| Bei Yu Assistant Professor Syracuse, NY 13244 Email: byu AT syr DOT edu |
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Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University (since 2009)
Advisor on the Information Representation and Retrieval Concentration, Linguistics Studies Program, Syracuse University (since 2009)
Text classification, feature selection, sentiment classification and opinion mining, text mining for social science research and digital humanities
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2006-2009)
Ph.D. 2006 Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S. 1999 Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S. 1996 Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Yu, B. and Jiang, M. (eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 1st international CIKM workshop on Topic-sentiment analysis for mass opinion, Hong Kong, China, November 6, 2009.[Summary]
Diermeier, D., Godbout, J-F., Yu, B. and Kaufmann, S. (forthcoming). Language and ideology in Congress. British Journal of Political Science DOI: 10.1017/S0007123411000160
Yu, B., Kaufmann, S., and Diermeier D. (2008). Classifying party affiliation from political speech. Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5(1): 33-48.PDF
Yu, B. (2008). An evaluation of text classification methods for literary study. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23(3): 327-343. PDF
Wang, J. and Yu, B. (2011). Labeling images with queries: A recall-based image retrieval game approach. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Crowd-sourcing for Information Retrieval, July 28, 2011. (Best Paper Award)
Yu, B. and Kwok, L. (2011). Classifying Business Marketing Messages on Facebook. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Internet Advertisement, July 28, 2011. PDF link
Yu, B., Chen, M., and Kwok, L. (2011). Toward Predicting Popularity of Social Marketing Messages. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP'11), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 29-31, 2011
Hu, X. and Yu, B. (2011). Exploring The Relationship Between Mood and Creativity in Rock Lyrics. The 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'11), Miami, Florida, Obtober 24-28, 2011
Yu, B. (2011). The Emotional World of Health Online Communities. (Poster) iConference 2011, Seattle, WA, February 8-112010
Yu, B. and Diermeier, D. (2010). A longitudinal study of language and ideology in Congress. The 68th National Conference of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2010. PDF
Wang, J. and Yu, B. (2010). Sentence recall game: a novel tool for collecting data to discover language usage patterns. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, Washington, D.C., July 25th 2010, pp. 56-59. PDF
Yu, B. and Ku, M. (2010). Collecting legacy corpora from social science research for text mining evaluation. (Poster) ASIST 2010 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-27, 2010 PDF
Chen, M., Yu, B., and Liu, X. (2010). Building Folk UMLS: An Approach to Finding Meaning of Folk Terms in Medical Domain. iConference 2010 Poster2008
Yu, B., Kaufmann, S., and Diermeier D. (2008). Exploring the characteristics of opinion expressions for political opinion classification. Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montreal, Canada, May 2008, pp. 82-91.PDF
Shao, H., Yu, B., and Nadeau, J. (2008). Strangeness-based feature weighting and classification of gene expression profiles. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Bioinformatics Track (SAC'08), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 2008, pp.1292-1296. PDF2007
Diermeier, D., Francois, J., Yu, B. and Kaufmann, S. (2007). Language and ideology in Congress. The 65th National Conferece of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007
Yu, B. and Unsworth, J. (2007). An evaluation of text classification methods for literary study. Digital Humanities, Champaign, IL, June 20072006
Plaisant, C., Rose, J., Yu, B., Auvil, L., Kuschenbaum, M., Smith, M., Clement, T. and Lord, G. (2006) Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'06), Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006, pp. 141-150 (Vannevar Bush Best Paper Candidate) PDF
Yu, B. and Unsworth, J. (2006). Toward discovering potential data mining applications in literary criticism. Digital Humanities, Paris, France, July 20062005
Yu, B., Mei, Q., and Zhai, C. (2005). English usage comparison between native and non-native English speakers in academic writing. The 7th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH/ALLC), University of Victoria, Canada, June 20052004
Zhai, C., Velivelli, A., and Yu, B. (2004) A cross-collection mixture model for comparative text mining. Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, WA, August 2004, pp. 743-748. PDF2002
Wang, J., Yu, B., and Gasser, L. (2002) Concept tree based ordering for shaded similarity matrix. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, December 2002, pp. 697-700. PDF
Godbout, J-F and Yu, B. (2009). Speech and legislative extremism in the U.S. Senate. In L. Imbeau (Ed.),"Do They Walk Like They Talk?" Speech and Action in Policy Processes. Chapter 11, pp. 185-206, Springer (Studies in Public Choice Series): New York.
Computational thinking in text mining for social science research, inTracking, Transcribing, and Tagging Government: Building Digital Records for Computational Social Science, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Workshop, Stanford University, June 21-25, 2010
Language and ideology in Congress. Information Science Colloquium, Cornell University, October, 2009
Towards automatic polarity classification of mass opinion. iForum at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, February, 2009
Co-chair of the First International Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement (affiliated with the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), Hong Kong, 2009
The 2011 International World Wide Web conference (WWW 2011)
The 2010 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)
The 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010)
The 2010 WI-IAT Workshop on Opinion Mining and Business Intelligence (OMBI 2010)
The 2010 IEEE ICDM International Workshop on Topic Feature Discovery and Opinion Mining (TFDOM 2010)
Reviewer for the Digital Humanities Conferences (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Reviewer for the iConferences (2010, 2011)
Reviewer for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2011)
Reviewer for the Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (2011)
Reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (2009)
Reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Information Systems (2009)
Reviewer for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics (2010)
Reviewer for the Journal of Decision Support Systems (2010)
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