Ming-Feng Tsai's (蔡銘峰) Homepage

Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore

Address: AS6-04-17, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417
Tel: (65) 6516-2803
Email: tsaimf AT comp DOT nus DOT edu DOT sg

Latest News:

It's my honor and privilege to serve as program committee members of SIGIR 2010 and ACL2010 Student Research Workshop this year.
It's my honor and privilege to serve as the representative of PhD students graduated from NTUCSIE in 2009. Here is my speech in the ceremony.

Education | Experience | Publications | Patents | Services | Honors | Hobbies

Education

2003 - 2009       Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
                           Advisor: Prof. Hsin-Hsi Chen
                           Doctoral Thesis: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
2001 - 2003       M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
                           Advisor: Prof. Hsin-Hsi Chen
                           Master Thesis: A Study of Sentence Relevance and Novelty Detection
1997 - 2001 B.S., Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng-Chia University.

Experience

Research
- Oct. 2009 - present            Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
                                             Advisor: Prof. NG Hwee Tou
                                             Participated group: Computational Linguistics Lab
                                             Participated project: Machine Translation for Resource-Poor Languages
- Oct. 2005 - Sep. 2006       Student Intern, Microsoft Research Asia
                                             Mentors: Wei-Ying Ma and Tie-Yan Liu
                                             Participated group: Web Search & Mining Group
                                             Participated projects: Learning to Rank and Anti Spam
Teaching
- Feb. 2009 - Jul. 2009 Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval
- Sep. 2008 - Jan. 2009 Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning
- Feb. 2008 - Jul. 2008 Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval
- Feb. 2007 - Jul. 2007 Teaching Assistant, Systems Programming
- 2004 - 2009 Instructor, Information System Training Program of CSIE, NTU (Course: Java Programming)
Miscellaneous
- 2007 - 2008 Evaluator, Windows Live Spaces Gadgets Competition
- 2002 - 2005 System Administrator, Natural Language Processing Lab, NTU

Publications

Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen, and Yu-Ting Wang. Learning a Merge Model for Multilingual Information Retrieval. Information Processing and Management. (Accepted)
Ming-Feng Tsai. Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval. PhD Thesis, 2009.
Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. A Study of Learning a Merge Model for Multilingual Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the 31th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'08), pages 195-202, 2008. (17% acceptance)
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Combining WordNet and ConceptNet for Automatic Query Expansion: A Learning Approach . Proceedings of the Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'08), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4993: 213-224, 2008. (27% acceptance)
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng Wang, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li. Query-level Loss Functions for Information Retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 44(2): 838-855, 2008.
Ming-Feng Tsai, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, and Wei-Ying Ma. FRank: a ranking method with fidelity loss. Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'07), pages 383-390, 2007. (17% acceptance)
Zhe Cao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hang Li. Learning to Rank: From Pairwise Approach to Listwise Approach. Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning (ICML'07), pages 129-136, 2007. (29% acceptance)
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Query Expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet: An Intrinsic Comparison. Proceedings of the Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4182: 1-13, 2006. (23% acceptance)
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Multilingual Relevant Sentence Detection Using Reference Corpus. Proceedings of the First Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'04), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3411: 165-177, 2004. (30% acceptance)
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Ming-Hung Hsu. Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus. Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'04), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2997: 85-98, 2004. (32% acceptance)
Ming-Feng Tsai. A Study of Sentence Relevance and Novelty Detection. Master Thesis, 2003.
Ming-Feng Tsai, Ming-Hung Hsu, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Approach of information retrieval with reference corpus to novelty detection. Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference. Gaithersburg, NIST Special Publication: SP 500-255, pages 474–479, 2003.
Ming-Feng Tsai and Hsin-Hsi Chen. Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty Detection. Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference. Gaithersburg, NIST Special Publication: SP 500-251, 2002.

Patents

Learning a Document Ranking Function Using Fidelity-Based Error Measurements, US Patent 41826.8341, Pending 2006.

Professional Services

Program Committee Member
SIGIR 2010, ACL2010 Student Research Workshop, CIKM 2009
Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), IEEE MultiMedia (MM), Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE)

Honors and Awards

PhD Thesis Award of TAAI, Taiwan, 2009
中華民國人工智慧學會『博士論文獎』, 2009
Outstanding Teaching Assistant of CSIE, NTU, 2009 (Course: Machine Learning)
國立台灣大學電機資訊學院資訊學群『傑出助教獎』, 2009（課程：機器學習）
Outstanding Teaching Assistant of CSIE, NTU, 2008 (Course: Information Retrieval and Extraction)
國立台灣大學電機資訊學院資訊學群『傑出助教獎』, 2008（課程：資訊檢索與擷取）
Student Travel Grant for SIGIR 2008
Student Grant of Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan, 2008
財團法人傑出人才發展基金會『優秀學生出國開會補助』, 2008
Student Travel Grant for SIGIR 2007
Best Intern of the Year, Microsoft Research Asia, 2006
Invited to visit the headquarters of Microsoft and Bill Gate's house in Redmond

Here is a brief excerpt:
One of the interns sent by Professor Chen was awarded by MSRA "Best Intern of the Year."
The award offered the Ph.D. student, Ming-Feng Tsai, a trip to Bill Gate's home for a BBQ
in the summer of 2006; and the successful story caught great media attention in Taiwan.
Master Thesis Award of ACLCLP, Taiwan, 2003
中華民國計算語言學學會『碩士論文獎』, 2003

Hobbies

Swimming, Baseball, Basketball, Badminton, Magic

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