Web IR/NLP Group @ NUS research news update - Mar 2015

[Min-Yen Kan]

Winter 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.


Happy lunar new year from us in Singapore! It's the busy period in
the traditional CS spring, where summer paper deadlines and reviews
are due.

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

** Publications since Oct 2014:

[BIGCOMP 2015] Min-Yen Kan (2015) Serving the Readers of Scholarly
Documents: A Grand Challenge for the Introspective Digital Library. In
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data and
Smart Computing. Jeju Island, S. Korea. 9-12 February. Invited Paper.
Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/bigcomp.pdf

[AAAI 2015] Tao Chen, Hany M. SalahEldeen, Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan
and Dongyuan Lu (2014) VELDA: Relating an Image Tweet's Text and
Images. In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-15). Austin, Texas, USA.
Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/Chen_VELDA_Camera_Ready.pdf
Poster (PDF): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~taochen/data/pubs/poster_aaai15.pdf

[SMC 2014] Haochen Zhang, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma
(2014) Online Social Network Profile Linkage Based on Cost-Sensitive
Feature Acquisition. In Proceedings of Social Media Processing (SMP
'14). pp 117-128. Beijing, China.
Pre-print: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/smp14.pdf
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45558-6_11

** Tools and Datasets

- Have you seen the updated NUS SMS corpus? Tao has been busy keeping
her work on building the world's largest freely and publicly available
bilingual SMS corpus. Have a look at the website which includes over
55K English messages and 31K Chinese ones.

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg:8080/SMSCorpus/

** Other News

- Mining Big Text at Yonsei University - In February 2015, Min gave an
invited talk at the recent Mining Big Text workshop, as well as an
encore presentation of the same at the BigComp invited session in Jeju
Island, Korea. You can see the talk entitled "Serving the Readers of
Scholarly Documents: A Grand Challenge for the Introspective Digital
Library" on Speakerdeck:
https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/serving-the-readers-of-scholarly-documents-a-grand-challenge-for-the-introspective-digital-library
. The accompanying paper on the components of the ForeCite digital
library was listed earlier in the publication section of this
newsletter issue.

- Min gave back to back keynotes on "the small data of scholarly
documents" at the 2014 Web Science Summer School, held at NUS as well
as the ADSC/I2R NLP Workshop held at Fusionopolis, both in Singapore.
You can catch the recorded video on YouTube
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=douNqobXkEA) as well as flip through
the slide deck on Speakerdeck (http://bit.ly/1zyMV2O).

- A/P Tadashi Nomoto, visited WING in early December 2014 to network
and touch base with WING and gave a talk on his recent work on news
article topic labeling. See the slides of his talk entitled
"Exploration in Memory Based Topic Detection -- or Concept Generation
with Distributional Semantics" here:
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/chime/141203/talk_at_nus_nomoto.pdf

- Our school's graduate office is organizing the 5th Summer South Asia
workshop from 27th – 29th May 2015. In the workshop we bring
prospective PhD applicants (Masters or Bachelor degree students who
has interest in doing PhD) to NUS. NUS sponsors these students
partially or fully. We also invite a few guest faculties from target
institutes. NUS faculties and guest faculties present various research
topic during the workshop. The objective is to give students a good
overview of what a PhD research is and how NUS can be an attractive
venue for PhD scholars.

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/graduates/sumsch.html

I would appreciate if you could distribute the information to whomever
you know in the SE Asia region (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan) and encourage them to distribute it in
respective institutes. The application deadline is March 15.

- Alumni of WING: Let us know any news items about you! Drop by and
say 'hello'. 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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Google Groups, right here:

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