Journal Articles

• "Generating gene summaries from biomedical literature: A study of semi-structured summarization" [url]
  Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai and Bruce Schatz
  Information Processing & Management (IP&M), 43(6):1777-1791, November 2007.

• "An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval" [url] [pdf] [code (perl)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  Information Retrieval, 10(4-5):341-363, October 2007.

• "Extraction of coherent relevant passages using hidden Markov models" [url]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 24(3):295-319, July 2006.

Refereed Conference Papers

• "A two-stage approach to domain adaptation for statistical classfiers" [pdf] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'07), pages 401-410, 2007. (17% acceptance)

• "Instance weighting for domain adaptation in NLP" [pdf] [bib] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), pages 264-271, 2007. (22% acceptance)

• "A systematic exploration of the feature space for relation extraction" [pdf] [bib] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT'07), pages 113-120, 2007. (24% acceptance)

• "Exploiting domain structure for named entity recognition" [pdf] [bib] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'06), pages 74-81, 2006. (25% acceptance)

• "Automatically generating gene summaries from biomedical literature" [pdf]
  Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, and Bruce Schatz
  In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB'06), pages 40-51, 2006.

• "Accurately extracting coherent relevant passages using hidden Markov models" [url]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'05) (poster session), pages 289-290, 2005.

• "Adaptive filters for continuous queries over distributed data streams" [url]
  Chris Olston, Jing Jiang and Jennifer Widom
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'03), pages 563-574, 2003.

Other Publications

• "Robust pseudo feedback estimation and HMM passage extraction: UIUC at TREC 2006 Genomics Track" [pdf] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang, Xin He and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC'06), (selected for oral presentation), 2007.

• "An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval" [pdf]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2006-2733, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2006.

• "Using syntactic and semantic relation analysis in question answering" [pdf]
  Renxu Sun, Jing Jiang, Yee Fan Tan, Hang Cui, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan
  In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC'05), 2006.

• "UIUC in HARD 2004--passage retrieval using HMMs" [pdf] [slides (ppt)] [slides (pdf)]
  Jing Jiang and ChengXiang Zhai
  In Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC'04), (selected for oral presentation), 2005.