Web IR/NLP Group @ NUS research news update - Sep 2015
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Min-Yen Kan
Sep 17, 2015, 5:54:56 AM9/17/15
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Autumn Greetings from the Web Information Retrieval / Natural Language
Processing Group (WING) at NUS!
You are receiving this email as you have expressed interest in our
group's research. This is a semi-quarterly newsletter of the papers,
presentations, datasets and news available from WING.
Happy autumn and mid-autumn lunar festival from us in Singapore! It's
already mid-semester here in the first term in Singapore. We took a
hiatus in the summer, and didn't send you a summer update, so most of
the year's news will be in this newsletter. Come, look around at our
website and see what's new:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/
** Publications since Mar 2015:
Our group continues to contribute to the NLP, IR and DL topics and has
recently turned attention towards applying NLP techniques to the MOOC
research space. Also, Kaz has been very successful with his
co-supervision of Siddhartha in collaboration with Prof. Prasenjit
Mitra!
[CIKM] Xiangnan He, Tao Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Xiao Chen (2015).
TriRank: Review-aware Explainable Recommendation by Modeling Aspects.
To be published in the 24th ACM International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne,
Australia, October.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/cikm15-trirank-cr.pdf
[ASONAM] Bang Hui Lim, Dongyuan Lu, Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2015).
#mytweet via Instagram: Exploring User Behaviour across Multiple
Social Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '15),
Paris, France.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/asonam15.pdf
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/BangHuiLim/mytweet-via-instagram-exploring-user-behaviour-across-multiple-social-networks
Dataset coming soon at http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/aboutme/
[NLP-TEA] Tao Chen, Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Muthu Kumar
Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan (2015). Interactive Second Language
Learning from News Websites. In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Natural
Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA
'15), Beijing, China.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/nlp-tea-2015.pdf
From the ACL Anthology: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4406
Video link (3 mins): https://youtu.be/70UjolxI_rg
[EDM] Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan, Kiruthika Ragupathi and
Bernard C. Y. Tan (2015). Learning instructor intervention from MOOC
forums: Early Results and Issues. In Proceedings of Education Data
Mining (EDM '15), Madrid, Spain.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/edm2015.pdf
Preprint from ArXiV: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07206v1
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/cmkumar87/learning-instructor-intervention-from-mooc-forums-early-results-and-issues
[JCDLSHORT] Nguyen Viet Cuong, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan
and Wee Sun Lee (2015) Scholarly Document Information Extraction using
Extensible Features for Efficient Higher Order Semi-CRFs. Proceedings
of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '15). 21-25 June.
Knoxville, TN, USA. Pages 61-64.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/jcdl2015.pdf
From ACM via DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2756406.2756946
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/scholarly-document-information-extraction-using-extensible-features-for-efficient-higher-order-semi-crfs
Video recording of presentation (15 mins): https://youtu.be/g1eNijUhTPk
[DOCENG] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015a). Generating Abstractive Summaries from Meeting Transcripts. In
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document
Engineering (DocEng 2015). Lausanne, Switzerland.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/DocEng025-banerjeeA.pdf
[IJCAI] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015b). Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization Using ILP based
Multi-Sentence Compression. In Proceeding of the 24th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), pages
1208-1214. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/IJCAI15-174.pdf
[WWWComp] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015c). Abstractive Meeting Summarization Using Dependency Graph
Fusion. In Proceedings of Companion Publication of the 24th
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015 Companion), pages
5-6. Florence, Italy.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/pp1674-banerjee-WWW15Poster.pdf
** Tools and Datasets
- Ilija Ilievski, a new PhD student jointly supervised in WING and the
NLP groups in NUS, has re-engineered the NUS Discourse Parser to make
it simpler to install and execute out of the box. Please refer to his
Github repository. It is equivalent in output to the original
discourse parser, and he will soon release a report detailing the
minor discrepancies between our earlier published results and this
new, modular architecture. We recommend all groups using the Lin et
al. discourse parser try to use this version instead.
https://github.com/WING-NUS/pdtb-parser
- Our multiple online social network (OSN) dataset crawled from social
network aggregator About.me for studying cross OSN behavior will soon
be available for download. As with many social media datasets, we
cannot provide the actual posts due to restrictions placed by the
original service providers, but will provide post IDs so that you may
retrieve the original sources through the appropriate APIs. Please
watch out for it at:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/aboutme
** Other News
- Professor Diane Litman is visiting WING and the NLP groups at SoC
over the months of August to December 2015, to collaborate, research
and teach on discourse. We look forward to the collaborative works
and her input on a number of projects that touch on NLP discourse in
points related to pedagogy, discourse parsing, MOOCs and discussion
forums.
