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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 metadata features can be automatically calculated and used to help improve web search interfaces.

If you're interested in reading up on Web IR / NLP, consider reading some of the papers that I have been reading in my wiki. Also, consider joining our reading group on graphical methods. You can also review recent talks that I've given or talks from the CHIME text processing seminar.

I run the Web, Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING) at SoC. We are not the only group dealing with these topics 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 on webpage classification, web block classification, and citation parsing. There are openings for research projects at the graduate and undergraduate level, see the WING project opening page for details.

I also lead our group in collecting resources used to do such research. Visit the Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval research framework webpage (sf3/sunfire) to see what tools we have available and installed for related research directions and projects.

Conversely, if you're currently doing an HYP 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.

Current and Past Postgraduate Students

For a complete list of my current and past students (including undergraduates and system staff), see WING.

Research Grants

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