Min-Yen Kan
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 School of Computing

Min-Yen Kan (靳民彦)

Associate Professor

Vice Dean, Undergraduate Office
COM3 02-30
11 Research Link
National University of Singapore
Singapore 119391
kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg (GPG Key | ORCID)
knmnyn@nus.edu.sg knmnyn@skype
P: ++ (65) 6516-1885 | F: ++ (65) 6779-4580

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order. Presentation slides associated with the publications are supplied when available. You can also review most recent slides and posters from talks on Speakerdeck or locally, as well as older presentations from my Ph.D. years.

Publications are also labeled by general research area:
DL IR NLP Web Others: DB EdTech HCI ML MedInfo MM Bibliometrics Ethics

Edited volumes or issues

  1. Jiangping Chen, Marcos André Gonçalves, Jeff M. Allen, Edward A. Fox, Min-Yen Kan and Vivien Petras (Eds.) (2018) Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. June 3-6.
    DL
  2. Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan (Eds.) (2017) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vancouver, Canada. July-August. ISBN 978-1-945626-75-3. pp. 1-2209.
    [ Volume at the ACL Anthology ] NLP
  3. Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan (Eds.) (2017) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), Vancouver, Canada. July-August. ISBN 978-1-945626-76-0. pp. 1-732.
    [ Volume at the ACL Anthology ] NLP
  4. Pu-Jen Cheng, Min-Yen Kan, Wai Lam, Preslav I. Nakov (Eds.) (2010) Information Retrieval Technology: 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 6458, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2010. 627 pp. ISBN: 978-3-642-17186-4
    [ Volume at SpringerLink ] IR Web
  5. Simone Teufel and Min-Yen Kan (2009) Proceedings of NLPIR4DL 2009: 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries. Association for Computational Linguistics and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 2009.
    [ ACL Anthology (W09-36)] [ Local copy ] [ Preface only ] DL IR NLP
  6. Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee and Ee-Peng Lim (2008) Scholarly digital libraries at scale: introduction to the special issue on very large digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries 9(2): pp. 81-82
    [ doi:10.1007/s00799-008-0042-0 ] [ Local copy (as allowed by self-archiving, courtesy Springer-Verlag) ] DL
  7. Hwee Tou Ng, Mun-Kew Leong, Min-Yen Kan and Donghong Ji (Eds.) (2006) Information Retrieval Technology: Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 4182. Singapore, October 16-18, Springer, 684 pp. IBSN: 978-3-540-45780-0
    [ Volume at SpringerLink ] IR Web

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Abhinav Kashyap, Yajing Yang and Min-Yen Kan (2023) Scientific document processing: challenges for modern learning methods. International Journal on Digital Libraries. 1-27.
    [ doi:10.1007/s00799-023-00352-7 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] NLP Bibliometrics DL
  2. Ramtin Yazdanian, Richard Lee Davis, Xiangcen Guo, Fiona Lim, Pierre Dillenbourg and Min-Yen Kan (2021) On the radar: Predicting near-future surges in skills' hiring demand to provide early warning to educators. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence 100043, ISSN 2666-920X
    [ doi:10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100043 ] [ Local copy ] IR EdTech
  3. Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Preslav Nakov and Min-Yen Kan (2020) FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation. Communications of the ACM 65(4), pp. 124-132.
    [ doi:10.1145/3336191.3371769 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] IR NLP
  4. Liangming Pan, Jingjing Chen, Shaoteng Liu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2020) A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Prerequisite Relations in Multi-modal Food Recipes. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Vol 23. pp. 4491-4501. IEEE Press
    [ doi:10.1109/TMM.2020.3042706 ] [ Local copy ] MM
  5. Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Kishaloy Halder (2020) Neural side effect discovery from user credibility and experience-assessed online health discussions, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Volume 11, Number 5.
    [ doi:10.1186/s13326-020-00221-1 ] [ Local copy ] NLP MedInfo
  6. Ya-Hui An, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Qiang Dong and Yan Fu (2019) Resource Mention Extraction for MOOC Discussion Forums. IEEE Access 7(1), pp. 87887-87900, December, 2019.
    [ https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2924250 ] [ Local copy ] EdTech
  7. Animesh Prasad, Manpreet Kaur and Min-Yen Kan (2018) Neural ParsCit: a deep learning-based reference string parser. International Journal on Digital Libraries. May 2018.
    [ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-018-0242-1 ] [ Via Springer's SharedIt ] [ Local copy ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP Bibliometrics DL
  8. Philipp Mayr, Ingo Frommholz, Guillaume Cabanac, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan and Dietmar Wolfram (2017) Introduction to the special issue on bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval and natural language processing for digital libraries (BIRNDL). International Journal on Digital Libraries. November 2017.
    [ doi:10.1007/s00799-017-0230-x ] [ Via Springer's SharedIt ] [ Local copy ] IR NLP Bibliometrics
  9. Juyoung An, Namhee Kim, Min-Yen Kan, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran and Min Song (2017) Exploring characteristics of highly cited authors according to citation location and content. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 68, Issue 8 (August). pp. 1975-1988.
    [ preprint (.pdf) ] [ doi:10.1002/asi.23834 ] NLP Bibliometrics DL
  10. Kokil Jaidka, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Sajal Rustagi and Min-Yen Kan (2017) Insights from CL-SciSumm 2016: the faceted scientific document summarization Shared Task. International Journal on Digital Libraries, Online First. June.
    [ e-offprint (.pdf) as allowed by Springer self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1007/s00799-017-0221-y ] NLP
  11. Xiangnan He, Ming Gao, Min-Yen Kan and Dingxian Wang (2017) BiRank: Towards Ranking on Bipartite Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29(1). pp. 57-71. January.
    [ Local preprint (.pdf) as allowed by IEEE self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1109/TKDE.2016.2611584 ] Web IR
  12. Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2014). A comprehensive evaluation of scholarly paper recommendation using potential citation papers. International Journal on Digital Libraries, pp 1-19. August.
    [ Local preprint (.pdf) as allowed by Springer self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1007/s00799-014-0122-2 ] DL
  13. Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2014). A PDTB-Styled End-to-End Discourse Parser. Natural Language Engineering, 20(2), pp 151-184. April.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Cambridge University Press self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1017/S1351324912000307 ] NLP
  14. Philip S. Cho, Huy Hoang Nhat Do, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan (2013) Identifying research facilitators in an emerging Asian Research Area. Scientometrics, June 2013.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Springer self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1051-3 ] Bibliometrics
  15. Aobo Wang, Cong Duy Vu Hoang and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Perspectives on Crowdsourcing Annotations for Natural Language Processing. Language Resources and Evaluation, 47(1), pages 9-31.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Springer self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1007/s10579-012-9176-1 ] IR NLP
  16. Su Nam Kim, Olena Medelyan, Min-Yen Kan and Timothy Baldwin (2012). Automatic keyphrase extraction from scientific articles. In Language Resources and Evaluation. December 2012.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Springer self-archiving policy ] [ doi:10.1007/s10579-012-9210-3 ] NLP
  17. Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2013). Creating a live, public short message service corpus: the NUS SMS corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation. August 2012.
    [ doi:10.1007/s10579-012-9197-9 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Springer's self-archiving policy ] [ Corpus Website (now on GitHub) ] NLP
  18. Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2012). Rich and Dynamic Library Catalogs: A Case Study of Online Search Interfaces. In Jesus Tramullas and Piedad Garrido (Eds.) Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape, Idea Group Publishing.
    [ doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch002 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ From IGI ] DL HCI
  19. Simone Teufel and Min-Yen Kan (2011) Robust Argumentative Zoning for Sensemaking in Scholarly Documents. Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries (ALT4DL). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6699/2011, pp. 154-170
    [ doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23160-5_10 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by Springer Verlag self-archiving policy ] [ RAZ (@ GitHub) ] DL NLP
  20. Minh-Thang Luong, Thuy Dung Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Logical Structure Recovery in Scholarly Articles with Rich Document Features. International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 1(4). pp. 1-23.
    [ doi:10.4018/jdls.2010100101 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] DL NLP
  21. Min-Yen Kan and Yee Fan Tan (2008) Record Matching in Digital Library Metadata. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Technical Opinion Column, 51(2), pp 91-94, February.
    [ doi:10.1145/1314215.1314231 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] IR DB ML
  22. Min-Yen Kan, Ye Wang, Denny Iskandar, Tin Lay Nwe and Arun Shenoy (2008) LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Textual Lyrics to Acoustic Music Signals. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16(2), February. pp. 338-349.
    [ doi:10.1109/TASL.2007.911559 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by IEEE author self-archiving policy ] NLP MM
  23. Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan and Long Qiu (2007) Document concept lattice for text understanding and summarization, Information Processing and Management, 43(6), pp. 1643-1662.
    [ doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.03.010 ] NLP
  24. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2007) Soft Pattern Matching Models for Definitional Question Answering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 25(2), April.
    [ doi:10.1145/12291799.1229182 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) as allowed by ACM author self-archiving policy ] IR NLP
  25. Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features, Information Processing and Management, 43(2), pages 431-444.
    [ doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2006.07.019 ] IR Web
  26. Min-Yen Kan (2005) Using multi-document summarisation to assist in semi-structured literature retrieval: A case study in consumer healthcare In Theng, Yin Leng and Foo, Schubert (Eds.) "Design and Usability of Digital Libraries : Case Studies in the Asia Pacific", Idea Group Publishing. DL NLP
  27. Noemie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Judith Klavans and Kathleen McKeown (2005) Customization in a Unified Framework for Summarizing Medical Literature, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 33 (2), pp. 179-198.
    [ doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2004.07.018 ] NLP MedInfo

