Publications
PhD
Dissertation
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai (2006). Biomedical Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Role Labeling,
and Their Application to Question Answering. Ph.D. dissertation, 2006.
Advisor: Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu and Dr. Jieh Hsiang
Journal
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Chi Chou,
Yu-Chun Lin, Ying-Shan Su, Cheng-Lung Sung, Hong-Jie Dai, Irene Tzu-Hsuan Yeh,
Wei Ku, Ting-Yi Sung & Wen-Lian Hsu (2007).
BIOSMILE: A semantic role labeling system for biomedical verbs using a
maximum-entropy model. To appear in BMC Bioinformatics. (SCI Impact Factor: 4.96)
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Cheng-Lung Sung, Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hung, Ting-Yi Sung, &
Wen-Lian Hsu (2006). NERBio: Using Selected Word Conjunction, Term
Normalization, and Global Patterns to Improve Biomedical Named Entity
Recognition. BMC Bioinformatics, 7(Suppl 5):S11. (SCI
Impact Factor: 4.96)
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai ,
Shih-Hung Wu , Wen-Chi Chou, Yu-Chun Lin, Ding
He, Jieh Hsiang, Ting-Yi Sung, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2006). Various Criteria in
the Evaluation of Biomedical Named Entity Recognition. BMC
Bioinformatics, 7(92). (SCI Impact Factor: 4.96) PDF
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Wen-Chi Chou, Shih-Hung Wu, Ting-Yi Sung, Jieh Hsiang, &
Wen-Lian Hsu (2006). Integrating Linguistic Knowledge into a Conditional Random
Field Framework to Identify Biomedical Named Entities. Expert Systems
with Applications, 30(1), 117-128. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.247) PDF
Min-Yuh Day, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , Cheng-Lung Sung, Chiu-Chen Hsieh, Cheng-Wei Lee,
Shih-Hung Wu, Kun-Pin Wu, Chorng-Shyong Ong, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2007).
Reference Metadata Extraction Using a Hierarchical Knowledge Representation
Framework. Decision Support Systems, 43(1), 152-167. (SCI
Impact Factor: 0.946)
Chia-Wei Wu, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , & Wen-Lian Hsu (2005). Learning to Integrate
Web Taxonomies with Fine-Grained Relations: A Case Study Using Maximum Entropy
Model. LNCS, 3689, 190-205. (SCI Impact Factor=0.402, EI)
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Shih-Hung Wu, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2004). Mencius: A Chinese Named
Entity Recognizer Based on a Maximum Entropy Framework. Computational
Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 9(1), 65-82. PDF
Chia-Wei Wu, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai* , & Wen-Lian Hsu (2007). Web Taxonomy Integration
System with Hierarchical Shrinkage and Fine-Grained Relations . Submitted to Expert
Systems with Applications .
Shared Task
[2007]
Chosen to present the task paper
“A Novel Feature Representation: Integrate GM Results into Interaction Abstract
Identification” in the Second BioCreAtIvE Challenge Workshop - Critical
Assessment of Information Extraction in Molecular Biology ( 國際分子生物資訊擷取競賽優勝
) , Madrid, Spain.
1st place in the Korean-Chinese Cross
Language Information Retrieval task ( 日本 NII 韓中跨語檢索競賽第一名 ) of the 6 th NTCIR workshop , Tokyo, Japan.
[2006]
1st place out of 13 teams in the Chinese word segmentation task of
SIGHAN bakeoff 2006 (CTU corpus) (the 2 nd place is Microsoft Research Asia), Sydney
(ACL 漢語計算小組中文斷詞競賽香港語料分項第一名 , 第二名為微軟亞洲研究院 )
2nd place out of 9 teams in the Chinese word segmentation task of SIGHAN
bakeoff 2006 (CKIP corpus) (the 1 st place is Microsoft Research Asia) , Sydney
(ACL 漢語計算小組中文斷詞競賽台灣語料分項第二名 , 第一名為微軟亞洲研究院 )
2nd place out of 8 teams in the Chinese named entity recognition task of
SIGHAN bakeoff 2006 (CTU corpus), Sydney (ACL 漢語計算小組中文專有名詞辨識競賽香港語料分項第二名 )
[2005]
1st place out of 9 teams in the CLQA Chinese to Chinese
Question-Answering task of the 5 th NTCIR workshop , Tokyo , Japan . ( 日本 NII 中文問答系統競賽第一名 )
6th place out of 32 teams in the ad-hoc retrieval task
of Genomic TREC 2005, Washington DC . ( 美國國家標準局 TREC 基因文獻檢索比賽第六名 )
6th place out of 22 teams in the CoNLL-2005 shared
task, Ann Arbor , Michigan . (ACL 計算語言自動學習學會語意角色標註系統競賽第六名 , 前五名為 UIUC, Stanford 等名校 )
Translation
Book (著作或譯作書籍)
Foundations of Algorithms Using C++ Pseudocode ,
3rd ed., 演算法:使用C++虛擬碼 , 碁峰出版社, ISBN: 9864215892, 蔡宗翰譯
(本書為目前交大資工, 師大資工, 輔大圖資, 聯合科大資管, 南開科大資工等系所採用之演算法課程教科書)
Conference
[2007]
Hsi-Chuan Hung, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , & Wen-Lian Hsu (2007). Identifying Protein
Interaction Abstracts with Contextual Bag of Words . Paper presented at
the AAAI-07 Student Workshop.
Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hung, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai*, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2007). IASL Systems in the
Gene Mention Tagging Task and Protein Interaction Article Sub-task . Paper
presented at the Second BioCreAtIvE Challenge Workshop.
Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hung,
& Wen-Lian Hsu (2007). Exploiting Unlabeled Internal Data in
Conditional Random Fields to Reduce Word Segmentation Errors for Chinese Texts.
Paper presented at the Interspeech-2007 Conference.
[2006]
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Hong-Jie Dai, Cheng-Lung Sung, Hsi-Chuan Hung, Min-Yuh Day, &
Wen-Lian Hsu (2006). Chinese Word Segmentation with Minimal Linguistic
Knowledge: An Improved Conditional Random Fields Coupled with Character
Clustering and Automatically Discovered Template Matching. Paper presented
at the IEEE IRI-06 Conference. (EI)
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Hsi-Chuan Hung, Cheng-Lung Sung, Hong-Jie Dai, & Wen-Lian Hsu
(2006). On Closed Task of Chinese Word Segmentation: An Improved CRF Model
Coupled with Character Clustering and Automatically Generated Template Matching.
Paper presented at the SIGHAN-06 Workshop. PDF
Wen-Chi Chou, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai* , Ying-Shan Su, Wei Ku, Ting-Yi Sung, & Wen-Lian
Hsu (2006). A Semi-Automatic Method for Annotating a Biomedical Proposition
Bank. Paper presented at the ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically
Annotated Corpora (LINC-06). PDF
Chia-Wei Wu, Shyh-Yi Jan, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , & Wen-Lian Hsu (2006) . On Using Ensemble
Methods for Chinese Named Entity Recognition . Paper presented at the
SIGHAN-06 Workshop.
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai (2006). A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition
and Semantic Role Labeling. Paper presented at the HLT/NAACL-06 Doctoral
Consortium.
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Wen-Chi Chou, Yu-Chun Lin, Wei Ku, Ying-Shan Su, Ting-Yi Sung,
& Wen-Lian Hsu (2006). BIOSMILE: Adapting Semantic Role Labeling for
Biomedical Verbs: An Exponential Model Coupled with Automatically Generated
Template Features. Paper presented at the BioNLP-06 Conference, New York .
Acceptance rate: 27.5%. PDF
[2005]
Min -Yuh Day, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , Cheng-Lung Sung, Cheng-Wei Lee, Shih-Hung Wu, Ong,
C.-S., et al. (2005). A knowledge-based approach to citation extraction. Paper
presented at the IEEE IRI-05 Conference. (EI) PDF
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Chia-Wei Wu, Yu-Chun Lin, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2005). Exploiting
full parsing information to label semantic roles using an ensemble of ME and
SVM via integer linear programming. Paper presented at the CoNLL-05 Conference.PDF
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai , Shih-Hung Wu, & Wen-Lian Hsu (2005). Exploitation of
Linguistic Features Using a CRF-based Biomedical Named Entity Recognizer. Paper
presented at the ACL Workshop on Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and
Databases: Mining Biological Semantics (BioLINK-05), Detroit .
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Chia-Wei Wu, Hsi-Chuan Hung, Yu-Chun Wang, Ding He, Yi-Feng Lin,
Cheng-Wei Lee, Ting-Yi Sung, and Wen-Lian Hsu. (2005). Enhance Genomic IR with
Term Variation and Expansion: Experiences of the IASL Group at Genomic Track
2005. Paper presented at the TREC-05 Conference. PDF
Chia-Wei Wu, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai , & Wen-Lian Hsu (2005). Learning to Integrate
Web Taxonomies with Fine-Grained Relations: A Case Study Using Maximum Entropy
Model. LNCS, 3689, 190-205. Acceptance
rate: 23%. (SCI, EI) PDF
[2004]
C.-W. Shih, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, S.-H. Wu, C.-C. Hsieh, & W.-L. Hsu (2004). The
Construction of a Chinese Named Entity Tagged Corpus: CNEC1.0. Fifteenth
Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING XVI). PDF
Y.-F. Lin, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, C. K.-P. Wu, T.-Y. Sung, & W.-L. Hsu (2004). A
Maximum Entropy Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition. 4th ACM
SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BioKDD-2004). Acceptance
rate: 37%. PDF
[2003]
Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, S.-H. Wu, & W.-L. Hsu,
(2003). Mencius: A Chinese Named Entity Recognizer Using Hybrid Model. Fifteenth
Research on Computational Linguistics International Conference (ROCLING XV),
pp. pp.193-209. PDF
S.-H. Wu, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, and W.-L. Hsu, (2003). Domain Event Extraction and
Representation with Domain Ontology. IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Information
Integration on the Web. PDF
Wu, S.-H., Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, and Hsu, W.-L. (2003). Text Categorization Using
Automatically Acquired Domain Ontology. the Sixth International Workshop on
Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL-03), Sapporo, Japan. PDF
[2002]
G. Hsieh, Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai, D. Wible, & W.-L. Hsu, (2002).
Exploiting Knowledge Representation in an Intelligent Tutoring System for
English Lexical Errors. ICCE 2002. Acceptance rate: 23%. PDF
Richard
Tzong-Han Tsai (2002). A Dialogue System with
Digression Handling - An Ontology-Based Approach. AAAI 2002 Doctoral
Consortium. PDF
Honor
[2006]
Ph.D. Dissertation Award,
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (
中華民國計算語言學會博士論文獎 )
Chosen to present the thesis
proposal in NAACL-06 Doctoral Consortium with Scholarship, New York ( 北美計算語言研討會菁英博士論壇獎學金 )
[2002]
Chosen to present the thesis
proposal in AAAI-02 Doctoral Consortium with Scholarship, Edmonton,
Canada ( 美國人工智慧研討會菁英博士生論壇獎學金 )
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