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Shangsong Liang

Research Scientist
​​Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Research interests: Data Mining​​​​​​​​ and Information Retrieval​​
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First employment: Associate professor​ at School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Selected Publications

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  1. Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren, Yukun Zhao, Jun Ma, Maarten de Rijke. Inferring Dynamic User Interests in Streams of Short Text for User Clustering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2017. [ pdf ]
  2. Shangsong Liang, Emine Yilmaz, Hong Shen, Maarten de Rijke, W. Bruce Croft. Search Result Diversification in Short Text Streams. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2017. [ pdf ]
  3. Shangsong Liang, Fei Cai, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke. Efficient Structured Learning for Personalized Diversification. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2016. [ pdf ]
  4. Shangsong Liang, Ilya Markov, Zhaochun Ren, and Maarten de Rijke. Manifold Learning for Rank Aggregation. In Proceedings of the 27th International World Wide Web Conference,  WWW 2018, Lyon, France, 2018. To appear.
  5. Shangsong Liang. Dynamic User Profiling. In Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  AAAI 2018, New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S.A, 2018. To appear.
  6. Bin Zhou, Vasileios Lampos, Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren, Emine Yilmaz and Ingemar Cox. A Concept Language Model for Ad-hoc Search. In Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference,  WWW 2017, Montréal, Canada, 2017. [ pdf | bibtex ] 
  7. Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren, Emine Yilmaz and Evangelos Kanoulas. Collaborative User Clustering for Short Text Streams. In Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  AAAI 2017, San Francisco, U.S.A, 2017. [ pdf  ] 
  8. Shangsong Liang, Emine Yilmaz and Evangelos Kanoulas. Dynamic Clustering of Streaming Short Documents. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,  KDD 2016, San Francisco, U.S, 2016. [ pdf | bibtex ] 
  9. Shangsong Liang (co-first author), Yukun Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jun Ma, Emine Yilmaz, Maarten de Rijke. Explainable User Clustering in Short Text Streams. In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, 2016. [ pdf ]
  10. Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke. Personalized Search Result Diversification via Structured Learning. In Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2014, New York, USA, 2014. [ pdf | bibtex]

Education

  • B. E., Computer Science, North A & F University China, 2004-2008
  • M. E., Computer Science, North A & F University China, 2008-2011
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2011-2014​​

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