Bing Liu

Professor Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 851 S. Morgan Street (M/C 152) Chicago, IL 60607-7053

Tel: 1 (312) 685 2570 (Google Voice) Fax: 1 (312) 413 0024 Press Coverage of My Work

Search Engine Evaluation Google vs. Yahoo vs. Bing 2006 vs. 2007 A New Evaluation, Spring 2011 Google vs. Bing vs. Blekko

Lifelong Machine Learning Download for free, if your institution is in this list. 145 pages (draft). Morgan & Claypool Publishers, November, 2016. Order from Amazon.com

Sentiment Analysis: mining opinions, sentiments, and emotions How to build a Sentiment Analysis system, and much more Table of Contents, 381 pages Cambridge Univ. Press, June 2015. Order from Amazon.com

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining A comprehensive introduction and survey Morgan & Claypool, May 2012, 167 pages Order from Amazon.com

Web Data Mining: exploring hyperlinks, contents, and usage data 2nd Edition, 2011, 622 Pages Order from Amazon.com, Order from Springer Get the eBook

Research Projects

• Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Spam Detection
  • Book: Intro and Survey
• Lifelong Machine Learning - Making Use of Big Data
  • Learn as humans do - retain the knowledge learned in the past and use it to help future learning to build a lifelong learning machine
  • New book: Lifelong Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool publishers, 145 pages, November 2016.
  • Lifelong Machine Learning Tutorial, IJCAI-2015, July 25-31, 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PU Learning - Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples, also called Set Expansion
• Download our LPU system - LPU and Spy-EM (S-EM) system - S-EM
• Detect Fake Reviews and Fake Reviewers - Detect Opinion Spam
  • Detecting fake or deceptive opinions on review sites, facebook, Twitter, Weibo, and forum discussion sites
• Generate a Book Automatically: Synthesize knowledge on the Web (See our WWW-2003 paper).
  • Given a topic, discover sub-topics and related concepts, and synthesize information from multiple Web pages to present a coherent and complete picture of the topic. It is like generating a "book" on the topic. It is more than Knowledge Graph.
• Web Data Extraction from Flat/Nested Data Records - Web page template detection and noise removal
  • Download MDR; Two new systems are DEPTA and NET.
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Diagnostic Data Mining - Interestingness of Knowledge: Finding interesting and actionable knowledge.
    • We built a system in 2006, called Opportunity Map (also known as OM in Motorola). It was deployed in 2006 and is still in regular use in Motorola. Motorola has sold copies of the system to some Telco companies. There is also a patent, but unfortunately it is owned by Motorola, not us :-(.
  • Classification Based on Associations - Integrating Classification and Association Rule Mining
    • Download CBA - asociation rules based classification. You can also use the CBA implementation of Frans Coenen from Univesity of Livepool.
    • KDD-98 paper and others (KDD-99, PKDD-00, etc)
  • Association rule mining with multiple minimum supports
  • Interestingness: subjective interestingness, rule summary, rule query language, change mining

Recent Keynote and Invited Talks (not updated) -- (Some older talks)

1. Invited Talk. “Sentiment Analysis with Lifelong Learning.” ETS, December 7, 2015.
2. Invited Talk. “Sentiment Analysis with Lifelong Learning.” Brigham Young University, December. 3, 2015.
3. Keynote speech. “Sentiment Analysis, Lifelong Learning and Intelligent Personal Assistants.” The 2015 Conf. on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI-2015). Taiwan, Nov. 20-22, 2015.
4. Invited talk. “Sentiment analysis and lifelong machine learning.” Frontiers in Computational Mathematics: AMS Central Fall Sectional Meeting, October 2-4, 2015.
5. Keynote speech. “The State of Sentiment.” Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York City, July 15-16, 2015.
6. Invited tutorial. "Sentiment analysis: mining opinions, sentiments, and emotions." Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York City, July 15-16, 2015.
7. Keynote speech. “Deception Detection via Pattern Mining of Web Usage Behavior” Workshop on Data mining for Big Data: Applications, Challenges & Perspectives, Morocco, 03/25/2015
8. Keynote speech. “Social Media Analysis via Continuous Learning.” Adobe Text Analytics Summit, Feb 26, 2015.
9. Some older talks

Teaching

• Spring 2017: CS 583 - Data Mining and Text Mining
• Fall 2016: CS 583 - Data Mining and Text Mining
• Fall 2015: CS 583 - Data Mining and Text Mining
• Spring 2015: CS 583 - Data Mining and Text Mining
• Past teaching

Professional Recognitions and Memberships

• ACM Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• AAAI Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (was Amercian Association of Artificial Intelligence).
• Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).

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