Dr Jianhan Zhu

Research Fellow

 

 

Contact:

Department of Computer Science
University College London

Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Email: j dot zhu at cs dot ucl dot ac dot uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1473 66 3733

Fax: +44 (0) 1473 63 5199

 

 

 

| Research | Education | Experience | Publications | Funding | Services | Editorial Board | Reviewing | Distinctions | Activities | Talk | Developed Systems |

 

 

 

Research interests:

Information retrieval, enterprise search, web mining, coordinate TREC Chemical Information Retrieval Track

 

 

Education

PhD (University of Ulster, UK) 1999-2003

BSc (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) 1993-1998

 

 

Experience

Research fellow (University College London, London, UK) June 2008 -

Research fellow (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) Aug 2003-June 2008

 

 

Publications:

 

2010

Jun Wang and Jianhan Zhu (2010) On Statistical Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Effectiveness Metrics. (Full paper) In Proc. of the 33nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010), Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Ingemar Cox, Jianhan Zhu, and Ruoxun Fu (2010) Improving query correctness using centralized probably approximately correct (PAC) search. In Proc. of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Milton Keynes, UK.

Jianhan Zhu, Xiangji Huang, Dawei Song, and Stefan Rüger (2010) Integrating Multiple Document Features in Language Models for Expert Finding (26 pages), Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). Springer-Verlag Publisher. ISSN (Printed): 0219-1377 and ISSN (Online): 0219-3116. Vol.23, No.1, 2010. pp.29-54. (online version)

2009

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael Taylor, and Ingemar Cox (2009) Risky Business: Modeling and Exploiting Uncertainty in Information Retrieval. (Full paper) In Proc. of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009), Boston, USA.

 

Jun Wang and Jianhan Zhu (2009) Portfolio Theory of Information Retrieval. (Full paper) In Proc. of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009), Boston, USA.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, and Ingemar Cox (2009) Topic (Query) Selection for IR Evaluation. (Poster) In Proc. of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009), Boston, USA.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar Cox, and Michael Taylor (2009) Risk-aware Information Retrieval. In Proc. of ECIR'09: 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, 6th-9th April 2009, Toulouse, France, LNCS, pp. 17-28.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, and Stefan Rüger (2009) Integrating Multiple Windows and Document Features for Expert Finding. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Vol. 60 Issue 4, pages 694 – 715. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21012

 

Lupu, M., Huang, X., Zhu, J. and Tait, J. TREC-CHEM: Large Scale Chemical Information Retrieval Evaluation at TREC. SIGIR Forum, December 2009, Volume 43 Number 2, pp 63-70.

 

Lupu, M., Piroi, F., Huang, X., Zhu, J. and Tait, J. Overview of the TREC 2009 Chemical IR Track (24 pages), Proceedings of the 18th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-18), NIST Special Publication, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-20, 2009.

 

Zhao, J., Huang, X., Ye, Z. and Zhu, J. York University at TREC 2009: Chemical Track, Proceedings of the 18th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-18), NIST Special Publication, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-20, 2009

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C., and Rüger, S. (2008) DYNIQX: A Novel Meta-Search Engine for the Web. International Digital Journal of Information Studies, Vol 1, No 1, pp. 2-27. http://www.istudies.net/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/25

 

Jianhan Zhu (2009) An Adaptive Approach for Web Scale Named Entity Recognition. First IEEE Symposium on Web Society (SWS 2009), August, Lanzhou, China.

 

Jianhan Zhu (2009) The University College London at TREC 2008 Enterprise Track. In Proc. of the Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

 

Gianluca Demartini, Arjen de Vries, Tereza Iofciu and Jianhan Zhu. Overview of the INEX 2008 Entity Ranking Track. In Proc. of INEX (INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval) 2008, Springer, LNCS.

 

Gianluca Demartini, Ludovic Denoyer, Antoine Doucet, Khairun Nisa Fachry, Patrick Gallinari, Shlomo Geva, Wei-Che Huang, Tereza Iofciu, Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Marijn Koolen, Monica Landoni, Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo, Ralf Schenkel, Martin Theobald, Andrew Trotman, Arjen P. de Vries, Alan Woodley, and Jianhan Zhu. Report on INEX 2008. SIGIR Forum, 43(1), June 2009.

 

2008

Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S., and Huang, X. (2008) Modeling Document Features for Expert Finding. In Proc. of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 26-30, 2008.

