Web IR/NLP Group @ NUS research news update - Aug 2012

[Min-Yen Kan]

Fall greetings from the Web, IR & NLP Group (WING) at NUS!

You are receiving this email as you have expressed interest in our
group's research. This is a quarterly newsletter of the papers,
presentations, datasets and news available from WING.

Come visit our website if you haven't been in a while:

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/

** Publications

The major summer conference season is almost over. We're pleased to
have a few other publications to announce. We have a paper accepted
to AMIA and another to TPDL (formerly ECDL). We also had two
publications in the recent R50 workshop at ACL. Also, perhaps you
missed some of our presentations at the conference circuit this year?
You can find some of the relevant slides online now (see below)

* New Publications:
Details below:

[TPDL] Anqi Cui Liner Yang, Dejun Hou, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, Min
Zhang and Shaoping Ma (2012) PrEV: Preservation Explorer and Vault for
Web 2.0 User-Generated Content. To appear in the Proceedings of the
Therory and Practice of Digita Libraries (TPDL 2012), Paphos, Cyprus.

Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/tpdl2012.pdf

[AMIA] Jin Zhao, Praveen Bysani and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Exploiting
Classification Correlations for the Extraction of Evidence-based
Practice Information. In Proceedings of the AMIA 2012 Annual
Symposium. November 3-7, Chicago, USA.

Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/amia2012final.pdf

[R50 @ ACL a] Praveen Bysani and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Integrating
User-Generated Content in the ACL Anthology. In Proceedings of the ACL
Special Workshop 2012 on Rediscovering 50 years of Discoveries. pp.
83-87.

From the ACL Anthology: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3209
Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/120710-anthology.pdf

[R50 @ ACL b] Huy Do Hoang Nhat and Praveen Bysani (2012) Linking
Citations to their Bibliographic references. In Proceedings of the ACL
Special Workshop 2012 on Rediscovering 50 years of Discoveries. pp.
110-113.

From the ACL Anthology: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3213

[LSM @ NAACL] Aobo Wang, Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Re-tweeting
from a linguistic perspective. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012
Workshop on Language in Social Media. Montréal, Canada. pp. 46-55.

From the ACL Anthology: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-2106
Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/NAACL-LSM2012-AoboWang.pdf
Demo and Corpus: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/tweets/

* Updated Info (previously announced publications from last update,
but with presentations, posters and/or datasets.

[ACL Poster] Ziheng Lin, Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng & Min-Yen Kan (2012).
Combining Coherence Models and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics
for Summarization Evaluation.

Preprint:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/acl12_Lin.pdf
Poster:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/lin_ziheng_ACL2012-poster.pdf
Software: Forthcoming, check back in next update or on the WING website soon.

[JCDL] Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan & Hari Sundaram (2012c). How
Do People Organize Their Photos in Each Event and How Does It Affect
Storytelling, Searching and Interpretation Tasks?.

Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/jcdl2012-gozali.pdf
Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/jcdl2012-gozali.pdf

[HFC3D @ ICME] Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan & Hari
Sundaram (2012a). Hidden Markov Model for Event Photo Stream
Segmentation.

Preprint:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/icmew2012-gozali.pdf
Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/hfc3d2012-gozali.pdf

[ITiCSE] Jonathan Y. H. Poon, Kazunari Sugiyama, Yee Fan Tan & Min-Yen
Kan (2012). Instructor-Centric Source Code Plagiarism Detection and
Plagiarism Corpus.

Preprint: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/iticse12-Jon.pdf
Software: https://github.com/WING-NUS/SSID
Project Webpage: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/SSID/
Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/ITiCSE12-Slides.pdf

** Other News

- SSID, our source code plagiarism detection tool, was published at
ITiCSE 2012 (see above) has been released on github. This continues
our "tradition" (of 1 year) to make our technologies available in some
form on github. We are also planning to package up our robust
argumentative zoning work (joint work between Min and Simone Teufel of
University of Cambridge), as well as visualization work by Anqi Cui
from our NUS - Tsinghua collaboration.

- Visitors to WING: We hosted Maaske Treurniet from the Netherlands
for a talk on her work on the Dutch SoNaR corpus collection efforts,
in early July. Tao from our group helped to provide the basic
software framework to enable their SMS collection efforts.

You can check out her presentation here:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/rchimetext/seminars/collecting-a-corpus-of-dutch-social-media

- CodeForScience 2012 Singapore version. Min will helping again with
our collaboration with Elsevier to bring a longer-term 6 week coding
competition to SG. We hope that we can encourage NLP / IR, and
students in general to work on problems relating to processing our own
scholarly documents. Min also would like to encourage all interested
parties to check out the special R50 workshop at ACL this year, in
which we'll be looking back over the ACL's scholarly documents over
the last 50 years. Finally, changes are afoot in the ACL Anthology,
thanks to Praveen Bysani, who has helped with the redevelopment of the
ACL Anthology to incorporate better faceted search, social media and
additional reader-centric functionality. Check it out at its
temporary home at http://aclantho3.herokuapp.com/

- We are migrating our mailing lists to Google Apps for Education
(Hopefully Google will continue to support this product for a long
time). You're receiving this email through Google Apps. Past list
posts are still available at our old mailman installation:

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/pipermail/wingnews/

- Alumni of WING: let us know any news items about you! Our next WING
lunch (not dinner this semester) will be on the 9th or 10th of August
(next week!) . Please let Tao Chen <che...@comp.nus.edu.sg> if you
are coming.

- We've started to make more of a presence for keeping tabs of alumni
through LinkedIn. If you're on LinkedIn, come and find us!

WING @ NUS (for alumni):
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=164757

Cheers,

Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN)
on behalf of WING members and staff