CHEN Bin 陈彬

Ph.D. Candidate @ SOC, NUS

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
(In Progress)		 National University of Singapore (NUS) 2007~Present
Bachelor of Computing
(2nd Upper Class of Honor with Minor in Mathematics)		 National University of Singapore (NUS) 2003~2007

Publications

Chen, Bin; Su, Jian and Tan, Chew Lim. 2010. Resolving Event Noun Phrases to Their Verbal Mentions. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP10). Cambridge, MA, USA. 9-11, October, 2010

Chen, Bin; Su, Jian and Tan, Chew Lim. 2010. A Twin-Candidate Based Approach for Event Pronoun Resolution using Composite Kernel. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING10). Beijing, China. 23-27,August, 2010

Chen, Bin; Yang, Xiaofeng; Su, Jian and Tan, Chew Lim. 2008. Other-Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts with Automatically Mined Patterns. In Proceedings of The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING08). Manchester, UK. 18-22,August 2008


Academic Memberships

  • Student Member of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2009-2010
  •  Student Member of the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) 2009-2010
  • Student Member of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) 2008-2010

Professional Services

  • Secondary Reviewer for COLING 2010 Program Committee
  • Secondary Reviewer for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2010
  • Assistant for ACL 2009 PC Co-Chairs
  • Assistant for ACL 2007 Publication Chair

Part-time Job History

Research Assistant Institute for Inforcomm Research (I2R), Singapore May ~ Aug, 2007
Research Assistant Institute for Inforcomm Research (I2R), Singapore May ~ Aug, 2008
Teaching Assistant National University of Singapore (NUS) Aug ~ Dec, 2006
Teaching Assistant National University of Singapore (NUS) Jan ~ May, 2009

Research Summary

Event Anaphora Resolution in Newswire

  • Resolve pronoun and noun phrase reference to event object in news articles
  • SVM-based Convolution Tree Kernel is applied with re-ranking features
  • First work in the literature on Event Anaphora
  • 57.9% F-score for Event Pronoun Resolution
  • 61.6% F-score for Event Noun Phrases Resolution

Bridging Anaphora Resolution in Bio-Medical Texts

  • Resolve Part-of, Member-of relations in bio-medical articles 
  • Web-based pattern mining and application
  • 9% accuracy improvement compare to a state-of-arts lexical baseline system

Programming Skills

  • Expetise in Java and C/C++/C#
  • Advanced in Perl
  • Advanced in R and Matlab
  • Familiar with Unix and Linux

References available upon request.

Curricular Vitae

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