Conference and Workshop Papers

2023

  1. Longshen Ou, Xichu Ma, Min-Yen Kan and Ye Wang (2023) Songs Across Borders: Singable and Controllable Neural Lyric Translation. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'23). Toronto, Canada. Jul 9--14.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP MM
  2. Taha Aksu, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy F. Chen (2023) Prompter: Zero-shot Adaptive Prefixes for Dialogue State Tracking Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'23). Toronto, Canada. Jul 9--14.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  3. Liangming Pan, Xiaobao Wu, Xinyuan Lu, Anh Tuan Luu, William Yang Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Preslav Nakov (2023) Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'23). Toronto, Canada. Jul 9--14. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  4. Keng Ji Chow, Samson Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2023) TraVLR: Now You See It, Now You Don't! A Bimodal Dataset for Evaluating Visio-Linguistic Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'23). Dubrovnik, Crotia. May 2-6. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2023.eacl-main.242 (@ ACL Anthology) ] NLP MM
  5. Bhavitvya Malik, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Min-Yen Kan and Soujanya Poria (2023) UDAPTER - Efficient Domain Adaptation Using Adapters. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'23). Dubrovnik, Crotia. May 2-6. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2023.eacl-main.165 (@ ACL Anthology) ] NLP
  6. Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'23). Dubrovnik, Crotia. May 2-6. Tutorial Abstract.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2023.eacl-tutorials.4 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Tutorial Website (acl-org@ GitHub) ] NLP Ethics
  7. Xinyuan Lu, Min-Yen Kan (2023) Improving Recommendation Systems with User Personality Inferred from Product Reviews. In Proceedings of the WSDM 2023 Workshop on Interactive Recommender Systems (IRS-WSDM'23) Singapore, Singapore. 3 March. Non-archival. (Posted to cs.IR)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] IR

2022

  1. Longxu Dou, Yan Gao, Xuqi Liu, Mingyang Pan, Dingzirui Wang, Wanxiang Che, Min-Yen Kan, Dechen Zhan, Jian-Guang Lou (2022) Towards Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing with Formulaic Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '22). Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dec. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.emnlp-main.350 (@ ACL Anthology) ] NLP
  2. Wei Han, Hui Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria (2022) MM-Align: Learning Optimal Transport-based Alignment Dynamics for Fast and Accurate Inference on Missing Modality Sequences. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '22). Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dec. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.emnlp-main.717 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] MM NLP
  3. Po-Wei Huang, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Yanxia Qin, Yajing Yang and Min-Yen Kan (2022) Lightweight Contextual Logical Structure Recovery. In the Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing @ COLING '22 (SDP '22). October 16. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.sdp-1.5 (@ ACL Anthology) ] NLP
  4. Hengchang Hu, Liangming Pan, Yiding Ran and Min-Yen Kan (2022) Modeling and Leveraging Prerequisite Context in Recommendation. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Context-Aware Recommendation Systems (CARS) at ACM RecSys '22.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] IR
  5. Yiding Ran, Hengchang Hu and Min-Yen Kan (2022) PM K-LightGCN: Optimizing for Accuracy and Popularity Match in Course Recommendation. In the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multi-Objective Recommender Systems at ACM RecSys '22. Short paper.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] [ Video @ YouTube ] IR
  6. Lin Xu, Qixian Zhou, Jinlan Fu, Min-Yen Kan and See-Kiong Ng (2022) CorefDiffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '22). October 12-17. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Full Paper.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.coling-1.38 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  7. Saurabh Jain, Yisong Miao and Min-Yen Kan (2022) Comparative Snippet Generation. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP. Dublin, Ireland. May. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.ecnlp-1.7 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Dataset (@ GitHub) ] NLP IR
  8. Yunxiang Zhang, Liangming Pan, Samson Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2022) Interpreting the Robustness of Neural NLP Models to Textual Perturbations. Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics '22. Dublin, Ireland. May.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ 2022.findings-acl.315 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] NLP
  9. Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan, Roger Zimmermann and Soujanya Poria (2022) So Different Yet So Alike! Constrained Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics '22. Dublin, Ireland. May. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.acl-long.32 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Video (.mp4) ] NLP
  10. Ibrahim Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy F. Chen (2022) N-Shot Learning for Augmenting Task-Oriented Dialogue State Tracking. Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics '22. Dublin, Ireland. May. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.findings-acl.131 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Video (.mp4) ] NLP
  11. Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Tianbao Xie, Qixin Li, Jian-Guang Lou, Wanxiang Che and Min-Yen Kan (2022) GL-CLeF: A Global--Local Contrastive Learning Framework for Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics '22. Dublin, Ireland. May. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2022.acl-long.191 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP

