Yuerong Hu

Yuerong Hu

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MS, Information Management, Illinois

BA, Library Science, Economics, Wuhan University

Research focus

My research interests are digital libraries, digital humanities, and cultural analytics. My research applies digital tools and computational methods to study various large-scale textual datasets (books, book reviews), particularly datasets curated by digital libraries.

Publications & Papers

Hu, Y., Ocepek, M., Barker, L., & Downie, J. S. (2022, Accepted). Highlighted Core Competencies for Librarianship from the Perspectives of Working Librarians. College and Research Libraries.

Hu, Y. (2022). Synthesizing digital libraries and digital humanities perspectives for illuminating under-investigated complexities associated with user-generated book reviews. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022). doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3530947
 
Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2022). Complexities Associated with User-generated Book Reviews in Digital Libraries: Temporal, Cultural, and Political Case Studies. n Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022). doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3530930 
 
Jiang, M., Hu, Y., Worthey, G., Dubnicek, R., Underwood, T. & Downie, J. S. (2021). Impact of OCR Quality on BERT Embeddings in the Domain Classification of Book Excerpts. Proceedings of The Workshop on Computational Humanities Research 2021 (CHR). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/long_paper43.pdf 

Hu, Y., Jiang, M., Underwood, T., & Downie, J. S. (2020). Improving Digital Libraries Provision of Digital Humanities Datasets: A Case Study of the HTRC Literature Dataset. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020 Proceedings.

Hu, Y., Ming, J., Underwood, T., & Downie, J. S. (2020). Improving Digital Libraries Provision of Digital Humanities Datasets: A Case Study of the HTRC Literature Dataset. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020 Proceedings.

Hu, Y., Ocepek, M., Barker, L., & Downie, J. S. (2020). The real library world is dirty and you don't learn that at all in schools. iConference 2020 Proceedings (Poster).

Sharma, A., Hu, Y., Wu, P., Shang, W., Singhal, S., & Underwood, T. (2020). The Rise and Fall of Genre Differentiation in English-Language Fiction. Proceedings of The Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR).

Jett, J., Capitanu, B., Kudeki, D., Cole, T., Hu, Y., Organisciak, P., Underwood, T., Koehl, E.,
Dubnicek, R., Downie, J.S. (2020). The HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features Dataset (2.0). HathiTrust Research Center.

Lavin, M., Chang, K., Underwood, T., Hu, Y., Shang, W., Sinykin, D., Walsh, M., ... & Antoniak, M. (2020). Cultural Analytics and the Book Review: Models, Methods, and Corpora. DH2020 Proceedings (Panel).

Hu, Y., Weigl, D. M., Page, K. R., Dubnicek, R., & Downie, J. S. (2019). Bridging the information gap between structural and note-level musical datasets. iConference 2019 Proceedings (Poster).

Zhou, L., Hu, Y., & Xu, J. (2018). Understanding the lack of student engagement in Chinese library science undergraduate education. Information Development, 34(2), 148-161.