Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang

Associate Professor

About Me: Fan Zhang (张帆)

I am now an associate professor at School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Before that, I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Professor Yiqun Liu. My recent research interests are mainly in Information Retrieval, Conversational Search Evaluation, and User Behavior Analysis.

News

  • One paper has been accepted by IP&M!
  • Two papers has been accepted by SIGIR 2022!

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee Member

CIKM 2022; COLING 2022; IJCAI 2022; SIGIR 2022; TheWebConf 2022; WSDM 2022; CIKM 2021; KDD 2021; IJCAI 2021; SIGIR 2021; TheWebConf 2021; WSDM 2021; ICTIR 2020; SIGIR 2020; TheWebConf 2020; SIGIR 2019.

  • Journal Reviewer

Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS); Information Processing & Management (IPM); Data and Information Management (DIM).

Publications

  • Bulou Liu, Yueyue Wu, Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Query Generation and Buffer Mechanism: Towards a better conversational agent for legal case retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 2022, 59(5) (IP&M).
  • Siqi Lai, Erli Meng, Fan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Bin Wang, Aixin Sun. An Attribute-Driven Mirror Graph Network for Session-based Recommendation. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022).
  • Nuo Chen, Fan Zhang, Tetsuya Sakai. Constructing Better Evaluation Metrics by Incorporating the Anchoring Effect into the User Model. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022).
  • Jia Chen, Weihao Wu, Jiaxin Mao, Beining Wang, Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu. Overview of the NTCIR-16 Session Search (SS) Task. The 16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-16).
  • Zhumin Chu, Jiaxin Mao, Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Relevance Judgments with Pairwise Discriminative Power. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021).
  • Jia Chen, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Fan Zhang, Tetsuya Sakai, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Incorporating Query Reformulating Behavior into Web Search Evaluation. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021).
  • Bulou Liu, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Yunqiu Shao, Chenliang Li, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Conversational vs Traditional: Comparing Search Behavior and Outcome in Legal Case Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021).
  • Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Towards a Better Understanding of Query Reformulation Behavior in Web Search. The Web Conference 2021 (WebConf 2021).
  • Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. User Behavior Modeling for Web Search Evaluation. AI Open, 2020, 1: 40-56 (AI OPEN).
  • Fan Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Models Versus Satisfaction: Towards a Better Understanding of Evaluation Metrics. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020 Full Paper Honorable Mention).
  • Fan Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Cascade or Recency: Constructing Better Evaluation Metrics for Session Search. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020).
  • Yunqiu Shao, Yiqun Liu, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. On Annotation Methodologies for Image Search Evaluation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2019, 37(3): 1-32 (TOIS).
  • Fan Zhang, Ke Zhou, Yunqiu Shao, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. How Well do Offline and Online Evaluation Metrics Measure User Satisfaction in Web Image Search? The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018).
  • Fan Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Xin Li, Min Zhang, Yinghui Xu and Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Web Search with a Bejeweled Player Model. The 40th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017 Best Student Paper Award).
  • Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Evaluating Mobile Search with Height-Biased Gain. The 40th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017).
  • Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Ke Zhou, Fan Zhang, Xue Li and Shaoping Ma. Does Document Relevance Affect the Searcher’s Perception of Time? The Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017).
  • Cheng Luo, Xue Li, Yiqun Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Fan Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Users’ Time Perception during Web Search. The 2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2017).
  • Cheng Luo, Fan Zhang, Xue Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Manipulating Time Perception of Web Search Users. First ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016).

Awards

  • Full Paper Honorable Mention Award of SIGIR 2020.
  • Best Student Paper Award of SIGIR 2017.

Last updated: 23th August, 2022