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	Wei Jin
	Assistant Professor
	Department of Computer Science North Dakota State University

	E-mail: wei.jin@ndsu.edu
	Office: 258 IACC Building
	Office Phone: (701) 231-8196
	Office Fax:(701) 231-8255

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo(2008)

Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University (2008 - )

NEWS!

Our paper "A novel lexicalized HMM-based learning framework for web opinion mining" is accepted by the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009), the premier international conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Our demo paper "CDPRanking: discovering and ranking cross-document paths between entities" is accepted by the 32rd ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), the premier international conference on information retrieval and search technologies.

Our paper "OpinionMiner: a novel machine learning system for web opinion mining and extraction" is accepted by the 15th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2009), the premier international conference on data mining and knowledge discovery.

Invited Panelist in the NSF CDI (Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation) program, 2009.

Short Biography

Dr. Wei Jin has been an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, since 2008. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, in 2008 and 2007, respectively. She also earned a ME degree from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Research

Dr. Wei Jin's research primarily focuses on data mining and knowledge discovery(particularly text and web mining), information retrieval and extraction, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Her professional publications appear in the world's premier conferences in the areas, such as ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).

I am looking for motivated and dedicated graduate students (research assistantships are available for Fall 2009 and Spring 2010) to work with me in the above areas. Please send me your resume and transcripts if you are interested. I expect you to be self-motivated and hard-working and have a background on data mining, information retrieval and/or machine learning. I hope you have a strong commitment to quality research and development.

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Teaching

CSci 372 Comparative Programming Languages (Fall 2008) (Undergraduate Level: 53 students)
CSci 345/783 Information Retrieval and Web Search (Spring 2009) (Undergraduate/Graduate Level: 19 students)
CSci 372 Comparative Programming Languages (Fall 2009) (Undergraduate Level: Section 1, Section 2) (63 students)

Recent Publications (All are available at the DBLP index of computer science papers)

Wei Jin and Hung Hay Ho."A novel lexicalized HMM-based learning framework for web opinion mining", in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009), pp. 465-472, Montreal, Canada, June 2009. (Impact Factor: 2.12 (top 1.88%))
Wei Jin and Xin Wu."CDPRanking: discovering and ranking cross-document paths between entities", in Proceedings of the 32rd ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009) (Demo paper), Boston, MA, July 2009. (Impact Factor: 1.10 (top 19.08%))
Wei Jin, Hung Hay Ho and Rohini K. Srihari."OpinionMiner: a novel machine learning system for web opinion mining and extraction", in Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2009), pp. 1195-1204, Paris, France, June 2009. (Impact Factor: 1.68 (top 6.14%))

Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari and Abhishek Singh, "Generating Hypotheses from the Web", in Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-08), Beijing, China, April, 2008.
Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari, Hung Hay Ho and Xin Wu, "Improving Knowledge Discovery in Document Collections through Combining Text Retrieval and Link Analysis Techniques", in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International conference on Data Mining (ICDM-07), pp. 193-202, Omaha, October, 2007. (Regular Paper: acceptance rate = 40/530 = 7.5%)
Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari and Hung Hay Ho, "A Text Mining Model for Hypothesis Generation", in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), pp. 156-162, October, 2007. (Full Paper: acceptance rate = 107/374 = 28.61%)
Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari and Xin Wu, "Mining Concept Associations for Knowledge Discovery through Concept Chain Queries", Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, in Proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia International conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-07), Nanjing, China, 2007, LNAI 4426-2007. (acceptance rate = 126/730 =17.26%)
Wei Jin and Rohini K. Srihari, "Graph-based Text Representation and Knowledge Discovery", in Proceedings of the 22st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (SAC-07), Seoul, Korea, March, 2007. (Full Paper: acceptance rate = 251/786)
Wei Jin and Rohini K. Srihari, "Knowledge Discovery across Documents through Concept Chain Queries", in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006) workshop on Foundation of Data Mining and Novel Techniques in High Dimensional Structural and Unstructured Data, Hong Kong , China, 2006. (acceptance rate = 24.7%)

Past Research (Machine Translation, Multilingual Information Processing)

Wei Jin, Heyan Huang and Yunqing Xia, "Using Semantic Information and Linguistic Knowledge in Bilingual Word Alignment", in Journal of Computer Science (China), Vol. 29(11), 2002.
Wei Jin, Yunqing Xia and Jiande Wang, "Pattern Base Design in an Interactive Hybrid-Strategy English-Chinese Machine Translation System", in Journal of Microcomputer Applications (China), Vol. 18(3), 2002.
Wei Jin, Yunqing Xia and Jiande Wang, "Hybrid-Strategy Translation Engine in an Interactive English-Chinese Machine Translation System: IHSMTS ", in Journal of Computer Engineering (China), Vol. 28(7), 2002.

Short Biography

Research

Teaching

Recent Publications (All are available at the DBLP index of computer science papers)

Past Research (Machine Translation, Multilingual Information Processing)

Conference Presentations, Invited Talks and System Demonstrations

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