†: undergrad, +: highschooler

    2024

  1. F. Hemmatizadeh, C. Wong, A. Yu+, H. Fani; LADy (๐Ÿ’ƒ): A Benchmark Toolkit for Latent Aspect Detection Enriched with Backtranslation Augmentation. The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR'24), 2024.
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  2. M. Saeedi, C. Wong, H. Fani; Collaborative Team Recommendation for Skilled Users: Objectives, Techniques, and New Perspectives. In the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, (UMAP'24), 2024.
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  3. H. Fani, R. Barzegar, A. Dashti, M. Saeedi; A Streaming Approach to Neural Team Formation Training. In the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, (ECIR'24), 2024.
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  4. 2023

  5. F. Hemmatizadeh, C. Wong, A. Yu+, H. Fani; Latent Aspect Detection via Backtranslation Augmentation. In the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'23), 2023.
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  6. Y. Lakshmi Narayanan, H. Fani; RePair: An Extensible Toolkit to Generate Large-Scale Datasets for Query Refinement via Transformers. In the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'23), 2023.
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  7. R. Hamidi Rad, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kargar, D. Srivastava, J. Szlichta; A Variational Neural Architecture for Skill-based Team Formation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, (TOIS'23), 42(1): 1-28, 2023.
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  8. H. Loghmani, H. Fani; Bootless Application of Greedy Re-ranking Algorithms in Fair Neural Team Formation. In the 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, Colocated with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23), (BIAS'23), 2023.
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  9. 2022

  10. A. Dashti, S. Samet, H. Fani; Effective Neural Team Formation via Negative Samples. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'22), 2022.
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  11. A. Dashti, K. Saxena, D. Patel, H. Fani; OpeNTF: A Benchmark Library for Neural Team Formation. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'22), 2022.
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  12. S. Ziaeinejad, S. Samet, H. Fani; SEERa: A Framework for Community Prediction. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'22), 2022.
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  13. 2021

  14. H. Fani, M. Tamannaee, F. Zarrinkalam, J. Samouh, S. Paydar, E. Bagheri; An Extensible Toolkit of Query Refinement Methods and Gold Standard Dataset Generation. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 43rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'21), 2021
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  15. R. Hamidi Rad, Aabid Mitha, H. Fani, M. Kargar, J. Szlichta, E. Bagheri; PyTFL: A Python-based Neural Team Formation Toolkit. In the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'21), 2021.
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  16. S.A.M Falavarjani, J. Jovanovic, H. Fani, A. Ghorbani, Z. Noorian, E. Bagheri; On the Causal Relation Between Real-World Activities and Emotional Expressions of Social Media Users. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(6): 723-743, 2021.
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  17. 2020

  18. H. Fani, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Temporal Latent Space Modeling for Community Prediction. In the 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'20), 2020.
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  19. H. Fani; Diachronically Like-Minded User Community Detection, University of New Brunswick, PhD Thesis, 2020.
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  20. H. Fani, E. Jiang, E. Bagheri, F. Al-Obeidat, W. Du, M. Kargar; User Community Detection via Embedding of Social Network Structure and Temporal Content. In Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 57(2): 102056, 2020.
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  21. M. Tamannaee, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, J. Samouh, S. Paydar, E. Bagheri; ReQue: A Configurable Workflow and Dataset Collection for Query Refinement. In the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'20), 2020.
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  22. R. Hamidi Rad, H. Fani, M. Kargar, J. Szlichta, E. Bagheri; Learning to Form Skill-based Teams of Experts. In the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'20), 2020.
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  23. 2019

  24. F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri; Social User Interest Mining: Methods and Applications. In the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, (KDD'19), 2019.
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  25. F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri; Extracting, Mining and Predicting Users' Interests from Social Networks. In the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR'19), 2019.
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  26. 2018

  27. H. Fani, A. Mirlohi, H. Hosseini, R. Herpers; Swim Stroke Analytic: Front Crawl Pulling Pose Classification. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'18), 2018.
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  28. H. Fani, M. Bashari, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, F. Al-Obeidat; Stopword Detection for Streaming Content. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 40th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR'18), 2018.
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  29. H. Fani, E. Bagheri, F. Zarrinkalam, X. Zhao, W. Du; Finding Diachronic Like-Minded Users. In Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (CI), 34(1): 124-144, 2018.
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  30. N. Arabzadeh, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, A. Navivala, E. Bagheri; Causal Dependencies for Future Interest Prediction on Twitter. In the 27th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'18), 2018.
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  31. M. Khodabakhsh, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri; Predicting Personal Life Events from Streaming Social Content. In the 27th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'18), 2018.
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  32. 2017

  33. H. Fani, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Temporally Like-minded User Community Identification through Neural Embeddings. In the 2017 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'17), 2017.
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  34. H. Fani and E. Bagheri; Community detection in social networks. Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, 1(1): 1630001:1-1630001:8, 2017.
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  35. T. T. Nguyen, H. Fani, Ebrahim Bagheri, Gilberto Titericz; Bagging Model for Product Title Quality with Noise. In CIKM AnalytiCup 2017 (CIKM'17), 2017.
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  36. F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani; Predicting Usersโ€™ Future Interests on Twitter. In 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'17), 2017.
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  37. Y. Feng, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, H. Fani, F. Al-Obeidat; Entity Linking of Tweets Based on Dominant Entity Candidates. In Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 8(1): 46:1-46:16, 2018.
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  38. 2016

  39. H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Time-Sensitive Topic-Based Communities on Twitter. In 29th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI'16), 2016.
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  40. H. Fani; Temporal Formation and Evolution of Online Communities. Doctoral Consortium, The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining(WSDM'16), 2016.
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  41. F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani; Inferring Implicit Topical Interests on Twitter. In 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'16), 2016.
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  42. 2015

  43. H. Fani and E. Bagheri; An Ontology for Describing Security Events. In 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE'15, 2015.
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  44. F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani, W. Du; Semantics-enabled User Interest Detection from Twitter. In ACM/IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence, IEEE, 2015.
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  45. Y. Feng, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, J. Jovanovic; Lexical Semantic Relatedness for Twitter Analytics. In IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'15), IEEE, 2015.
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