PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal Publications | Edited Books | Conference/Book Chapters  | Technical Reports

 

Journal Publications

1.            Hou, Y., Zhang, P., Yan, T., Li, W. and Song, D. (2009). Beyond Redundancies: A Metric-Invariant Method for Unsupervised Feature Selection. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). March 2009. [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 3.585]

DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2009.84

2.            Zhu, J., Huang, X., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2009) Integrating Multiple Document Features in Language Models for Expert Finding. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal. March 2009. 2.8MB  [2008 ISI Impact Factor: 1.733]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10115-009-0202-6

3.            Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2009) Integrating Multiple Windows and Document Features for Expert Search. Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 60(4), pp. 694-715. 4.2MB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 2.178]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21012

4.            Lau, R.Y.K, Song, D., Li, Y., Cheung, T., Hao, J. (2009) Towards A Fuzzy Domain Ontology Extraction Method for Adaptive e-Learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 21(6), pp. 800-813. 2.4MB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 3.585]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2008.137

5.            Lau, R.Y.K., Li, Y., Song, D. and Kwok, R.C.W. (2008) Knowledge Discovery for Adaptive Negotiation Agents in e-Marketplaces. Decision Support Systems, Vol. 45(2), pp. 310-323. 733KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 2.276]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.12.018  

6.            Lau, R.Y.K., Bruza, P.D., and Song, D. (2008) Towards a Belief Revision Based Adaptive and Context Sensitive Information Retrieval System. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Vol. 26, Issue 2, March 2008. 750KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 6.306]

DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1344411.1344414

7.            Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C., Rüger, S. (2008) A Novel Meta-Search Engine for Metadata Based Cross-Repository Search. International Journal of Digital Information Studies. In press. 301KB

8.            Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Gonçalves, A., Denham, C., Uren, V., Song, D., (2007) Social Search With Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm?. Journal of Digital Information Management, Vol 5(5), pp. 249-261. Special issue on Web Information Retrieval, Digital Information Research Foundation. 297KB

9.            Zhu, J., Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Eisenstadt, M., Song, D., (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Vol.5 (4), pp. 405-417. IOS Press. 212KB

10.        Song, D., Lau R.Y.K., Bruza, P.D., Wong, K.F., and Chen, D.Y.  (2007) An Adaptive Information Agent for Document Title Classification and Filtering in Data Intensive Domains. Decision Support Systems. Vol. 44 (2007), pp. 251-265. 375KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 2.276]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.04.001

11.        Song, D. and Nie J.Y. (2006) Reasoning in Natural Language Information Processing. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 291–195. 61KB 

DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1236181.1236182

12.        Bruza, P.D., Cole, R.J., Song, D., Bari, Z. (2006) Towards Operational Abduction from a Cognitive Perspective, Logic Journal of IGPL, Volume 14, Number 2, pp. 161-177.  193KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 0.423]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzk012

13.        Bruza, P.D., Song, D., McArthur, R. (2004) Abduction in Semantic Space: Towards a Logic of Discovery. Logic Journal of IGPL. Volume 12, Number 2, March 2004, pp. 97-109. 306KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 0.423]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/12.2.97

14.        Song, D. and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Towards Context-sensitive Information Inference. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 54, Number 4, pp. 321-334. 161KB   [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 2.178]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.10213

15.        Wong, K.F., Song, D., Bruza, P.D., Cheng, C.H. (2001) Application of Aboutness to Functional Benchmarking in Information Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 19, Issue 4 (Oct. 2001), pp. 337-370. 285KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 6.306]

 DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502795.502796

16.        Bruza, P.D., Song, D., Wong, K.F. (2000) Aboutness from a Commonsense Perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 51(12), 1090-1105. 154KB  [ISI 5-year Impact Factor: 2.178]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::AID-ASI1026>3.0.CO;2-Y

17.        Song, D., Wang, L., Shu, Y.T., and Wang, B. (1998). Research in Heterogeneous Multi-database and the Design of an Operating Model (In Chinese with English abstract). Journal of Micro-Mini Computer Development and Applications. No. 6, 1998, pp. 2-6.

 

Edited Books

18.        Azzopardi, L.,  Kazai, G., Robertson, S.E, Rueger, S.M., Shokouhi, M., Song, D., Yilmaz E. (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2009), Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, LNCS 5766, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-04416-8.

19.        Lee, G.G.; Song, D.; Lin, C.-Y.; Aizawa, A.; Kuriyama, K.; Yoshioka, M.; Sakai, T. (Eds.): Information Retrieval Technology – Proceedings of 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), Sapporo, Japan, October 21-23, 2009, LNCS 5839, Springer 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04768-8.

