Lingzi Hong

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Velverthi, N.R., Prybutok, V., Hong, L. (2023). Investigating Factors Affecting Emerging Adults Usage of Patient Portals. iConference 2023. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/126407
• Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S.A., Ali, I., Rice-Oyler, E. (2023). Toward an understanding of data literacy needs in community colleges: A conceptual framework. ACRL 2023.
• Hong, L., Yu, Moen, W.E. (2020). Revealing the Disciplinary Landscape of Data Science Journals. ALISE.

Book Chapter

• Kim, J., Davis, T., Hong, L. (2022). Augmented Intelligence: Enhancing Human Decision Making. Bridging Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. 151-170. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84729-6_10

Conference Proceeding

• Yu, X., Zhao, A., Blanco, E., Hong, L. (2023). A Fine-Grained Taxonomy of Replies to Hate Speech. 7275-7289. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
• Zeleke, M., Hong, L., Kaz-Onyeakazi, I., Smith, D.L., Milburn, S., Esener, Y. (2023). #NoMore: An Analysis of Topics and Sentiments Indicative of the War in Ethiopia. iSchools/ iConference 2023 Proceedings. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117377
• Mohotarema, R., Hong, L., Ryan, S.E. (2023). A brief survey of financial misinformation: Typologies, theories, and detection methods. Proceedings of the Multi-disciplinary Information Research Symposium at the University of North Texas.
• Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S.A., Rice-Oyler, E., Ali, I. Development and Validation of a Data Literacy Assessment Scale. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Dumas, C., Ghosh, S., Hong, L., Karami, A., Vaidya, P. (2023). Online Incivility and Contextual Factors: Data‐driven Detection and Analysis. 60 (1) 770-774. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Gao, L., Hong, L., Mashhadi, A. (2022). Nostalgic Analysis of Location based Tweets. Glasgow, The 13th International Conference on Social Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_27
• Luo, P., Hong, L., Wang, J., Wang, S., Guo, X., Gao, Z., , S. (2022). Learning Domain-specific Semantic Representation from Weakly Supervised Data to Improve Research Dataset Retrieval. Pittsburgh, 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.616
• Yu, X., Mashhadi, A., Boy, J., Nielsen, R.C., Hong, L. (2022). Causal Impact Model to Evaluate the Diffusion Effect of Social Media Campaigns. Coimbra, Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4367
• Yu, X., Xie, Z., Mashhadi, A., Hong, L. (2022). Multi-task Models for Multi-faceted Classification of Pandemic Information on Social Media. (978-1-4503-9191-7) 327-335. Barcelona, 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3501247.3531552
• Yu, X., Blanco, E., Hong, L. Hate Speech and Counter Speech Detection: Context Does Matter. 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Yu, X., Boy, J., Nielsen, R., Hong, L. (2022). Linguistic Characteristics of Social Media Messages Spreading across Geographic and Linguistic Boundaries. ECSM 2022 9th European Conference on Social Media. https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecsm/
• Hoang, N., Nie, D., Taivanbat, B., Liu, Y., Hong, L., Jason, T., Cheng, L. (2022). Eddie- Transformer: Enriched Disease Embedding Transformer for X-Ray Report Generation. Kolkata, 2022 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).
• Xie, Z., Jayanth, A., Yadav, K., Ye, G., Hong, L. (2021). Multi-faceted Classification for the Identification of Informative Communications during Crises: Case of COVID-19. IEEE COMPSAC. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9529603
• Yu, X., Reddy, D.S., Bentula, L., Hong, L. (2020). Characteristics of Information Spreading across Nations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Yu, X., Boy, J., Hong, L. (2020). The Effect of Structural Affinity on the Diffusion of a Transnational Online Movement: The Case of #MeToo. International Conference on Social Informatics.
• Hong, L., Wu, J., Zou, Z. (2020). Spatial Accessibility and Equity of Public Libraries in Urban Settings. International Conference on Information. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_45
• Wu, J., Hong, L., Frias-Martinez, V. (2019). Predicting Perceived Level of Cycling Safety for Cycling Trips. Other. 456-459. Chicago, Illinois, 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019).

