My research interests fall under the areas of digital libraries, natural language processing, information retrieval, human-computer interaction. Specifically, they include document structure acquisition, verb analysis, digital library resource annotation and and applied text summarization. My research goal aims to investigate how natural language processing and information retrieval can be applied to improve scholarly publication and knowledge discovery.
I run the Web, Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING) at SoC. We are not the only group dealing with these topics — Web, DL, IR and NLP — and our research isn't limited just to these topics, but it is a good description of the research we do. We have lots of demos, projects and corpora there, including ones that I have had a direct hand in coding such as those on webpage classification, document structure and reference string parsing. There's also plenty of newer work done by the students in WING: including Twitter retweet predictor and classifier, and the Chaptrs photograph organizing and sharing app (for Macs), the world's largest SMS corpus (please contribute!). and the world's best summarization system.
WING is currently affiliated with the China Singapore Institute of Digital Media (CSIDM) and the NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Centre (NExT).
I'm also a member and potential
supervisor for students in the NUS Graduate School for
Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS).
I also lead our group in collecting resources used to do such research. Visit the Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval research framework webpage (cte/sunfire) to see what tools we have available and installed for related research directions and projects.
Conversely, if you're currently doing an FYP or UROP, I've written some notes on what it's like to grade them and what you should be doing as students to try to optimize your grade. If you are doing a thesis proposal as a Ph.D. student, you might want to read this short note.
My group also hosts the occasional postgraduate intern from collaborative projects or one-off internships, which are not listed here.
I list WING's graduated graduate students (MS, Ph.D.) here. I have also directly supervised more than 50 undergraduate projects and theses. More accurate about the current affiliations of our alumni be found in our LinkedIn group (viewable only by members). A more complete list of past alumni (including undergraduates and system staff), see WING.
I have proposed, managed and collaborated on a number of research grants in Singapore. Here's a non-exhaustive listing of some of my research endeavors. Funding in terms of Singapore dollars.