Conference Publications/Book Chapters

 

20.        Cervińo Beresi, U., Kim, Y., Baillie, M., Ruthven, I. and Song, D. (2010) Colouring the Dimensions of Relevance. Accepted (poster) by the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2010), 28-30 March 2010, Milton Keynes, UK.

21.        Zhang, P., Hou, Y., Song, D.  (2009) Approximating True Relevance Distribution from a Mixture Model Based on Irrelevance Data. The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’2009), pp 107-114, 19-23 July 2009, Boston, USA. 312KB

22.        Dignum, S., Kim, Y., Kruschwitz, U., Song, D., Fasli, M., De Roeck, A. (2009b) Moving towards Adaptive Search. Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (AT4DL’2009), 8 September 2009, Trento, Italy. 192K

23.        Dignum, S., Kim, Y., Kruschwitz, U., Song, D., Fasli, M., De Roeck, A. (2009a) Using Domain Models for Context-Rich User Logging. ACM SIGIR’2009 Workshop on Understanding the Users. 24 July 2009, Boston, USA. 181K

24.        Bruza, P.D., Kitto, K., Ramm, B.J., Sitbon, L., Song, D. (2009) Concept Combination, Emergence and Abduction. Model-Based Reasoning (MBR’2009). Campinas, Brazil, December 17-19, 2009. 74K

25.        Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P.D., Huang, Q., Song, D. (2009). An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model. The 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009), LNCS 5766, pp. 116-127.  10-12 September 2009, Cambridge, UK. 163K

26.        Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) A Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval. The 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009), LNCS 5766, pp. 297-304. 10-12 September 2009, Cambridge, UK. 160K

27.        Liu, H., Zagorac, S., Uren, V., Song, D., Rueger, S. (2009) Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-based Image Retrieval. The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’2009). LNCS 5839, pp. 265-276, 21-23 October 2009, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. 2.15M

28.        Milne, P., Wiratunga, N., Lothian, R., and Song, D. (2009). Reuse of Search Experience for Resource Transformation. Reasoning from Experiences on the Web (WebCBR’2009) Workshop, the 8th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR’2009). Accepted. 21 July 2009, Seattle, USA. 279KB

29.        Hou, Y., and Song, D. (2009) Characterizing Pure High-order Entanglements in Lexical Semantic Spaces via Information Geometry. The 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI’2009), LNCS 5494, pp. 237-250. March 2009, Saarbruecken, Germany. 313KB

30.        Huang, Z., Shen, H.T., Song, D., Li, X., and Rueger, S. (2009) Dimension-specific Search for Multimedia Retrieval. The 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’2009), LNCS 5463, pp. 693-698. April 2009, Brisbane, Australia. 173KB

31.        Huang, Q., and Song, D. (2008) A Latent Variable Model for Query Expansion Using the Hidden Markov Model. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), poster, pp. 1417-1418. Napa Valley, CA, USA, Oct 2008. 130KB

32.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Rueger, S., and Huang, J (2008) Modeling Document Features for Expert Finding. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), poster, pp. 1421-1422. Napa Valley, CA, USA, Oct 2008. 202KB

33.        Song, D., Huang, Q., Rüger, S., Bruza, P. (2008) Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’2008), LNCS 4956, pp. 334-345, Glasgow, UK. 492KB

34.        Huang, Q., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2008) Robust Query-specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’2008), LNCS 4956, pp. 547-554, Glasgow, UK. 350KB

35.        Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P.D., Huang, Q., Song, D. (2008) A Limited Dependency Language Model, In Proceedings of the 8th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2008). 149KB

36.        Hu, R., Rueger, S., Song, D., Liu, H. and Huang, Z. (2008). Dissimilarity Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME’2008), pp. 1365-1368. Hanover, Germany, June 2008. 95KB

37.        Liu, H., Song, D., Rüger, S., Hu, R. and Uren, V. (2008). Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2008 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’2008), LNCS 4993, pp. 44-50, Harbin, China, 16-18 January 2008. 155KB

38.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C. (2008) A Novel Metadata Based Meta-search Engine. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008). Porto, Portugal, July 2008. 789KB

39.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C., Rüger, S. (2008) DYNIQX: A Novel Meta-search Engine for Metadata Based Cross Search. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008). Ostrava, Czech Republic, Aug 2008.

