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

* New Publications: In this period, we have been able to finish up a
few longer-term journal and book chapter publications, on
argumentative zoning, discourse parsing and library catalog user
interfaces. We also have two papers accepted to COLING (whose results
were just released today). Please have a look!

[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.

No preprint ready yet. Check back in the next quarter's newsletter, or
check the WING website in a few weeks' time.

[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.

No preprint ready yet. Check back in the next quarter's newsletter, or
check the WING website in a few weeks' time.

[ALT4DL] Simone Teufel and Min-Yen Kan (2011) Robust Argumentative
Zoning for Sensemaking in Scholarly Documents. Forthcoming in Advanced
Language Technologies for Digital Libraries (ALT4DL). Advanced
Language Technologies for Digital Libraries Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, 2011, Volume 6699/2011, pp. 154-170

Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/alt4dl11.pdf
via DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23160-5_10
RAZ tool webpage: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/raz/
Open source download of the RAZ software via GitHub:
https://github.com/WING-NUS/RAZ

[NLE] Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2012). A PDTB-Styled
End-to-End Discourse Parser. Accepted for publication and forthcoming
in Natural Language Engineering.

Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/nleLin2012.pdf

[OPAC] Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2012). Rich and Dynamic
Library Catalogs: A Case Study of Online Search Interfaces. In Jesus
Tramullas and Piedad Garrido (Eds.) Library Automation and OPAC 2.0:
Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape, Idea Group
Publishing.

Preprint: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/igi2012-gozali.pdf
via DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch002

* Addition to old publications: Perhaps you missed our previous
publications in the last quarter? We recap our recent publications
and have added the relevant links to their presentations and software.

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
*New* Presentation: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/talks/PrEV_Anqi_13.pdf

[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
*New* Software: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/software/dicomer-v120415.zip

** Other News

- CodeForScience 2012. Min collaborated with folks from Elsevier to
bring the CodeForScience competition to Singapore for the second year
running. This year 7 teams finished the 4 week long competition.
Congratulations to Jin, Tao, Low Wee and Eric (all from WING) for
winning the first prize and $5,000 SGD for their SciVerse application
CitWeb, which employs supervised learning for citation function
prediction and sentiment analysis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgeEP9VdpqQ

- As part of our ongoing collaboration with Tsinghua University, Anqi
Cui, who interned with WING over the last year, has created an open
source package to do trend visualization of tweets and other textual
content. Check out his strmwrd ("Stream Word") package in GitHub,
that we are using within our differential news project. Works for
UTF-8 text.

StrmWrd home page: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~caq/diffviewer/
Open source software via GitHub: https://github.com/THUNUS/StrmWrd

- The popular ParsCit software distribution to parse free-text
scholarly articles into its logical structure (especially its
bibliography/references) has now been partially ported to Windows by
contributors. Check it out on Github
https://github.com/WING-NUS/ParsCit

- Visitors to WING: We hosted Lu Dongyuan, a recent graduate of the
Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Automation, whom came to
WING to describe her work on Social Structure Mining and Prestigious
Member Prediction. Tsinghua's Prof. Yang Liu also graced us with a
concise version of his tutorial on Tree-to-String translation in
August.

Check out the all-new revamped CHIME Text Processing Seminar series
(collective with other NLP/IR groups in NUS), set of talks. Slides
from many of the talks are also archived on the site. Special thanks
to Jesse for making the new version of the seminar software.

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

- 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