Haibin Liu, PhD

Last updated: November 8, 2010.

I am a researcher working in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Usage Mining and Content Mining, and Text Mining in biomedical literature.

Contact Information

Email: haibin@cs.dal.ca           Phone: (720) 341-1888         Address: Thornton, CO 80602

Publications

Haibin Liu, Christian Blouin, and Vlado Keselj, "Biological Event Extraction using Subgraph Matching," In Proceedings of SMBM´10, Fourth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK, October 2010.

Haibin Liu, Christian Blouin, and Vlado Keselj, "Sentence Identification of Biological Interactions using Patricia Tree Generated Patterns and Genetic Algorithm Optimized Parameters," Elsevier Science Publishers Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol.69, no.1, pp.137-152, 2010. (Published on-line in 2009).

Vlado Keselj, Haibin Liu, Norbert Zeh, Christian Blouin, and Chris Whidden, "Finding Optimal Parameters for Edit Distance Based Sequence Classification is NP-Hard," In Proceedings of StReBio´09, KDD-09 Workshop on Statistical Relational Mining and Learning in Bioinformatics, Paris, France, June 2009.

Haibin Liu, Christian Blouin, and Vlado Keselj, "Identifying Interaction Sentences from Biological Literature Using Automatically Extracted Patterns," In Proceedings of BioNLP 2009, NAACL/HLT 2009 Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 2009.

Haibin Liu, Christian Blouin, and Vlado Keselj, "An Unsupervised Method for Extracting Domain-specific Affixes in Biological Literature," In Proceedings of BioNLP 2007, ACL 2007 Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.

Haibin Liu, Christian Blouin, and Vlado Keselj, "A Practical Method for Extracting Prefixes and Suffixes of Biological Terms," In Proceedings of the Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference (DCSI 2007), 2007.

Haibin Liu, and Vlado Keselj, "Combined Mining of Web Server Logs and Web Contents for Classifying User Navigation Patterns and Predicting Users´ Future Requests," Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol.61, no.2, pp.304-330, May 2007. (Published on-line in 2006).

Haibin Liu, and Vlado Keselj, "Combined Mining of Web Server Logs and Web Contents," In Proceedings of the Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference (DCSI 2005), 2005.

Lei Shi, Haibin Liu, Xiaojing Yang, Zuying Gao, Yujie Dong, and Zuoyi Zhang, "A Personal Computer-Based Simulation-and-Control-Integrated Platform for 10-MW High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor," Nuclear Technology, American Nuclear Society (ANS), vol.145, no.2, pp.189-203, Feb. 2004.

Invited talks

"Biological Event Extraction using Subgraph Matching", Center for Computational Pharmacology and the Computational Bioscience, Aurora, CO, USA, April 2010, Hosted by Dr. Kevin B. Cohen.

"Combined Mining of Web Server Logs and Web Contents", Faculty of Computer Science Course: Databases, Data Warehouses and Data Mining for Health Informatics and Electronic Commerce, Halifax, NS, Canada, November 2007, Hosted by Dr. Vlado Keselj.

"An Unsupervised Method for Extracting Domain-specific Affixes in Biological Literature", Center for Computational Pharmacology and the Computational Bioscience, Aurora, CO, USA, October 2007, Hosted by Dr. Kevin B. Cohen and Dr. Lawrence Hunter.

Work Experience

Sep. 2005 - Nov. 2010

Research Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

Research work on biomedical Natural Language Processing with a focus on information extraction from biomedical literature

Supervisors: Dr. Christian Blouin and Dr. Vlado Keselj

May 2009 - Aug. 2009

Co-supervisor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

Co-supervise Allan Lavell, an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award winner, with Dr. Christian Blouin on his summer intern project of the topic "Using MetaMap to annotate biomedical terms in the GENIA Corpus"

Sep.2006 - May 2007

Intern, MITACS Inc. and Kanayo Software Inc.

Worked on the project "A Practical Method for Extracting Prefixes and Suffixes of Biological Terms"

Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2008

Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

"Data and Knowledge Fundamentals" instructed by Dr. Qigang Gao

"Principles of Programming Languages" instructed by Dr. Vlado Keselj

"Databases and Data Mining for Health Informatics" instructed by Dr. Vlado Keselj

"Databases, Data Warehouses and Data Mining for Electronic Commerce" instructed by Dr. Vlado Keselj

Sep. 2004 - Aug. 2005

Research Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

Investigated whether associating a content mining approach with regular web usage mining could result in a more accurate classification of user navigation patterns, and consequently lead to a more accurate prediction of users´ future requests.

Supervisor: Dr. Vlado Keselj

Sep. 2002 - Jul. 2003

Intern & Research Assistant, Reactor Theory Division of the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology (INET), Tsinghua University, China

Independently established a unified standard for simulation systems of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors based on the knowledge of Human Engineering and nuclear component designs

Improved on the graphical man-machine interface of the original Simulation-and-Control-Integrated Platform of 10-MV High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTR-10); Expanded the original single-computer-based system into an abbreviated-intranet-based one

Supervisors: Dr. Lei Shi and Dr. Zhiwei Zhou

Jul. 2000 - Aug. 2001

Management Consultant & Programmer, Analysis Department, Ever Bright International Trade Company, China

Investigated chemical products on the international market and the procedures of importing and exporting

Developed a business management system

Feb. 2000 - Jul. 2000

Research Assistant, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Compared the thermal-oxidation stability between PVC copolymerization and pure PVC

Supervisor: Professor Meizhen Zhang

Education

Sep. 2005 - Nov. 2010

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

Sep. 2003 - Jul.2005

Master of Electronic Commerce, Dalhousie University, Canada

Sep. 2001 - Jul. 2003

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China

Sep. 1996 - Jul. 2000

Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Awards

2004 - 2010

Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship, Dalhousie University

2001

Excellent Employee, Ever Bright International Trade Company

1997 - 2000

Outstanding Student Fellowship, Beijing University of Chemical Technology