CITI--Search by offering examples
- LecturerDr. Chu-Cheng Hsieh (Computer Science department of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Host: Prof. Wei-Ho Chung - Time2010-02-09 (Tue.) 13:00 – 14:00
- LocationAuditorium 106 at new IIS Building
Abstract
Abstract:
Search engines subvert how people think about the data in WWW. Since
the data is massive, one of the most important goals today is to
provide a service which people could search the useful information
they want “efficiently”. Nevertheless, in some scenarios, it’s
unrealistic to expect that a user to devise a set of keywords for
getting the information from the web. For example, it’s impossible
To figure out keywords you didn’t know yet. If you want to search good
basketball players in the NBA, it’s difficult to define keywords for
search without knowing the name of players or knowledge of basketball
games. We tend to overcome these drawbacks by providing the users with
abilities to search by examples. The goal of this project is to
provide an approach for web users to search similar objects from the
webs, instead of using keywords to define a concept they want
(traditional search). We will present an efficient algorithm to
identify entities under the assumption that tag information is given.
A live demo will also be demonstrated during the presentation.
Biosketch:
Chu-Cheng Hsieh is currently a research intern at core research team
in Symantec research lab, and he is also a graduate student researcher
(enrolling in PhD program) in Computer Science department of
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), supervised by Professor
John Cho. Before joining UCLA, he was enrolled in PhD program in
Computer Science department of National Chia Tung University, Taiwan,
between 2005~2007. Also, he got a M.S degree and a B.A. degree in
Electronic Engineering department from National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology in 2005 and 2001 respectively. With respect to
his working experience, before entering UCLA, he was an researcher in
Telecommunication Laboratories of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd, Taiwan,
and served as a lecturer in mutilple universities in Taiwan. His
current research interests include data mining, information retrieval,
security, and social networks.