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

[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 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/

** Publications

We have been particularly blessed to have several good paper successes
in the past year for our senior graduate students, and also took a
hiatus from digital library research (due to fewer students in this
area this past year). If you didn't have a chance to meet us during
the conferences, please have a look at the archived material; in many
cases the archive the slides and/or videos for the presentations
online.

* New Publications since Jan 2014:

[SIGIR 2014a] Xiangnan He, Ming Gao, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu and
Kazunari Sugiyama (2014) Predicting the Popularity of Web 2.0 Items
Based on User Comments. In Proceedings of Special Interest Group on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR '14). Gold Coast, Australia. pp. 233-242.
July 6-11.

Local copy (.pdf): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/sigir2014_he.pdf
Slides (via Speakerdeck):
https://speakerdeck.com/he8819197/predicting-the-popularity-of-web-2-dot-0-items-based-on-user-comments

[SIGIR 2014b] Jovian Lin, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng
Chua (2014) New and Improved: Modeling Versions to Improve App
Recommendation. Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information
Retrieval (SIGIR '14). Gold Coast, Australia. pp. 647-656. July 6-11.

Local copy (.pdf): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/fp033-lin.pdf
Slides (via Speakerdeck):
https://speakerdeck.com/jovianlin/new-and-improved-modeling-versions-to-improve-app-recommendation

[ACL 2014] Jun-Ping Ng, Yan Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Zhoujun Li (2014)
Exploiting Timelines to Enhance Multi-document Summarization. In the
Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational
Linguistics. Baltimore, USA. June. pp. 923-933.

Local copy (.pdf):
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/CameraReady_20140412.pdf
Slides (via Speakerdeck):
https://speakerdeck.com/knmnyn/exploiting-timelines-to-enhance-multi-document-summarization
Video (via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfqo_SsZ0m4#t=5m20s

[WWW 2014] Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan, Peichu Xie and Xiao Chen (2014)
Comment-based Multi-View Clustering of Web 2.0 Items. Proceedings of
the 23rd International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW '14),
Seoul, South Korea, April 7-11. pp. 771-782.

Local copy (.pdf): http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/papers/conmf.pdf
Slides (via Speakerdeck):
https://speakerdeck.com/he8819197/comment-based-multi-view-clustering-of-web-2-dot-0-items

** Other News

- Bountiful graduates: This past semester, WING graduated three Ph.D.
students -- Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Jin Zhao and Jun Ping Ng (see
http://on.fb.me/1o5FsEx). We hope to graduate two more this coming
year -- fingers crossed for them! This also means that WING is
seeking you graduate students to mentor. If you have a good
undergraduate candidates who could like to come to Singapore for
research in DL, IR or NLP, please have them apply to NUS.

- Min will be giving a keynote at SLAM 2014 -- the Workshop on Speech,
Language and Audio in Multimedia, a satellite workshop of Interspeech
2014 -- to be held in September in Penang, Malaysia. He will
tentatively be speaking on Opportunities for Multimedia Analysis in
Scholarly Digital Libraries, see:
http://language.cs.usm.my/SLAM2014/index.php/min-yen-kan

- Hellos and Goodbyes: Dr Kazunari Sugiyama has returned from his
visit to the CiteSeer group at Penn State University and is resuming
his work on scientific trend recognition with WING. We welcome our
large cohort of undergraduate final year projects, who are doing a
myriad of different system development work, research and
implementation alike.

We bid a fond farewell to our postdoc Dr Dongyuan Lu, who has returned
to China, and to our interns, Chao Wang, Qianli Xing, Yongfeng Zhang,
and Hany Khalil, all of whom have returned to their host institutions.

- Min was interviewed and quoted as a subject matter expert on
programming curriculum in Singapore in the European edition of the New
York Times. Beth Gardiner interviewed Min to learn about Singapore's
approach and challenges to IT education. Take a look!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/europe/adding-coding-to-the-curriculum.html

- Visitors: Profs. Yiqun Liu, Ziyuan Liu, and Yang Liu from Tsinghua
are visiting NUS for a month to work on the NExT center's projects.
We are also honored to have Prof. Yutaka Matsuo from Univ. of Tokyo
visiting us for the next two months. We look forward to an active
research collaboration with all of you!

- 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

P.S. 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