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Xiaoyong (Mary) Liu

 
Department of Computer Science Work: (413) 545-0728
140 Governor's Drive Fax: (413) 545-1789
University of Massachusetts Email: xliu AT cs DOT umass DOT edu
Amherst, MA 01003-4610 www.cs.umass.edu/~xliu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Classification
Information User Behavior
Knowledge and Information Management

EDUCATION
09/2001-Present University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Amherst, MA 		Ph.D student
08/1998-05/2001 Syracuse University
Information Transfer, School of Information Studies
Syracuse, NY 		Graduate Student
08/1998-05/2001 Syracuse University
Computer Science, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse, NY 		M.S.
08/1993-07/1997 Wuhan University
Information Science, School of Library and Information Studies
Wuhan, China 		B.S.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
09/2001-Present The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts
Research Assistant. Working with Dr. W. Bruce Croft on applying language modeling techniques to information retrieval.
05/2000-05/2001 Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University
Research Assistant. Worked with Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy and colleagues on question-answering research.
08/1998-05/2001 School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Research Practicum IV. Worked with Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy on a survey of natural language processing concepts and techniques.

Research Practicum III. Worked with Dr. Barbara Kwasnik on studying classification structures in the changing environment of active commercial websites.

Research Practicum II. Worked with Dr. Michael Nilan and Dr. Dmitri Roussinov on studying the notion of genre and its potential role in Web searching.

Research Practicum I. Worked with Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy on a word sense disambiguation project.
05/1999-05/2000 MNIS-TextWise Labs
Research Assistant. Worked with Dr. Paraic Sheridan and colleagues on word sense disambiguation for cross-language IR.
01/1997-06/1997 School of Library and Information Studies, Wuhan University
Thesis Project. Worked under Prof. Feicheng Ma's guidance to study human resource development and management in China's information industry.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
01/2000-05/2000 School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Teaching Practicum II. Assisted Dr. Michael Nilan in teaching IST215: Data Collection, Management, and Analysis. Responsibilities included: development of assignments, tutoring students, small group discussion, exam preparation, and grading/evaluation/feedback to students.
01/1999-05/1999 School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Teaching Practicum I. Assisted Dr. Susan Bonzi in teaching IST255: Introduction to Information Technology. Responsibilities included: designing and grading assignments, preparing lectures, delivering lectures, and preparing exam questions.

PUBLICATIONS
Liu, Xiaoyong, Croft, W. Bruce, and Coll, Matthew (2005). "Evaluation of Expert Finding in Community-Based Question-Answering Services", submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS).
Liu, Xiaoyong, Croft, W. Bruce, and Coll, Matthew (2005). "Finding Experts in Community-Based Question-Answering Services", in Proceedings of CIKM'05, Bremen, Germany, Oct.31-Nov.5, 2005.
Liu, Xiaoyong and Croft, W. Bruce. (2004). "Cluster-Based Retrieval Using Language Models", in Proceedings of SIGIR '04, Sheffield, England, July 25-29, 2004.
Liu, Xiaoyong, Croft, W. Bruce, Oh, Paul, and Hart, David. (2004). "Automatic Recognition of Reading Levels from User Queries", in Proceedings of SIGIR '04, Sheffield, England, July 25-29, 2004.
Liu, Xiaoyong and Croft, W. Bruce. (2003). "Statistical Language Modeling For Information Retrieval", In Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 39.
AbdulJaleel, N., Corrada-Emmanuel, A., Li, Q., Liu, X., Wade, C. and Allan, J. (2003). "UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA", in the Proceedings of TREC 2003.
Liu, Xiaoyong and Croft, W. Bruce. (2002). "Passage Retrieval Based On Language Models", in the Proceedings of CIKM'02 conference, McLean, VA, November 4-9, 2002
Liu, Mary Xiaoyong; Diamond, Ted; Diekema, Anne R. (2000). "Word-Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval." In: Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Student Research Workshop in ANLP-NAACL Proceedings. April 29-May 4; Seattle, WA.
Diekema, Anne; Liu, Xiaoyong; Chen, Jiangping et al. (2000). "Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track." In: E.M. Voorhees and D.K. Harman (Eds.) The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9). 2000, November 13-16; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD.
Kwasnik, Barbara H. and Liu, Xiaoyong. (2000). "Classification Structures in the Changing Environment of Active Commercial Websites." In: C. Beghtol, L. C. Howarth, and N. J. Williamson (Eds.) Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference, July 10-13; Toronto, Canada.
Roussinov, D., Crowston, K., Nilan, M., Kwasnik, B., Cai, J. & Liu, X. (2001). "Genre Based Navigation on the Web." In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34). January 4-7, 2001, Island of Maui.
Liu, Xiaoyong. "Human Resource Development and Management in the Information Industry." (In Chinese). Information Science, Jan. 1998, 16(1), 42-49.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Passage Retrieval Based On Language Models", presented at the CIKM'02 conference, McLean, VA, November 4-9, 2002.
"Classification Structures in the Changing Environment of Active Commercial Websites". The Sixth International ISKO Conference, July 10-13, 2000; Toronto, Canada.
"Word-Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval". The ANLP-NAACL 2000 Student Research Workshop, April 29-May 4, 2000; Seattle, WA.

INVITED TALKS
Liu, Xiaoyong (2003). "Passage Retrieval From Language Modeling Perspective". University of Massachusetts at Boston, Department of Computer Science, April 2, 2003.

TECHNICAL REPORTS
Liu, Xiaoyong; Diekema, Anne; Chen, Jiangping et al. (2000). "CNLP TREC9 Q&A Efforts: A Summary of Approach And System Documentation." Final report to Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University.
Liu, Xiaoyong (2000). "Students' Perception of Web-Based Registration At Syracuse University." Final report to the SU registrar. This is an extensive user study.

HONORS & AWARDS
2000-2001 Student Travel Fellowship for CIKM'05.
2000-2001 Student Travel Rellowship for SIGIR'04.
2000-2001 Syracuse University Fellowship, Syracuse University.
1998-1999 Syracuse University Fellowship, Syracuse University.
1996-1997 Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University.
1995-1996 Huikai Fellowship, Wuhan University.
1994-1995 LiCai Fellowship, Wuhan University.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for Information Retrieval Journal.
Referee for European Conference on Information Retrieval 2005.
Referee for NAACL Student Research Workshop 2004.
Referee for NAACL Student Research Workshop 2001.

ASSOCIATIONS
ACM, ASIS&T

This page was last updated on Jan. 2, 2006