2021

  1. Xichu Ma, Ye Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Wee Sun Lee (2021) AI-Lyricist: Generating Music and Vocabulary Constrained Lyrics In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Multimedai (ACM MM '21). 20-24 October 2021, Chengdu, China.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] MM
  2. Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy F. Chen (2021) Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL '21), 29-31 July 2021, Singapore
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] [ Video @ YouTube ] NLP
  3. Jiaqi Li, Ming Liu, Zihao Zheng, Heng Zhang, Bing Qin, Min-Yen Kan and Ting Liu (2021) DADgraph: A Discourse-aware Dialogue Graph Neural Network for Multiparty Dialogue Machine Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'21) (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] NLP
  4. Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Laiba Mehnaz, Bhavitvya Malik, Abdul Waheed, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan and Rajiv Ratn Shah (2021) Analyzing the Domain Robustness of Pretrained Language Models, Layer by Layer. In Proceedings of the Adapt-NLP 2021 workshop.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (2021.adaptnlp-1.23) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] NLP
  5. Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang. (2021) Zero-shot Fact Verification by Claim Generation. (Short Paper). ACL-IJCNLP, 2021. [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  6. Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Kathy Baxter, Araz Taeihagh, Gregory A. Bennett, Min-Yen Kan (2021) Reliability Testing for Natural Language Processing Systems. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Long Paper). ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Best Paper Nominee
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (2021.acl-long.321.pdf) ] [ Video @ YouTube ] NLP
  7. Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan and William Yang Wang (2021) Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation. In Proceedings of 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  8. Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan and Roger Zimmermann (2021) Domain Divergences: a Survey and Empirical Analysis. In Proceedings of 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] NLP

2020

  1. Jiaqi Li, Ming Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Zihao Zheng, Zekun Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Ting Liu and Bing Qin (2020) Molweni: A Challenge Multiparty Dialogue-based Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset with Discourse Structure. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020). Online. 8-13 December. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ 2020.coling-main.238 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Poster (.png) ] [ Molweni Corpus (HIT-SCIR @ GitHub) ] NLP
  2. Yuxi Xie, Liangming Pan, Dongzhe Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Yansong Feng (2020) Exploring Question-Specific Rewards for Generating Deep Questions. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020). Online. 8-13 December. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ 2020.coling-main.228 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] NLP
  3. Akshay Bhola, Kishaloy Halder, Animesh Prasad and Min-Yen Kan (2020) Retrieving Skills from Job Descriptions: A Language Model Based Extreme Multi-label Classification Framework. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020). Online. 8-13 December.
    [ .pdf  (preprint)] [ 2020.coling-main.513 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (@ Speakerdeck) ] [ Code and Dataset (@ GitHub) ] IR NLP
  4. Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap and Min-Yen Kan (2020) SciWING - A Software Toolkit for Scientific Document Processing. In 1st Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing @ EMNLP 2020. Demonstration Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Demo Video (2m @ YouTube) ] [ SciWING Code (@ GitHub) ] [ SciWING Website ] DL NLP
  5. Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Lav R. Varshney and Min-Yen Kan (2020) Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (2020.emnlp-main.455) ] [ BITE Codebase (Salesforce @ GitHub) ] NLP
  6. Wenqiang Lei, Weixin Wang, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2020) Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (2020.emnlp-main.564) ] [ SLSQL Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  7. Liangming Pan, Jingjing Chen, Jianlong Wu, Shaoteng Liu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Min-Yen Kan, Yugang Jiang and Tat-Seng Chua (2020) Multi-modal Cooking Workflow Construction for Food Recipes. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. (Posted to cs.CL)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ doi:10.1145/3394171.3413765 ] MM
  8. Shi Tian, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap and Min-Yen Kan (2020) ServiceMarq: Extracting Service Contributions from Call for Papers. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2020 (DocEng '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 1-4.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ doi:10.1145/3395027.3419596 ] [ ServiceMarq Codebase (@ GitHub) ] [ Front End Codebase (@ GitHub) ] DL
  9. Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Preslav Nakov and Min-Yen Kan (2020) FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. CIKM '20. (Posted to cs.CL, cs.SI, cs.IR and cs.LG) Best Paper Award
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Post presentation Video @ Vimeo (1h20m invited talk at HIT, China) ] [ doi:10.1145/3340531.3412046 ] NLP
  10. Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Yansong Feng, Tat Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2020) Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions. In Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL '20).
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ 2020.acl-main.135 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  11. Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Liu and Tat-Seng Chua (2020) Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communcation between Experts and Laymen. In Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL '20).
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ 2020.acl-main.100 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Dataset Homepage ] NLP
  12. Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Min-Yen Kan and Richard Socher (2020) It's Morphin' Time! Combating Linguistic Discrimination with Inflectional Perturbations. In Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL '20). (Posted to CS.cl)
    [ Local copy (.pdf) (copy from arXiv, version 1) ] [ 2020.acl-main.263 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  13. Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan and Tat Seng Chua (2020). Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '20).
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Source code and Website (github.io) ] [ doi:10.1145/3336191.3371769 ] IR NLP

2019

  1. Chenglei Si, Kui Wu, Ai Ti Aw and Min-Yen Kan (2019) Sentiment Aware Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation. November, Hong Kong, China.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (D19-5227) ] NLP
  2. Animesh Prasad, Saumya Ahuja, Shenhao Jiang, Bimlesh Wadhwa and Min-Yen Kan (2019) ChairVisE: An analytic lens for conference submission data. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '19), June, Urbana-Champaign, USA, IEEE Press. Demonstration Paper.
    [ .pdf ] DL
  3. Xuan Su, Animesh Prasad, Min-Yen Kan and Kazunari Sugiyama (2019) Neural Multi-Task Learning for Citation Function and Provenance. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '19), June, Urbana-Champaign, USA, IEEE Press. Poster Paper.
    [ Longer Version @ arxiv:cs.CL ] [ .pdf ] NLP DL
  4. Animesh Prasad, Chenglei Si and Min-Yen Kan (2019) Towards Joint End-to-End Dataset Mention Extraction and Classification, In Proc. of the Workshop on extracting structured knowledge from scientific publications (ESSP '19). Minneapolis, USA: June 7, 2019.
    [ .pdf ] NLP DL
  5. Animesh Prasad and Min-Yen Kan (2019) Glocal: Incorporating Global Information in Local Convolution for Keyphrase Extraction, In Proc. of the the North American Chapter Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL '19). Minneapolis, USA: June 2-7, 2019.
    [ .pdf ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP
  6. Kishaloy Halder, Min-Yen Kan and Kazunari Sugiyama (2019) Predicting Helpful Posts in Open-Ended Discussion Forums: A Neural Architecture, In Proc. of the North American Chapter Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL '19). Minneapolis, USA: June 2-7, 2019.
    [ .pdf ] IR MedInfo NLP

