Kyoung-Jae Won#, Zheng Xu#, Xian Zhang#, John W. Whitaker, Robert Shoemaker, Bing Ren, Yang Xu, Wei Wang.
Global identification of transcriptional regulators of pluripotency and differentiation in embryonic stem cells, Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Sep 1;40(17):8199-8209, Link. (# equal contribution)
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li,
A new information distance measure and its application in question answering system, Journal of Computer Science and Technology. 23 (4), 557-572. 2008
Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang and Xiaoyan Zhu.
Answer validation by information distance calculation. Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering in (Coling 2008), pp. 42-49, August 2008 PDF
Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan and Xiaoyan Zhu.
Classifying What-type questions by head noun tagging. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), pp. 481-488, August 2008 PDF
Fangtao Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yang Tang, Fan Bu, Rong Ge, Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu and Minlie Huang.
THU QUANTA at TAC 2008 QA and RTE track. Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008)
Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Sun Jianshu, Zhu Xiaoyan.
A novel hierarchical structure question classifier. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2008 (In Chinese)
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu , Ming Li,
Information distance from a question to an answer, In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD), 2007 PDF
Jianshu Sun, Xian Zhang, Fangtao Li, Xiaoyan Zhu.
THUQA at TREC 2007 QA track. Proceedings of 16th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2007)
Fangtao Li, Tao Guan, Xian Zhang, and Xiaoyan Zhu,
An aggressive feature selection method based on rough set theory, In Proceedings of ICICIC2007.
Yan Zhang, Qingyan Liu, Yabin Guo, Chi Song, Jinglan Wang, Xian Zhang, Yongjing Xia, Yun Cai, Xiangjun Liu.
eMIS: protein modification database and flow processing system of Chinese human liver proteome project, In Proceedings of International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering 2007 PDF
Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu,
A new type of feature - loose n-gram feature in text categorization, In Proceedings of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA) 2007 PDF
Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu,
Hough transformation and automatic archery scoring system, Application of Electronic Technique 2006. v32(2) (In Chinese)
Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun, Xian Zhang,
A comparison and semi-quantitative analysis of words and character-bigrams as features in Chinese text categorization, In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling-ACL) 2006 PDF
Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu,
Extended bi-gram features in text categorization, In Proceedings of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA) 2005 PDF
Jiao Li, Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, MinLie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu.
Learning domain-specific knowledge from context--THUIR at TREC2005 Genomics track. in Proceedings of 14th Text Retrireval Conference (TREC2005). 2005. Gaithersburg, USA.
Jiao Li, Xian Zhang, Min Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu.
THUIR at TREC 2004: Genomics track. in Proceedings of 13th Text Retrireval Conference (TREC2004). 2004. Gaithersburg, USA.
TAC 2008: QA task, Rank 1st among 17 submissions; RTE task, Rank 6th among 45 submissions. (with Fangtao Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yang Tang, Fan Bu, Rong Ge, Advised by Prof. Xiaoyan Zhu, Prof. Minlie Huang)