Doctoral Dissertation

Peer-reviewed Papers

    2019

  1. [EDM] Active Learning of Strict Partial Orders: A Case Study on Concept Prerequisite Relations
    Chen Liang, Jianbo Ye, Han Zhao, Bart Pursel, and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2019.
    [Data][Supplemental Material][arXiv version]

    2. 2018

  2. [BEA] Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank
    Chen Liang, Xiao Yang, Neisarg Dave, Drew Wham, Bart Pursel, and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application, 2018.
    [Code][Data][Poster]
  3. [AAAI] Investigating Active Learning for Concept Prerequisite Learning
    Chen Liang, Jianbo Ye, Shuting Wang, Bart Pursel, and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018.
    [Data][Slides]

    4. 2017

  4. [K-CAP] Distractor Generation with Generative Adversarial Nets for Automatically Creating Fill-in-the-blank Questions
    Chen Liang, Xiao Yang, Drew Wham, Bart Pursel, Rebecca Passonneau and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2017.
    [Poster]
  5. [AAAI] Recovering Concept Prerequisite Relations from University Course Dependencies
    Chen Liang, Jianbo Ye, Zhaohui Wu, Bart Pursel, and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017.
    [Data]
  6. [CVPR] Multi-scale FCN with Cascaded Instance Aware Segmentation for Arbitrary Oriented Word Spotting In The Wild
    Dafang He, Xiao Yang, Chen Liang, Zihan Zhou, Alexander G Ororbia, Daniel Kifer, and C. Lee Giles
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017.
  7. [JCDL] HESDK: A Hybrid Approach to Extracting Scientific Domain Knowledge Entities
    Jian Wu, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Agnese Chiatti, Chen Liang, and C. Lee Giles
    In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2017.

    8. 2016

  8. [AAAI] BBookX: Building Online Open Books for Personalized Learning
    Chen Liang, Shuting Wang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Bart Pursel, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. (Demo paper)
  9. [WebED@WWW] BBookX: Design of an Automated Web-based Recommender System for the Creation of Open Learning Content
    Bart Pursel, Chen Liang, Shuting Wang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, 2016.
  10. [SBD@SIGMOD] CiteSeerX data: semanticizing scholarly papers
    Jian Wu, Chen Liang, Huaiyu Yang, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, 2016.
  11. [CIKM] Using Prerequisites to Extract Concept Maps from Textbooks
    Shuting Wang, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Chen Liang, Bart Pursel, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016.

    12. 2015

  12. [EMNLP] Measuring Prerequisite Relations Among Concepts
    Chen Liang, Zhaohui Wu, Wenyi Huang, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015. (Short paper).
    [Data] [Poster]
  13. [DocEng] BBookX: An Automatic Book Creation Framework
    Chen Liang, Shuting Wang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Bart Pursel, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2015. (Oral presentation)
  14. [DocEng] Concept Hierarchy Extraction from Textbooks
    Shuting Wang, Chen Liang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Bart Pursel, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2015. (Oral presentation)
    [Data]
  15. [ACL] Storybase: Towards Building a Knowledge Base for News Events
    Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. (Demo paper)
    [Demo]
  16. [AAAI] A Neural Probabilistic Model for Context Based Citation Recommendation
    Wenyi Huang, Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles.
    In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

    17. 2014

  17. [JCDL] Crowd-sourcing Web Knowledge for Metadata Extraction
    Zhaohui Wu, Wenyi Huang, Chen Liang, and C. Lee Giles.
    In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2014. (Short paper)

    18. Before coming to Penn State

    2012

  18. [COLING] Expert Finding for Microblog Misinformation Identification
    Chen Liang*, Zhiyuan Liu*, and Maosong Sun.
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2012. (Short paper) (*: equal contribution)
  19. [COLING] Topical Word Trigger Model for Keyphrase Extraction
    Zhiyuan Liu, Chen Liang, and Maosong Sun.
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2012.

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