Selected Talks (
ChengXiang Zhai
)
The following talks also provide an overview of the major project directions that I've been working on.
Text Mining
TextScope
:
Distinguished Lecture at UNCC (2019)
;
Keynote at IEEE BigData'17
Opinion Summarization and Analysis
(Keynote at 2013 ACM KDD WISDOM Workshop)
Beyond Search: Statistical Topic Models for Text Analysis
(Keynote at ACM SIGIR 2011)
Intelligent Interactive Information Retrieval (Intelligent Task Agents)
I3A: An Intelligent Interactive Informat\ ion Agent Model for Information Retrieval
(Keynote at ACM ICTIR 2022)
Towards a Game-Theoretic Framework for Information Retrieval
(Keynote at ACM SIGIR 2015)
Maximum Personalization
(Keynote at AIRS 2010)
Interface Computing
(Invited talk at WalmartLabs, 2017)
User Simulation
User Simulation for Evaluation:
Information Retrieval Evaluation as \ Search Simulation
(Keynote at NTCIR 2016)
Applications
Biomedical and Health Informatics:
Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine patient records
(Distinguished Lecture in Causal Discovery, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2017)
Intelligent Education Systems:
Cloud-based Virtual Data Science Lab
(Invited talk at Microsoft Research Asia Faculty Summit, 2016);
AI for Education
(Singapore AI Summer School, 2020)
Accelerate scientific discovery:
Researcher's Workbench
(Keynote at Microsoft Workshop on Big Scholarly Data, 2015) ;
An old talk at a DOE workshop