For twenty years, under the name Hugo Liu, I studied at the MIT Media Lab how machines might read human meaning — taste, affect, common sense, the semantics of everyday language. The work is gathered here, and it is free: every paper is one click to read, every citation one click to copy.
6,611 citations 24 h-index 31 i10-index Google Scholar · June 2026Hugo Liu (2007). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13(1), 252–275, Blackwell Publishing.
Hugo Liu, trans. Wu Gang (2007). Cultural Review, November 2007: 32–39, Shanghai.
Hugo Liu & Paulo Urbano (2007). Interview, Nada 9, Portugal.
Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2007). International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Special Issue on Semantics of People and Culture (Eds. H. Liu & P. Maes) 3(1), Idea Group.
Hugo Liu & Rada Mihalcea (2007). Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boulder, CO.
Hugo Liu (2006). Nada 8, Portugal.
Hugo Liu, Pattie Maes & Glorianna Davenport (2006). International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2(1), 42–71. Reprinted 2008, Idea Group.
Hugo Liu (2006). Ph.D. Dissertation, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT, 163pp.
Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2006). International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 15(4), 515–550, World Scientific.
Hugo Liu, Glorianna Davenport & Pattie Maes (2006). AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin, vol. 3.
Hugo Liu & Glorianna Davenport (2005). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 1(3), 237–247, Intellect Ltd.
Hugo Liu, Matthew Hockenberry & Ted Selker (2005). Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles.
Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2005). Proceedings of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference (AI in Music & Art track), 74–79, AAAI Press.
Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2005). Proceedings of IUI Beyond Personalization 2005, San Diego, CA, 54–59.
Hugo Liu (2004). Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism, and Context (SRMC’04), New York.
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman & Ted Selker (2003). Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2003), 125–132, ACM Press.
Rada Mihalcea & Hugo Liu (2006). Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs, AAAI Press.
Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2004). Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2004), 38–45, ACM Press.
Hugo Liu, Ted Selker & Henry Lieberman (2003). Proceedings of CHI 2003, 740–741, ACM Press.
Rada Mihalcea, Hugo Liu & Henry Lieberman (2006). Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (Ed. A. Gelbukh), LNCS 3878, 319–330, Springer.
Hugo Liu & Henry Lieberman (2005). Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2005), 305–307, ACM Press.
Hugo Liu & Henry Lieberman (2005). Proceedings of CHI 2005, 1597–1600, ACM Press.
Henry Lieberman & Hugo Liu (2006). End-User Development (Eds. Lieberman, Paternò, Wulf), HCI Series Vol. 9, 459–474, Springer.
Hugo Liu & Henry Lieberman (2004). Proceedings of VL/HCC’04: 20th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 281–282, IEEE.
Jim Gouldstone, Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman & Hiroshi Ishii (2006). Proceedings of the AAAI-06 Workshop on Computational Aesthetics, 107–110, AAAI Press.
Ian Eslick & Hugo Liu (2005). Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference (ILC 2005), Stanford, CA.
Hugo Liu (2003). Modeling and Using Context (Eds. Blackburn et al.), LNCS 2680, 218–232, Springer.
Hugo Liu & Push Singh (2004). BT Technology Journal 22(4), 211–226, Kluwer Academic.
Hugo Liu & Push Singh (2004). Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (Eds. Negoita, Howlett, Jain), LNCS 3215, 293–306, Springer.
Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu, Push Singh & Barbara Barry (2004). AI Magazine 25(4), 63–76, AAAI Press.
Push Singh, Barbara Barry & Hugo Liu (2004). BT Technology Journal 22(4), 227–240, Kluwer Academic.
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman & Ted Selker (2002). Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (Eds. De Bra, Brusilovsky, Conejo), LNCS 2347, 253–263, Springer.
Hugo Liu & Push Singh (2002). Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002), 957–958, AAAI Press.
Henry Lieberman & Hugo Liu (2002). Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (Eds. De Bra, Brusilovsky, Conejo), LNCS 2347, 2–11, Springer.
Hugo Liu (2002). M.Eng. Thesis, School of EECS, MIT, 160pp.
Hugo Liu & Henry Lieberman (2002). Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Creating and Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering, Las Palmas, 15–20, LREC Press.
Hugo Liu (2004). MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
Nancy Etcoff & Hugo Liu (2017). In A. Karandinou (Ed.): Data and Senses — Architecture, Neuroscience and the Digital Worlds, University of East London.
Elizabeth F. Churchill & Hugo Liu (2014). Proceedings of the CHI 2014 Workshop: Perspectives on Gender and Product Design, ACM Press.