Kazunari SUGIYAMA

Research Interests

Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Digital libraries

Publications

Edited issues

• Freund, L., Rasmussen, E., Sugiyama, K. (eds.) ``Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium,'' The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), Ottawa, Canada, June 13, 2011. (Revised edition has been published in ``Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE TCDL), Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2012, ISSN 1937-7266")

Journals

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Manabu Okumura: ``Personal Name Disambiguation in Web Search Results Using a Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach'' (in Japanese), Journal of Natural Language Processing, Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Vol.16, No.5, pp.23-49, October 2009. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Improvement in TF-IDF Scheme for Web Pages based on the Contents of Their Hyperlinked Neighboring Pages,'' Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol.36, No.14, pp.56-68, December 2005. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Adaptive Web Search Based on User Profile Constructed without Any Effort from Users'' (in Japanese), The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Vol.J87-D-I, No.11, pp.975-990, November 2004. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Improvement in TF-IDF Scheme for Web Pages based on the Contents of their Hyperlinked Neighboring Pages'' (in Japanese), The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Vol.J87-D-I, No.2, pp.113-125, Feburary 2004. [pdf]

Letters

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Adaptive Web Search Considering User's Ephemeral and Persistent Preferences,'' The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ) Letters, Vol.3, No.1, pp.49-52, May 2004. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Improvement in TF-IDF Scheme for Web Pages and its Retrieval Accuracy,'' The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ) Letters, Vol.2, No.1, pp.23-26, May 2003. [pdf]

International conferences and workshops

• Jonathan Y. H. Poon, Kazunari Sugiyama, Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan: ``Instructor-Centric Source Code Plagiarism Detection and Plagiarism Corpus,'' The 17th Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2012), Haifa, Israel, July 3-5, 2012. (To appear)

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan: ``Serendipitous Recommendation for Scholarly Papers Considering Relations Among Researchers,'' The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), pp.307-310, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011. [pdf]

• Duy Khang Ly, Kazunari Sugiyama, Ziheng Lin, and Min-Yen Kan: ``Product Review Summarization from a Deeper Perspective,'' The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), pp.311-314, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan: ``Scholarly Paper Recommendation via User's Recent Research Interests,'' The 10th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010), pp.29-38, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, June 21-25, 2010. [pdf] [dataset]

• Thuy Dung Nguyen, Min-Yen Kan, Dinh-Trung Dang, Markus Hänse, Ching Hoi Andy Hong, Minh-Thang Luong, Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Kazunari Sugiyama, and Yee Fan Tan: ``ForeCite: Towards a reader-centric scholarly digital library,'' The 10th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010), p.387, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, June 21-25, 2010. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Tarun Kumar, Min-Yen Kan and Ramesh C. Tripathi: ``Identifying Citing Sentences in Research Papers Using Supervised Learning,'' 2010 International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP'10), pp.67-72, Shah Alam, Malaysia, March 17-18, 2010. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Manabu Okumura: ``Semi-supervised Clustering for Word Instances and Its Effect on Word Sense Disambiguation,'' The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Vol.5449, pp.266-279, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Manabu Okumura: ``Personal Name Disambiguation in Web Search Results Based on a Semi-supervised Clustering Approach,'' The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Vol.4822, pp.250-256, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-13, 2007. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Manabu Okumura: ``TITPI: Web People Search Task Using Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach,'' The 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007) co-located with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), pp.318-321, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-24, 2007. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: ``Adaptive Web Search Based on User Profile Constructed without Any Effort from Users,'' The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), pp.675-684, New York, USA, May 17-22, 2004. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``User-Oriented Adaptive Web Information Retrieval based on Implicit Observations,'' The 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Vol.3007, pp.636-643, Hangzhou, China, April 14-17, 2004. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Extracting Information on Protein-Protein Interactions from Biological Literature Based on Machine Learning Approaches'' (poster presentation), The 2nd NAIST Bio-COE International Symposium on Molecular Network in Cellular Signal Transduction and Environment Responses, Nara, Japan, January 19-20, 2004.

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Extracting Information on Protein-Protein Interactions from Biological Literature Based on Machine Learning Approaches,'' The 14th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2003), Genome Informatics, Vol.14, pp.699-700, Universal Academy Press, Yokohama, Japan, December 14-17, 2003. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Refinement of TF-IDF Schemes for Web Pages using their Hyperlinked Neighboring Pages,'' The 14th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'03), pp.198-207, Nottingham, UK, August 26-30, 2003. [pdf]
(nominated for Ted Nelson Newcomer Award)

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``A Method of Improving Feature Vector for Web Pages Reflecting the Contents of their Out-Linked Pages,'' The 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Vol.2453, pp.891-901, Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2-6, 2002. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``A Method of Re-ranking Search Results Using their Hidden Hyperlink Structure" (poster presentation), 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB2002), Doctoral Posters Program, Hong-Kong, China, August 20-23, 2002. [pdf]

• Koichi Yamada, Kazunari Sugiyama, Yasunori Yonamine, and Hiroshi Nakagawa: ``Identification of Coreference Between Names and Faces," The International Workshop on Coreference and Its Applications (CorefApp '99) co-located with the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '99), pp.17-24, Maryland, USA, June 22, 1999. [pdf]

Technical Report

• Duy Khang Ly, Kazunari Sugiyama, Ziheng Lin, and Min-Yen Kan: ``Product Review Summarization based on Facet Identification and Sentence Clustering,'' Technical Report TR30/11, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, October 7, 2011. [arXiv:1110.1428, pdf]

Talks in seminar etc.