Journal Article

• Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S.A. (2024). Towards Measuring Data Literacy for Higher Education: Developing and Validating a Self-efficacy Data Literacy Scale. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 75 (8) 916-931.
• Navya , V., Prybutok, V.R., Prybutok, G.L., Hong, L. (2023). Influence of risk factors on the adoption intentions of emerging adults towards patient portals. Decision Making and Analysis. 1 (1) pp. 48-56.
• Evans, S.A., Hong, L., Kim, J., Rice-Oyler, E., Ali, I. (2023). Community College Students’ Self-Assessment of Data Literacy: Exploring Differences Amongst Demographic, Academic, and Career Characteristics. Information and Learning Sciences. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0065/full/html
• Ryan, S.E., Hong, L., Rashid, M. (2023). From Corpus Creation to Formative Discovery: The Power of Big Data-Rhetoric Teams and Methods. Review of Communication. 23 (1) National Communication Association.
• Aoyama, K., Hong, L., Flege, J., Yamada, R., Yamada, T. (2023). Relationships between acoustic characteristics and intelligibility scores: Japanese adults’ and children’s productions of American English liquids. Language and Speech. 66 (4) SageJournals.
• Ye, G., Ze, P., Wei, J., Hong, L., Li, S., Wu, C. (2022). Dynamic sentiment sensing of cities with social media data. The Electronic Library. 40 (4) 413-434. Emerald.
• Ali, I., Hong, L., Chen, J. (2022). Remote Cataloging Productivity: An Exploratory Study in A National Library. Library Management. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-12-2021-0109
• Kahanek, A., Yu, Philbrick, J., Cleveland, A.D., Hong, L. (2021). Temporal Variations and Spatial Disparities in Public Sentiment Toward COVID-19 and Preventive Practices in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets. JMIR Infodemiology. https://infodemiology.jmir.org/2021/1/e31671
• Cheng, W., Xu, Wu, J., Hong, L. (2021). Read with Me: Understanding Reading and Social Interaction Behavior through the Lens of Vlogging. Library Development.
• Cheng, W., Wu, J., Moen, W.E., Hong, L. (2021). Assessing the Spatial Accessibility and Spatial Equity of Public Libraries’ Physical Locations. Library and Information Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2021.101089
• Hong, L., Frias-Martinez, V. (2020). Modeling and Predicting Evacuation Flows during Hurricane Irma. EPJ Data Science.
• Hong, L., Moen, W.E., Yu, X., Chen, J. (2020). The Disciplinary Research Landscape of Data Science Reflected in Data Science Journals. Information Discovery and Delivery.

Poster

• Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S.A. (2019). Defining Data Literacy: An Empirical Study of Data Literacy Dimensions. Association of Library and Information Science Education. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/110887

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Hong, L., "CLEAR Stipend," sponsored by Center for Learning Experimentation, Application, & Research (CLEAR), University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2020 - 2020).
• Hong, L., "Youth Scholar Seminar Travel Fund," sponsored by Beijing Normal University, International, $2800 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
• Hong, L., "Youth Scholar Seminar Travel Fund," sponsored by Beijing Normal University, International, Funded. (2019 - 2019).

Grant - Research

• Hong, L., "Outcome-constrained Large Language Models for Counter Hate Speech," sponsored by OpenAI, International, $20000 Funded. (2023).
• Kim, J., Evans, S. (Co-Principal), Hong, L. (Co-Principal), "Students data literacy needs in community colleges: Perceptions of librarians, students and faculty," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $118996 Funded. (2022 - 2024).
• Hong, L. (Principal), "Counter Hate Speech Detection and Generation," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
• Hong, L. (Principal), "Data-driven Methods to Detect Online Aggression," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2445 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Evans, S. (Principal), Hong, L. (Co-Principal), "Comparative Study of Data Literacy Education for College Freshmen in US and China," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Hong, L., "Global Venture Fund - Hosting Visiting Scholar," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Hong, L. (Principal), "Data-driven Methods to Understand Social Media Participation and the Outcomes in Social Movements," sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $4943 Funded. (2019 - 2020).