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Qu, Yan, Wu, Philip and Wang, Xiaoqing (2009): Online Community Response to Major Disaster: A Study of Tianya Forum in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. In: HICSS 2009 - 42st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 5-8 January, 2009, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. pp. 1-11. Available online

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Zhang, Xiaolong, Qu, Yan, Giles, Clyde Lee and Song, Piyou (2008): CiteSense: supporting sensemaking of research literature. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 677-680. Available online

“Making sense of research literature is a complicated process that involves various information seeking and comprehension tasks. The lack of support for sensemaking in existing systems presents important design challenges and opportunities. This research proposes the design of an integral environment to support literature search, selection, organization and comprehension. Our system prototype, CiteSense, offers lightweight interaction tools and a smooth transition among various information activities. This research deepens our understanding of the design of systems that support the sensemaking of research literature.”

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Wu, Philip Fei, Qu, Yan and Preece, Jennifer J. (2008): Why an Emergency Alert System isn't Adopted: The Impact of Socio-Technical Context. In: Proceedings of the HCI08 Conference on People and Computers XXII 2008. pp. 101-104. Available online

“The purpose of this study is to understand the laggard adoption of an SMS-based emergency alert system on a university campus. Based on findings from in-depth interviews and a focus group, we discuss some critical issues in designing and implementing such alert systems, with a focus on the sociocultural factors that de-motivate people to use them. Our findings show that, even for a system with simple technology, the adoption process involves complex interactions between individual perceptions and the social context in which the system is situated.”

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Zhang, Jun, Ye, Yang, Ackerman, Mark S. and Qu, Yan (2007): SISN: A Toolkit for Augmenting Expertise Sharing Via Social Networks. In: Schuler, Douglas (ed.) OCSC 2007 - Online Communities and Social Computing - Second International Conference July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 491-500. Available online

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Russell, Daniel M., Slaney, Malcolm, Qu, Yan and Houston, Mave (2006): Being Literate with Large Document Collections: Observational Studies and Cost Structure Tradeoffs. In: HICSS 2006 - 39th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 4-7 January, 2006, Kauai, HI, USA. . Available online

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Qu, Yan and Furnas, George W. (2005): Sources of structure in sensemaking. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1989-1992. Available online

“A critical aspect of sensemaking is finding appropriate representations for information important to a task. As background for the design of future systems to help people in finding such representations, this paper reports a study of where people currently get aspects of structure for their representations Results show that representation construction and information seeking are closely coupled, as people get aspects of structure top down deducing from their previous knowledge, bottom up inducing from facts they find, and by borrowing from previous sensemaking efforts of others. The findings suggest important revisions of previous sensemaking theories and new opportunities for system design.”

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Grefenstette, Gregory, Qu, Yan and Evans, David A. (2004): Mining the Web to Create a Language Model for Mapping between English Names and Phrases and Japanese. In: 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2004 20-24 September, 2004, Beijing, China. pp. 110-116. Available online

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Furnas, George W. and Qu, Yan (2003): Using pixel rewrites for shape-rich interaction. In: Cockton, Gilbert and Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 369-376.

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Qu, Yan, Grefenstette, Gregory and Evans, David A. (2003): Automatic transliteration for Japanese-to-English text retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2003. pp. 353-360. Available online

“For cross language information retrieval (CLIR) based on bilingual translation dictionaries, good performance depends upon lexical coverage in the dictionary. This is especially true for languages possessing few inter-language cognates, such as between Japanese and English. In this paper, we describe a method for automatically creating and validating candidate Japanese transliterated terms of English words. A phonetic English dictionary and a set of probabilistic mapping rules are used for automatically generating transliteration candidates. A monolingual Japanese corpus is then used for automatically validating the transliterated terms. We evaluate the usage of the extracted English-Japanese transliteration pairs with Japanese to English retrieval experiments over the CLEF bilingual test collections. The use of our automatically derived extension to a bilingual translation dictionary improves average precision, both before and after pseudo-relevance feedback, with gains”

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Furnas, George W., Qu, Yan, Shrivastava, Sanjeev and Peters, Gregory (2000): The Use of Intermediat Graphical Constructions in Problem Solving with Dynamic, Pixel-Level Diagrams. In: Anderson, Michael, Cheng, Peter and Haarslev, Volker (eds.) Diagrams 2000 - Theory and Application of Diagrams - First International Conference September 1-3, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. pp. 314-329. Available online

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Publication period:2000-2009
Publication count:10
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Yan Qu's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Clyde Lee Giles:70
Mark S. Ackerman:50
Jennifer J. Preece:45

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