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Library (JCDL) 2011 Report,'' The 3rd Information Access Symposium (IAS 2011), Special Interest Group of Information Fundamentals and Access Technologies (SIG-IFAT), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), National Institute of Informatics, Japan, September 14, 2011. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Developing Recommendation Techniques for Scholarly Papers,'' Innovation Policy Research Center, the University of Tokyo, Japan, January 7, 2011. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Disambiguation in Web Search Results and Japanese Corpus,'' CS seminar / CHIME Text Processing Seminar, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, April 13, 2009. [pdf]

Selected papers in Japanese domestic conferences

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``Adaptive Web Search Based on User's Implicit Preference,'' The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), In Proceedings of the 15th Data Engineering Workshop (DEWS2004), 5-B-4, Mie, Japan, March 4-6, 2004. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: ``On Some Methods for Improving Feature Vectors for Web Pages and their Retrieval Accuracy'' (English Session), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), In Proceedings of the 14th Data Engineering Workshop (DEWS2003), 2-B-3, Ishikawa, Japan, March 3-5, 2003. [pdf]

Doctor's thesis

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Studies on Improving Retrieval Accuracy in Web Information Retrieval,'' Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, 2004. [pdf]

Articles

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Review: On graph-based name disambiguation Fan X., Wang J., Pu X., Zhou L., Lv B. Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) 2(2): 1-23, 2011.'' ACM Computing Reviews, March 19, 2012. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Review: Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks Kotov A., Bennett P., White R., Dumais S., Teevan J. SIGIR 2011 (Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, Jul 24-28, 2011) 5-14, 2011.'' ACM Computing Reviews, February 23, 2012. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Review: Digital weight watching: reconstruction of scanned documents Marx M., Gielissen T. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 14(2): 229-239, 2011.'' ACM Computing Reviews, July 25, 2011. [pdf]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Research on Electronics and Information Technology in Singapore,'' IEICE Global Plaza -Monthly community plaza in English for students, faculties and engineers-, The Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Vol. 93, No. 8, August 2010. [pdf] [html]

• Kazunari Sugiyama: ``Paper Introduction: Ma, H., King, I., and Lyu, R. M.: Effective missing data prediction for collaborative filtering, Proc. 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 39-46 (2007)'' (in Japanese), Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), Vol. 23, No. 2, pages 309-313, March 2008. [pdf]

Patent

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan: ``METHOD, PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR SCHOLARLY PAPER RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM,'' Appl. No.: 61/510,224, Filed: July 21, 2011.

Professional Activities

Membership

Committee member in conferences, special interest groups etc.

• Program committee, The 8th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2012)

• Program committee of Special Session on Trend and Future of Web of Data (TFWD 2012), The 1st International Conference on Software Technology (Soft-Tech 2012)

• Program committee, The 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2012 (JCDL 2012)

• Program committee of Doctoral Consortium, The 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2012 (JCDL 2012)

• Program committee of Special Session on Technical Opportunity Discovery (TOD-2011), the 2011 International Conference on u- and e- Service, Science, and Technology (UNESST 2011)

• Area chair of ``IR Applications'' The 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011)

• Program committee, The 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011)

• Program committee, The 7th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2011)

• Program committee, The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2011 (JCDL 2011)

• Co-chair and advisory panel of Doctoral Consortium, The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2011 (JCDL 2011)

• Area chair of ``Multimedia IR,'' The 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010)

• Program committee, The 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010)

• Steering committee member, Special Interest Group of Information Fundamentals and Access Technologies (SIGIFAT)*, IPSJ (April 2010 - March 2012)
  (* The name of ``SIGFI'' has been changed into ``SIGIFAT'' since April 2010.)

• Steering committee member, Special Interest Group of Fundamental Informatics (SIGFI), IPSJ (April 2008 - March 2010)

Session chair in conferences

• ``Information discovery in digital libraries,'' Doctoral consortium, The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2011 (JCDL 2011)

• ``Author linkages, a necessary foundation for collaboration,'' The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2011 (JCDL 2011)

Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) (2010, 2012)

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -- Part A: Systems and Humans (2011)

• Journal of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (JCEMS), Academic Journals (2010)

• Journal of Engineering and Computer Innovations (JECI), Academic Journals (2011)

• Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), Springer (2012)

• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), An International Journal, Springer (2010)

• IPSJ Journal of Information Processing (JIP), Japan (2012)

• IPSJ Transactions on Databases (TOD), Japan (2007, 2010, 2011)

• IPSJ Transactions on Mathematical Modeling and its Applications (TOM), Japan (2008)

• 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2012)

• The 17th Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2012)

• 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2011)

• 2011 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2011)

• 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI 2011)

• 2011 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA 2011)

• 2010 International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP'10)

• The 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010, as external reviewer)

• The 2nd Information Access Symposium (IAS 2010), organized by SIG-IFAT IPSJ, Japan

• The 9th Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2010), co-organized by IPSJ and IEICE, Japan

• The 8th Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2009), co-organized by IPSJ and IEICE, Japan

• ACM Computing Reviews (June 2011 - present)

Teaching

Part-time lecturer at Meijigakuin University, Japan

• Computer Literacy 1 (Fall semester, 2008)
Lectures about:
fundamental knowledge of computer such as hardware, software, network
fundamental knowledge required in digital age such as information ethics, personal information protection, intellectual property rights
Exercises about:
how to use a keyboard, the Internet, e-mail and how to make documents with MS Word

• Computer Literacy Study 1B (Fall semester, 2008)
Lectures and exercises about introduction to the C programming language

Public Services

• Volunteer assistant teacher at the Japanese Supplementary School, Singapore (April 2010 - present)

Hobbies