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

[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 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: In this period, we have been able to finish up one
journal paper collaborative effort. We also have two published papers
at COLING (with a corresponding dataset). Please have a look!

[LRE] Su Nam Kim, Olena Medelyan, Min-Yen Kan and Timothy Baldwin
(2012). Automatic keyphrase extraction from scientific articles. In
Language Resources and Evaluation. December 2012.

Local copy: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/10.1007_s10579-012-9210-3.pdf
Via DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-012-9210-3

[COLING-tac] Jun-Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and
Chew-Lim Tan (2012) Exploiting Category-Specific Information for
Multi-Document Summarization. Accepted for publication to the 24th
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012).
Long paper. Bombay, India. December 8-15.

Paper: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/coling2012_swing.pdf
Slides: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/COLING_SWING_20121209.pdf

[COLING-TempEval] Jun-Ping Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Improved Temporal
Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and Selective
Crowdsourced Annotations. Accepted for publication to the 24th
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012).
Long paper. Bombay, India. December 8-15.

Paper: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2012/coling2012-tempeval.pdf
Slides: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/COLING_Temporal_20121209.pdf

* New Tools and Corpora

- Event-Timex Temporal Relationship Crowdsourced Corpus - As part of
his research work, Jun Ping has collected a crowdsourced corpus for
event-timex temporal relationship classification. The corpus contains
sentences with event and time expression pairs marked out, together
with the temporal relationship between these expressions, as defined
by TempEval-1 and TempEval-2. The COLING 2012 TempEval paper was
based on this collected corpus, which is now being made available to
the general public to spur temporal relationship classification
research!

This corpus consists of 8,576 annotations of the temporal relationship
between an event and time expression pair within a sentence. It is
compiled via crowdsourcing, and has been demonstrated to be of
comparable quality to a expert-curated corpus.

Download it from here (last entry on the page):
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/downloads

* Other News

- Semantics3 goes to YCombinator - Varun Sivamani, a FYP graduate of
WING, launched Semantics3 with three friends, to crawl and organize
data on the web. Since then the company has gone to attract paying
customers and has recently become the first Singaporean startup to be
selected for incubation with YCombinator. Congratulations,
Semantics3!

- Congratulations to Dr Lin! - Dr Ziheng Lin passed his oral Ph.D.
thesis defense this quarter, marking the end of his long career
affiliated with WING. He did an UROP with Min in 2005, a FYP with Min
and A/P Lee Wee Sun in 2006 and a Ph.D. with Min and A/P Ng Hwee Tou.
Congratulations, Ziheng!

- A new Chaptr! - Jesse has been hard at work in his last few months
to create Chaptrs, the crowning Mac App that will help you organize
your photo collection by events and within events too. With 100s of
photographs taken everyday, Chaptrs is a solution to the problem of
finding photos, and for Jesse, getting data about photos from actual
users (no private data taken, just simple photo metadata).

You can get it through the Mac App Store, and there are more details
on Jesse's app's website. Download it and help contribute to
crowdsourced data for personal photograph organization research (as
well as getting his very nifty photo organizing application too)!

http://www.chaptrs.com/

- Visitors to WING: We hosted Dr Jung-Jae Kim from Nanyang
Technological University and Prof. Juanzi Li from Tsinghua University
for talks at our local CHIMETEXT seminar series. Check out their
abstracts and slides here (and for all of the other 2012 talks in our
series):

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/rchimetext/seminars#yr2012

- Alumni of WING: let us know any news items about you!

Cheers,

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