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Journal Publications

Last updated: Mon Feb 4 20:14:24 SGT 2008

2008

1. Min-Yen Kan and Yee Fan Tan (2008) Record Matching in Digital Library Metadata, In Communications of the ACM (CACM), February 2008. [.pdf]

2007

1. Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan and Long Qiu (2007) Document Concept Lattice for Text Understanding and Summarization, Information Processing and Management, 43(6), pages 1643-1662. [doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.03.010]
2. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2007) Soft Pattern Matching Models for Definitional Question Answering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 25(2), April 2007. [draft][local copy]
3. Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features, Information Processing and Management, 43(2), pages 431-444, March 2007. [doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2006.07.019][draft]

2005

1. Noemie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Judith Klavans, and Kathleen McKeown (2005) Customization in a Unified Framework for Summarizing Medical Literature, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (JAIM), 33(2), pp. 179-198.
   [doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2004.07.018 (@ science direct)]

Conference / Workshop Publications

Last updated: Tue Jun 3 10:45:26 SGT 2008

2008

1. Yee Fan Tan, Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2008) Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms. International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008. [ .pdf]
2. Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin (2008) Standardised Evaluation of English Noun Compound Interpretation. In Proceedings of Workshop on Multiword Expressions at LREC, Marrakech, Morrocco, May/June 2008. [pre-print .pdf]
3. Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Yin Leng Theng (2008) Math Information Retrieval: User Requirements and Prototype Implementation. To appear in the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June.[pre-print .pdf]
4. Guo Min Liew and Min-Yen Kan (2008) Slide Image Retrieval: A Preliminary Study. To appear in the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June. Short paper. [pre-print .pdf]
   
5. Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir Radev and Yee Fan Tan (2008) The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics. Accepted in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May/June 2008. [pre-print .pdf]
6. Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles and Min-Yen Kan (2008) ParsCit: An open-source CRF reference string parsing package. Accepted in the proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08), Marrakesh, Morrocco, May/June 2008. [pre-print .pdf]
7. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2008) Modeling Context in Scenario Template Creation. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP '08), Hyderabad, India, January. [.pdf][slides]

2007

1. Thuy Dung Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Keyphrase Extraction in Scientific Publications. In Proceedings of International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL '07). Hanoi, Vietnam, December. [.pdf]
2. Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee and Yi Zhang (2007) Web Based Linkage. In Proceedings of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '07). Lisboa, Portugal, September.[.pdf]
3. Ergin Elmacioglu, Yee Fan Tan, Su Yan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2007) PSNUS: Web People Name Disambiguation by Simple Clustering with Rich Features. In Proceedings of SemEval 2007 Workshop, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June. [.pdf]
4. Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2007) Ordering Phrases with Function Words. In Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics, (ACL 07). Prague, Czech Republic, June. [pre-print .pdf]
5. Min-Yen Kan (2007) SlideSeer: A Digital Library of Aligned Document and Presentation Pairs, In the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June. [pre-print .pdf]
6. Su Yan, Dongwon Lee, Min-Yen Kan and C. Lee Giles (2007) Adaptive Sorted Neighborhood Methods for Efficient Record Linkage, In the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June. [pre-print .pdf]
7. Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007) A Rich OPAC User Interface with AJAX, In the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June. Short paper. [pre-print .pdf]
8. Viet Bang Nguyen, Min-Yen Kan (2007) Functional Faceted Web Query Analysis, In Proceedings of WWW 2007 Workshop on Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges, Alberta, Canada, May 2007. [pre-print .pdf]
9. Ziheng Lin and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Timestamped Graphs: Evolutionary Models of Text for Multi-document Summarization, In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007 Workshop on TextGraphs-2, Rochester, April 2007. [pre-print .pdf]
10. Ziheng Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan, Wee Sun Lee, Long Qiu and Shiren Ye (2007) NUS at DUC 2007: Using Evolutionary Models of Text, In DUC notebook papers, Rochester, NY, USA, April. [pre-print .pdf]

2006

1. Denny Iskandar, Ye Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2006) Syllabic Level Automatic Synchronization of Music Signals and Text Lyrics, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia (MM '06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October. [.pdf][poster]
2. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Paraphrase Recognition via Dissimilarity Significance Classification, In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '06), Sydney, Australia, July 2006. [local copy]
3. Shi-yong Neo, Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Video Retrieval using High Level Features: Exploiting Query Matching and Confidence-based Weighting, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006. [.pdf]
4. Fei Wang and Min-Yen Kan (2006) NPIC: Hierarchical synthetic image classification using image search and generic features, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006. [.pdf]
5. Hang Cui, Vibhu Mittal and Mayur Datar (2006). Comparative Experiments on Sentiment Classification for Online Product Reviews. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2006), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2006. [.pdf] ][ local copy ]
6. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2006). Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006. (Short Paper) [.pdf]
7. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Hang Cui (2006). Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework. In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context (MWEmc), Trento, Italy, April 2006. [ .pdf ] [slides]

