Author

Huizhong Duan

Observed name: Duan, Huizhong

Institutions: Pinterest (United States), Airbnb (United States)

Observed institutions: Walmart (United States), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Illinois System, Pinterest (United States), Airbnb (United States)

ORCID: 0009-0008-1727-3343

Observed ORCID: 0009-0008-1727-3343

OpenAlex ID: A5011086547

Online spelling correction for query completion

2011 · Huizhong Duan, Bo-June (Paul) Hsu · International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · 143

Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus

2008 · Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, et al. · 135

Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search

2019 · Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, et al. · ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 106

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Supporting keyword search in product database: a probabilistic approach

2013 · Huizhong Duan, ChengXiang Zhai, et al. · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 67

Recommending questions using the mdl-based tree cut model

2008 · Yunbo Cao, Huizhong Duan, et al. · International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · 60

Exploiting Structured Ontology to Organize Scattered Online Opinions

2010 · Yue Lu, Huizhong Duan, et al. · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 53

Mining Coordinated Intent Representation for Entity Search and Recommendation

2015 · Huizhong Duan, ChengXiang Zhai · ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 32

Research on Expert Search at Enterprise Track of TREC 2006

2006 · Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, et al. · Text REtrieval Conference · 32

A generalized hidden Markov model with discriminative training for query spelling correction

2012 · Yanen Li, Huizhong Duan, et al. · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 31

A probabilistic mixture model for mining and analyzing product search log

2013 · Huizhong Duan, ChengXiang Zhai, et al. · ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 29

Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval

2011 · Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai · Lecture notes in computer science · 29

Research on Enterprise Track of TREC 2007 at SJTU APEX Lab

2007 · Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, et al. · Text REtrieval Conference · 16

Click patterns: an empirical representation of complex query intents

2012 · Huizhong Duan, Emre Kiciman, et al. · ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 15

A Discriminative Model for Query Spelling Correction with Latent Structural SVM

2012 · Huizhong Duan, Yanen Li, et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 13

CloudSpeller: query spelling correction by using a unified hidden markov model with web-scale resources

2012 · Yanen Li, Huizhong Duan, et al. · International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · 8

A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search

2008 · Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, et al. · 5

Re-ranking question search results by clustering questions

2011 · Yunbo Cao, Huizhong Duan, et al. · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 4

Save, Revisit, Retain: A Scalable Framework for Enhancing User Retention in Large-Scale Recommender Systems

2026 · Weijie Jiang, Armando Ordorica, et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2

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Warmer for Less: A Cost-Efficient Strategy for Cold-Start Recommendations at Pinterest

2025 · Ebrahimi, Saeed, Jiang, Weijie, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2

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Automatic query reformulation with syntactic operators to alleviate search difficulty

2011 · Huizhong Duan, Rui Li, et al. · ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 2

CCRM: An Effective Algorithm for Mining Commodity Information from Threaded Chinese Customer Reviews

2007 · Huizhong Duan, Shenghua Bao, et al. · Springer eBooks · 1

A Smart Instant Book Filter Model based on Dual-Objective Optimization

2026 · Hou, Yi, Fan, Li, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University)

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MESH: Scaling Up Retrieval with Heterogeneous Content Unification

2026 · Jiaxing Qu, Yilin Chen, et al. · ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)

Deep-learning Causal Retrieval Optimization for Efficient e-commerce Distribution in Pinterest

2026 · Junpeng Hou, XianXing Zhang, et al. · ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)

Pin-SCALE: Semantic Cascading and Alignment Learning for Engagement-Aware IDs in Cold-Start Recommendations

2026 · Jiaxing Qu, Junpeng Hou, et al. · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

Works count: 34

Citation count: 785

H-index: 13

I10-index: 14