2008 -: Social Computing in Digital Libraries

This project investigates the impact of social computing services for digital libraries. The purpose is to understand new ways of enhancing the use of digital libraries. Content analysis of DL websites as well as an online survey of DL staffs will be conducted to collect the data for this study.

Publications and presentations: none

Work in progress:

Chen, J. and Chuenchom, S. (in-progress). Social computing in digital libraries.

This project investigated services provided by Web search engines on translation and cross-language search, the performance of these services, and the ways that information professionals and digital libraries can benefit from them to develop multilingual information access services.

Publications and presentations:

Chen, Jiangping and Bao, Yu. (2009). Cross-Language Search: The Case of Google Language Tools. First Monday, 14(3). Available at: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2335/2116.

Chen, Jiangping and Bao, Yu. (2009). Information access across languages on the Web: from search engines to digital libraries. To appear in the online proceedings of 2009 annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 7-11, 2009. [PDF]

This multi-year, multi-phase project aims to achieve a thorough understanding of the sharing of resources in Intelligent Information Access (IIA) and to identify possible ways to enhance resource management and sharing for IIA. We applied text analysis of IIA research papers and the survey of IIA researchers for data collection. The survey data were analyzed qualitatively.

Publications and presentations:

Chen, Jiangping and Li, Fei. (Submitted). Resource acquisition, sharing, and use in Intelligent Information Access: an investigation of the researchers. Submitted to Information Processing and Management. [the manuscript] 

2006 - 2007: Digital Library Services and the Application of IIA to Digital Libraries

This project investigated studies that have applied IIA technologies to digital libraries through content analysis of research papers published on ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital Libraries (1996-2006) to understand the scope and depth of the impact of IIA on digital libraries. The study proposed strategies for applying IIA technologies such as automatic information extraction and CLIR to digital libraries. Also this project investigated three types of services and their applications in digital libraries through a detailed function analysis of the websites of 29 digital libraries. These services include personalization, multilingual information access, and social computing.

Publications and presentations:

Chen, Jiangping. (2007). Services provided by digital libraries: current status and future strategies. Library and Information Service, 51(12), 26-32. [PDF]

Chen, Jiangping. (2007). Digital Libraries: Definitions, Core Issues, and Research Opportunities. June 5, 2007. Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. [PDF]

2005 - 2008: Health Information Needs of the Chinese Population in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. (PI: Dr. Ana Cleveland)

I was the Language and Cultural Expert for this project. This project was funded by the National Library of Medicine. The research investigated the health information needs and seeking behavior of the DFW area. The team also built an English-Chinese bilingual pathfinder on diabetes for the Chinese population.

Publications and presentations:

Cleveland, Ana; Pan, Xuequn (Della); Chen, Jiangping; Yu, Xinyu; Philbrick, Jodi; O'Neill II, Marty; and Smith, Lisa. (2008). Analysis of the health information needs and health related Internet usage of a Chinese population in the United States. Library and Information Service, 52 (3), 112-116. [PDF]

2005 - 2007: Authors @ Your Library (Co-PI: Dr. William Moen) (Funded by Association of American Publishers)

I was the PI for this project. We designed and implemented a Web database system to connect publishers and authors with US libraries. A usability study was also conducted to enhance the user friendliness of the system.

Technical Report:

Thomale, Jason; Fatih, Oguz; Chen, Jiangping, and Moen, William. E. (2005). Authors at Your Library: Project Report and System Documentation.

2004 - 2006: Experimental Automatic Question Answering Systems and Methodologies (Funded by SLIS Doctoral Student Mini Grant, UNT 2005, 2006 Summer Faculty Fellowship)

We developed EagleQA, an experimental QA system and participated in TREC 2004 and TREC 2005 Question Answering track. We also participated in NTCIR-5 Chinese Information Retrieval and English-Chinese Cross-language Question Answering.

Publications and presentations:

Chen, Jiangping; Yu, Ping, and Ge, He. (2006). UNT 2005 TREC QA participation: using Lemur as IR search engine. Online Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005). Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec14/papers/unorth-texas.qa.pdf

Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena; Yu, Ping; Ge, He; Chin, Pok; Li, Fei and Xuan, Cong. (2005). Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA experiments at UNT. Proceedings of NTCIR-5 workshop, Tokyo, Japan, December 2005. Available at: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings5/data/CLQA/NTCIR5-CLQA-ChenJ.pdf.

Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena and Li, Fei. (2005). Chinese information retrieval using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR experiments at UNT. Proceedings of NTCIR-5 workshop, Tokyo, Japan, December 2005. Available at: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings5/data/CLIR/NTCIR5-CLIR-ChenJ.pdf

Chen. Jiangping; Ge, He; Wu, Yan and Jiang, Shikun. (2004). UNT at TREC 2004: question answering combining multiple evidences. Online Proceedings of TREC 2004. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/papers/unorthtexas.qa.pdf.

2004 - 2005: Challenges in Cross-language Information Retrieval (Funded by 2004 UNT Faculty Grant)

This project reexamined my dissertation to explore the out-of-vocabulary problem in Cross-language Information Retrieval (CLIR). It also investigated the evaluation methodology in CLIA research.

Publications and presentations:

Chen, Jiangping. (2006). A lexical knowledge base approach for English-Chinese cross-language information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(2), 233-243.

Chen, Jiangping. (2005). Toward a unified retrieval outcome analysis framework for cross-language information retrieval. Online proceedings of 2005 annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina. October 30-November 1, 2005. [PDF]

Created: 9/07/2009