Publications (2005-Present)

Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Classifying Sentence-Based Summaries of Web Documents. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009), pp. 433-440, November 2-4, 2009, Newark, New Jersey.
Maria Soledad Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Meher Mujahed, and Yiu-Kai Ng, Retrieving Good, Better, and Best Answers to Questions in Advertisements. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2009), pp. 3-6, November 2, 2009, Hong Kong.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Structural, Content-Similarity Measure for Detecting Spam Documents on the Web. To appear in the Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Volume 5, Issue 4, 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (This is an extended version of the ICCSA 2008 paper, Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity, which was selected and invited to be published by IJWIS.)
Maria Soledad Pera, William Lund, and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Sophisticated Library Search Strategy Using Folksonomies and Similarity Matches. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 60, Issue 7, pp. 1392-1406, July 2009. (This is a preprint of the article published in JASIST. Copyright Wiley Periodicals, Inc. or copyright owner as specified in the Journal. http://www.interscience.Wiley.com/.)
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Synthesizing Correlated RSS News Articles Based on a Fuzzy Equivalence Relation. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 77-109, 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (This is an extended version of the ICCSA 2008 paper, Generating Fuzzy Equivalence Classes on RSS News Articles for Retrieving Correlated Information, which was selected and invited to be published by IJWIS.)
Amit Ahuja and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Dynamic Attribute-Based Data Filtering and Recovery Scheme for Web Information Processing. Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Volume 18, Number 3, pp. 263-291, Springer, March 2009. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, SpamED: A Spam Email Detection Approach Based on Phrase Similarity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 60, Issue 2, pp. 393-409, February 2009, Wiley. (This is a preprint of the article published in JASIST. Copyright Wiley Periodicals, Inc. or copyright owner as specified in the Journal. http://www.interscience.Wiley.com/.)
Nathaniel Gustafson, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng, Nowhere to Hide: Finding Plagiarized Documents Based on Sentence Similarity. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), pp. 690-696, December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Utilizing Phrase-Similarity Measures for Detecting and Clustering Informative RSS News Articles. Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ICAE), Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 331-350, 2008, IOS Press. (This is an extended version of the KSEM 2007 paper, Finding Similar RSS News Articles Using Correlation-Based Phrase Matching, which was selected and invited to be published by ICAE.)
Stephen Lynn and Yiu-Kai Ng, Using Vagueness Measures to Re-rank Documents Retrieved by a Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Model. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08), Vol. 5, pp. 39-43, October 18-20, 2008, Jinan, China.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2008), pp. 204-219, LNCS 5073, Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html), June 30-July 3, 2008, Perugia, Italy.
Nathaniel Gustafson, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng, Generating Fuzzy Equivalence Classes on RSS News Articles for Retrieving Correlated Information. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2008), pp. 232-347, LNCS 5073, Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html), June 30-July 3, 2008, Perugia, Italy.
Nathaniel Gustafson and Yiu-Kai Ng, Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008), pp. 163-174, LNCS 5039, Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html), June 24-27, 2008, Lindon, UK.
Xiaochun Yang and Yiu-Kai Ng, Answering Form-Based Web Queries Using the Data-Mining Approach. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 1-32.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Finding Similar RSS News Articles Using Correlation-Based Phrase Matching. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2007), LNAI 4798, pp. 336-348, November 28-30, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng, Using Word Similarity to Eradicate Junk Emails. In Proceedings of the ACM Sixteen Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007), pp. 943-946, November 6-8, 2007, Lisboa, Portugal.
Jun Won Lee and Yiu-Kai Ng, Using Fuzzy-Word Correlation Factors to Compute Document Similarity Based on Phrase Matching. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'07), pp. 186-191, August 24-27, 2007, Haikou, China.
Amit Ahuja and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Dynamic Attribute-Based Load Shedding Scheme for Data Stream Management Systems. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Data Stream Processing (STREAM 2007), pp. 20-25, July 1-6, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA.
Ian Gracia and Yiu-Kai Ng, Eliminating Redundant and Less-Informative RSS News Articles Based on Word Similarity and A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation . In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2006), pp. 465-473, November 13-15, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Koberstein and Yiu-Kai Ng, Using Word Clusters to Detect Similar Web Documents. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'06), LNAI 4092, pp. 215-228, August 5-8, 2006, Guilin, China.
Xiaochun Yang, Lin Li, Yiu-Kai Ng, Bin Wang, and Ge Yu, Associated Load Shedding Strategies for Computing Multi-Joins in Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006), LNCS 3882, pp. 50-61, April 2006, Singapore.
Rajiv Yerra and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Sentence-Based Copy Detection Approach for Web Documents. In Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05), Springer-Verlag's LNAI, pp. 557-570, August 2005, Changsha, China.
Rajiv Yerra and Yiu-Kai Ng, Detecting Similar HTML Documents Using a Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Approach. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'05), pp. 693-699, July 2005, Beijing, China.
SeungJin Lim and Yiu-Kai Ng, Categorization and Information Extraction of Multilingual HTML Documents. In Proceedings of the 9th International Database Engineering and Application Symposium (IDEAS'05), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 415-422, July 2005, Montreal, Canada.
Nathaniel Gustafson, SeungJin Lim, and Yiu-Kai Ng, Categorization of Web Documents Using Character Encodings. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2005), pp. 175-189, June 2005, Teipei, Taiwan.