Web IR/NLP Group @ NUS research news update - Oct 2013

[Min-Yen Kan]

Autumn 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

* New Publications this Quarter: This quarter we'll be presenting a
few works at NLP (EMNLP and IJCNLP) and MM conferences. Hope to see
some of you at the conferences!

Jun-Ping Ng, Min-Yen Kan, Ziheng Lin, Wei Feng, Bin Chen, Jian Su and
Chew-Lim Tan (2013) Exploiting Discourse Analysis for Article-Wide
Temporal Classification. To appear in the Proceedings of the
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
Seattle, USA. October.

Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/emnlp2013.pdf

Yiping Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Jun Ping Ng and Xiangnan He (2013) Mining
Scientific Terms and their Definitions: A Study of the ACL Anthology.
To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing. Seattle, USA. October.

Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/emnlp2013_yp.pdf

Tao Chen, Dongyuan Lu, Min-Yen Kan and Peng Cui (2013) Understanding
and Classifying Image Tweets. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on Multimedia (MM). Barcelona, Spain. October.

Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/image_mm.pdf

Aobo Wang, Min-Yen Kan, Daniel Andrade, Takashi Onishi and Kai
Ishikawa (2013) Chinese Informal Word Normalization: an Experimental
Study. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Nagoya, Japan.
November.

Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/ijcnlp2013.pdf

* Past Publications: Kaz's full paper at JCDL, entitled "Exploiting
Potential Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation" was
awarded the Vannevar Bush Highest Scholarship Paper award. We've
finished presenting the following works, but if you missed them, we
have their slides and in some cases, video recordings of the
presentations. Check them out if they are of interest to you.

[SIGIR] Jovian Lin, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua
(2013) Addressing Cold-Start in App Recommendation: Latent User Models
Constructed from Twitter Followers. In the Proceedings of Special
Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '13). 28 July-1 August.
Dublin, Ireland. pp. 283-292.

Local copy: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2013/fp093-lin.pdf
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jovianlin/addressing-cold-start-in-app-recommendation-latent-user-models-constructed-from-twitter-followers

[ACL] Aobo Wang and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Mining Informal Language from
Chinese Microtext: Joint Word Recognition and Segmentation.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL '13). 4-9 August. Sofia, Bulgaria. pp. 731-741.

Local copy: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/acl2013.pdf
Poster (.pdf): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/ACL2013poster.pdf

[JCDLa] Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Exploiting Potential
Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation. In Proceedings of
the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July,
Indianapolis, USA. pp. 153-162. **Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award**

Local copy: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2013/fp036-sugiyama.pdf
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/exploiting-potential-citation-papers-in-scholarly-paper-recommendation

[JCDLb] Huy Do Hoang Nhat, Muthu Kumar C., Philip S. Cho and Min-Yen
Kan (2013) Extracting and Matching Authors and Affiliations in
Scholarly Documents. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 219-228.

Local copy: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2013/jcdl2013.pdf
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/extracting-and-matching-authors-and-affiliations-in-scholarly-documents

[JCDLshort-a] Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan and Hari Sundaram
(2013) Constructing an Anonymous Dataset From the Personal Digital
Photo Libraries of Mac App Store Users. In Proceedings of the Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis,
USA. pp. 305-308. Short Paper.

Local copy: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2013/jcdl2013a-short.pdf
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/constructing-an-anonymous-dataset-from-the-personal-digital-photo-libraries-of-mac-app-store-users

[JCDLshort-b] Bamdad Bahrani and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Multimodal
Alignment of Scholarly Documents and Their Presentations. In
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13).
22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 281-284. Short Paper.

Local copy: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2013/sp223-bahrani.pdf
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/multimodal-alignment-of-scholarly-documents-and-their-presentations

** Datasets

WING folks have been busy putting together datasets and corpora for
helping others replicate and better our research. There have been
several finished this quarter, with a few more in the works.

- Term and Definition Mining Corpus This corpus contains one manually
annotated and one automatically extracted dataset. Both are derived
from the ACL Anthology Corpus and contain definitional sentences with
definiendum (term) and definiens (definition) marked out. - Compiled
by Yiping Jin. To be presented at EMNLP 2013 in a few weeks time.
Dataset: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/term_definition_mining/

- Weibo Joint Chinese Word Segmentation / Informal Word Recognition
Corpus: This is the corpus with annotations done in Aobo's ACL 2013
paper. Compiled by Aobo Wang. Dataset:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/weiboCWSIWRData/

- Enlil Document Collection: Gold standard data for author-affiliation
matching. This dataset is described in the Hoang et al. 2013 JCDL
paper, entitled "Extracting and Matching Authors and Affiliations in
Scholarly Documents". Dataset:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads/enlilCollection/

- Chaptrs Personal Photograph Dataset - This is the dataset described
in Jesse's 2013 short JCDL paper entitled "Constructing an Anonymous
Dataset From the Personal Digital Photo Libraries of Mac App Store
Users", comprising of data of over 470K photos in 60K photosets.
Compiled by Jesse Prabawa Gozali. Dataset:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~jeprab/chaptrs_dataset/

- ParsCit - WING's software to extract metadata from scholarly PDFs
has been recently updated (version 130908) to incorporate changes from
our JCDL 2013 paper. You may want to pull it from github or take a
standalone .zip file if you have been working in this area. See the
ParsCit home page: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit

** Other News

- Congratulations to Dr. Jesse Prabawa Gozali, for defending his Ph.D.
thesis entitled "Event Photo Stream Segmentation: Chapter-based photo
organization for personal digital photo libraries" successfully on 7
August 2013! Jesse has now gone on to work at Mobilewalla
Incorporated, a local start-up (also technically advised by Min) which
works on mobile application -- "app" -- ranking.

- Min has been made Assistant Dean to the undergraduate office of our
School of Computing. Part of his work will be to continue to network
with feeder schools (junior colleges and polytechnics) and industry,
in programs like our first year Orbital self-learning MOOC-style web
application course (http://orbital.comp.nus.edu.sg). If you're
interested in learning more about our School of Computing and how we
can help your company or school, do contact Min.

- Visitors: A/P Yutaka Matsuo of Univ. of Tokyo visited us in August
and introduced his lab's recent work in crowdsourcing to WING and the
School. More recently, Nicolas Asher also shared his recent research
with the NLP group as well as WING. We look forward to more upcoming
visits. If you're interested in stopping by WING or NUS, please do
let us know.

- PhD Flyer: If you know of any prospective students who are
interested in doing their Ph.D. and coming out to SE Asia, perhaps you
can refer them to our programme? Our school has a 1-page PDF flyer
that you could circulate to folks whom might be interested:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/NUS_PhD.pdf

- Alumni of WING: let us know any news items about you. Drop by and
say 'hello'! Feel free to come back for our semesterly outings to
touch base with all of us. Last semester we were out at Sushi Tei at
Vivocity, celebrating Jin and Jesse doctoral defenses!

- 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

- We are also on LinkedIn and on Facebook. See you around those
virtual social circles!

Cheers,

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