2005

1. Renxu Sun, Jing Jiang, Yee Fan Tan, Hang Cui, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Using Syntactic and Semantic Relation Analysis in Question Answering, In Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2005. [.pdf]
2. Shiren Ye, Long Qiu, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2005). NUS at DUC 2005: Understanding Documents via Concept Links. In Proceedings of Document Understanding Conference (DUC) 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005. [.pdf]
3. Min-Yen Kan and Hoang Oanh Nguyen Thi (2005) Fast webpage classification using URL features. In Proc. of Conf. on Info and Knowledge Management (CIKM '05). Bremen, Germany, November 2005. Poster Paper. [.pdf][.png]
4. Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features. In Proceedings of Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 05). Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005.
   [ DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11562382_13 ][ (pre-print draft) .pdf ] [slides]
5. Hendra Setiawan, Haizhou Li, Min Zhang (2005) Learning Phrase Translation using Level of Detail Approach. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X, Phuket, Thailand.
6. Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Jian Su and Hendra Setiawan (2005) A Phrase-based Context-dependent Joint Probability Model for Named Entity Translation, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05), Jeju, South Korea.
   [ .pdf ]
7. Hendra Setiawan, Haizhou Li, Min Zhang and Beng Chin Ooi (2005) Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation: A Level of Detail Approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05), Jeju, South Korea.
   [ .pdf ]
8. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Generic Soft Pattern Models for Definitional Question Answering. In Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 05). Brazil, August 2005.
9. [ DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076101 ][slides]
10. Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Question Answering Passage Retrieval Using Depedency Relations. In Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 05). Brazil, August 2005.
11. [ DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076103 ] [slides]
12. Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram and Min Yen-Kan (2005) A Collaborative Annotation Framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '05), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2005.
    [ .pdf ]
13. Min-Yen Kan and Danny C. C. Poo (2005) Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs. In Proc. of Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL 05). Denver, July 2005.
    [ pre-print .pdf ][slides]
14. Yijue How and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Optimizing predictive text entry for short message service on mobile phones. In M. J. Smith & G. Salvendy (Eds.) Proc. of Human Computer Interfaces International (HCII 05). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Las Vegas, July 2005. ISBN 0805858075
    [ .pdf][slides]

2004

1. Chee How Lee, Min-Yen Kan and Sandra Lai (2004) Stylistic and Lexical Co-training for Web Block Classification. In Proceedings of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '04), Washington, D.C., USA, 12-13 November.
   [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm)] [ PARCELS website ]
2. Wang Ye, Min-Yen Kan, Tin Lay Nwe, Arun Shenoy and Jun Yin (2004) LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Acoustic Musical Signals and Textual Lyrics. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 (MM '04), New York, USA, 10-16 October. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.
   [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ]
3. Jeffry Komarjaya, Danny C.C. Poo and Min-Yen Kan (2004) Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL '04), Bath, United Kingdom, 12-17 September.
   [ .pdf ] [ Slides ]
4. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua and Jing Xiao (2004) A Comparative Study on Sentence Retrieval for Definitional Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA), SIGIR '04. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
   [ .pdf ]
5. Jing Xiao, Tat-Seng Chua and Hang Cui (2004) Cascading Use of Soft and Hard Matching Pattern Rules for Weakly Supervised Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, 23-27 August.
   [ .pdf ]
6. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) A Public Reference Implementation of the RAP Anaphora Resolution Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2004 (LREC 04), Lisbon, Portugal.
   [ .pdf ] [ Poster (.png) ]
7. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) Unsupervised Learning of Soft Patterns for Generating Definitions from Online News. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA.
   [ .pdf ] [ DefSearch Demo ] [ Slides (.ppt) ]
8. Min-Yen Kan (2004) Web Page Classification Without the Web Page. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA. Poster Paper.
   [ .pdf ] [ MeURLin demo ] [ Poster (.png) ]

Technical Reports

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Last updated: Fri May 16 09:14:20 SGT 2008

These are the technical reports that have been published by WING members. This includes the collection of student theses that have been done under WING supervision. Note that these reports may not have been peer-reviewed before publication here on this website.

Other student theses from the School of Computing in general can be found at the school's digital library at https://dl.comp.nus.edu.sg/dspace/index.jsp, running Dspace software from MIT.