- Kaz, who was a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University
January to May 2014, has achieved one poster and two full paper
publications with Prof. Prasenjit Mitra (currently, Qatar Computing
Research Institute and Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and his Ph.D.
student, Siddhartha Banerjee, as reported above. Kaz also
successfully organized the Doctoral Consortium at JCDL 2015 with
Catherine Smith at Kent State University. This year, 9 Ph.D. students
and 8 advisory panels from all over the world joined the consortium.
The revised version of its proceedings will be published in "Bulletin
of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE TCDL)" at
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/mediawiki/TCDL/index.php/IEEE-TCDL
- Min gave two invited talks at Linköping University on 26-27 May on
Next Gen Scholarly Digital Libraries and Improving Web 2.0
Recommendation via Latent Model Regularization. During the ACL time
period, Min also visited Drs Ming Zhou and Chin-Yew Lin at MSRA and
gave a keynote at the "Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase
Extraction" workshop at ACL. Slides for a few of the presentations
are available on SpeakerDeck: http://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn
- Hellos and Goodbyes: Dr Wang Aobo, successfully defended his PhD
thesis entitled "Addressing Informality in Processing Chinese
Microtext" with flying colors on 20 August 2015. Aobo continues his
work with BNP Paribas currently. Datasets for Chinese text
normalization, informal word recognition and word segmentation are
available from his thesis through the WING downloads page:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/ . We also say goodbye to our
short summer intern, Paramita Mizra from Trento and our group of
Tsinghua interns with the NExT Center: Chao Wang, Ye Chen, Cheng Luo
and Zeyang Liu. We've also graduated our 2014 batch of undergraduate
students: Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Bang Hui Lim, Jerome Cheng, Michael
Bong.
We welcome our new postgraduate and undergraduates students. For the
graduates: Chencan Xu, Kishaloy Halder and Wenqiang Lei -- for
undergraduates: Hui Hui Ben, Junchao Gu, Hong Jin Kang, Jiale Liu,
Jintong Xu and Menghan Zhao. We look forward to the sustained
contributions to help keep WING in the forefront of research and
development.
- Alumni of WING: Let us know any news items about you! Drop by and
say 'hello'. We had our recent gathering on the Sentosa beach, wish
you were here. Take a look at the website for pictures of your
juniors that are currently in the making!
Cheers,
Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN)
on behalf of WING members and staff
P.S. Past issues of our newsletter can be found on our installation of
Google Groups, right here:
https://groups.google.com/a/wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/forum/#!forum/wingnews
Processing Group (WING) at NUS!
You are receiving this email as you have expressed interest in our
group's research. This is a semi-quarterly newsletter of the papers,
presentations, datasets and news available from WING.
Happy autumn and mid-autumn lunar festival from us in Singapore! It's
already mid-semester here in the first term in Singapore. We took a
hiatus in the summer, and didn't send you a summer update, so most of
the year's news will be in this newsletter. Come, look around at our
website and see what's new:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/
** Publications since Mar 2015:
Our group continues to contribute to the NLP, IR and DL topics and has
recently turned attention towards applying NLP techniques to the MOOC
research space. Also, Kaz has been very successful with his
co-supervision of Siddhartha in collaboration with Prof. Prasenjit
Mitra!
[CIKM] Xiangnan He, Tao Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Xiao Chen (2015).
TriRank: Review-aware Explainable Recommendation by Modeling Aspects.
To be published in the 24th ACM International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne,
Australia, October.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/cikm15-trirank-cr.pdf
[ASONAM] Bang Hui Lim, Dongyuan Lu, Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2015).
#mytweet via Instagram: Exploring User Behaviour across Multiple
Social Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '15),
Paris, France.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/asonam15.pdf
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/BangHuiLim/mytweet-via-instagram-exploring-user-behaviour-across-multiple-social-networks
Dataset coming soon at http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/aboutme/
[NLP-TEA] Tao Chen, Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Muthu Kumar
Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan (2015). Interactive Second Language
Learning from News Websites. In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Natural
Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA
'15), Beijing, China.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/nlp-tea-2015.pdf
From the ACL Anthology: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4406
Video link (3 mins): https://youtu.be/70UjolxI_rg
[EDM] Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan, Kiruthika Ragupathi and
Bernard C. Y. Tan (2015). Learning instructor intervention from MOOC
forums: Early Results and Issues. In Proceedings of Education Data
Mining (EDM '15), Madrid, Spain.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/edm2015.pdf
Preprint from ArXiV: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07206v1
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/cmkumar87/learning-instructor-intervention-from-mooc-forums-early-results-and-issues
[JCDLSHORT] Nguyen Viet Cuong, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan
and Wee Sun Lee (2015) Scholarly Document Information Extraction using
Extensible Features for Efficient Higher Order Semi-CRFs. Proceedings
of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '15). 21-25 June.