2018

  1. Nguyen Van Hoang, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Kishaloy Halder (2018) Treatment Side Effect Prediction from Online User-generated Content, In Proc. of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI '18), Brussels, Belgium: October 31-November 1.
    [ .pdf ] NLP MedInfo
  2. Ya-Hui An, Muthu Kumar Chandresekaran, Min-Yen Kan and Yan Fu (2018) MUIR: Cross-Linking MOOC Resources to Enhance Discussion Forums, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2018), Porto, Portugal: September 10-13, 2018.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL EdTech
  3. Shenhao Jiang, Animesh Prasad, Min-Yen Kan and Kazunari Sugiyama (2018) Identifying Emergent Research Trends by Key Authors and Phrases, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: August 2018.
    [ .pdf ] [ Codebase (@ GitHub) ] NLP Bibliometrics DL
  4. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran and Min-Yen Kan (2018) Countering Position Bias in Instructor Interventions in MOOC Discussion Forums, In The 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, Melbourne, Australia: July 2018.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W18-3720) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] EdTech
  5. Daniel Gildea, Min-Yen Kan, Nitin Madnani, Christoph Teichmann and Martín Villalba (2018) The ACL Anthology: Current State and Future Directions, In Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS 2018), Melbourne, Australia: July 2018.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (W18-2504) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL NLP
  6. Wenqiang Lei, Xisen Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He and Dawei Yin (2018) Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures, In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), Melbourne, Australia: July 2018.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (P18-1133) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Code @ GitHub ] NLP
  7. Kishaloy Halder, Lahari Poddar and Min-Yen Kan (2018) Cold Start Thread Recommendation as Extreme Multi-label Classification, In XMLC for Social Media: WWW 2018 Companion: The 2018 Web Conference Companion, April 23-27, 2018, Lyon, France.
    ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages.
    [ .pdf ] [ doi:10.1145/3184558.3191659 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] IR NLP Web
  8. Wenqiang Lei, Yuanxin Xiang, Yuwei Wang, Qian Zhong, Meichun Liu and Min-Yen Kan (2018) Linguistic Properties Matter for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition: Combining Semantic Interaction, Topic Continuity and Attribution. Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-'18). February 2-7.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] NLP

