Publications

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2024

[WWW] Scaling User Modeling: Large-scale Online User Representations for Ads Personalization in Meta
Wei Zhang, Dai Li, Chen Liang, Fang Zhou, Zhongke Zhang, Xuewei Wang, Ru Li, Yi Zhou, Yaning Huang, Dong Liang, Kai Wang, Zhangyuan Wang, Zhengxing Chen, Fenggang Wu, Minghai Chen, Huayu Li, Yunnan Wu, Zhan Shu, Mindi Yuan, Sri Reddy
In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024.
[LargeRecSys@RecSys] ERCache: An Efficient and Reliable Caching Framework for Large-Scale User Representations in Meta’s Ads System
Fang Zhou, Yaning Huang, Dong Liang, Dai Li, Zhongke Zhang, Kai Wang, Xiao Xin, Abdallah Aboelela, Zheliang Jiang, Yang Wang, Jeff Song, Wei Zhang, Chen Liang, Huayu Li, Chonglin Sun, Hang Yang, Lei Qu, Zhan Shu, Mindi Yuan, Emanuele Maccherani, Taha Hayat, John Guo, Varna Puvvada, Uladzimir Pashkevich
In Workshop for Large Scale Recommender Systems at the 2024 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.

[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][Preprint]

[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]
[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]

[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]
[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]
[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.
[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.

[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)
[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.
[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.
[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.

[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]
[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)
[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]
[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]
[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.

[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)

[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)
[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.