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Peer reviewed journal articles:

  • Wang, X., Huang, L., Xu, S., & Lu, K.* (Accepted). How does generative LLM perform on domain-specific information extraction? - A comparison of GPT-4 and a rule-based method on band gap extraction Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Link to the article

  • Ghosh, S., Abushukair, H.M., Ganesan, A., Pan, C., Naqash, A.R., & Lu, K.* (Accepted). Harness explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient-to-Clinical-Trial matching: A proof-of-concept study using Phase 1 Oncology Trials. PLOS ONE

  • Joo, S., Cahill, M., Ingram, E., Hoffman, H. Olson, Am., Lu, K. (2024). An analysis of the literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 24(1), 141-164 Link to the article

  • Ghosh, S., & Lu, K.(2023). Band gap information extraction from materials science literature - a pilot study. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 75(3), 438-454 Link to the article     Link to the code

  • Lu, K., Yang, G., & Wang, X. (2022). Topics Emerged in the Biomedical Field and Their Characteristics. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174, 121218.    Link to the article    

  • Liang, Z., Mao, J., Lu, K., & Li, G.(2021). Finding citations for PubMed: A large-scale comparison between five freely available bibliographic data sources. Scientometrics, 126, 9519 - 9542.    Link to the article    

  • Wang, S., Mao, J., Lu, K., Cao, Y., & Li, G. (2021). Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth. Journal of Informetrics, 15(4), 101214.    Link to the article    

  • Liang, Z., Mao, J., Lu, K., Ba, Z., & Li, G. (2021). Combining deep neural network and bibliometric indicator for emerging research topic prediction. Information Processing and Management, 58(5), 102611.    Link to the article    

  • Xu, S., Hao, L., Yang, G., Lu, K. & An, X. (2021). A Topic Models-based Framework for Detecting and Forecasting Emerging Technologies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 162, 120366.     Link to the article    

  • Yi, M., Lu, Y., Deng, W., Lu, K. & Zhang, Z. (2020). Understanding Verified Users' Posting Behavior from the Perspective of Human Dynamics: A Case Study of Sina Micro-blog. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 73(2), 221-239.     Link to the article    

  • Joo, S., Lu, K. & Lee, T. (2020). Analysis of Content Topics, User Engagement, and Library Factors in Public Library Social Media based on Text Mining. Online Information Review, 44(1), 258-277.     Link to the article    

  • Koh, K., Snead, J., & Lu, K. (2019). The Process of Maker Learning and Informaiton Behavior in a Technology-Rich High School Class. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(12), 1395-1412.     Link to the article    

  • Zhao, W., Mao, J., & Lu, K. (2018). Ranking Themes on Co-word Networks: Exploring the Realtionships among Different Metrics. Information Processing and Management, 54(2), 203-218.     Link to the article    

  • Lu, K., Mao, J., & Li, G. (2018). Toward Effective Automated Weighted Subject Indexing: A Comparison of Different Approaches in Different Environments. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 69(1), 121-133.     Link to the article

  • Mao, J., Cao, Y., Lu, K., & Li, G. (2017). Topic Scientific Community in Science: a Combined Perspective of Scientific Collaboration and Topics. Scientometric, 112(2), 851-875.     Link to the article

  • Lu, K., Joo, S., Lee, T., & Hu, R. (2017). Factors that Influence Query Reformulations and Search Performance in Health Information Retrieval - A Multi-level Modeling Approach. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(8), 1886-1898.     Link to the article

  • Lu, K., Cai, X., Ajiferuke, I., & Wolfram, D. (2017). Vocabulary Size and its Effect on Topic Representation. Information Processing and Management, 53(3), 653-665.     Link to the article

  • Mao, J., Lu, K., Li, G., & Yi, M. (2016). Profiling Users with Tag Networks in Diffusion-based Personalized Recommendation. Journal of Information Science, 42(5), 711-722.     Link to the article

  • Mao, J., Lu, K., Mu, X., & Li, G. (2015). Mining document, concept and term associations for effective biomedical retrieval - Introducing MeSH-enhanced retrieval models. Information Retrieval Journal, 18(5), 413-444.     Link to the article

  • Lu, K., & Mao, J. (2015). An automatic approach to weighted subject indexing - An empirical study in the biomedical domain. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(9), 1776-1784.     Link to the article

