Selected Publications (by bibliography)


Journal Paper

  • Yang H., Willis A., De Roeck A., and Nuseibeh B. (2012) A Hybrid Model for Automatic Emotion Recognition in Suicide Notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights. 2012:5(Suppl. 1): 17-30. (*The winner of 2011 Medical NLP Challenge)
  • Yang H., De Roeck A., Gervasi, V., Willis A., and Nuseibeh B. (2011). Analysing Anaphoric Ambiguity in Natural Language Requirements. Requirements Engineering, 16 (3): 163-189. (*The extension version of the best research paper in the RE'10 Conference)
  • Yang H.(2010) Automatic Extraction of Medication Information from Medical Discharge Summaries. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 17 (5): 545-548.
  • Yang H., Spasic I., Keane J., and Nenadic G. (2009) A Text Mining Approach to the Predication of a Disease Status from Clinical Discharge Summaries. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 16 (4): 596-600. (*The winner of 2008 i2b2 Challenge for NLP in Clinical Data)
  • Yang H., Keane, J, Bergman, C., and Nenadic G. (2009) Assigning Roles to Protein Mentions: the Case of Transcription Factors. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43 (5): 887-894.
  • Yang H., Nenadic G., and Keane, J. (2008) Identification of Transcription Factor Contexts in Literature Using Machine Learning Approaches. BMC Bioinformatics 9(Suppl 3):S11.
  • Yang H., Nenadic G., and Keane, J. (2007) A Cascaded Approach to Normalizing Gene Mentions in Biomedical Literature. Bioinformation 2(5), 197-206.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2006) Two-Stage Statistical Language Models for Text Database Selection. Information Retrieval, 9(1), 5-31.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2004) Hierarchical Classification for Multiple, Distributed Web Databases. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 11 (2): 118-130.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2002) Legal Aspects of the Application of Agent-Based Information Retrieval on the Internet. Journal of Law and Information Science, 12 (1): 57-69.


Book Chapter

  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2004) Potential Cases, Database Types, and Selection Methodologies for Searching Distributed Text Databases. In: Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval. Idea Publishing Group, pp.1-14.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2003) Intelligent Search for Distributed Information Sources Using Heterogeneous Neural Networks. In: Web Technologies and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag Publishers, pp.513-524.


Conference Proceedings

  • Yang H., Willis A., Morse, D. and De Roeck A. (2013). Literature-driven Curation for Taxonomic Name Databases. In the 2nd Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE'13) Workshop, Hissar, Bulgaria, (Accepted) 2013.
  • Yang H., De Roeck A., Gervasi, V., Willis A., and Nuseibeh B. (2012). Automatic Detection of Uncertainty in Natural Language Requirements. In Proceedings of the 20th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'12), pp. 10-20, 2012.
  • Willis A.,Yang H., De Roeck A.(2012) A Generalised Hybrid Architetural for NLP. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data, EACL 2012, pp. 97-105, 2012.
  • Yang H., Willis A., De Roeck A., and Nuseibeh B. (2011) A System for Coreference Resolution in Clinical Documents. In 2011 i2b2/VA/Cincinnati Medical NLP Challenge workshop. Washington DC, USA.
  • Yang H., De Roeck A., Gervasi, V., Willis A., and Nuseibeh B. (2010). Extending Nocuous Ambiguity Analysis for Anaphora in Natural Language Requirements. In Proceedings of the 18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'10). Sydney, Australia, pp. 25-34. (*Best Research Paper Award in RE'10)
  • Yang H., De Roeck A., Willis A., and Nuseibeh B. (2010). A Methodology for Automatic Identification of Nocuous Ambiguity. In Proceedings of the 23th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling'10). Beijing, China, pp. 1218-1226.
  • Yang H., Willis A., De Roeck A., and Nuseibeh B. (2010). Automatic Detection of Nocuous Coordination Ambiguities in Natural Language Requirements. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE'10). Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 53-62.
  • Yang H., De Roeck A.(2010) Extraction of Medical Information Using CRFs, Context Patterns, and Dependency Parse Trees. In 2010 i2b2/VA/Cincinnati Medical NLP Challenge workshop. Washington DC, USA.
  • Yang H. (2009) A Linguistic Approach for Medication Extaction from Medical Discharge Summaries. In Proceedings of the Third I2B2 Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data. San Francisco.
  • Gacitua R., Ma L., Nuseibeh B., Piwek P., De Roeck A., Rouncefield M., Sawyer P., Willis A. and Yang H. (2009). Making Tacit Requirements Explicit. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK'09). Atlanta.
  • Yang H., Spasic I., Keane J., and Nenadic G., (2008) Combining Lexical Profiling, Rules, and Machine Learning for Disease Predication from Hospital Discharge Summaries. In Proceedings of the Second I2B2 Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data. Washington.
  • Yang H., Nenadic G., and Keane, J. (2007) Identification of Transcription Factors Contexts in Literature Using Machine Learning Approaches. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Language in Biology and Medicine (LBM'07). Singapore.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2005), Ontology-based Resource Descriptions for Distributed Information Sources. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference of Information Technology and Applications, Sydney, Australia, pp. 143-149.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2004) Association-Rule Based Information Source Selection. In: Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag Publishers. Auckland, New Zealand, pp.563-574.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2004) An Ontology-Based Approach for Resource Discovery. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce-IAWTIC'2004. Gold Coast, Australia, pp.306-317.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2003) Necessary Constraints for Database Selection in a Distributed Text Database Environment. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling Control and Automation (CIMCA 2003). Vienna, Austria, pp.25-34.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2003) A Language Modeling Approach to Search Distributed Text Databases. In: Proceedings of the 16th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag Publishers. Perth, Australia, pp.196-207.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2002) An Evolutionary Approach for Searching Distributed Collections. In: Proceedings of Australian World Wide Web Conference. Sunshine Coast, Australia, pp.531-545.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2002) Query Expansion with Naive Bayes for Searching Distributed Collections. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems. Boston, US, pp.17-23.
  • Yang H., Zhang M., and Yang, X. (2001), IISS: A Framework for Intelligent Information Source Selection on the Web. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 190-195.
  • Yang H. and Zhang M. (2001), Legal Aspects of the Application of Agent-based Information Retrieval on the Internet. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and the Emerging Law, Wollongong, Australia, pp.1-4.
  • Yang X., Tan M., Lui Z., Zhang M. and Yang H. (2001), Predicting the Goodness of Database Groups Based on Vector Space Model. In Proceedings of Asia Pacific Web Conference, Changsha, China, pp.21-26.