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natural language processing, information retrieval, social computing, AI for social good
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Biography

Wei Gao is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer of Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand (2017-2020), a Research Scientist in Qatar Computing Research Institut (2011-2017), and a Research Assistant Professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010-2011). His research interests intersects natural language processing, information retrieval, social computing, and artificial intelligence. He published over 80 papers and articles in the major international conferences and journals including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, CIKM, WSDM, IJCAI, ACM TOIS, ACM TIST, IEEE TKDE, etc. He served in the program committees as area chairs and reviewers for a good number of international conferences and reviewed for numerous top journals in the relevant research areas. He was the workshop co-chair of BigComp 2016 and the tutorial co-chair of IJCNLP 2011. He received his PhD of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010.

Activities

Employment (4)

Singapore Management University: Singapore, SG

2019-12 to present (School of Computing and Information Systems)
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Victoria University of Wellington: Wellington, NZ

2017-06 to 2019-12 | Senior Lecturer
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Qatar Computing Research Institute: Doha, QA

2011-09 to 2017-05 | Scientist (Social Computing, Natural Language Processing)
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2010-08 to 2011-08 | Research Assistant Professor
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Education and qualifications (2)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2004-08 to 2010-12 | PhD (Systems Engineering and Engineering Management)
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2002-08 to 2004-07 | MPhil (Systems Engineering and Engineering Management)
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LLM-enhanced Multiple Instance Learning for Joint Rumor and Stance Detection with Social Context Information

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
2025-02-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Ruichao Yang; Jing Ma; Wei Gao; Hongzhan Lin
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Improving Conversational Recommender System Via Contextual and Time-Aware Modeling With Less Domain-Specific Knowledge

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Lingzhi Wang; Shafiq Joty; Wei Gao; Xingshan Zeng; Kam-Fai Wong
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Towards Explainable Harmful Meme Detection through Multimodal Debate between Large Language Models

2024-05-13 | Conference paper
Contributors: Hongzhan Lin; Ziyang Luo; Wei Gao; Jing Ma; Bo Wang; Ruichao Yang
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Predicting viral rumors and vulnerable users with graph-based neural multi-task learning for infodemic surveillance

Information Processing & Management
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xuan Zhang; Wei Gao
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Wearing Masks Implies Refuting Trump?: Towards Target-specific User Stance Prediction across Events in COVID-19 and US Election 2020

2023-04-30 | Conference paper
Contributors: Hong Zhang; Haewoon Kwak; Wei Gao; Jisun An
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Improving Rumor Detection by Promoting Information Campaigns With Transformer-Based Generative Adversarial Learning

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2023-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jing Ma; Jun Li; Wei Gao; Yang Yang; Kam-Fai Wong
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Potential Early Identification of a Large Campylobacter Outbreak Using Alternative Surveillance Data Sources: Autoregressive Modelling and Spatiotemporal Clustering

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
2020-09-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Mehnaz Adnan; Xiaoying Gao; Xiaohan Bai; Elizabeth Newbern; Jill Sherwood; Nicholas Jones; Michael Baker; Tim Wood; Wei Gao
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Potential Early Identification of a Large Campylobacter Outbreak Using Alternative Surveillance Data Sources: Autoregressive Modelling and Spatiotemporal Clustering (Preprint)

2020-02-16 | Other
Contributors: Mehnaz Adnan; Xiaoying Gao; Xiaohan Bai; Elizabeth Newbern; Jill Sherwood; Nicholas Jones; Michael Baker; Tim Wood; Wei Gao
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Utilizing computational trust to identify rumor spreaders on Twitter

Social Network Analysis and Mining
2018-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Bhavtosh Rath; Wei Gao; Jing Ma; Jaideep Srivastava
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Social Media Content Analysis: NLP and Beyond

World Scientific Publishing
2017-09 | Book
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Recommendation vs Sentiment Analysis: A Text-Driven Latent Factor Model for Rating Prediction with Cold-Start Awareness

The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017)
2017-08 | Conference paper
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Detect Rumors in Microblog Posts Using Propagation Structure via Kernel Learning

The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017)
2017-07 | Conference paper
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From Retweet to Believability: Utilizing Trust to Identify Rumor Spreaders on Twitter