Knoxville, TN, USA. Pages 61-64.
Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/jcdl2015.pdf
From ACM via DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2756406.2756946
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/scholarly-document-information-extraction-using-extensible-features-for-efficient-higher-order-semi-crfs
Video recording of presentation (15 mins): https://youtu.be/g1eNijUhTPk
[DOCENG] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015a). Generating Abstractive Summaries from Meeting Transcripts. In
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document
Engineering (DocEng 2015). Lausanne, Switzerland.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/DocEng025-banerjeeA.pdf
[IJCAI] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015b). Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization Using ILP based
Multi-Sentence Compression. In Proceeding of the 24th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), pages
1208-1214. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/IJCAI15-174.pdf
[WWWComp] Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra & Kazunari Sugiyama
(2015c). Abstractive Meeting Summarization Using Dependency Graph
Fusion. In Proceedings of Companion Publication of the 24th
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015 Companion), pages
5-6. Florence, Italy.
Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/pp1674-banerjee-WWW15Poster.pdf
** Tools and Datasets
- Ilija Ilievski, a new PhD student jointly supervised in WING and the
NLP groups in NUS, has re-engineered the NUS Discourse Parser to make
it simpler to install and execute out of the box. Please refer to his
Github repository. It is equivalent in output to the original
discourse parser, and he will soon release a report detailing the
minor discrepancies between our earlier published results and this
new, modular architecture. We recommend all groups using the Lin et
al. discourse parser try to use this version instead.
https://github.com/WING-NUS/pdtb-parser
- Our multiple online social network (OSN) dataset crawled from social
network aggregator About.me for studying cross OSN behavior will soon
be available for download. As with many social media datasets, we
cannot provide the actual posts due to restrictions placed by the
original service providers, but will provide post IDs so that you may
retrieve the original sources through the appropriate APIs. Please
watch out for it at:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/aboutme
** Other News
- Professor Diane Litman is visiting WING and the NLP groups at SoC
over the months of August to December 2015, to collaborate, research
and teach on discourse. We look forward to the collaborative works
and her input on a number of projects that touch on NLP discourse in
points related to pedagogy, discourse parsing, MOOCs and discussion
forums.
- Kaz, who was a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University
January to May 2014, has achieved one poster and two full paper
publications with Prof. Prasenjit Mitra (currently, Qatar Computing
Research Institute and Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and his Ph.D.
student, Siddhartha Banerjee, as reported above. Kaz also
successfully organized the Doctoral Consortium at JCDL 2015 with
Catherine Smith at Kent State University. This year, 9 Ph.D. students
and 8 advisory panels from all over the world joined the consortium.
The revised version of its proceedings will be published in "Bulletin
of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE TCDL)" at
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/mediawiki/TCDL/index.php/IEEE-TCDL
- Min gave two invited talks at Linköping University on 26-27 May on
Next Gen Scholarly Digital Libraries and Improving Web 2.0
Recommendation via Latent Model Regularization. During the ACL time
period, Min also visited Drs Ming Zhou and Chin-Yew Lin at MSRA and
gave a keynote at the "Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase
Extraction" workshop at ACL. Slides for a few of the presentations
are available on SpeakerDeck: http://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn
- Hellos and Goodbyes: Dr Wang Aobo, successfully defended his PhD
thesis entitled "Addressing Informality in Processing Chinese
Microtext" with flying colors on 20 August 2015. Aobo continues his
work with BNP Paribas currently. Datasets for Chinese text
normalization, informal word recognition and word segmentation are
available from his thesis through the WING downloads page:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/ . We also say goodbye to our
short summer intern, Paramita Mizra from Trento and our group of
Tsinghua interns with the NExT Center: Chao Wang, Ye Chen, Cheng Luo
and Zeyang Liu. We've also graduated our 2014 batch of undergraduate
students: Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Bang Hui Lim, Jerome Cheng, Michael
Bong.
We welcome our new postgraduate and undergraduates students. For the
graduates: Chencan Xu, Kishaloy Halder and Wenqiang Lei -- for
undergraduates: Hui Hui Ben, Junchao Gu, Hong Jin Kang, Jiale Liu,
Jintong Xu and Menghan Zhao. We look forward to the sustained
contributions to help keep WING in the forefront of research and
development.