2017 and older

  1. Kishaloy Halder, Min-Yen Kan and Kazunari Sugiyama (2017) Health Forum Recommendation Using an Interest Aware Topic Model. In CIKM2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. November 2017. Singapore.
    NLP Web
  2. Kishaloy Halder, Lahari Poddar and Min-Yen Kan (2017) Modeling Temporal Progression of Emotional Status in Mental Health Forum: A Recurrent Neural Net Approach. In Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA '17). September 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Code @ GitHub ] NLP Web
  3. Wenqiang Lei, Xuancong Wang, Meichun Liu, Ilija Ilievski, Xiangnan He and Min-Yen Kan (2017) SWIM: A Simple Word Interaction Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '17), August 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] NLP
  4. Animesh Prasad and Min-Yen Kan (2017). WING-NUS at SemEval-2017 Task 10: Keyphrase Identification and Classification as Joint Sequence Labeling. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), Association of Computational Linguistics, August 2017, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 972--976.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] NLP
  5. Kiruthika Ragupathi, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan and Bernard C.Y. Tan (2017). Investigating Student Learning in Online Discussion Forums through a Transactivity Framework. In Proceedings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL '17). Abstract Paper.
    [ Presentation (.pdf) ] EdTech
  6. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Carrie Demmans Epp, Min-Yen Kan and Diane Litman (2017). Using Discourse Signals for Robust Instructor Intervention Prediction. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), San Francisco, USA, 3415-3421, AAAI.
    [ .pdf ] [ arxiv:cs.AI ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Code @ GitHub ] NLP EdTech
  7. Kang Hong Jin, Tao Chen, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran and Min-Yen Kan (2016). A Comparison of Word Embeddings for English and Cross-Lingual Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-3), Osaka, Japan. Pp. 30-39.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ arxiv:cs.CL ] NLP
  8. Jovian Lin, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2016) Scrutinizing Mobile App Recommendation: Identifying Important App-related Indicators, In Proceedings of the 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS '16). Beijing, China. November 30 - December 2.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Slides (.pdf)  ] IR Web
  9. Tao Chen, Xiangnan He and Min-Yen Kan (2016). Context-aware Image Tweet Modelling and Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'16), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 15-19 Oct.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Dataset @ GitHub ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] MM
  10. Jerome Cheng, Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2016). Linking Organizational Social Network Profiles. In Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '16). Pisa, Italy. July 17-21. Short Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] IR Web
  11. Xiangnan He, Hanwang Zhang, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2016). Fast Matrix Factorization for Online Recommendation with Implicit Feedback. In Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '16). Pisa, Italy. July 17-21.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] IR Web
  12. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Kiruthika Ragupathi, Min-Yen Kan, and Bernard C. Y. Tan (2015). Towards Feasible Instructor Intervention in MOOC Discussion Forums. In Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems, (ICIS '15), Forth Worth, Texas. Research in Progress Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] EdTech
  13. Xiangnan He, Tao Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Xiao Chen (2015). TriRank: Review-aware Explainable Recommendation by Modeling Aspects. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne, Australia, October. pp. 1661-1670.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2806416.2806504 ] [  Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] IR Web
  14. Bang Hui Lim, Dongyuan Lu, Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2015). #mytweet via Instagram: Exploring User Behaviour across Multiple Social Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '15), Paris, France.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ arxiv:cs.SI ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] NLP IR Web
  15. Tao Chen, Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan (2015). Interactive Second Language Learning from News Websites. In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA '15), Beijing, China.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.18653/v1/W15-4406 ] [ Video Demo (via YouTube) ] NLP
  16. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan, Kiruthika Ragupathi and Bernard C. Y. Tan (2015). Learning instructor intervention from MOOC forums: Early Results and Issues. In Proceedings of Education Data Mining (EDM '15), Madrid, Spain.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ arxiv:cs.CY ] [  Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] EdTech
  17. Nguyen Viet Cuong, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan and Wee Sun Lee (2015) Scholarly Document Information Extraction using Extensible Features for Efficient Higher Order Semi-CRFs. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '15). 21-25 June. Knoxville, TN, USA. Pages 61-64.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2756406.2756946 ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] [ Video ] DL
  18. Min-Yen Kan (2015) Serving the Readers of Scholarly Documents: A Grand Challenge for the Introspective Digital Library. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing. Jeju Island, S. Korea. 9-12 February. Invited Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] DL
  19. Tao Chen, Hany M. SalahEldeen, Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan and Dongyuan Lu (2014) VELDA: Relating an Image Tweet's Text and Images. In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15). Austin, Texas, USA. 25-30 January.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] MM NLP IR Web
  20. Haochen Zhang, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma (2014) Online Social Network Profile Linkage Based on Cost-Sensitive Feature Acquisition. In Proceedings of Social Media Processing (SMP '14). pp 117-128. 1-2 November, Beijing, China.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45558-6_11 ] IR Web
  21. Haochen Zhang, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma (2014) Online Social Network Profile Linkage. In Proceedings of Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS '14). 3-5 December, Kuching, Malaysia.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] IR Web
  22. Xiangnan He, Ming Gao, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu and Kazunari Sugiyama (2014) Predicting the Popularity of Web 2.0 Items Based on User Comments. In Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '14). Gold Coast, Australia. pp. 233-242. July 6-11.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2600428.2609558 ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] IR Web
  23. Jovian Lin, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2014) New and Improved: Modeling Versions to Improve App Recommendation. Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '14). Gold Coast, Australia. pp. 647-656. July 6-11.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2600428.2609560 ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] IR Web
  24. Jun-Ping Ng, Yan Chen, Min-Yen Kan and Zhoujun Li (2014) Exploiting Timelines to Enhance Multi-document Summarization. In the Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Baltimore, USA. June. pp. 923-933.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (P14-1087) ] [ Slides (.ppt) ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] [ Video ] NLP
  25. Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan, Peichu Xie and Xiao Chen (2014) Comment-based Multi-View Clustering of Web 2.0 Items. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW '14), Seoul, South Korea, April 7-11. pp. 771-782.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2566486.2567975 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] Web
  26. Jun-Ping Ng, Min-Yen Kan, Ziheng Lin, Wei Feng, Bin Chen, Jian Su and Chew-Lim Tan (2013) Exploiting Discourse Analysis for Article-Wide Temporal Classification. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Seattle, USA. October. pp. 12-23.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (D13-1002) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  27. Yiping Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Jun Ping Ng and Xiangnan He (2013) Mining Scientific Terms and their Definitions: A Study of the ACL Anthology. In the Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Seattle, USA. October. pp. 780-790.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (D13-1073) ] [ Corpus ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] NLP
  28. Tao Chen, Dongyuan Lu, Min-Yen Kan and Peng Cui (2013) Understanding and Classifying Image Tweets. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM). Barcelona, Spain. October. pp 781-784. Short Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] MM
  29. Aobo Wang, Min-Yen Kan, Daniel Andrade, Takashi Onishi and Kai Ishikawa (2013) Chinese Informal Word Normalization: an Experimental Study. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Nagoya, Japan. November. pp. 127-135.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  30. Jovian Lin, Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2013) Addressing Cold-Start in App Recommendation: Latent User Models Constructed from Twitter Followers. In the Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR '13). 28 July-1 August. Dublin, Ireland. pp. 283-292.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2484028.2484035 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (via speakerdeck.com) ] IR Web
  31. Aobo Wang and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Mining Informal Language from Chinese Microtext: Joint Word Recognition and Segmentation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '13). 4-9 August. Sofia, Bulgaria. pp. 731-741.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (P13-1072) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] NLP
  32. Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Exploiting Potential Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 153-162. Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2467696.2467701 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL
  33. Huy Do Hoang Nhat, Muthu Kumar C., Philip S. Cho and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Extracting and Matching Authors and Affiliations in Scholarly Documents. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 219-228.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2467696.2467703 ] [ Slides (.pptx) ] DL
  34. Bamdad Bahrani and Min-Yen Kan (2013) Multimodal Alignment of Scholarly Documents and Their Presentations. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 281-284. Short Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2467696.2467741 ] [ Slides (.pptx) ] DL MM
  35. Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan and Hari Sundaram (2013) Constructing an Anonymous Dataset From the Personal Digital Photo Libraries of Mac App Store Users. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '13). 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA. pp. 305-308. Short Paper.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2467696.2467730 ] [ Slides (.pptx) ] DL MM
  36. Jun-Ping Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Improved Temporal Relation Classification using Dependency Parses and Selective Crowdsourced Annotations. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). Mumbai, India. 8-15 December.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (C12-1129) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Dataset ] NLP
  37. Jun-Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and Chew-Lim Tan (2012) Exploiting Category-Specific Information for Multi-Document Summarization. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). Mumbai, India. 8-15 December.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (C12-1128) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  38. Jin Zhao, Praveen Bysani and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Exploiting Classification Correlations for the Extraction of Evidence-based Practice Information. In Proceedings of the AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium. November 3-7, Chicago, USA.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] IR MedInfo
