Sabbatical Update

Min-Yen KanDec 2009

1 hour from LA (Hollywood, Beverly Hills)1 hour from LAX20 minutes from Disneyland1 hour from San Diego6 hours from San Francisco

UC Irvine ICS

• One of UC’s earliest school for Information and Computing

• Comprises of CS, Informatics and Stats• I interact with two groups (so far): – Information Systems Group (DB+Media)– Machine Learning– Human Computer Interaction

Information Systems Group

• Ramesh Jain (Host)– Vivek Singh, Pinaki Sinha: resolution of twitter hashtags– Pinaki Sinha: cohesion/coherence in photos/videos– Arjun Satish: summarization of photo streams– On my own: SlideSeer alignment of two streams

• Sharad Mehrotra (Host)– Alessandro, Rabia, Dmitri: data cleaning toolkit– Naveen Ashish: Nursing system installation– Bijit Hore: Rethinking DB/text summarization from an

entropy perspective

Other projects

• Chen Li– TASTIER: fast, approximate string matching. For ForeCite(Note)

• Nalini Venkatsubramanian– Course projects on distributed ForeCite components?– NUS-Duke proposal on clinical article IE (her role would be in

dissemination)

Also: Machine Learning Group• Alexander Ihler, student Qiang Liu

– Better CRF training via sampling. To be applied to ParsCit dataset and problems with multiple fields

Lessons learned so far

• Almost all PIs run weekly meetings. Short updates from everyone for about 1 hour total

• Chen Li runs his group with code reviews. All code, data and important emails are in a wiki/CVS/bug reporting system. Useful for integration among distributed students.

• UC (in general) is an easy area for people to seredipitiously intersect. Easier to get the word of your research out.

• NUS people are already out there in all institutions. Our university name is well-known.

Sabbatical Recap

• End Aug– Personal holidays

• Sep– Settling down in UCI– Established projects with

Sharad

• Oct– Established projects with

Ramesh– Atlanta Trip to Wordster– Side trip to UNC

• Nov– DHS Emergency

Response Workshop– Established projects with

Chen– Side trip to UMD

• Beginning Dec– Established projects with

Alex, Nalini– Personal Trips – Arrival back in SG

Sabbatical Outlook• Dec

– ACL Faceted Search

• Jan– JCDL submissions: Jin, RAZ,

ParsCit++, Kaz, Jesse– ICADL submissions: ForeCite,

Prastava, Markus

• Feb– ACL submissions: Thang,

Aobo, Vu, Ziheng

• Mar– Revisions– Yee Fan Thesis

• Apr – CSIDM Beijing– NAACL 2010– Revisions

• May– Wrap up projects– Shomir?

• Jun

• Unassigned: – Visit UC Santa Cruz, ISI/USC– Visit SF: Stanford, Berkeley?– Visit NY/PA: IBM, Google, Columbia,

Upenn– Grants: Ed, NUS-Duke GMS