- Alumni of WING: Let us know any news items about you! Drop by and
say 'hello'. We had our recent gathering on the Sentosa beach, wish
you were here. Take a look at the website for pictures of your
juniors that are currently in the making!
Cheers,
Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN)
on behalf of WING members and staff
P.S. Past issues of our newsletter can be found on our installation of
Google Groups, right here:
https://groups.google.com/a/wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/forum/#!forum/wingnews
Min-Yen Kan
Sep 17, 2015, 5:56:48 AM9/17/15
to WINGNEWS
Autumn Greetings from the Web Information Retrieval / Natural Language
Processing Group (WING) at NUS!
You are receiving this email as you have expressed interest in our
group's research. This is a semi-quarterly newsletter of the papers,
presentations, datasets and news available from WING.
Happy autumn and mid-autumn lunar festival from us in Singapore! It's
already mid-semester here in the first term in Singapore. We took a
hiatus in the summer, and didn't send you a summer update, so most of
the year's news will be in this newsletter. Come, look around at our
website and see what's new:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/
** Publications since Mar 2015:
Our group continues to contribute to the NLP, IR and DL topics and has
recently turned attention towards applying NLP techniques to the MOOC
research space.
Processing Group (WING) at NUS!
You are receiving this email as you have expressed interest in our
group's research. This is a semi-quarterly newsletter of the papers,
presentations, datasets and news available from WING.
Happy autumn and mid-autumn lunar festival from us in Singapore! It's
already mid-semester here in the first term in Singapore. We took a
hiatus in the summer, and didn't send you a summer update, so most of
the year's news will be in this newsletter. Come, look around at our
website and see what's new:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/
** Publications since Mar 2015:
Our group continues to contribute to the NLP, IR and DL topics and has
recently turned attention towards applying NLP techniques to the MOOC
research space.
students. For the graduates: Chencan Xu, Kishaloy Halder and Wenqiang
Lei -- for undergraduates: Hui Hui Ben, Junchao Gu, Hong Jin Kang,
Jiale Liu, Jintong Xu and Menghan Zhao. We look forward to the
sustained contributions to help keep WING in the forefront of research
and development.
- ... Goodbyes: Dr Wang Aobo, successfully defended his PhD
Lei -- for undergraduates: Hui Hui Ben, Junchao Gu, Hong Jin Kang,
Jiale Liu, Jintong Xu and Menghan Zhao. We look forward to the
sustained contributions to help keep WING in the forefront of research
and development.
thesis entitled "Addressing Informality in Processing Chinese
Microtext" with flying colors on 20 August 2015. Aobo continues his
work with BNP Paribas currently. Datasets for Chinese text
normalization, informal word recognition and word segmentation are
available from his thesis through the WING downloads page:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/ . We also say goodbye to our
short summer intern, Paramita Mizra from Trento and our group of
Tsinghua interns with the NExT Center: Chao Wang, Ye Chen, Cheng Luo
and Zeyang Liu. We've also graduated our 2014 batch of undergraduate
students: Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Bang Hui Lim, Jerome Cheng, Michael
Bong.
Microtext" with flying colors on 20 August 2015. Aobo continues his
work with BNP Paribas currently. Datasets for Chinese text
normalization, informal word recognition and word segmentation are
available from his thesis through the WING downloads page:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/ . We also say goodbye to our
short summer intern, Paramita Mizra from Trento and our group of
Tsinghua interns with the NExT Center: Chao Wang, Ye Chen, Cheng Luo
and Zeyang Liu. We've also graduated our 2014 batch of undergraduate
students: Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Bang Hui Lim, Jerome Cheng, Michael
Bong.
- Alumni of WING: Let us know any news items about you! Drop by and
say 'hello'. We had our recent gathering on the Sentosa beach, wish
you were here. Take a look at the website for pictures of your
juniors that are currently in the making!
Cheers,
Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN)
on behalf of WING members and staff
P.S. Past issues of our newsletter can be found on our installation of
Google Groups, right here:
https://groups.google.com/a/wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/forum/#!forum/wingnews
P.P.S. - Apologies for a few misdirected spam mails -- our mailer went
say 'hello'. We had our recent gathering on the Sentosa beach, wish
you were here. Take a look at the website for pictures of your
juniors that are currently in the making!
Cheers,
Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN)
on behalf of WING members and staff
P.S. Past issues of our newsletter can be found on our installation of
Google Groups, right here:
https://groups.google.com/a/wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/forum/#!forum/wingnews
a bit crazy -- hopefully you'll continue to only receive the
newsletter instead of internal group mail :-P
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