J.Y. Nie, E. Xun, J. Zhang, M. Zhou, C. Huang, Improving Query Translation for CLIR using Statistical Models, 24thACM-SIGIR, New Orleans, Sept. 2001, pp. 96-104. [PS] [PDF]

·      J. Gao, J.Y. Nie, J. Zhang, M. Zhou, and Y. Su, TREC-9 CLIR Experiments at MSRCN, NIST Special Publication, 2001 [PDF].

·      C. Brouard, J.Y. Nie, RELIEFS: Un système pour le filtrage adaptatif de documents textuels basé sur la notion de résonance, Inforsid, May-June 2001, pp. 267-278 [PS]

·      H. Snoussi, L. Magnin, J.Y. Nie, Heterogeneous Web data extraction using ontology, AOIS, May 2001. [PS]

·      Y. Fataïcha, M. Chériet, J.Y. Nie, Détection Multi-échelle d'Objets dans des Images de Documents Composites, International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, Agadir (Morocco) , May 2001 [PS]

·      J. Wen, J.Y. Nie, H. Zhang, Clustering User Queries of a Search Engine, WWW10, May 2001, Hong Kong, http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/368/index.html

2000

·      J.Y. Nie, CLIR as query expansion as logical inference, Technology Letters, 4(1): 69-76, 2000.

·      J.Y. Nie, J.-P. Chevallet, Y. Chiaramella, "Vers la recherche d'information à base de termes", Ressources et Évolution en Ingénierie des Langues, eds. K. Chibout, J. Mariani, N. Masson, F. Néel, De Boeck & Larcier, 2000, pp. 47-64. [PS]

·      J-Y. Nie, M. Simard, G. Foster, Multilingual information retrieval based on parallel texts from the web, Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, proc. CLEF2000, Lisbon, Sept. 2000, ed. C. Peters, LNCS 2069, Springer, pp. 188-201. [PS]

·      J.Y. Nie, J. Gao, J. Zhang, J., and Zhou, M., On the use of words and n-grams for Chinese information retrieval. In: Fifth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, IRAL-2000. Hong Kong, September 30 - October 1, 2000 [PS]

·      J.Y. Nie, CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model based on Web Documents, The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), NIST Special Publication 500-246, 2000, pp. 627-232. [PDF][PS]

·      J.Y. Nie, J. Chen, Building English-Chinese statistical models from semi-structured parallel texts, International conf. On Multilingual Information Processing, Urumqi, China, Aug. 2000, pp. 224-234.

·      Fuji Ren J.Y. Nie, Sensitive Words and their application in Chinese Language Processing, The Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE, Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1902, pp.121-126

·      J. Chen, J.Y. Nie, Cross-language IR between Chinese and English, International Conference on Chinese Language Computing, Chicago, July 2000

·      J. Chen, J.Y. Nie, Automatic construction of parallel Chinese-English corpus for cross-language information retrieval, NAACL-ANLP, Seattle, May 2000. [PS]

·      M. Ouellet, J. Gecsei, J.Y. Nie, "Discovering Internet resources to enrich a structured personal information space", RIAO, Paris, April 2000, pp. 1450-1463. [PS] [PDF]

·      J. Chen, J.Y. Nie, "Parrallel Web text mining for cross-language IR", RIAO, Paris, April 2000, pp. 62-77.[PS][PDF]

1999

·        F. Ren, J.Y. Nie, L. Fan, "On Rule Extraction from Translation Examples in Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation", Communications of the COLIPS, 9(1): 13-39, 1999.

·        J.Y. Nie, F. Ren, "Chinese information retrieval: using characters or words?" Information Processing and Management, 35: 443-462, 1999.

·        J.Y. Nie, F. Ren, "The concept of sensitive words in Chinese- A preliminary study", Journal of Natural Language Processing, 6(1): 59-78, 1999.

·        J.Y. Nie, M. Simard, P. Isabelle, R. Durand, "Cross-Language Information Retrieval based on Parallel Texts and Automatic Mining of Parallel Texts in the Web", 22ndACM-SIGIR, Berkeley, 1999, pp. 74-81 (Best paper award) [PS] [PDF]

·        K. Hamard, J.Y. Nie, G. Bochmann, R. Godin, B. Kerhervé, T. Radhakrishnan, R. Shinghal, J.M. Turner, F. Berouti, F.P. Ferrie, A Multi-Level Agent System for Digital Libraries, AOIS, 1999, Seattle, pp.77-91. [PS]

·        J.Y. Nie, TREC-7 CLIR using a probabilistic translation model, The Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-7), NIST Special Publication 500-242, 1999, pp. 547-553. [PS][PDF]

·        J.Y. Nie, "Information retrieval: a comparison between Chinese and European languages", Advances in Computer Science and Technology Computer Applications, ICYCS, Nanjing, 1999, pp. 1077-1083.

·        Fuji Ren, Lixin Fan, Jian-Yun Nie, SAAK Approach: How to Acquire Knowledge in an Actual Application System, IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Honolulu, 1999, pp.136-140.