  39. Anqi Cui, Liner Yang, Dejun Hou, Min-Yen Kan, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma (2012) PrEV: Preservation Explorer and Vault for Web 2.0 User-Generated Content. In Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012), Paphos, Cyprus. pp. 101-112. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7489/2012.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_12 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL Web
  40. Praveen Bysani and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Integrating User-Generated Content in the ACL Anthology. In Proceedings of the ACL Special Workshop 2012 on Rediscovering 50 years of Discoveries. pp. 83-87.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (W12-3209) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  41. Aobo Wang, Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Re-tweeting from a Linguistic Perspective. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Language in Social Media. Montréal, Canada. pp. 46-55.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (W12-2106) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Demo and Corpus ] NLP
  42. Ziheng Lin, Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Combining Coherence Models and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Summarization Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012). Jeju, Korea. pp. 1006-1014.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (P12-1106) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Software (.zip) ] NLP
  43. Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan and Hari Sundaram (2012) How Do People Organize Their Photos in Each Event and How Does It Affect Storytelling, Searching and Interpretation Tasks? In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '12). Washington, DC, USA. pp. 315-324.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2232817.2232875 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL HCI MM
  44. Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan and Hari Sundaram (2012) Hidden Markov Model for Event Photo Stream Segmentation. In Proceedings of the IEEE ICME 2012 Workshop on Human-Focused Communications in the 3D Continuum (HFC3D). Melbourne, Australia. pp. 25-30.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1109/ICMEW.2012.12 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL MM
  45. Jonathan Y. H. Poon, Kazunari Sugiyama, Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2012) Instructor-Centric Source Code Plagiarism Detection and Plagiarism Corpus. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2012). Haifa, Israel. pp. 122-127.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2325296.2325328 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ SSID system (@ GitHub) ] [ SSID homepage ] DL IR NLP EdTech HCI
  46. Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2011) Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011). Portland, Oregon, USA. pp. 997-1006.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (P11-1100) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  47. Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2011) Serendipitous Recommendation for Scholarly Papers Considering Relations Among Researchers. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011) Short Papers. Ottawa, Canada. pp. 307-310.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR
  48. Duy Khang Ly, Kazunari Sugiyama, Ziheng Lin and Min-Yen Kan (2011). Product Review Summarization from a Deeper Perspective. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011) Short Papers. Ottawa, Canada. pp. 311-314.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] IR NLP
  49. Minh-Thang Luong, Preslav I. Nakov and Min-Yen Kan (2010) A Hybrid Morpheme-Word Representation for Machine Translation of Morphologically Rich Languages. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), Boston, Massachusetts, USA. pp. 148-157.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (D10-1015) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  50. Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan, Paula M. Procter, Siti Zubaidah, Wai Kin Yip and Goh Mien Li (2010) eEvidence: Information Seeking Support for Evidence-based Practice: An Implementation Case Study. In the Proceedings of the AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC, USA. pp. 937-941.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR HCI MedInfo
  51. Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan, Paula M. Procter, Siti Zubaidah, Wai Kin Yip and Goh Mien Li (2010) Improving Search for Evidence-based Practice using Information Extraction. In the Proceedings of the AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC, USA. pp. 932-936.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR NLP MedInfo
  52. Minh-Thang Luong and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Enhancing Morphological Alignment for Translating Highly Inflected Languages. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China. pp. 743-751.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (C10-1084) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  53. Cong Duy Vu Hoang and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Towards Automated Related Work Summarization. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China. pp. 427-435.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (C10-2049) ] [ Poster (.png) ] [ RWS Dataset @ GitHub ] NLP
  54. Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Evaluating N-gram based Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Keyphrase Extraction. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China. pp 572-580.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (C10-1065) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  55. Su Nam Kim, Alyona Medelyan, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan (2010) SemEval-2010 Task 5: Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles. In the Proceedings of SemEval2. Uppsala, Sweden. pp. 21-26.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (S10-1004) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  56. Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Hierarchical Cost-sensitive Web Resource Acquisition for Record Matching. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2010). Toronto, Canada. August-September. pp. 382-389.
    [ .pdf ] [ doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.14 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR DL
  57. Justin Sein Lin, Jun Ping Ng, Shreyasee Pradhan, Jatin Shah, Ricardo Pietrobon and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Extracting Formulaic and Free Text Clinical Research Articles Metadata using Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Text and Data Mining of Clinical Documents (Louhi 2010). Los Angeles, USA. June. pp 90-95.
    [ Pre-print (.pdf) ] [ ACL Anthology (W10-1114) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL NLP MedInfo
  58. Jin Zhao and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Domain-Specific Iterative Readability Computation. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '10), Brisbane, Australia, June. pp. 205-214.
    [ Pre-print (.pdf) ] [ [ doi:10.1145/1816123.1816155 ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL IR
  59. Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2010) Scholarly Paper Recommendation via User's Recent Research Interests. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '10), Brisbane, Australia, June. pp. 29-38.
    [ Pre-print (.pdf) ] [ doi:10.1145/1816123.1816129 ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR
  60. Markus Hänse, Min-Yen Kan and Achim P. Karduck (2010) Kairos: Proactive Harvesting of Research Paper Metadata from Scientific Conference Web Sites. Proceedings of the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL '10), Brisbane, Australia, June. pp. 226-235.
    [ Pre-print (.pdf) ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13654-2_28 ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL IR
  61. Min-Yen Kan, Tarun Kumar and Himanshu Gahlot (2010) Prastava: An Open-Source Ruby-Based Generic Recommendation System. Joint JCDL/ICADL Demo Session (JCDL/ICADL '10), Brisbane, Australia, June. Demo Paper.
    [ Abstract (.pdf) ] DL IR
  62. 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 (2010) ForeCite: towards a reader-centric scholarly digital library. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '10), Brisbane, Australia, June. Poster Paper. pp. 387-388.
    [ doi:10.1145/1816123.1816193 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) ] [ Poster (.png) ] DL
  63. Kazunari Sugiyama, Tarun Kumar, Min-Yen Kan and Ramesh C. Tripathi (2010). Identifying Citing Sentences in Research Papers Using Supervised Learning. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP '10), Shah Alam, Malaysia, March, pp. 67-72.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL NLP
  64. Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan (2009). The Use of Topic Representative Words in Text Categorization. In Proceedings of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS:B).
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] IR NLP
  65. Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin and Min-Yen Kan (2009). An Unsupervised Approach to Domain-Specific Term Extraction. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTW:B), pp. 94-98.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL NLP
  66. Ching Hoi Andy Hong, Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2009). FireCite: Lightweight real-time reference string extraction from webpages. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on text and citation analysis for scholarly digital libraries (NLPIR4DL), Singapore, August 2009.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W09-3609) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL IR NLP
  67. Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and Hwee Tou Ng (2009). Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009.
    [ pre-print .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (D09-1036) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  68. Hung Huu Hoang, Su Nam Kim and Min-Yen Kan (2009). A re-examination of lexical association measures. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, Singapore, August 2009.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W09-2905) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR
  69. Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li and Philip Resnik (2009). Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, August 2009.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (P09-1037) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  70. Su Nam Kim and Min-Yen Kan (2009). Re-examining Automatic Keyphrase Extraction Approaches in Scientific Articles. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, Singapore, August 2009.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W09-2902) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] DL NLP
  71. 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), pp. 313-316, Bali, Indonesia. December. Short paper.
    [ pre-print .pdf ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_33 ] [ Slides (.htm) ] [ Video (.m4v) ] DL Web
  72. Yin-Leng Theng, Natalie Pang, Min-Yen Kan, Chunyan Miao and Ai Chee Tang (2008). Investigating Students Perceptions of the NTUs edveNTUre: Implications for Design Patterns in E-learning Systems. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 863-871). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
    [ From EdItLib ] [ Local copy ] HCI EdTech
  73. Yin-Leng Theng, Hong-Ren Wong, Ai Chee Tang, Chunyan Miao and Min-Yen Kan (2008). Claims Analysis Meets Structuration Theory: Analysing Qualitative Students Interactions with NTUs edveNTUre. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 1494-1503). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
    [ From EdItLib ] [ Local copy ] HCI EdTech
  74. Yee Fan Tan, Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2008). Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms. International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
    [ .pdf pre-print ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  75. Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Yin Leng Theng (2008) Math Information Retrieval: User Requirements and Prototype Implementation. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, pages 187-196.
    [ .pdf pre-print ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL IR HCI
  76. Guo Min Liew and Min-Yen Kan (2008) Slide Image Retrieval: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, pages 359-362. Short paper.
    [ .pdf pre-print ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL IR NLP
  77. 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 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08). Marrakesh, Morocco, May.
    [ .pdf pre-print ] [ Slides (.htm) ] [ To the ACL ARC bibliographic reference corpus ] NLP
  78. Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles and Min-Yen Kan (2008) ParsCit: An open-source CRF reference string parsing package. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08). Marrakesh, Morocco, May.
    [ .pdf pre-print ] [ Poster (.png) ] [ To ParsCit website and downloads ] DL NLP
