[ChimeText] (tomorrow! 2-3 pm, SR7 COM1 02-07)

[Min-Yen Kan]

We have the pleasure of hosting Dell Zhang, our alumni from Prof Lee
Wee Sun's group, also on Friday afternoon.  Please come!

Cheers,

Min
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TITLE : Learning to Classify Networked Entities

SPEAKER : Dell Zhang, University of London
TIME : July 25, 2008, 2-3pm Fri
VENUE : SR7, COM1, Level 2 Room 7

Chaired by Dr Lee Wee Sun (leews at comp.nus.edu.sg)

Abstract:

Statistical machine learning techniques for classification usually
assume that all data instances are independent and identically
distributed. However, real-life entities are often interconnected with
each other by explicit or implicit relationships. It is promising to
exploit the links among entities to enhance their classification. This
talk first reviews the spectral methods for graph partitioning and
community detection, and then presents several ways in which they can
be extended for classification of networked entities.

BIO: Dell Zhang is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Birkbeck, University
of London. He got his Ph.D. from Southeast University in Jan 2002, and
then worked as a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Programme of
Singapore-MIT Alliance till he moved to the UK in Sep 2005. His
research is on the theme of improving information retrieval/
organization through machine learning or data mining.

Upcoming Talks:

24 Jul:  MSRA NLP Research Labs talks: 2 talks on
1) Ming Zhou / Generating Chinese Couplets using a Statistical MT Approach
2) Chin Yew-Lin / Web Scale Question Answering  -- SQuAD

25 Jul: Yahoo! Research Labs talks: 5 talks on
1) Ricardo Baeza-Yates / Distributed Information Retrieval
2) Evgeniy Gabrilovich / Overview of Computationa lAdvertising
3) Rosie Jones / Geography in Web Search
4) Donald Metzler / Predicting when (not) to Advertise
5) Vanessa Murdock / Diversifying Image Search with User Generated Content

25 Jul: Dell Zhang / Learning to Classify Networked Entities

25 Jul: William Chang (CTO of Baidu) / The WWW in China and Three
Generations of Intelligent Search
28 Jul: Qiu Long / Context for Semantic Similarity