Weekly Seminars (Year 2008)


The following are weekly research seminars held (or to be held) in 2008.

* Passwords to unzip some files are only available to group members

Date, Time & Venue Seminar Highlights

28 Feb 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Overview of research focuses - Chua Tat Seng
 2. QA on Wikipedia - Ye Shiren
 3. QA on Yahoo!Answers - Ming Zhaoyan
 4. News, documentary video search - Neo Shiyong
 5. Web-scale image Search - Li Haojie

6 Mar 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Harish Katti <Slides>
 2. Ong Jun Da <Slides>
 3. Zheng Yantao

13 Mar 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Li Ming
 2. Tang Jinhui
 3. Ye Shiren

20 Mar 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Aasish Pappu <Slides>
 2. Wang Kai
 3. Hou Jian <Slides>

3 Apr 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Update on QA on Wikipedia - Ye Shiren
 2. Update on QA on Yahoo!Answers - Ming Zhaoyan
 3. Update News, documentary video search - Neo Shiyong
 4. Update on Web-scale image Search - Li Haojie

10 Apr 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Li Guangda <Slides>
 2. Zhang Xiaoming
 3. Lu Jie

15 May 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Wang Gang
 2. Zhou Xiangdong

22 May 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Victor Goh <Slides>
 2. Li Haojie
 3. Gon

29 May 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Aasish Pappu
 2. Ming Zhaoyan

5 Jun 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Li Guangda <Slides>
 2. Wang Changhu (Invited Speaker)

12 Jun 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Sun Nan
 2. Ye Shiren

14 Aug 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 Group Discussion on Text Research

21 Aug 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Yan Shuicheng (Invited Speaker)
 2. Clement Chia (Invited Speaker from NTU)

28 Aug 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Harish Katti 
 2. Lee Chin Hui (Invited Speaker from Georgia Tech)

4 Sep 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Location Identification via Building Image Retrieval - Hou Jian
 2. Update on QA on Yahoo!Answers - Ming Zhaoyan

11 Sep 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Wang Kai
 2. Lu Jie
 3. Semantic Role Labelling - Nguyen Le Nguyen <Slides>

18 Sep 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Wang Gang
 2. Update on QA on Wikipedia - Ye Shiren

25 Sep 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Yuan Jin
 2. Tan Hung Khoon <Slides>

2 Oct 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. TRECVID & Star Challenge - Victor Goh, Neo Shiyong
 2. Wu Xiao
 3. Tang Jinhui (Individual Work)

9 Oct 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing


 Group Discussion on Text Research (Group Focus & Any General Issues):
 1. Wang Kai / Ming ZhaoYan
 2. Ye Shiren
 3. Sun Nan


16 Oct 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing


 Group Discussion on Multimedia Research (Group Focus & Any General Issues):
 1. Ngo Chong Wah
 2. Li Haojie
 3. Zhou Xiangdong


20 Nov 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Star Challenge Roundup - Victor, Shiyong, Haojie
 2. Zheng Yantao

27 Nov 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Ye Shiren
 2. Lu Jie

4 Dec 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Wu Xiao
 2. Harish Katti

11 Dec 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Tang Jinhui
 2. Zhang Xiaoming

18 Dec 2008, 4 - 6pm
AS6, MR6, School of Computing

 1. Sun Nan
 2. Hu Xia
 3. Zhang Chao

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