Rui Yan has a broad interest in real world problems related to text information, social networks, web application, scientific literature, and multimedia. Rui's research focuses on Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Managment and Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, he is now conducting research into summarization, social network mining and event detection.
Rui Yan, Mirella Lapata, and Xiaoming Li. Tweet Recommendation: a Unified Tweet-Twitterer Co-Ranking Framework Fusing Popularity, Personalization and Diversity. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, July 8-14, 2012. To appear. Full oral presentation. [pdf]
Rui Yan, Congrui Huang, Jie Tang, Yan Zhang, and Xiaoming Li. To Better Stand on the Shoulder of Giants. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012), Washington, DC, USA, June 10-14, 2012. To appear. Full oral presentation, acceptance rate=12.9% (26 out of 202). [pdf]
Rui Yan, Zi Yuan, Xiaojun Wan, Yan Zhang, and Xiaoming Li. Hierarchical Graph Summarization: Leveraging Hybrid Information through Visible and Invisible Linkage. In Proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29-June 1, 2012. To appear. Accepted as full long oral presentation, acceptance rate =8.3% (20 out of 241, and short oral presentation acceptance rate =28.2%). [pdf]
Rui Yan, Jie Tang, Xiaobing Liu, Dongdong Shan, and Xiaoming Li. Citation Count Prediction: Learning to Estimate Future Citations for Literature. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM 2011), pages 1247-1252, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =20%, jointly with poster presentations. [pdf]
Dongdong Shan, Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing He, Rui Yan, Hongfei Yan, and Xiaoming Li. Efficient Phrase Querying with Flat Position Index. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM 2011), pages 2001-2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011. Poster presentation. [pdf]
Rui Yan, Jian-Yun Nie, and Xiaoming Li. Summarize What You Are Interested In: An Optimization Framework for Interactive Personalized Summarization. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), pages 1342-1351, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 27-31, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =15.1% (95 out of 628). [pdf]
Special Awards by Google-EMNLP to the Top-10 Selected Best Papers as Plenary Presentation.
Rui Yan, Liang Kong, Congrui Huang, Xiaojun Wan, Xiaoming Li and Yan Zhang. Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), pages 433-443, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 27-31, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =15.1% (95 out of 628). [pdf]
Rui Yan, Xiaojun Wan, Jahna Otterbacher, Liang Kong, Xiaoming Li and Yan Zhang. Evolutionary Timeline Summarization: a Balanced Optimization Framework via Iterative Substitution. In Proceedings of the 34th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2011), pages 745-754, Beijing, China, July 24-28, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =19.8% (108 out of 545). [pdf]
Liang Kong, Rui Yan, Han Jiang, Yan Zhang, Yan Gao, and Li Fu. Mining Event Temporal Boundaries from News Corpora through Evolution Phase Discovery. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2011), pages 554-565, Wuhan, China, September 14-16, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =unknown. [pdf]
Liang Kong, Rui Yan, Yijun He, Yan Zhang, Zhenwei Zhang, and Li Fu. DVD: A Model for Event Diversified Versions Discovery. In Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2011), pages 168-180, Beijing, China, April 18-20, 2011. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =25%. [pdf]
Rui Yan, Liang Kong, Yu Li, Yan Zhang and Xiaoming Li. A Fine-Grained Digestion of News Webpages through Event Snippet Extraction. In Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), pages 157-158, Hyderabad, India. March 28-April 1, 2011. Poster presentation, oral acceptance rate=12.5%, poster acceptance rate=30%. [pdf]
Rui Yan, Yu Li, Yan Zhang and Xiaoming Li. Event Recognition from News Webpages through Latent Ingredients Extraction. In Proceedings of the 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010), pages 490-501, Taipei, Taiwan. December 1-3, 2010. Oral presentation, acceptance rate =22%. [pdf]
Awarded by IBM China Fellowship, 2011. (The only graduate recipient in Peking University)
Awarded as Pivot of Merit Students, Peking University, 2011. (Top honor for students)
Awarded by Peking University - Sohu Scholarship, 2011.
Awarded as Merit Student, Peking University, 2011. (out of hundreds)
Awarded by MediaTek Fellowship, 2011. (1 of 8 recipients in China)
Invited talk in Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011.
Awarded by Google in EMNLP, 2011. (Top-10 Selected Best Papers)
Inivited talk in Jingdong Mall Corporation (360buy), Beijing, China, 2011.
Awarded by Peking University - Morgan Stanley Scholarship, 2010. (First Prize, top 1 out of 67 Ph.D. students)
Elected as Vice President of the Graduate Student Union, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, 2010. (Out of hundreds)
Awarded as Extraordinary Contribution of Social Service, Peking University, 2009. (Out of hundreds)
Rui appreciates the contribution from his collaborators: Yu Li, Jing He, Liang Kong, Congrui Huang, Xiaobing Liu, Han Jiang, Wenqing Yuan and Dongdong Shan, etc.
