Web IR/NLP Group @ NUS research news update - Oct 2014

[Min-Yen Kan]

Late 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 semi-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/

It's the quiet period before the winter storm of paper deadlines coming soon.

** Publications since Aug 2014:

[AIRS 2014] Haochen Zhang, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma
(2014) Online Social Network Profile Linkage. In Proceedings of Asian
Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS '14). Singapore. December.

Local preprint (.pdf): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/airs2014.pdf

** Tools and Datasets

- WING.NUS's Muthu Kumar and previous research assistant Ankur Khanna
have been collaborating with Dr Kokil Jaidka, alumnus of Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), to annotate and release a development
corpus for scientific document summarization. The dataset consists of
10 ACL Anthology papers and the neighborhood of papers that cite them.
The annotations indicate the provenance (source) of a citing
sentence's claim in the original paper and what facet it belongs to
(from a fixed set) -- following the annotation guidelines for
summarization set out by the TAC BioMedSumm task. You can find the
corpus and more details on GitHub:

https://github.com/WING-NUS/scisumm-corpus

- Xiangnan He's WWW dataset and source code for his experiments on CoNMF
are now available for your use. Try them out!

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

- Our final year project students have been busy coding up two
interesting Chrome Extensions. Zheng Naijia and Zhao Yue have coded
up LearnNews, a chrome extension aimed to help you learn Chinese
vocabulary while reading English news websites. Michael Yue has coded
up MScholar, an extension to Google Scholar to help display abstracts
and machine generated summaries and reduce Scholar's UI clutter. They
(hopefully) will be deployed to Google Play soonish. Let us know if
you're interested in trying them out.

** Other News

- Min's recorded keynote at SLAM 2014, entitled "Opportunities for
Multimedia Analysis in Scholarly Digital Libraries", is available for
viewing:

Slides (via Speakerdeck):
https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/opportunities-for-multimedia-analysis-in-scholarly-digital-libraries-slam-keynote
Video (via YouTube): http://youtu.be/XbxPOl4x0iw

- Xiangnan He and Jovian Lin have been awarded the Research
Achievement Award from SoC this semester, for their previous year's
research excellence. Recipients of the Research Achievement Award
will be presented with a certificate and $250 cash prize during the
new student orientation program. Congratulations, Xiangnan and
Jovian!

- Jovian defends his thesis successfully! Dr Jovian Lin successfully
defended his doctoral dissertation on 17 Sep 2014, entitled "Mobile
App Recommendation". Congratulations Dr. Lin! Jovian continues on in
SoC as an entrepreneur, working in his own start-up company incubated
at the School's incubator at i3.

- Our joint work on "The Emergence of an Asian Research Area" with Dr
Philip Cho was featured in the latest Global Asia Institute Newsletter
(October). Have a look at our collaborators' work and mention of our
work assessing the bibliometric impact of Singapore's genomics
researchers. http://www.gai.nus.edu.sg/PDFs/newsletters/Newsletter7.pdf

- WING hosts Profs. Yutaka Matsuo and Arne Jönsson - The 2014 summer
and fall sees WING benefiting from the long-term visits of Prof.
Yutaka Matsuo (U. Tokyo, Japan) and Arne Jönsson (Linköping U.,
Sweden), visiting and working with at NUS. Prof. Matsuo is
collaborating with the NUS SNS group as well as WING and working with
us on Madhav Kannan's Final Year Project and Prof. Jönsson is teaching
a graduate level module on advanced artificial intelligence with a
focus on dialogue systems.

- 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 (the next one probably very soon). We hope
to hear from you (aside from just needing recommendation letters :-)

Cheers,

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

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