AS6-04-19 Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore Law Link, Singapore 117590 chanys AT comp.nus.edu.sg

Hi! I am Chan Yee Seng, currently a research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I graduated with a Computer Science degree (Hons) from NUS in 2002, before enrolling as a grad student in 2003. My main research area is Natural Language Processing. Current focus is Word Sense Disambiguation. My supervisor is Assoc. Prof. Ng Hwee Tou.
　

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Publications

David Chiang, Steve Deneefe, Yee Seng Chan, and Hwee Tou Ng. 2008. Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms. To appear in EMNLP-2008.

Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng, and Yee Seng Chan. 2008. Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study. To appear in EMNLP-2008.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng. 2008, MAXSIM: A Maximum Similarity Metric for Machine Translation Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08:HLT) , pages 55-62, Columbus, Ohio.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng, David Chiang. 2007. Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), pages 33-40, Prague, Czech Republic.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng. 2007. Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), pages 49-56, Prague, Czech Republic.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng, Zhi Zhong. 2007. NUS-PT: Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation in the English All-Words Tasks. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), pages 253-256, Prague, Czech Republic.

Hwee Tou Ng, Yee Seng Chan. 2007. SemEval-2007 Task 11: English Lexical Sample Task via English-Chinese Parallel Text. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), pages 54-58, Prague, Czech Republic.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng. 2006. Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), pp. 89-96. 17 July - 21 July. Sydney, Australia.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng. 2005. Scaling up Word Sense Disambiguation via Parallel Texts. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05). 9 July - 13 July. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng. 2005. Word Sense Disambiguation with Distribution Estimation. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05). 30 July - 5 August. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan. 2003. Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-03). Sapporo, Japan.

Research Experience
Jun - Aug 2002 : Research Assistant for Prof. Chua Tat Seng
Jan - Jul 2003 : Research Assistant for Assoc. Prof. Ng Hwee Tou