40.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2008) Integrating Document Features for Entity Ranking. In Proceedings of Initiative on the Evaluation for XML Retrieval (INEX 2007) - Focused access to XML documents, Springer LNCS 4862. pp. 336-347.

41.        Overell, S., Llorente, A., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2008) MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining different evidence sources. CLEF workshop, working notes, Aarhus, Denmark, Sep 2008.

42.        Huang Z., Shen, H., Zhou, X., Song, D., Rüger, S., (2007) Dimensionality Reduction for Dimension-specific Search. Poster, In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2007), Poster, pp. 849-850. 209KB

43.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2007) The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track Expert Search Task. The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, November 2007.

44.        Huang, Q., Song, D., Rüger, S., and Bruza, P.D. (2007). Learning and Optimization of an Aspect Hidden Markov Model for Query Language Model Generation. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2007), pp. 157-164, Budapest, Hungary, 17-20 October 2007. 86KB

45.        Lau R., Chung, A., Song, D., Huang, Q. (2007) Towards Fuzzy Domain Ontology Based Concept Map Generation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL’2007), LNCS 4823, Edinburgh, UK, 14-17 August 2007.

46.        Song, D., Cao, G., Bruza, P.D., and Lau, R.Y.K. (2007) Concept Induction via Fuzzy C-Means Clustering in a High Dimensional Semantic Space. Book Chapter, Advances in Fuzzy Clustering and Its Applications, John Wiley & Sons. 102KB

47.        Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D., Rüger, S. (2007). Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities. Int'l Conf on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2007), pp. 1966–1973, Hong Kong, Aug 2007.

48.        Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S., Eisenstadt, M., Motta, E., (2006) The Open University at TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Expert Search Task. The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

49.        Yan, X., Song, D., and Li, X. (2006) Concept-based Document Readability in Domain Specific Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2006), pp. 540-549. 202KB

50.        Huang, Z., Zhou, X., Shen, H.T., and Song, D. (2006)  3D Protein Structure Matching by Patch Signatures.  In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006), pp. 528-537. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11827405_52

51.        Goncalves, A., Zhu, J., Song, D., Uren, V., and Pacheco, R. (2006) LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval, The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2006), LNCS 4016,  pp. 122-133. Awarded best student paper. 211KB

52.        Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Song, D., and Denham, C., (2006) Exploiting Semantic Association To Answer Vague Queries. In Advances in Intelligent IT – Active Media Technology 2006, Volume 138 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press. 103KB

53.        Song, D., Bruza, P.D., McArthur, R.M. and Mansfield, T. (2006) Enabling Management Oversight in Corporate Blog Space. AAAI Spring 2006 Symposia on Computational Approaches to Analysing Webblogs (AAAI-CAAW'2006). 94KB

54.        Song, D. and Bruza P.D. (2006) Text-based Knowledge Discovery with Information Flow Analysis. Frontiers of WWW Research and Development (LNCS 3841) – Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2006), pp. 692-701.

55.        Huang, Z., Song, D., Bruza, P.D. and Zhou, X. (2006) Dimensionality Reduction in Motif-Signature Based Protein Structure Matching.   Australasian Database Conference 2006 (ADC06), Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol., 28 No 2, pp. 89-97. 338KB

56.        Yan, X., Li, X. and Song, D. (2006) Document Generality: Its Computation and Ranking. Australasian Database Conference 2006 (ADC06), Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol., 28 No 2, pp. 109-118. 206KB

57.        Bai, J., Song, D., Bruza, P.D., Nie, J.Y., Cao, G. (2005) Query Expansion Using Term Relationships in Language Models for Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of The 14th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), pp. 688-695. 155KB

58.        Yan, X., Li, X. and Song, D. (2005) Document Re-ranking by Generality in Bio-medical Information. In Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2005). LNCS 3806, pp. 376-389. 169KB

59.        Bruza P.D., McArthur, R. and Song, D. (2005) Policy Conformance in the Corporate Blog Space. In WWW'2005 Workshop on Policy Management for the Web. 261KB

60.        Huang, Z., Zhou X. and Song, D. (2005) High Dimensional Indexing for Protein Structure Matching.   In Proceedings of The Third Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC'2005), pp. 21-30. 136KB

61.        Bruza, P.D., Cole, R.J., Song, D., Bari, A.A. (2004) Towards Operational abduction from a cognitive Perspective.  In MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION.

