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Bo Pang

Senior Research Scientist

Yahoo! Research

Sunnyvale, CA

bopang42@gmail.com

408-827-8168

Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Social Media, Web Advertising, Machine Learning

Education

• • Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University (2000-2006)

  • Thesis: Automatic analysis of document sentiment; Advisor: Lillian Lee

  • Visiting scholar, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2004-2005)

  • B.S., Computer Science, Tsinghua University (1995-2000)

Employment

• • Yahoo! Research (2006-present) Senior Research Scientist

  • Internships:

    • Google Inc. (Summer 2005; Google books search)

    • Information Science Institute / University of Southern California (Summer 2002; Extracting paraphrases from parallel translations)

    • IBM Almaden Research Center (Summer 2001; Analyzing document sentiment)

Selected publications [(almost) full list at Google Scholar]

• • Monograph: Bo Pang and Lillian Lee. Opinion mining and sentiment analysis.

  • Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2(1-2), pp. 1-135, July 2008

  • Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang, Jon Kleinberg.

  • Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction. WWW'12

  • Nilesh Dalvi, Ravi Kumar, and Bo Pang.

  • Object matching in tweets with spatial models. WSDM'12

  • Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen, and Bo Pang.

  • Personalized recommendation of user comments via factor models. EMNLP'11

  • Sharad Goel, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Bo Pang.

  • Anatomy of the long tail: Ordinary people with extraordinary tastes. WSDM'10

  • Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins.

  • On anonymizing query logs via token-based hashing. WWW'07

  • Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.

  • A sentimental education: Sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts. ACL'04

  • Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu.

  • Syntax-based alignment of multiple translations: Extracting paraphrases and generating new sentences. NAACL'03

  • Bo Pang and Lillian Lee, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan.

  • Thumbs up? Sentiment classification using machine learning techniques. EMNLP'02

Selected projects

• • Local and entity matching: review identification and matching for local entities; matching tweets to local entities

  • Review/comment mining: generating review highlights for local entities; mining for actionable information in recipe reviews

  • Non-topic-based personalization: comment consumption based on perspectives; content selection (e.g., search results re-ranking) based on text comprehensibility/readability

  • Advertising: automatic bid phrase generation; landing page and ad selection

Press mentions

• • Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts. The New York Times. August 23, 2009.

  • Our Sentiments Exactly. Communications of the ACM. Volume 52, Issue 4 (April 2009).

  • Getting Sentimental About Customers. 1to1 Magazine. Winter 2009 Issue

  • Take a Sentimental Journey: What sentiment analysis means for PR professionals. Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). November, 2009

Honors/Awards

• • Best paper runner-up, WSDM 2012

  • Finalist, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, 2005

  • Cornell Graduate Fellowship in Cognitive Studies, 2004

  • Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University, 2000

  • Excellent Student of Tsinghua University, 1997

  • First Prize Scholarships, Tsinghua University, 1996-1998

Recent invited talks

• • A Web of opinions for a Web of Concepts

  • -- University of Edinburgh, August, 2011; Rutgers, September, 2011

  • Web of opinions: sentiment analysis in the context of online communities

  • -- Peking University, April 20, 2011; Tsinghua University, April 20, 2011

  • Sentiment of Two Women: Sentiment Analysis & Social Media

  • -- SXSW Interactive, March 14, 2011

  • Anatomy of the long tail: the whys and hows of satisfying niche interests.

  • -- Keynote: WWW'11 workshop on Semantic Search, March 29, 2011; UT Austin, March 11, 2011.

Professional services

• • Area chair: EMNLP 2008, COLING 2010, EMNLP 2010, EMNLP 2011

  • Senior program committee: ICWSM 2010, ICWSM 2011, ICWSM 2012, CIKM 2012

  • Editorial Board: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), since 2009

  • Panelist, NSF (IIS) Panel, 2007, 2008, 2010

  • Program committee: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, WWW, WSDM, CIKM