Wenjie Li, Maggie

Associate Professor of Computing Department 
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

       

RA Wanted: I am looking for a highly motivated, energetic and enthusiastic person to work with on the project of scientific literature mining or social media (e.g. TWITTER) mining.

 

Research Interests and Research Projects

• Areas of Research Activities:
  • Online Social Network and Crowdscource
  • Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
  • Question Answering and Document Summarization
  • Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction
  • Temporal Information Processing and Its applications
• UGC-founded Research Projects:
  • Building a Unified Framework and Evolutionary Models for Online Opinion Retrieval and Summarization (CERG PolyU5230/08E)
  • Query-Oriented Summarization based on Question Profile Construction and Answer Fusion (CERG PolyU 5217/07E, 2007-2010)
  • Producing Concise and Coherent Entity Description Summaries from Multiple Documents  (CERG PolyU 5211/05E, 2005-2007) 
  • Temporal-Oriented Chinese News Event Tracking and Summarization (CERG PolyU 5181/03E, 2003-2006)
  • Determination of Temporal Reference in Chinese News Articles (CERG PolyU 5085/02E, 2002-2004)
• PolyU Internal Research Projects:
  • Exploring Optimization Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization (ICRG PolyU, 2008-2010)
• Other Academic Activities

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Competitions of Interest

• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

• Document Understanding Conferences (DUC)

• Automatic Content Extraction (ACE 2005)

• Time Expression Recognition and Normalization Evaluation (TERN 2004)

• NTCIR (NII-NACSIS Test Collection for IR Systems) Project

• SENSEVAL

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Search of Research Papers

• CL Anthology

• Computation and Language E-Print Archive

• ISI Web of Knowledge

• CiteSeer.IST

• citebaseSearch

• WorldSciNet

• Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, UMASS

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Useful Links to NLP Labs in China

• 北大计算语言学研究所

• 复旦大学媒体计算与WEB智能实验室信息检索和自然语言处理组

• 哈尔滨工业大学计算机科学与技术学院信息检索研究室

• 哈尔滨工业大学计算机科学与技术学院机器智能与翻译实验室

• 东北大学中文信息处理实验室

• 中科院模式识别国家重点实验室中文信息处理研究组

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Newspaper Websites of Research Interest

• USA:

  • World Press

  • Yahoo News

  • New York Times

  • CNN.COM

  • USA Today

  • Washington Post

• Hong Kong:

  • 大公报

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• China:

  • 新浪财经