Min-Yen Kan Assistant Professor Tel: ++ (65) 6516-1885 Fax: ++ (65) 6779-4580

AS6 05-12 Computing 1, Law Link National University of Singapore Singapore 117590 kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg My PGP key, from pgp.mit.edu

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Some code and data from projects that I've lead:

• Web page layout parser/labeler: PARCELS. Designed, executed and programmed by myself, Aik Miang Lau, Chee How Lee and Sandra Lai.
• The NUS SMS corpus. A collection of over 10K SMS messages compiled by my former student, Yijue How, for linguistic study.
• MeURLin: a URL-only web-page classifier that approaches the performance of full web page classification. Can classify web pages at thousands per minute. Used locally in integration with a focused crawler.
• ParsCit: a CRF-based citation parser. It is being used as a basis for other digital library projects, including the well-known computer science digital library, CiteSeer. First implemented by Yong Kiat Ng.
• JavaRAP: a freely-available JAVA anaphora resolution implementation of the classic Lappin and Leass (1994) paper, implemented by Long Qiu.
• RepLyal: lyric and audio alignment system, a lighter-weight version of our LyricAlly project. Created by Luong Minh Thang.
• Rapi: Our group's UI answer to the problem of improving library catalog access. Created by Jesse Gozali Prabawa.

Most of what I've done professionally for natural language processing is available from the Columbia NLP group's home page. This includes the verber, centrifuser and segmenter packages.

Besides that:

• Automated grading script. A perl script to automatically tabulate homework grades and mail students their results.
• A small script that reads some macros in LaTeX and converts them to an indented textual format. Useful for translating LaTeX or Tex to MS Powerpoint (.ppt). My best solution to the tex2ppt problem. Use this file to translate the LaTeX to plain, indented TeX and then import the file as an outline in PowerPoint (Insert -> Slides from Outline). I used this as a starting point for editing slides for the Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach textbook by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.
• LaTeX / TeX word counting perl script. Counts word in the {document} tag or the entire document (with a flag). Gives section, subsection, subsubsection word counts. Can automatically update a special section in your document with the word counts found. Updated in 2007, 2008 by Sam Tygier and Gregor Heinrich. <sam@tygier.com.uk> to process other inputs included by the \input and \include tag, and to process books and reports with \chapter level headers, respectively.
• Template perl script. Useful for building new perl scripts from.
• Another template script for ruby.
• Need help with LaTeX? Hypertext help is a good site that I use all the time. I've mirrored it here.