Research

I am supervised by Dr. Kan Min-Yen, and I am associated with Web Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing Group (WING).

Research Interests

  1. Disambiguation problems in digital libraries
  2. Web-based record linkage
  3. Selective acquisition of information

Publications

  1. Dinh-Trung Dang, Yee Fan Tan, and Min-Yen Kan (2008). Towards a Webpage-based Bibliographic Manager. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), pages 313-316, Bali, Indonesia, December 2008. [PDF]
  2. Yee Fan Tan, Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, and Dongwon Lee (2008). Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008. [PDF]
  3. Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir Radev, and Yee Fan Tan (2008). The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. [PDF]
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  4. Min-Yen Kan and Yee Fan Tan (2008). Record Matching in Digital Library Metadata. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 51, Issue 2, pages 91-94, February 2008. [PDF]
  5. Ergin Elmacioglu, Yee Fan Tan, Su Yan, Min-Yen Kan, and Dongwon Lee (2007). PSNUS: Web People Name Disambiguation by Simple Clustering with Rich Features. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), pages 268-271, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. [PDF]
  6. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan, and Dongwon Lee (2006). Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pages 314-315, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006. [PDF]
  7. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan, and Hang Cui (2006). Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework. In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context (MWEmc), pages 49-56, Trento, Italy, April 2006. [PDF] [Demonstration] [Dataset]
  8. Renxu Sun, Jing Jiang, Yee Fan Tan, Hang Cui, Tat-Seng Chua, and Min-Yen Kan (2005). Using Syntactic and Semantic Relation Analysis in Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2005. [PDF]

Thesis Related

  1. Yee Fan Tan (2007). Cost-sensitive Web-based Feature Acquisition for Record Matching. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, October 2007.
  2. Yee Fan Tan (2006). Disambiguation Problems in Scholarly Digital Libraries. Graduate Research Paper, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, May 2006.

Undergraduate Honours Project

  1. Yee Fan Tan (2005). Corpus-Based Identification of Light Verb Constructions. Undergraduate Honours Project Report, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, April 2005.

Research Experience

  1. Undergraduate honours project (2004-2005) on light verb constructions, supervised by Dr. Kan Min-Yen.
  2. Undergraduate research assistant (2003 and 2005) for the NUS question answering system for Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), supervised by Prof. Chua Tat-Seng.