Gloria T Lau

About me

current
- Research Scientist, FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business
- Consulting Assistant Professor, Engineering Informatics Group (EIG), Stanford
educations
- PhD, August 2004, Stanford
- MS, June 2000, Stanford
- BS, June 1999, UCLA
contact
- glau at this_school dot edu

Research

RegNet/RegBase: An information infrastructure for regulation management, comparative analysis and compliance assistance
my thesis reading committee
- Prof. Kincho Law, department of CEE, principal advisor
- Prof. Gio Wiederhold, CS department, co-advisor
- Prof. Hans Björnsson, department of CEE
- Prof. Cary Coglianese, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Publications & Presentations

J. A. Ekstrom, G. T. Lau, D. Spiteri, J. C. P. Cheng, and K. H. Law, "MINOE: A Software Tool to Evaluate Ocean Management in the Context of Ecosystems," Coastal Management, 38(5):457-473, 2010.

J. A. Ekstrom, G. T. Lau, J. C. P. Cheng, D. J. Spiteri, and K. H. Law, "Gauging Agency Involvement in Environmental Management Using Text Analysis of Laws and Regulations," I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 6(2), 2010.

H. Yu, S. Taduri, J. P. Kesan, G. T. Lau, and K. H. Law, "Retrieving Information Across Multiple, Related Domains Based on User Query and Feedback: Application to Patent Laws and Regulations," 4th International Conference on Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), Beijing, China, Oct 25-28, 2010.

C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, J. Pan, and A. Jones, "Improving Access to and Understanding of Regulations through Taxonomies," Government Information Quarterly, 26(2): 238-245, 2009.

G. T. Lau. "Two Years of Nutch: What We Learned," Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (www2008), Beijing, China, Apr 21-25, 2008.

C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, J. Pan, and A. Jones. "Regulation Retrieval Using Industry Specific Taxonomies," Artificial Intelligence and Law, 16(3):277-303, 2008.

J. Pan, C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, and K. H. Law. "Utilizing Statistical Semantic Similarity Techniques for Ontology Mapping - with Applications to AEC Standard Models," Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology, Elsevier, 13(S1):217-222, 2008.

J. Pan, C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, and K. H. Law. "Utilizing Statistical Semantic Similarity Techniques for Ontology Mapping - with Applications to AEC Standard Models," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE XII), Beijing, China, Oct 16-18, 2008.

J. Ekstrom, G. T. Lau. "Exploratory Text Mining of Ocean Law to Measure Overlapping Jurisdictions," Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2008), Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2008.

C. P. Cheng, J. Pan, G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and A. Jones. "Relating Taxonomies with Regulations," Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2008), Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2008 (Best Research Paper Award).

C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, J. Pan, K. H. Law, and A. Jones. "Domain-Specific Ontology Mapping by Corpus-Based Semantic Similarity," Proceedings of 2008 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, Jan 7-10, 2008.

C. P. Cheng, G. T. Lau, and K. H. Law. "Mapping Regulations to Industry-Specific Taxonomies," Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2007), Stanford, CA, June 4-8, 2007.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis of Government Regulations using Domain Knowledge and Structural Organization," Information Retrieval, 9(6):657-680, Dec 2006.

G. T. Lau. "Adopting an Open-Source Search Engine and Result Comparisons to Google Appliance," Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (www2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23-26, 2006.

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "A Prototype Study on Electronic-Rulemaking," Encyclopedia of Digital Government, Idea Group Publishing, May 2006.

G. T. Lau, H. Wang, and K. H. Law. "Locating Related Regulations Using a Comparative Analysis Approach," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2006), San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2006.

K. H. Law, G. T. Lau. "E-Rulemaking: Needs from the ICT Perspectives," Proceedings of the Workshop on E-Rulemaking at the Crossroads, San Diego, CA, May 24, 2006.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Comparative Analysis of Government Regulations Using Structural and Domain Information," IEEE Computer, 38(12):70-76, Dec 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis Tool for Comparing Drafted Regulations and Associated Public Comments," Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 1(1):95-110, 2005.

G. T. Lau. "Uses of Text Mining Techniques in Extracting Entity Relationships from Legal Documents," invited talk at the Data Mining, Information Extraction, and Evidentiary Reasoning for Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism Workshop, Bologna, Italy, Jun 11, 2005.

G. T. Lau, T. Pawlowski, R. Posadas, and W. P. Kubalski. "A Lawyer Directory Service using Legal Documents and Profile Information as Support," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2005), Bologna, Italy, Jun 6-11, 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Legal Information Retrieval and Application to E-Rulemaking," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2005), Bologna, Italy, Jun 6-11, 2005.

G. T. Lau, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis Approach for Regulation Comparison and E-Rulemaking Applications," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2005), Atlanta, GA, May 15-18, 2005.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "An E-Government Information Architecture for Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Delft, The Netherlands, Oct 25-27, 2004.

G. T. Lau. A Comparative Analysis Framework for Semi-Structured Documents, with Applications to Government Regulations, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Aug 2004.

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Comparing Accessibility Regulations and Related Information from Multiple Sources," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, Jun 2-4, 2004.

J. Cheng, G. T. Lau, and K. H. Law. "A Simulation Access Language and Framework for Project Management Applications," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, Jun 2-4, 2004.

J. Peng, K. H. Law, and G. T. Lau. "Internet-Enabled Software Model for Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Simulations," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, Jun 2-4, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Software Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulations," Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS'03), Seattle, WA, Dec 13-14, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Similarity Analysis on Government Regulations," Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, Aug 24-27, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Framework for Regulation Comparison with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2003), Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and B. Kumar. "A Regulatory Information Infrastructure with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of Include 2003: Inclusive Design for Society and Business, London, UK, Mar 25-28, 2003.

S. Kerrigan, G. T. Lau, L. Zhou, G. Wiederhold, and K. H. Law. "Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2001), Los Angeles, CA, May 21-23, 2001.