  • Lu, K., Ajiferuke, I., & Wolfram, D. (2014). Extending citer analysis to journal impact evaluation. Scientometrics, 100(1), 245-260     Link to article

  • Lu, K. & Kipp, M.E.I. (2014). Understanding the Retrieval Effectiveness of Collaborative Tags and Author Keywords in Different Retrieval Environments - An Experimental Study on Medical Collections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 65(3), 483-500.     Link to article

  • Mu, X., Lu, K., & Ryu, H. (2014). Explicitly Integrating MeSH Thesaurus Help into Health Information Retrieval Systems: An Empirical User Study. Information Processing and Management, 50(1), 24-40.     Link to article

  • Lu, K. & Wolfram, D.(2012). Measuring author research relatedness: A comparison of word-based, topic-based and author co-citation approaches. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(10), 1973-1986.   Link to article

  • Joo, S., Lin, S. & Lu, K.(2011). A usability evaluation model for academic library websites: efficiency, effectiveness and learnability. Journal of Library and Information Studies, 9(2), 11-26. Link to article

  • Mu, X., Ryu, H. & Lu, K.(2011). Supporting effective health and biomedical information retrieval and navigation: A novel facet view interface evaluation. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44(4), 576-586.   Link to article

  • Lu, K., Joo, S., & Wolfram, D.(2011). An investigation of Web resource distribution in the field of Information Science. Cybermetrics, 15 (1)  Link to article

  • Ajiferuke, I., Lu, K. & Wolfram, D.(2011). Who are the research disciples of an author? Examining publication recitation and oeuvre citation exhausitivity. Journal of Informetrics, 5(2), 292-302.Link to article

  • Lu, K. & Wolfram, D.(2010). Geographic Characteristics of the Growth of Informetrics Literature 1987-2008. Journal of Informetrics, 4(1), 591-601.   Link to article

  • Ajiferuke, I., Lu, K. & Wolfram, D.(2010). A Comparison of Citer and Citation-Based Measure Outcomes for Multiple Disciplines. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(10), 2086-2096.   Link to article

  • Mu, X., Lu, K. & Ryu, H.(2010). Search Strategies on a New Health Information Retrieval System. Online Information Review, 34(3), 440-456.   Link to article   (Emerald Literati Network 2011 Highly Commended Award Winner)

  • Mu, X. & Lu, K.(2010). Towards Effective Genomic Information Retrieval: The Impact of Query Complexity and Expansion Strategies.Journal of Information Science, 36(2), 194-208  Link to article

  • Lu, K.(2008). Tacit Knowledge Externalization Based on Web2.0.Chinese Journal of Information Science,2, 247-251

  • Cai, Q.,Lu, K.& Wang, JY.(2008). Research on Evaluation Indice System of the Network Database Service Benefit.Chinese Journal of Intelligence,27(2), 40-42

    • Peer reviewed conference proceedings:

  • Wan, Q., Wan, C., Xiao, K., Lu, K., Li, C., Liu, X., & Liu, D. (2024). Dependency Structure-Enhanced Graph Attention Networks for Event Detection. In Proceedings of AAAI 2024. Vancouver, Canada. (Long paper)

  • Parulian, N., Dubnicek, R., Evans, D., Hu, Y., Layne-Worthey, G., Downie, S., Heaton, R., Lu, K., Orr, R., Magni, I., & Walsh, J. (2023). Tuning out the Noise: Benchmarking Entity Extraction for Digitized Native American Literature. In Proceedings of ASIST 2023. London, UK. (Short paper)

  • Lu, K., Heaton, R., Orr, R., Vetter, A., Dubnicek, R., & Magni, I. (2022). Mining the Native American Authored Works in HathiTrust for Insights. In Proceedings of DH 2022. Tokyo, Japan. (Long presentation)

  • Liang, Z., Liu, F., Mao, J., Lu, K. (2021). A Knowledge Representation Model for Studying Knowledge Creation, Usage, and Evolution. In Proceedings of iConference 2021. Beijing, China. (Best Full Research Paper Runners-up)

  • Lu, K. (2020). What Kind of Research Topics Emerged in the Biomedical Domain? - A Perspective from Newly Added Subject Terms in a Thesaurus. In Proceedings of iConference 2020. Borås, Sweden.

  • Mao, J., Zhang, J., Lu, K., & Li, G. (2019). Understanding the Relevance Between Text and Images in Disaster-Related Social Media Posts. In Proceedings of ASIST 2019. Melbourne, Australia.

