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54
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12096
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4546
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605

Wai Lam publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wai Lam sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 294 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Wai Lam D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wai Lam sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wai Lam is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. They have also worked in Human-Computer Interaction and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of Wai Lam's work include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques

Wai Lam's frequently published venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Notable recent papers by Wai Lam and coauthors are:

  • A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation (2021), published in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • On the Effectiveness of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (2023), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • A Comprehensive Survey on Relation Extraction: Recent Advances and New Frontiers (2024), published in ACM Computing Surveys
  • A Unified Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-goal Conversational Recommender Systems (2022), published in ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wai Lam include:

  • Yang Deng
  • Wenxuan Zhang
  • Lidong Bing
  • Hongyuan Lu

Best Publications

  • LEARNING BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS: AN APPROACH BASED ON THE MDL PRINCIPLE

    Wai Lam;Fahiem Bacchus

  • A framework for information quality assessment

    Besiki Stvilia;Les Gasser;Michael B. Twidale;Linda C. Smith

  • Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification

    Xin Li;Lidong Bing;Wai Lam;Bei Shi

  • MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization

    Dragomir R. Radev;Timothy Allison;Sasha Blair-Goldensohn;John Blitzer

  • Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.

    Xin Li;Lidong Bing;Wenxuan Zhang;Wai Lam

  • A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction

    Xin Li;Lidong Bing;Piji Li;Wai Lam

  • Using a generalized instance set for automatic text categorization

    Wai Lam;Chao Yang Ho

  • Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation

    Piji Li;Zihao Wang;Zhaochun Ren;Lidong Bing

  • A multilevel approach to intelligent information filtering: model, system, and evaluation

    J. Mostafa;S. Mukhopadhyay;M. Palakal;W. Lam

  • Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation

    Xin Li;Lidong Bing;Piji Li;Wai Lam

  • Fuzzy concepts in expert systems

    K.S. Leung;W. Lam

  • Deep Multi-Task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction

    Xin Li;Wai Lam

  • Deep Recurrent Generative Decoder for Abstractive Text Summarization

    Piji Li;Wai Lam;Lidong Bing;Zihao Wang

  • Automatic text categorization and its application to text retrieval

    Wai Lam;M. Ruiz;P. Srinivasan

  • Graph Transformer for Graph-to-Sequence Learning.

    Deng Cai;Wai Lam

  • News Sensitive Stock Trend Prediction

    Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung;Jeffrey Xu Yu;Wai Lam

  • Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization

    Dragomir R. Radev;Simone Teufel;Horacio Saggion;Wai Lam

  • Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging

    Lidong Bing;Piji Li;Yi Liao;Wai Lam

  • Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation

    Wenxuan Zhang;Yang Deng;Xin Li;Yifei Yuan

  • Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

    Wenxuan Zhang;Xin Li;Yang Deng;Lidong Bing

  • Context-based generic cross-lingual retrieval of documents and automated summaries: Research Articles

    Wai Lam;Ki Chan;Dragomir Radev;Horacio Saggion

Frequent Co-Authors

Lidong Bing
Lidong Bing Carnegie Mellon University
Kwong-Sak Leung
Kwong-Sak Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Horacio Saggion
Horacio Saggion Pompeu Fabra University
Dragomir R. Radev
Dragomir R. Radev Yale University
Simone Teufel
Simone Teufel University of Cambridge
Yaliang Li
Yaliang Li Alibaba Group (China)
Helen Meng
Helen Meng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fahiem Bacchus
Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto
Ivor W. Tsang
Ivor W. Tsang Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Charles X. Ling
Charles X. Ling University of Western Ontario

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