Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

Christopher C. Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona. He has also been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Hong Kong and a research scientist in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. His recent research interests include cross-lingual information retrieval and knowledge management, Web search and mining, security informatics, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, information visualization, digital library, and electronic commerce. He has published over 120 referred journal and conference papers in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Computer, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Information Science, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Optical Engineering, Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Applied Artificial Intelligence, IWWWC, SIGIR, ICIS, CIKM, and more. He has edited several special issues on multilingual information systems, knowledge management, and Web mining in JASIST and DSS. He chaired and served in many international conferences and workshops. He has also frequently served as an invited panelist in the NSF Review Panel in US. He was the chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery Hong Kong Chapter.

Digital Library

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

Multimedia Information Retrieval

Information Visualization

Automatic Summarization

Security Informatics

Electronic Commerce

C. C. Yang, C. Wei, and H. Chen, "Multilingual Knowledge Management", Decision Support Systems, to appear.

C. Wei, C. C. Yang, and C. Lin, "A Latent Semantic Indexing Based Approach to Multilingual Document Clustering", Decision Support Systems, to appear.

C. C. Yang, C. Wei, and K. W. Li, "Cross-lingual Thesaurus for Multilingual Knowledge Management", Decision Support Systems, to appear.

M. Chau, X. Fang, and C. C. Yang, "Web Searching in Chinese: A Study of a Search Engine in Hong Kong", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.58, no.7,2007, pp.1044-1054.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, "An Associate Constraint Network Approach to Extract Multi-lingual Information for Crime Analysis", Decision Support Systems, vol.43, no.4, 2007, pp.1348-1361.

C. C. Yang, and F. L. Wang, "An Information Delivery System with Automatic Summarization for Mobile Commerce", Decision Support Systems, vol.43, no.1, 2007, pp.46-61.

C. C. Yang and W. Lam, "Multilingual Information Systems", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.629-631.

F. L. Wang and C. C. Yang, "The Impact Analysis of Language Difference on Automatic Multilingual Text Summarization System", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.632-644.

K. W. Li and C. C. Yang, "Conceptual Analysis of Parallel Corpus Collected from the Web", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.57, no.5, 2006, pp.684-696.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, "A Heuristic Method Based on a Statistical Approach for Chinese Text Segmentation", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.56, no.13, November, 2005, pp.1438-1447.

K. W. Li and C. C. Yang, "Automatic Cross-Lingual Thesaurus Generated from the Hong Kong SAR Police Department Web Corpus for Crime Analysis", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol.56, no.3, February, 2005, pp.272-282.

C. C. Yang and S. H. Kwok, "Changes of Queries in Gnutella Peer-to-peer Networks", Journal of Information Science, vol.31, no.2, 2005.

C. C. Yang and A. Chung, "Intelligent Infomediary for Web Financial Information", Decision Support Systems, vol.38, no.1, 2004, pp.65-80.

S. H. Kwok, C. C. Yang, K. Y. Tam, and J. Wong, "An SDMI-Based Rights Management Systems for Electronic Media Using Digital Watermarking", Decision Support Systems, vol.38, no.1, 2004, pp.33-46.

C. C. Yang and K. W. Li, "Building Parallel Corpora by Automatic Title Alignment using Length-based and Text-based Approaches", Information Processing & Management, vol.40, no.6, 2004, pp.939-955.