  • Mao, J., Lu, K., Zhao, W., & Cao, Y. (2018). How Many Keywords Do Authors Assign to Research Articles - A Multi-disciplinary Analysis. In Proceedings of iConference 2018. Sheffield, UK.

  • Joo, S., & Lu, K. (2017). Content Analysis of Facebook Posts in Public Libraries based on Textual Analysis. In Proceedings of ASIST 2017. Arlington, Virginia, USA.

  • Valencia, K.R., & Lu, K. (2017). Mining Scholarly Articles for Citation Contexts - A Pilot Study in Information Science Domain. In Proceedings of iConference 2017. Wuhan, Hubei, China.

  • Lu, K., Mao, J., Li, G., & Xu, J. (2016). Recognizing Reference Spans and Classifying their Discourse Facets. In Processing of BIRNDL@JCDL (pp. 139-145), Newark, New York, USA.

  • Lu, K., Joo, S., Lee, T., & Hu, R. (2016). Analyzing Query Reformulation Data using Multi-level Modeling. In Processing of iConference 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

  • Lu, K., Mao, J., Li, G. (2015). Enhancing Subject Metadata with Automated Weighting: A Comparison of Different Measures. In Processing of International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2015 (ICADL'2015), Seoul, Korea.

  • Chiu, W., & Lu, K. (2015). Random Walk on Co-word Network: Ranking Terms Using Structural Features. In Processing of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2015), St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

  • Chiu, W., & Lu, K. (2015). Paradigmatic Relations and Syntagmatic Relations: How Are They Related? In Processing of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2015), St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

  • Lu, K., Zhao, Y., Ajiferuke, I., & Wolfram, D. (2015). How related is author topical similarity to other author relatedness measures. In Proceedings of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference 2015 (ISSI'2015). Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Mao, J., & Lu, K. (2014). Leverage the associations between documents, subject headings and terms to enhance retrieval. In Proceedings of the 7th International workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'14). pp. 33-35, Shanghai, China.

  • Wang, Y., Joo, S., & Lu, K.. (2014). Exploring topics in the field of data science by analyzing Wikipedia documents: A preliminary result. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2014). Seattle, USA.

  • Lu, K., & Mao, J. (2013). Automatically Infer Subject Terms and Documents Associations through Text Mining. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2013). Montreal, Canada.

  • Hu, R., Lu, K., & Joo, S. (2013). Effects of Topic Familiarity and Search Skills on Query Reformulation Behavior. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2013). Montreal, Canada.

  • Lu, K., Lu, W., Cheng, Q., Lei, S., & He, J. (2013). A Visualization Tool for Topic Evolution among Research Fields. In Proceedings of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference 2013 (ISSI'2013). Vienna, Austria.

  • Lu, K., Ajiferuke, I., & Wolfram, D. (2013). Extending Citer-based Analysis to Journal Impact Evaluation. In Proceedings of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference 2013 (ISSI'2013). Vienna, Austria.

  • Lu, K.(2013). An Insight into Vector Space Modeling and Language Modeling In Proceedings of the iConference 2013. Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

  • Joo, S., & Lu, K. (2012). Structural analysis of author vector space in the field of information sciences. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2012). Baltimore, Maryland.

  • Lu, K.& Wolfram, D.(2011). Assessing Author Research Focus Using Vector Space Modeling. Poster at Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2011), New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • Tirilly, P., Lu, K. & Mu, X. (2011). Predicting modality from text queries for medical image retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2011 international ACM workshop on Medical multimedia analysis and retrieval (MMAR'11)

  • Tirilly, P., Lu, K., Mu, X. & Zhao, T.(2011). On modality classification and its use in text-based image retrieval in medical databases. Paper at 9th International Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing(CBMI), Madrid, Spain

  • Lu, K., & Kipp, M.E.I.(2010). An experimental study on the retrieval effectiveness of collaborative tags. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2010) , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Lu, K.& Wolfram, D.(2010). Delineating citation concepts. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2010), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Lu, K.& Mu, X.(2009). Query Expansion Using UMLS Tools for Health Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2009), Vancouver, British Columbia

  • Ajiferuke, I., Wolfram, D. & Lu, K.(2009). A Comparison of Citer and Citation-based Measure Outcomes in the Social Sciences. In Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'2009), Vancouver, British Columbia