Conference and Journal List
- 2013 Computational Linguistics/NLP Conferences (by Joel Tetreault at Educational Testing Service) [link]
- 2013 Upcoming Conferences&Journal SPs (by Peiquan Jin at Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China) [link]
- 2013 Information Retrieval Conferences (by IRLab at Shandong Univ.) [link]
- Computer Science Conference Rankings (by Sourav Bhowmick at Nanyang Tech. Univ.) [link]
- Computer Science Journal Rankings (by Sourav Bhowmick at Nanyang Tech. Univ.) [link]
- Computer Science Journal/Conference Rankings(3rd Edition) (by China Computer Federation) [link] [DB/DM/IR/AI/PR Areas]
- Conference Proceedings [SIGIR PUBLICATIONS] [ACL ANTHOLOGY] [AAAI PUBLICATIONS]
- 2012 JCR Journals' Partition Issued by Chinese Academy of Sciences [download]
- 2013 EI Compendex Journals [download]
Research Group and People
Foreign
Domestic
- NLP&CSS Lab at Tsinghua Univ. (Directed by Maosong Sun)
- SCIR Lab at Harbin Inst. of Tech. (Directed by Ting Liu)
- NLP Lab at Soochow Univ. (Directed by Guodong Zhou)
- NLPR at Inst. of Automation, CAS (Directed by Chengqing Zong)
- NLP Group at Inst. of Comp. Tech., CAS (Directed by Qun Liu)
- NLPIR Platform at Beijing Inst. of Tech. (Directed by Hua-Ping Zhang)
- LAMDA at Nanjing Univ. (Directed by Zhi-Hua Zhou)
Advice on Research and Writing
- How to Read a Paper (by Srinivasan Keshav at Univ. of Waterloo) [link]

- SIGIR Paper Writing Tips (by Peter Bailey at Microsoft Research) [link]

- Crafting your research future (by Charles X. Ling at UWO and Qiang Yang at HKUST) [download]
- How to do good research, get it published in SIGKDD and get it cited (by Eamonn Keogh at UCR) [download]
- How to be a successful PhD student (specifically in NLP/ML) (by Mark Dredze at JHU and Hanna Wallach at UMASS) [download]
- How to write a great research paper (by Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research) [download]
- Coping with the questions of writing and submission (by Jianming Xu at USTC) [download(Chinese)]
- The most common habits for Chinese researchers (by Felicia Brittman) [download]
- The Elements of Style (by William Strunk) [download]
- The Researchers' Bible (by Alan Bundy et al. at Univ. of Edinburgh) [link]
- How to read, write and present papers (by Nitin H. Vaidya at UIUC) [download]
- Ethics and etiquette in scientific research (by David S. Touretzky at CMU) [download]
- How To Write a good (no, great) PhD dissertation (by Priya Narasimhan at CMU) [download]
- Ethics and etiquette in scientific research (by David S. Touretzky at CMU) [download]
- Selected expressions in technical papers (by Yu Huang at NJU) [download]
Recommended Book
- Christopher M. Bishop. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer, 2006.
- Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork. Pattern Classification(2nd Ed.). Wiley, 2000.
- Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning(2nd Ed.). Springer, 2009.
- Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques(3rd Ed.). Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
- Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques(3rd Ed.). Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
- Bing Liu. Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data(2nd Ed.). Springer, 2011.
- Bing Liu. Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. Morgan & Claypool, 2012.
- Bo Pang, Lillian Lee. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. Now, 2008.
- Zhi-Hua Zhou. Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2012.
- Zdzislaw Pawlak. Rough Sets: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data. Kluwer Academic, 1992.
- Witold Pedrycz, Andrzej Skowron, Vladik Kreinovich. Handbook of Granular Computing. Wiley, 2008.
Others