 

Jianhan Zhu (2008) A Study of the Relationship between Ad Hoc Retrieval and Expert Finding in Enterprise Environment. In Proc. of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 10th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), Napa Valley, California, October 26-30, 2008.

 

Jianhan Zhu and John Tait (2008) A Proposal for Chemical Information Retrieval Evaluation. In Proc. of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 1st International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'08), Napa Valley, California, October 26-30, 2008.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Arjen P. de Vries, Gianluca Demartini, Tereza Iofciu. Evaluating Relation Retrieval for Entities and Experts. In Proc. of ACM SIGIR 2008 1st International Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval, Singapore, July, 2008. Slides

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., and Rüger, S. (2008) Integrating Document Features for Entity Ranking. In Proc. of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) 2007, Springer LNCS.

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., and Rüger, S. (2008) The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track. In Proc. of the Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C., and Rüger, S. (2008) DYNIQX: A Novel Meta-Search Engine for Metadata based Cross Search. In Proc. of First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., and Barladeanu, C. (2008) A Novel Metadata based Meta-Search Engine. In Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008), Porto, Portugal.

 

Simon Overell, Ainhoa Llorente, Haiming Liu, Rui Hu, Adam Rae, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, and Stefan Rueger (2008) MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining Different Evidence Sources. In Proc. of CLEF 2008 Workshop, Working notes, Editors: Alessandro Nardi and Carol Peters, Aarhus, Denmark.

 

2007

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 special issue on "Web Information Retrieval", Digital Information Research Foundation, Vol. 5, No. 5, October, pages 249-261.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco, Marc Eisenstadt, Dawei Song (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, IOS Press, ISSN 1570-1263, pages 405-417.

 

Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S., Eisenstadt, M. and Motta, E. (2007) The Open University at TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Expert Search Task. In Proc. of The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA (We got the best runs in the TREC2006 expert search task)

 

Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V.S., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rüger, S. (2007) Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities. In Proc. of International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) 2007, Hong Kong, China, IEEE, pp. 1966-1973

 

2006

Alexandre Goncalves, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Victoria Uren, Roberto Pacheco. LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval. In Proc. of The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2006), June, Hong Kong, China (Best student paper award).

 

Jianhan Zhu, Marc Eisenstadt, Dawei Song, Chris Denham. Exploiting Semantic Association to Answer Vague Queries. In Proc. of Fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2006), June, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta (2006) An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata. In Proc. of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro.

 

2005

Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco. (2005) Mining Web Data for Competency Management. In Proc. of Web Intelligence 2005 (WI'2005), France, September 19-22, 2005, pp. 94-100.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco. (2005) CORDER: COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition. In Proc. of Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'2005), October 2-5, 2005 Banff, Canada, pp. 219-220.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta. (2005) ESpotter: Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing. In Proc. of Professional Knowledge Management Conference, Springer-Verlag LNAI, pp. 518-529, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta. (2005) ESpotter: Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing. In Proc. of Workshop on IT Tools for Knowledge Management Systems at WM2005 Conference, pp. 505-510, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 11-13, 2005.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Marc Eisenstadt, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Chris Denham. BuddyFinder-CORDER: Leveraging Social Networks for Matchmaking by Opportunistic Discovery. In Proc. of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005) Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, November 7, 2005, Galway, Ireland.

 

Victoria Uren, Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre Goncalves Applying Mined Social Networks to Knowledge Management Scenarios. AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 2, Issue 3-4, pp. 41-44.

2004

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Hong, John G. Hughes. PageCluster: Mining Conceptual Link Hierarchies from Web Log Files for Adaptive Web Site Navigation. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) special issue on "Machine Learning for the Internet", Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 185-208, 2004.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta. ESpotter: A Prototype System for Adaptive Named Entity Recognition Supporting Web Browsing. The Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext'04) Demo, Santa Cruz, USA, August 9-13, 2004.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta. ESpotter: A Prototype System for Adaptive Named Entity Recognition Supporting Web Browsing. The Fourteenth International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'2004) Demo, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, October 5-8, 2004.

 

2003

PhD Thesis: Mining Web site link structures for adaptive Web site navigation and search, Supervisors: Dr. Jun Hong and Prof. John G. Hughes.

 

2002

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Hong, and John G. Hughes. Using Markov Models for Web Site Link Prediction. In Proc. of the Thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext’02), pp. 169-170, ACM Press, College Park, MD, USA, June 11-15, 2002.

