Min-Yen
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Assistant Professor School of Computing |
Office: ++65 6874 1885 Fax: ++65 6779 4580 |
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Research Interests |
Natural Language Processing,
Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interaction. My main interest is in applying
natural language techniques to real-world applications. A key focus of my
work is improving information retrieval user interfaces with the use of
natural language processing technology to make search results more
understandable and usable for the average consumer. |
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Education 1996-2002 |
Ph.D. Computer Science, Dissertation: Text Summarization as applied to Information
Retrieval: Using informative and indicative summaries Advisors: Professors Kathleen R.
McKeown and Judith L. Klavans |
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1996-1998 |
M.S. Computer Science, Awarded en route to Ph.D. during
studies |
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1992-1996 |
B.S. Computer Science, |
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Selected
Publications 2003 2002 2001 1998 1998 |
M. Kan, Ph.D. Thesis, Automatic text summarization as
applied to information retrieval: Using indicative and informative summaries,
M. Kan and J. Klavans Using Librarian Techniques in
Automatic Text Summarization for Information Retrieval. Proceedings of
the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, M. Kan, K. McKeown and J. Klavans, Domain-specific
informative and indicative summarization for information retrieval. In Proceedings
of the Document Understanding Workshop, J. Klavans and M. Kan, Role of Verbs in Document
Analysis. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montréal, M. Kan, J. Klavans and K. McKeown, Linear Segmentation
and Segment Relevance. Proceedings of 6th International Workshop of Very Large
Corpora, |
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Patents and Awards |
"Method for partitioning
natural language texts into topical, multi-paragraph segments" M. Kan,
J. Klavans and K. McKeown, U.S. Patent 6,473,730, October 2002. The Paul Michelman Award for Exemplary Service to the
Computer Science Department, on October 2000. |