  79. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2008) Modeling Context in Scenario Template Creation, In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP '08), Hyderabad, India.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  80. Thuy Dung Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Keyphrase Extraction in Scientific Publications. In Proc. of International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL '07). Hanoi, Vietnam, December. pp. 317-326.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] [ Download the corpus ] DL NLP
  81. Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee and Yi Zhang (2007) Web Based Linkage. In Proc. of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '07). Lisboa, Portugal, September, pp. 121-128.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web DB
  82. 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 SemEval 2007 Workshop, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June. Placed third out of 16 teams in the WEPS competition.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W07-2058) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR NLP Web
  83. Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2007) Ordering Phrases with Function Words, In Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics, (ACL 07). Prague, Czech Republic, June.
    [ .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W07-2058) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  84. Min-Yen Kan (2007) SlideSeer: A Digital Library of Aligned Document and Presentation Pairs, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June, pp. 81-90.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL IR NLP
  85. Su Yan, Dongwon Lee, Min-Yen Kan and C. Lee Giles (2007) Adaptive Sorted Neighborhood Methods for Efficient Record Linkage, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June, pp. 185-194.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf,6-up) ] DB
  86. Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007) A Rich OPAC User Interface with AJAX, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June, pp. 329-330. Short paper.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL HCI
  87. Bang Viet Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Functional Faceted Web Query Classification. In the Proceedings of Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges, Banff, Canada, May.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  88. Ziheng Lin and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Timestamped Graphs: Evolutionary Models of Text for Multi-document Summarization, In Proceedings of Textgraphs-2: Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing Rochester, NY, USA, April.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  89. Denny Iskandar, Ye Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2006) Syllabic Level Automatic Synchronization of Music Signals and Text Lyrics, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia (MM '06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October.
    [ .pdf ] [ Poster (.png) ] NLP MM
  90. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Paraphrase Recognition via Dissimilarity Significance Classification, In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '06), Syndey, Australia, July, pp. 18-26.
    [ local .pdf ] [ ACL Anthology (W06-1603) ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  91. Shi-yong Neo, Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Video Retrieval using High Level Features: Exploiting Query Matching and Confidence-based Weighting, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006. pp. 143-152.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR MM
  92. Fei Wang and Min-Yen Kan (2006) NPIC: Hierarchical synthetic image classification using image search and generic features, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006. pp. 473-482.
    [ .pdf ] [ Poster (.png) ] IR Web
  93. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2006) Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006. pp. 314-315. (Short Paper)
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  94. 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), Trento, Italy, April, pages 47-54.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  95. 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 ] IR NLP Web
  96. Min-Yen Kan and Hoang Oanh Nguyen Thi (2005) Fast webpage classification using URL features. In Proc. of Conf. on Info and Knowledge Management (CIKM '05). Bremen, Germany, November 2005. Poster Paper. pp. 325-236.
    [ .pdf ] [ Poster (.png) ] IR Web
  97. Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features. In Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 05). Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005. pp. 160-173.
    [ (pre-print draft) .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  98. Cui Hang, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Generic Pattern Models for Definitional Question Answering. In Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 05). Brazil, August 2005. pp. 384-391.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  99. Cui Hang, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Question Answering Passage Retrieval Using Depedency Relations. In Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval R 05). Brazil, August 2005. pp. 400-407.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  100. Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram and Min Yen-Kan (2005) A Collaborative Annotation Framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '05), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2005.
    [ .pdf ] MM
  101. Renxu Sun, Hang Cui, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Dependency Relation Matching for Answer Selection. In Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval R 05). pp. 651-652. (Poster Paper)
    [ .pdf ] IR NLP
  102. Yijue How and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Optimizing predictive text entry for short message service on mobile phones. In M. J. Smith & G. Salvendy (Eds.) Proc. of Human Computer Interfaces International (HCII 05). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Las Vegas, July 2005. ISBN 0805858075
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP HCI
  103. Min-Yen Kan and Danny C. C. Poo (2005) Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 05). Denver, 7-11 June 2005. pp. 91-99.
    [ doi:10.1145/1065385.1065406 ] [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] DL NLP
  104. Chee How Lee, Min-Yen Kan and Sandra Lai (2004) Stylistic and Lexical Co-training for Web Block Classification. In Proceedings of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '04), Washington, D.C., USA, 12-13 November.
    [ doi:10.1145/1031453.1031478 ] [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] IR Web
  105. Wang Ye, Min-Yen Kan, Tin Lay Nwe, Arun Shenoy and Jun Yin (2004) LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Acoustic Musical Signals and Textual Lyrics. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 (MM '04), New York, USA, 10-16 October. pp. 212-219. Winner of best student paper award.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP MM
  106. Jeffry Komarjaya, Danny C.C. Poo and Min-Yen Kan (2004) Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL '04), Bath, United Kingdom, 12-17 September.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides ] DL IR Web
  107. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua and Jing Xiao (2004) A Comparative Study on Sentence Retrieval for Definitional Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA), SIGIR '04. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
    [ .pdf ] IR NLP Web
  108. Min-Yen Kan (2004) Web Page Classification Without the Web Page. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA. Poster Paper.
    [ .pdf ] [ MeURLin demo ] [ Poster (.png) ] IR Web
  109. Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) A Public Reference Implementation of the RAP Anaphora Resolution Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2004 (LREC 04), Lisbon, Portugal.
    [ .pdf ] [ Poster (.png) ] NLP
  110. Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) Unsupervised Learning of Soft Patterns for Generating Definitions from Online News. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA.
    [ .pdf ] [ DefSearch Demo ] IR NLP Web
  111. Simon Lok and Min-Yen Kan (2003) Employing Natural Language Summarization and Automated Layout for Effective Presentation and Navigation of Information Retrieval Results. Proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), May 2003. Poster paper.
    [ .pdf ] IR NLP Web
  112. Andre W. Kushniruk, Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown, Judith L. Klavans, Desmond Jordan, Mark LaFlamme and Vimla L. Patel (2002) Usability Evaluation of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Search Engines: Implications for the Reengineering of Health Care Interfaces. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2002), San Antonio, Texas, USA: November 2002. DL NLP MedInfo
  113. Andre W. Kushniruk, Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown, Judith L. Klavans and Vimla L. Patel (2002) Evaluating the Content and Usability of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Web-Based Search Engines. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics 46th Annual Meeting (HFES 2002), Baltimore, Maryland, USA: September 2002. DL IR MedInfo
  114. Min-Yen Kan and Judith L. Klavans (2002) Using Librarian Techniques in Automatic Text Summarization for Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, Oregon, USA: July 2002. pp. 36-45. Nominated for best paper award.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ Presentation Slides ] DL NLP
  115. Min-Yen Kan and Kathleen R. McKeown (2002) Corpus-trained text generation for summarization. Proceedings of the Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2002), Harriman, New York, USA: July 2002. pp. 1-8.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ Presentation Slides ] NLP
  116. Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans and Kathleen R. McKeown (2002) Using the Annotated Bibliography as a Resource for Indicative Summarization. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain: May 2002. pp. 1746-1752. (Posted to cmp-lg)
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ poster (.jpg) ] [ poster (MS .ppt file) ] NLP
  117. Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown and Judith L. Klavans (2001) Domain-specific informative and indicative summarization for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Workshop (DUC 2001), New Orleans, USA: September 2001.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ Poster Session Foils/Slides ] NLP
  118. Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Min-Yen Kan, Barry Schiffman and Simone Teufel (2001) Columbia Multi-Document Summarization: Approach and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Workshop (DUC 2001), New Orleans, USA: September 2001.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  119. Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown and Judith L. Klavans (2001) Applying Natural Language Generation to Indicative Summarization. In Proceedings of 8th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Toulouse, France: July 2001. pp. 92-100. (Posted to cmp-lg)
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ Poster Session Foils/Slides ] NLP
  120. Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Melissa L. Holcombe, Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan and Kathleen R. McKeown (2001) Simfinder: A Flexible Clustering Tool for Summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Summarization in NAACL `01, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA: June 2001.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  121. Judith L. Klavans and Min-Yen Kan (1998) Role of Verbs in Document Analysis. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Aug. 1998. pp. 680-686. (Posted to cmp-lg archives)
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  122. Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown, Min-Yen Kan and Susan Lee (1998) Resources for the Evaluation of Summarization Techniques. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Grenada, Spain: May 1998. (Posted to cmp-lg)
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ LaTeX source, GZIPped (uses lrec98.sty, and LaTeX 2.09e) ] [ Poster Session Foils/Slides] NLP
  123. Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans and Kathleen R. McKeown (1998) Linear Segmentation and Segment Relevence. Proceedings of 6th International Workshop of Very Large Corpora (WVLC-6), Montréal, Québec, Canada: August 1998. pp. 197-205. (Posted to cmp-lg) archives
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ Presentation Slides ] NLP
  124. Pascale Fung, Min-Yen Kan and Yurie Horita (1996) Extracting Japanese Domain and Technical Terms is Relatively Easy. Second International Conference in New Methods for Language Processing, (NEMLP) Bilkent, Turkey: September 1996. pp. 148-159.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP

Technical Reports

  1. Keng Ji Chow, Samson Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2021). TraVLR: Now You See It, Now You Don't! Evaluating Cross-Modal Transfer of Visio-Linguistic Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10756. (Posted to cs.CL). November.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) (copy from arXiv, version 1) ] NLP MM
  2. Yunxiang Zhang, Liangming Pan, Samson Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2021). Causally Estimating the Sensitivity of Neural NLP Models to Spurious Features. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07159. (Posted to CS.cl). October.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) (copy from arXiv, version 1) ] NLP
  3. Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Lav R. Varshney and Min-Yen Kan (2020) Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard English with Base-Inflection Encoding. (Posted to CS.cl, superceded by published version in EMNLP 2021.). April.
    [ Local copy (.pdf) (copy from arXiv, version 1) ] NLP
  4. Liangming Pan, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2019) Recent Advances in Neural Question Generation. (Posted to CS.cl). November.
    NLP IR
  5. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Michihiro Yasunaga, Dragomir Radev, Dayne Freitag and Min-Yen Kan (2019) Overview and Results: CL-SciSumm Shared Task 2019. (Posted to CS.cl). November.
    NLP
  6. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran and Min-Yen Kan (2019) When to reply? Context Sensitive Models to Predict Instructor Interventions in MOOC Forums. (Posted to cmg-lg). May.
    NLP EdTech
  7. Chenglei Si, Shuohang Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Jing Jiang (2019) What does BERT Learn from Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Datasets? (Posted to cmg-lg). October.
    NLP
  8. Kokil Jaidka, Michihiro Yasunaga, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Dragomir R. Radev, and Min-Yen Kan (2018) The CL-SciSumm Shared Task 2018: Results and Key Insights. In Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2018).
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ CEUR (Vol 2132) ] NLP IR DL
  9. Guillaume Cabanac, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Ingo Frommholz, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan, Philipp Mayr and Dietmar Wolfram (2016) Report on the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2016). In ACM SIGIR Forum, Vol. 50(2), December, New York, NY, USA, 36--43.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ online @ sigir.org ] NLP IR DL
  10. Guillaume Cabanac, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Ingo Frommholz, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan, Philipp Mayr and Dietmar Wolfram (2016) Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2016). In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 299-300.
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ doi:10.1145/2910896.2926734 ] NLP IR DL
  11. Kokil Jaidka, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Sajal Rustagi and Min-Yen Kan (2016) Overview of the CL-SciSumm 2016 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2016). June. Newark, New Jersey, USA. pp. 93-102
    [ .pdf (preprint) ] [ ACL Anthology (W16-1511) ] [ CEUR (Vol 1610) ] [ Slides (via Speakerdeck) ] NLP
  12. Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan (2015) Towards higher relevance and serendipity in scholarly paper recommendation. Winter Issue, Article 4, ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. ACM, New York, USA.
    [ doi:10.1145/2719943.2719947 ] [ .pdf ] DL
  13. Kokil Jaidka, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Rahul Jha, Christopher Jones, Min-Yen Kan, Ankur Khanna, Diego Molla-Aliod, Dragomir R. Radev, Francesco Ronzano and Horacio Saggion (2014) The Computational Linguistics Summarization Pilot Task. In Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC '14). NIST Special Publication. [ .pdf ] NLP
  14. Jesse Prabawa Gozali, Min-Yen Kan and Hari Sundaram (2012b) How Do People Organize Their Photos in Each Event and How Does It Affect Storytelling, Searching and Interpretation Tasks? Technical Report TRC4/12, National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science.
    [ .pdf ] DL HCI MM
  15. Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2011) Creating a Live, Public Short Message Service Corpus: The NUS SMS Corpus. (Posted to cmp-lg) World's largest publicly available SMS Corpus.
    [ .pdf ] [ Corpus Website (now on GitHub) ] [ GitHub ] NLP
  16. Jun Ping Ng, Praveen Bysani, Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and Chew Lim Tan (2011) SWING: Exploiting Category-Specific Information for Guided Summarization. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference 2011 (TAC 2011). Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. 1st place in automated ROUGE measures among all teams.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.pdf) ] NLP
  17. Duy Khang Ly, Kazunari Sugiyama, Ziheng Lin and Min-Yen Kan (2011). Product Review Summarization based on Facet Identification and Sentence Clustering. National University of Singapore, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TR 30/11. (Posted to cmg-lg)
    [ .pdf ] NLP
  18. Jun Ping Ng and Min-Yen Kan (2010) QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform. Unfiled Technical Report (Posted to cs-IR and cs-CL)
    [ .pdf ] IR NLP
  19. Aobo Wang, Cong Duy Vu Hoang and Min-Yen Kan (2010). Perspectives on Crowdsourcing Annotations for Natural Language Processing. National University of Singapore. Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRB 7/10.
    [ .pdf ] NLP
  20. Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2010). A Framework for Hierarchical Cost-sensitive Web Resource Acquisition. National University of Singapore. Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRA 3/10.
    [ .pdf ] IR
  21. Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2010). Cost-sensitive Attribute Value Acquisition for Support Vector Machines. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRB 3/10.
    [ .pdf ] ML
  22. Paula M. Procter, Min-Yen Kan, Siu Yin Lee, Siti Zubaidah, Wai Kin Yip, Jin Zhao, David Arthur, Goh Mien Li (2009) eEvidence: Supplying Evidence to the Patient Interaction. In Saranto, K. et al. (Eds) NI2009 Nursing Informatics: Connecting Health and Humans. pp. 488-492. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-60750-024-7. Highest Scholarship Poster Abstract Award Winner.
    [ doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-024-7-488 ] [ Local copy (.pdf) (corrects misspelled author name; as allowed by self-archiving, courtesy IOS press) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] DL IR MedInfo
  23. Ziheng Lin, Huu Hung Hoang, Min-Yen Kan, Long Qiu and Shiren Ye (2008) NUS at TAC 2008: Augmenting Timestamped Graphs with Event Information and Selectively Expanding Opinion Contexts. In Proc. of Text Analysis Conference.
    [ Pre-print (.pdf) ] NLP
  24. Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007). Rich and Dynamic Library Catalogs: A Case Study of Online Search Interfaces. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRA 8/07.
    [ .pdf ] DL HCI
  25. Ziheng Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan, Wee Sun Lee, Long Qiu and Shiren Ye (2007). NUS at DUC 2007: Using Evolutionary Models of Text. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC '07), Rochester, NY, USA.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  26. Shiren Ye, Long Qiu, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2005). NUS at DUC 2005: Understanding Documents via Concept Links. In Proceedings of Document Understanding Conference (DUC '05), Vancouver, Canada. Placed first of 31 teams in the DUC 2005 competition based on ROUGE scoring.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] NLP
  27. Min-Yen Kan and Hoang Oanh Nguyen Thi (2005) Fast webpage classification using URL features. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRC 8/05.
    [ .pdf ] IR
  28. Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Hang Cui (2005) Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRB 8/05.
    [ http://hdl.handle.net/1900.100/1850 ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  29. Hang Cui, Keya Li, Renxu Sun, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2004) National University of Singapore at the TREC-13 Question Answering Main Task. In Proceedings of TREC 13.
    [ .pdf ] [ Slides (.htm) ] [ Poster (.htm) ] NLP IR
  30. Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua (2003) QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task. In Proceedings of TREC 12, pages 480-488.
    [ .pdf ] NLP IR
  31. Min-Yen Kan (2003) Metadata extraction and text categorization using Universal Resource Locator expansions. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TR 10/03.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] IR
  32. Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown (2001) Synthesizing composite topic structure trees for multiple domain specific documents. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-003-01.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  33. Min-Yen Kan (2001) Combining visual layout and lexical cohesion features for text segmentation. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-002-01.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] NLP
  34. Min-Yen Kan and Kathleen R. McKeown (1999) Information Extraction and Summarization: Domain Independence through Focus Types. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-030-99.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ .html (via latex2html) ] NLP
  35. Martin Braschler, Min-Yen Kan, Peter Schäuble and Judith L. Klavans The Eurospider Retreival System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Task. Proceedings of TREC-8, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA: Nov. 1999.
    [ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ .html (via MS Word) ] IR

Ph.D. Thesis

Min-Yen Kan Automatic text summarization as applied to information retrieval: Using indicative and informative summaries, New York, New York, USA: Feb 2003. Ph.D. Thesis.
[ Postscript, GZIPped ] [ .pdf ] [ .html (via latex2html) ] Presentation slides: [ .html ] [ .ppt ] NLP