The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017)
2017-07 | Conference paper
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Topic Extraction from Microblog Posts Using Conversation Structures

The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016)
2016-08 | Conference paper
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Build Emotion Lexicon from the Mood of Crowd via Topic-Assisted Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization

The 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016)
2016-07 | Conference paper
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Detecting Rumors from Microblogs with Recurrent Neural Networks

The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016)
2016-07 | Conference paper
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Ordinal Text Quantification

The 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016)
2016-07 | Conference paper
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QCRI at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Probabilistic Methods for Binary and Ordinal Quantification

The 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016)
2016-06 | Conference paper
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From Classification to Quantification in Tweet Sentiment Analysis

Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
2016-04 | Journal article
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PerSentiment: A Personalized Sentiment Classification System for Microblog Users

The 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016 Companion)
2016-04 | Conference paper
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Detect Rumors Using Time Series of Social Context Information on Microblogging Websites

The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015)
2015-10 | Conference paper
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Build Emotion Lexicon from Microblogs by Combining Effects of Seed Words and Emoticons in a Heterogeneous Graph

The 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2015)
2015-09 | Conference paper
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Using Content-level Structures for Summarizing Microblog Repost Trees

The 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2015)
2015-09 | Conference paper
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Gibberish, Assistant, or Master? Using Tweets Linking to News for Extractive Single-Document Summarization

The 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development of Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015)
2015-08 | Conference paper
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Tweet Sentiment: From Classification to Quantification

The 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015)
2015-08 | Conference paper
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Personalized Sentiment Classification Based on Latent Individuality of Microblog Users

The 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)
2015-07 | Conference paper
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Using Tweets to Help Sentence Compression for News Highlights Generation

The 53th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015)
2015-07 | Conference paper
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QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English

The 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)
2015-06 | Conference paper
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QCRI at TREC 2014: Applying the KISS Principle for the TTG Task in the Microblog Track

The 23rd Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2014)
2014-11 | Conference paper
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Utilizing Microblogs for Automatic News Highlights Extraction

The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014)
2014-08 | Conference paper
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Detecting Semantic Uncertainty by Learning Hedge Cues in Sentences Using an HMM

SMIR 2014: SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval
2014-07 | Conference paper
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Ranking Model Selection and Fusion for Effective Microblog Search

SoMeRA 2014: International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis
2014-07 | Conference paper
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Simple Effective Microblog Named Entity Recognition: Arabic as an Example

The 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014)
2014-05 | Conference paper
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Information-Theoretic Multi-view Domain Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
2014-03 | Journal article
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Democracy is good for ranking: towards multi-view rank learning and adaptation in web search

The 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM 2014)
2014-02 | Conference paper
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Dynamic joint sentiment-topic model

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
2013-12 | Journal article
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A link-bridged topic model for cross-domain document classification

Information Processing & Management (IPM)
2013-11 | Journal article
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QCRI at TREC 2013 Microblog Track

The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013)
2013-11 | Conference paper
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An Empirical Study on Uncertainty Identification in Social Media Context

The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013)
2013-08 | Conference paper
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Multi-view Discriminant Transfer Learning

The 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013)
2013-08 | Conference paper
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Mainstream media behavior analysis on Twitter: a case study on UK general election

The 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2013)
2013-05 | Conference paper
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A Self-Training Framework for Automatic Identification of Exploratory Dialogue

International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications
2013-03 | Journal article
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A Self-Training Framework for Automatic Identification of Exploratory Dialogue

The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2013)
2013-03 | Conference paper
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Cross-lingual Identification of Ambiguous Discourse Connectives for Resource-Poor Language

The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012)
2012-12 | Conference paper
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Microblog Search and Filtering with Time Sensitive Feedback and Thresholding based on BM25

The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2012)
2012-11 | Conference paper
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Joint Topic Model for Cross-media News Summarization

2012-10 | Patent
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Joint topic modeling for event summarization across news and social media streams

The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012)
2012-10 | Conference paper
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Information-theoretic Multi-view Domain Adaptation

The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012)
2012-07 | Conference paper
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Tracking sentiment and topic dynamics from social media

The Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012)
2012-07 | Conference paper
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An effective approach for topic-specific opinion summarization

The 7th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7097
2011-12 | Conference paper
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