Refereed Publications:
Bai, Bing, Ng, K.B., Kantor, P. and Strzalkowski, T. (submitted). "The institutional dimension of document qualities judgment." Paper sumbitted to the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Rittman, R., Wacholder, N., Kantor, P., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T., Bai, B., Song, P., Sun, Y. (submitted). "Adjectives as indicators of subjectivity in Documents." Paper sumbitted to the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Ng, K.B., Kantor, P., Tang, R, Bai, B., Rittman, R., Song, P., Strzalkowski, T. Sun, Y. and Wacholder, N. (submitted) "Personalization of document qualities prediction." Paper sumbitted to the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Fradkin, D., Kantor, P., Ng, K.B. (submitted) "Methods for learning classifier combinations." Paper submitted to The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference.
Song, P., Ng, K.B., Kantor, K. (submitted) "Studies on various fusion rules for information retrieval" Paper submitted to The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference.
Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T, and Kantor, P. (2003). "Toward machine understanding of information quality" Proceedings of 2003 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
Ng, K.B., Kantor, P., Tang, R, Rittman, R., Small, S., Song, P., Strzalkowski, T. Sun, Y. and Wacholder, N. (2003) Identification of effective predictive variables for document qualities. To be published in Proceedings of 2003 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T,, and Kantor, P. (2003) "Automatically predicting information quality." In D. Radev & S. Abney (eds) Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Associateion for Computational Linguistics. Companion Volume. East Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Ibraev, U., Ng, K.B.& Kantor, P.B. (2002) "Exploration of a geometric model of data fusion." Paper accepted to be presented and published in Proceeding of 2002 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Ng, K.B. (2002) "Toward a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between situated action and planned action models of behavior in information retrieval contexts: contributions from Phenomenology." Information Processing and Management, vol 38, issue 5, 2002 Sept, pp. 613-625.
Ng, K.B. (2002) "The applicability of universal pragmatics in information retrieval interaction: a pilot study." Information Processing and Management, vol 38, issue 2, 2002 March, pp. 237-348.
Ibraev, U, Kantor, P.B. & Ng, K.B. (2001) "Counter-intuitive cases of data fusion in information retrieval", Proceedings of 2001 Annual Conference of American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, pp. 31-45.
Ng. K.B. (2001) "A novel approach to automatic genre classification." Proceedings of the 2001 National Online Meeting, pp. 281-7. . Medford, N.J., Learned Information, Inc.
Ng, K.B. (2000) "Predictive models for the effectiveness of data fusion in information retrieval." Proceedings of 2000 National Online Meeting, NY: Information Today., pp. 291-302.
Ng, K.B., Rieh, S.Y., and Kantor, P.B. (2000) "Signal detection methods and discriminant analysis applied to categorization of newspaper and government documents: a preliminary study." Proceedings of 2000 Annual Conference of American Society for Information Science and Technology, pp. 227-36
Ng, K.B. and Kantor, P.B. (2000) "Predicting the effectiveness of naive data fusion on the basis of system characteristics." Journal of American Society for Information Science, vol 51, no 13, 2000 November, pp. 1177-1189.
Kantor, P.B., Lee, Jung Jin, Ng, K.B. & Kim, M. H. (1999). "Some statistical issues in information retrieval: maximizing disorder, counting the uncountable, and beat an oracle." Proceedings of the Statistical Application of Information Science. Seoul, Korea.
Burnett, K., Ng, K.B. & Park, S. (1999). "A comparison of the two traditions of metadata development . Journal of American Society for Information Science, vol 50, no 13. 1999 Nov., pp. 1209-17
Ng, K.B., Kantor, P.B. (1998). "An investigation of the conditions for effective data fusion in information retrieval: A pilot study." Proceedings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science.
Ng, K.B., Park, S.,& Burnett, K. (1997). "Control or management: A Comparison of the two approaches for establishing metadata schemes in the digital environment." Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS).
Cool, C., Park, S., Belkin, N.J., Koeneman, J., & Ng, K.B. (1996). "Information seeking behavior in new searching environments." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Informaion Science. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Invited Papers and Government Publications:
Ng, K.B., Loewenstern, D., Basu, C., Hirsh, H. & Kantor, P.B. (1997). "Data fusion of machine learning methods for the TREC-5 routing task (and other works)." In D. Harman (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, D.C.
Kantor, P.B., Ng, K.B., Hull, D.A. (1998). "Comparison of systems using pairs-out-of-order." Technical report submitted to Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Gaithersbury, M.D.
Hull, D.A., Kantor, P.B. & Ng, K.B. (1998). "Advanced approaches to the statistical analysis of TREC information retrieval experiments." Technical report submitted to Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Gaithersbury, M.D.
Belkin, NJ., Cabezas, A., Cool, C., Kim, K., Ng, K.B., Park, S., Pressman, R., Rieh, S., Savage, P., & Xie, H. (1997). "Rutgers interactive track at TREC 5." In Harmann, D., (ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, D.C.
Kantor, P.B., Lee, J.J., Ng, K.B. & Boros, E. (1998) "Application of LAD (logical analysis of data) to the TREC6 routing task." In Voorhees, E.M. and Harman, D.H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, D.C.
Ng, K.B. and Kantor, P.B. (1996) "Two experiments on retrieval with corrupted data and clean queries in TREC 4 adhoc task environment: Data fusion and pattern scanning." In D. Harman (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, D.C.
Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Koenemann, J., Ng, K.B. & Park, S. (1996) "Using relevance feedback and ranking in interactive searching." In D. Harman (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, D.C.