2008

1. Liew Guo Min(2008) SLIDIR: Slide Image Retrieval, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [.pdf]
2. Wang Xuan(2008) Blog Summarization, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [.doc][poster(.ppt)]
3. Trinh Hoang Minh(2008) Temporal Query Analysis: Aligning Queries to Periodic Events, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [.pdf][poster(.ppt)]
4. Luong Minh Thang(2008) A Repetition-based Framework for Lyric Alignment in Popular Songs, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [.pdf]

2007

1. Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Rich and Dynamic Library Catalogs: A Case Study of Online Search Interfaces. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TR A8/07 (August 2007). [.pdf]
2. Kalpana Kumar(2007) Restrictor Query in Library Catalog Queries, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis]
3. Thuy Dung Nguyen(2007) Automatic Keyphrase Generation, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis]
4. Viet Bang Nguyen(2007) Functional Faceted Web Query Classification, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis]
5. Wang Yue(2007) Automatic Slides Generation for Technical Paper, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis]
6. Jesse Prabawa Gozali (2007) A Rich User Interface for the LINC system with AJAX, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis] [ poster]
7. Ziheng Lin (2007) Graph-Based Methods for Automatic Text Summarization, Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. [thesis] [ poster]

2006

1. Hang Cui (2006) Soft Matching for Question Answering, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Hang Cui won the best PhD Thesis Award in 2007. [.pdf] [ local copy]
2. Wang Xuan (2006) Augmenting Focused Crawling using Search Engine Queries. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/2277 ] [ Local copy ]
3. Ezekiel Eugene Ephraim (2006) Presentation to Document Alignment. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/2185 ] [ Local copy ]
4. Anubhav Madan (2006) Creating an Ontology from Statistical Data. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1927 ] [ Local copy ]
5. Malcolm Lee (2006) LINC User Interface Critique and Re-implementation. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/2100 ] [ Local copy ]
6. Ziheng Lin (2006) Lead Classification for Automatic Text Summarization. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1928 ] [ Local copy ]
7. Tinh Ky Vu (2006) Employing webpage contents for author disambiguation. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/2026] [ Local copy ]
8. Fei Wang (2006) Synthetic Image Categorization. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1996 ] [ Local copy ]
9. Jin Zhao (2006) Expanding and Refining WordNet for Video Retrieval. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1943 ] [ Local copy ]

2005

1. Aik Miang Lau (2005) Advancing PARCELS: PARser for Content Extraction and Logical Structure Using Inter- and Intra- Similarity Features Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1717 ] [ Local copy ]
2. Mingfeng Lee (2005) SMS Short Form Identification and Code Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1703 ] [ Local copy ]
3. Thiam Chye Lee (2005) Multi-document Summarization by Generation Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1660 ] [ Local copy ]
4. Wei Lu (2005) Supervised Categorization of JavaScript using Program Analysis Features Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1743 ] [ Local copy ]
5. Hoang Oanh Nguyen (2005) Automatic Publication Data Gatherer. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1684 ] [ Local copy ]
6. Vasesht Rao (2005) Map Spidering Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1682 ] [ Local copy ]
7. Yee Fan Tan (2005) Corpus-Based Identification of Light Verb Constructions Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1548 ] [ Local copy ]
8. Yung Kiat Teo (2005) Linear and Hierarchical Text Segmentation using Product Partition Models Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1531 ] [ Local copy ]
9. Eileen Xie (2005) URL Disambiguation Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1789 ] [ Local copy ]

2004

1. Yijue How (2004) Analysis of SMS efficiency. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/708 ] [ Local copy ]
2. Sandra Lai (2004) PARCELS: Parser for Content Extraction and Logical Structure (Text Deduction) Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/710 ] [ Local copy ]
3. Chee How Lee (2004) PARCELS: Parser for Content Extraction and Logical Structure (Stylistic Detection) Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/707 ] [ Local copy ]
4. Edwin Lee (2004) Website Exclusivity Learner/Classifier (WELCOME). Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/711 ] [ Local copy ]
5. Alex Ng (2004) Automatic Inference of Web Document Metadata - A Study on Sitemaps. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/709 ] [ Local copy ]
6. Meichan Ng (2004) Query Expansion in LINC using Phrase Structure via Mutual Information. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1470 ] [ Local copy ]
7. Yong Kiat Ng (2004) Citation Parsing Using Maximum Entropy and Repairs. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1459 ] [ Local copy ]
8. Siru Tan (2004) Query Expansion Using Morphology in LINC. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1474 ] [ Local copy ]
9. Thien An Vo (2004) Support for annotation of scientific papers Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
   [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1501 ] [ Local copy ]
10. Tinh Ky Vu (2004) Public-domain research corpora gatherer Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
    [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1512 ] [ Local copy ]
11. Fei Wang (2004) Non-photographic Image Categorization Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
    [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1514 ] [ Local copy ]
12. Litan Wang (2004) Music Lyrics Spider Undergraduate Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
    [ DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1465 ] [ Local copy ]

2003

1. Min-Yen Kan (2003) Metadata extraction and text categorization using Universal Resource Locator expansions. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TR 10/03.
   [ Postscript, GZIPped] [ .pdf]