62.        Lau, R., Bruza, P.D., Song, D. (2004) Belief Revision for Adaptive Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of ACM/SIGIR'2004, pp. 130-137. 213KB

63.        Hoenkamp, E., Song, D. (2004) The Document as Ergodic Markov Chain. In Proceedings of ACM/SIGIR'2004, Poster, pp. 496-497. 89KB

64.        Song, D., Bruza, P.D., Cole, R.J. (2004) Concept learning and information inferencing on a high-dimensional semantic space.  ACM SIGIR 2004 Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval (MF/IR'2004), 29 July 2004, Sheffield, UK. 149KB

65.        Yan, X., Li, X. and Song, D. (2004) A Correlation Analysis on LSA and HAL Semantic Space Models.   In Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational and Information Sciences (CIS'2004), LNCS 3314, pp 710-717.

66.        Cheong, P., Song, D., Bruza, P.D., Wong, K.F. (2004) Information Flow Analysis with Chinese Text. In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04). LNCS 3248, pp. 100-109. March 22-24, 2004, Sanya City, Hainan Island, China.

67.        Cao, G., Song, D., Bruza, P.D. (2004) Fuzzy K-Means Clustering on a High Dimensional Semantic Space. Advanced Web Technologies and Applications (LNCS 3007) - Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'04), pp. 907-911. Hangzhou, China, April 14-16, 2004.

68.        Song, D. and Bruza, P.D., Huang, Z., and Lau, R. (2003) Classifying Document Titles Based on Information Inference. Foundations of Intelligent Systems (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2871) -Proceedings of ISMIS'03 conference. pp. 297-306. 67KB

69.        Huang, Z., Wong, K.F., Li, Wenjie, Song, D., and Bruza P.D. (2003) A Logical Framework for Multi-timeline Temporal Information Extraction and Association from Financial Data.  Proceedings of the IEEE NLP/KE 2003 conference. pp. 95-101.  93KB

70.        Bruza P.D., and Song, D. (2003) A Comparison of Various Approaches for Using Probabilistic Dependencies in Language Modeling. In Proceedings of ACM/SIGIR2003, poster, pp. 419-420. 166KB

71.        Bruza, P.D. and Song, D. (2002) Inferring Query Models by Information Flow Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 11th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2002), pp.260-269. 273KB

72.        Song, D., Bruza P.D. (2001) Discovering Information Flow Using a High Dimensional Conceptual Space. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2001, pp. 327-333.  237KB

73.        Bruza, P.D., Song, D. (2001) Informational Inference via Information Flow.  In Proceedings of DEXA Workshops 2001, pp. 237-241.

74.        Bruza, P.D. and Song, D. (2001) Theoretical Evaluation of IR Models using Symbolic Means.  ACM SIGIR 2001 workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval, pp. 35-36.

75.        Bruza, P.D., Song, D, Wong, K.F., Cheng C.H. (2000) Commonsense aboutness for information retrieval.  In Mohammadian, M. (ed), Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications, volume 59 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 288-295, 2000. 79KB

76.        Song, D., Wong, K.F., Bruza, P.D., Cheng, C.H. (2000) Fundamental properties of the core matching functions for information retrieval.  In Proceedings of the 13th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Society Conference (FLAIRS'2000), Orlando (USA), pp. 118-122.

77.        Song, D., Wong, K.F., Bruza, P.D., Cheng, C.H. (2000) Towards a commonsense aboutness theory for information retrieval modelling.  In Proceedings of the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2000), Vol. VII: Computer Science and Engineering: Part I,  Orlando, USA, 2000. 

78.        Bruza, P.D., Song, D., Wong, K.F. (1999) Fundamental properties of aboutness.  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'99), Berkeley (USA), poster, pp. 277-278, 1999.  224KB 

79.        Song, D., Wong, K.F., Bruza, P.D., Cheng, C.H. (1999) Towards functional benchmarking of information retrieval models.   In Proceedings of the 12th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Society Conference (FLAIRS'99), Orlando (USA), pp. 389-393, 1999. 

80.        Shu, Y.T., Yu, S.L., Zhong, J.M., and Song, D. (1995). Discussion of information super-highway (In Chinese with English abstract). In Proceedings of the first Chinese National Conference on Multimedia and High Speed Information Network (CMIN'95).

 

Some (Old) Technical Reports

- Cao, G., Song, D., and Bruza, P.D. (2003) Suffix Tree Clustering on Post-retrieval Documents. DSTC Technical Report.  28KB

- Song, D. and Bruza, P.D. (2002) Experiments in Applying Information Flow Analysis in Query Expansion. DSTC Technical Report. 112KB

- Song D. and Bruza, P.D. (2001) Implementation of a Symbolic Aboutness Inference System. DSTC Technical Report.  55KB