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Hong Cui

Hong Cui

Assistant Professor

E-mail: hongcui@email.arizona.edu
Phone: 520-621-3565

Hong Cui

Education

  • Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Degree: Ph.D. Date: 2005. Dissertation: “Automating Semantic Markup of Semi-Structured Text Via An Induced Knowledge Base: A Case-Study Using Floras”. Advisor: Prof. Linda C. Smith. Field: Library and Information Science.
  • Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Degree: M.C.S. Date: 2002. Field: Computer Science.
  • Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences. Degree: M.S. Date:1997. Thesis: “A Study of Citation Behavior of Chinese Scientists”. Advisor: Prof. Yitai Gong. Field: Information Science.
  • Institution: Tongji Medical University. Degree: B.A. Date: 1994. Thesis: “Why Citation Analysis”. Advisor: Prof. Huiji Qin. Field: Medical Information and Librarianship.

 

 


Teaching Areas

Information Organization: IRLS 515: Organization of Information, IRLS630: Controlled Vocabulary


Research Areas

Semantic markup of semi-structured documents, information retrieval.

 


Selected Publications and Presentations

  • o Cui, H. (2008). An application for semantic markup of biodiversity documents (System Demonstration). JCDL 2008.
o Cui, H. (2008). Unsupervised semantic markup of literature for biodiversity digital libraries. Accepted by the Joint Conference of Digital Libraries 2008 (JCDL’ 2008).
o Cui, H (2008). Converting taxonomic descriptions to new digital formats Biodiversity Informatics. [Accepted].
o Cui, H. (2008). Approaches to semantic mark up for natural heritage literature. Proceedings of the iConference 2008.
o Cui, H., Sai, D., & Tang, X. (2007). Chapter 3: Information Representation. In Heting Chu & Yin Zhang. (Eds.), Research Fronts in Library and Information Science in the West. Beijing: Renmin University Press. (Series on Research Fronts in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the West).
o *Cui, H. & Heidorn, P.B. (2007). The reusability of induced knowledge for the automatic semantic markup of taxonomic descriptions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(1), 133-149.
o Cui, H. & Nickerson, G. (2007). Use Server2Go to teach IT courses for LIS students. Journal of Association for Library and Information Science Education. 48 (4) [In Press]
o Cui, H., McCourt, R. M., & Feist, M. (2006). Unsupervised structure discovery for biodiversity Information.(System Demonstration). Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. June11-15, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 384.
o Cui, H., McCourt, R. M., & Feist, M. (2006). Automated concept discovery in corpora of morphological descriptions. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of American Society for Information and Technology(CD-ROM). November 3-8, Austin, Texas, USA. [Short paper on CD without page numbers]
o McCourt, R.M., Cui, H., Guiry, M. & Feist, M. (2006) Using machine learning environments to extract taxonomic information from text: An example from print and online texts on algae. Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting 2006. July 7-12, Juneau, Alaska, USA.
o Hirokawa, S. & Cui, H. (2006) Automatic generation of hierarchy for plant Identification terminology (System Demonstration). The 2nd International Digital Curation Conference. Nov. 21-22, Glasgow, UK.
o *Cui, H. (2005). MARTT: Automatic markup of taxonomic descriptions with XML. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Information Science 2005. Jun 2-4, 2005. London, Ontario. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/search.asp?year=2005
o *Cui, H. (2005). MARTT: Using knowledge based approach to automatically mark up plant taxonomic descriptions with XML. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of American Society for Information and Technology 42 (1) (CD-ROM). Oct 28-Nov 2. 2005 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. [Full paper on CD without page numbers]
o Cui, H. (2005). A machine learning environment for automatic markup of taxonomic descriptions with XML. .(System Demonstration) Taxonomic Database Working Group 2005 Annual Meeting (ISBN:3-921800579). 16
o *Cui, H. (2004). Knowledge-based semantic markup of plant descriptions. Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education DOCSIG Poster 2004.
o *Cui, H., Heidorn, P.B., & Zhang, H. (2002). An approach to automatic classification for information retrieval. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of Digital Libraries 2002, 96-97.
o *Heidorn, P.B., Cui, H., Yu, B. Wu, J., & Zhang, H. (2002). Taxonomic description creation, search and display in XML. Botany 2002.
o *Cui, H. (2002). Automatic/semi-automatic parse of Flora of North America records into XML format using machine-learning techniques. Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education DOCSIG Poster 2002.
o *Heidorn, P.B. & Cui, H. (2000). The interaction of result set display dimensionality and cognitive factors in information retrieval systems. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ASIS 2000, 258-270.
o Cui, H. (1998). A clustering analysis on citation motivations of Chinese scientists. Journal of Information Science (Chinese), 17(2). 68-70.
o Cui, H. (1998). Analyzing self-citations in Chinese scientists. Information: Theory and Application (Chinese), 21(3). 153-154, 176.

 

 


Notable Projects & Activities

Automated Semantic Markup of Flora of North America for Enhanced Access, sponsored by Flora of North America Project. Summer 2008.