A phrase mining framework for recursive construction of a topical hierarchy. - Chi Wang 001; Marina Danilevsky; Nihit Desai; Yinan Zhang 003; Phuong Nguyen; Thrivikrama Taula; Jiawei Han 001 (KDD, 2013)

Information Retrieval as Card Playing: A Formal Model for Optimizing Interactive Retrieval Interface. - Yinan Zhang 003; Chengxiang Zhai (SIGIR, 2015)

A Sequential Decision Formulation of the Interface Card Model for Interactive IR. - Yinan Zhang 003; ChengXiang Zhai (SIGIR, 2016)

Information Retrieval Evaluation as Search Simulation: A General Formal Framework for IR Evaluation. - Yinan Zhang 003; Xueqing Liu 001; ChengXiang Zhai (ICTIR, 2017)

A formal framework for optimizing and evaluating interactive retrieval system - Yinan Zhang 003 (2017)

Towards a Soft Faceted Browsing Scheme for Information Access. - Yinan Zhang 003; Parikshit Sondhi; Anjan Goswami; ChengXiang Zhai (CoRR, 2020)