WING Research Group Demos and Posters

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 22nd CSAIL MIT Workshop Demos SlideSeer (M.-Y. Kan) Coordinating presentation slides and scholarly papers - Align set of slides to set of paragraphs - Difficult as alignment is not monotonic, nil alignments possible - JCDL 2007 LINC 2.0 (J. Prabawa) - How to build a better library catalog interface using AJAX - 4 key areas of user design change: overview + details, AJAX grid, tabs, suggestion bar, - Usability studies for evaluation - JCDL 2007 short paper

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 32nd CSAIL MIT Workshop Posters Scenario Template Generation (L. Qiu) - Joint work with Tat-Seng Chua - Create template of slots for articles from multiple different event reports - Uses EM based context sensitive clustering -Phrase-based Statistical MT (H. Setiawan) - Joint work with Haizhou Li (I2R) - Focus on function words to reorder arguments (e.g., English preposition “above” to Chinese postposition “ 上 “) Record Linkage using Web resources (Y. F. Tan) - Joint work with Dongwon Lee (PSU) - How to best combine disparate info from various sources of web evidence Math IR (J. Zhao) - Working on indexing, retrieving mathematical information - Key problem: co-ref between formula name “Pythagorean theorem” and equation form and variants. Graph-Based Text Summarization (Z. Lin) - Joint work with Wee Sun Lee - Using incrementally built graphs and PageRank to build better generic and update summarization systems

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 42nd CSAIL MIT Workshop

SlideSeer: Aligned Presentation and Document Alignment Min-Yen Kan Web IR / NLP Group (WING)

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 62nd CSAIL MIT Workshop Aligning slides to scholarly papers Why do it? Slides can be seen as a dual and/or summary of papers Useful as a learning and comprehension aid See OCW example in Leslie and Tomas’ lecture notes What’s the goal? A digital library of slides/papers and their fine-grained alignment to scholarly papers (an extension of CiteSeer or Rexa) What data to use? Seeded with CiteSeer data (thanks to CL Giles), merged in DBLP Searched for corresponding presentation using Google API

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 72nd CSAIL MIT Workshop SlideSeer Demo Proof of concept 10 presentation/paper pairs manually aligned Allows focus on one medium with other in context Allows full slideshow mode Navigation using mouse, keyboard shortcuts Search using Lucene IR package

Min-Yen Kan, Digital Libraries 82nd CSAIL MIT Workshop Next steps Planning to hook up current work in progress: – 2 stage CRF/SVM re-ranking citation segmentation algorithm – Automatic keyphrase extraction program – Automatic synthetic image classification – Automatic de-deduplication module Partnering with Simone Teufel (Cambridge, UK) to do argumentative zoning of documents – What is a citation used for?