 

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Hong, and John G. Hughes. Using Markov Chains for Link Prediction in Adaptive Web Sites. In Proc. of Soft-Ware 2002: First International Conference on Computing in an Imperfect World, pp. 60-73, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Belfast, April, 2002.

 

Joseph Fong and Jianhan Zhu. Online Web Mining Transactions Association Rules using Frame Metadata Model. Journal of Applied Systems Studies (JASS) special issue on "Web Information Systems Applications", Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 313-328, 2002, Cambridge International Science Publishing.

 

2001

Jianhan Zhu, Jun Hong, and John G. Hughes. PageRate: Counting Web Users’ Votes. In Proc. of the Twelfth ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext’01), pp. 131-132, ACM Press, Århus, Denmark, August, 2001.

 

Jianhan Zhu. Using Markov Chains for Structural Link Prediction in Adaptive Web Sites. In Proc. of 8th International Conference on User Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2109 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42325-7: pp. 298-300, Sonthofen, Germany, July 13-17, 2001.

 

2000

Joseph Fong, John G. Hughes and Jianhan Zhu. Online Web Mining Transactions Association Rules using Frame Metadata Model. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00), IEEE Computer Press, Vol. 2, pp. 121-129, Hong Kong, China, June 19-21, 2000.

 

Funding:

Co-investigator: IRF Initiative Collaboration Research Grant. (with Prof Jimmy Huang), Funded by Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Vienna, Austria
Project title: Large-Scale Evaluation of Chemical Information Retrieval Systems

 

Co-investigator and project manager: JISC DYNIQX project (with Prof. Marc Eisenstadt and Dr Dawei Song), 2007-2008, £95,000

 

Co-investigator: IBM UIMA 2007 Innovation Award (with Dr. Dawei Song), $24,000USD, 2007

 

Co-investigator: IBM UIMA 2006 Innovation Award (with Dr. Dawei Song), $19,000USD, 2006

 

Services:

Publicity Chair: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'10

Program Committee: ACM SIGIR 2010, SIGIR 2010 Posters

Program Committee: MOPAS 2010

Program Committee: NDT 2010

Program Committee: IHCI 2010

Program Committee: ECIR 2010

Program Committee: CIKM 2009

Program Committee: ICTIR2009-Special Issue

Program Committee: ICTIR 2009

Program Committee: CIKM 2009 Workshop on Complex Networks meet Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM'09)

Program Committee: CIKM 2009 2nd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'09)

Program Committee: International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008) Journal Special Issue Editorial Board Member

Program Committee: NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado

Program Committee: First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI2009), India

Program Committee: ICADIWT 2009 (IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies), London

Program Committee: ICITST 2009 (International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions), London

Program Committee: NDT 2009 (First International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies'), Czech

Program Committee: ICICS 2009

Program Committee: ICSECS 2009

Program Committee: ICADIWT 2008, Czech

Program Committee: ICDIM 2008, London

Program Committee: WSKS 2008 (World Summit on the Knowledge Society), Greece

Program Committee: SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER 2008)

Program Committee: CIKM 2008 1st International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'08)

 

Editorial Board Member:

International Journal of Web Applications, Digital Information Research Foundation

 

Reviewer:

Hong Kong Research Grants Council Proposals, Neurocomputing Journal, Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Hindawi), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal, JASIST, CIKM2008, ECIR2008, CIKM2007, Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, fCHER2008, PaIR2008, ICADIWT2008, ICDIM2008, IEEE TKDE, ACM Transactions on Asian Language, Information Processing (TALIP), WAIM2006, Information Systems Journal, Int. J. of Information Technology & Decision Making, ACM CHI 2006 Notes, WWW 2006 posters, ESWC 2006, ASWC 2006, ACM CHI 2003, IFIP AI-2006, IEEE CEC 2006/EEE, AMCIS2006, CCSCE 2003, SOAIC2006

 

Distinctions:

Author of an expert finding system that achieved the best search results (out of 23 teams) in TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Expert Search task, and top three results in TREC 2007 Expert Search task.

 

Activities:

Coordinator: TREC Chemical Information Retrieval Track

Co-organizer: INEX (INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval) 2008 Entity Rank Track

 

Invited Talk:

“Expert Search, Entity Retrieval, and Beyond”, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Nov 6th, 2007, NY, USA

 

Developed Systems:

Expert search: information retrieval based methods for expert finding in documents

ESPotter: an adaptive named entity recognition tool for download, with moderate popularity

DYNIQX: an open source dynamic query interface development tool released as a Google code project

CORDER: mining association networks of people and other types of entities from documents