CSIDM

CSIDM-200805

Department of Computer Science  
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543

Tel: +(65) 6516 1885 Fax: +(65) 6779 4580

Email: kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg

URL : www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy

Education

• B.Sc. (1996) in Computer Science from Columbia University, USA Tau Beta Pi Honor’s Society, Dean’s List: 7 of 8 semesters
• M.Sc. (1998) in Computer Science from Columbia University, USA
• Ph.D. (2002) in Computer Science from Columbia University, USA Dissertation: “Text Summarization as applied to Information Retrieval: Using informative and indicative summaries”

Membership in Professional Bodies

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Employment

• 2002-present: Assistant Professor, NUS
• 1996-2002: Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University

Appointments

• Board Member, Int'l Assoc. for Pattern Recognition (Singapore Branch) PREMIA, 2006-current.
• Auditor, Int'l Assoc. for Pattern Recognition (Singapore Branch) PREMIA, 2005.
• Technology Assessment Consultant for Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia, 2004
• Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2008.

Research Areas

• Digital Libraries
• Verb Analysis
• Web Information Retrieval
• Query Analysis
• Text Summarization
• Search and Retrieval User Interfaces

Teaching contributions

• Developed curriculum for graduate module on Digital Libraries, mounted as a regular course at the National University of Singapore
• Have consistently exceeded departmental average in student feedback on all courses.
• Runs the special interest group on information retrieval (SIG.IR) for the school’s Special Programme (a program for gifted undergraduates aiming for research careers).

Courses currently teaching or taught

• CS 1101: Introduction to Programming
• CS 1102: Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
• CS 3243: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
• CS 5246: Text Processing on the Web
• CS 5244: Digital Libraries
• CS 6210: Special Topics in Computer Science

Professional Services

Journal Editorial Service

• Information Retrieval, Editorial Board
• Int’l J. on Digital Libraries (IJDL), special issue co-editor on Very Large Digital Libraries
• Int’l J. (IJCLCLP), special issue co-editor on Chinese Language Question Answering.
• Information Processing and Management (IPM), reviewer.
• International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT), reviewer.
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), reviewer.
• Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), reviewer.
• Data and Knowledge Engineering, special issue reviewer

Conference Organization

• Publicity chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2009
• Registration chair of SIGIR 2008
• Publication chair of AIRS 2006

Technical Program Conference Committees

• Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL): 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005
• Int’l. Conf. on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL): 2007 and 2003
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Track Chair 2008, Reviewer in 2005 and 2003
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
• Human Language Technology (HLT-NAACL): 2007 and 2006
• Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP): 2007 and 2005
• European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): 2008
• Computational Linguistics (COLING): 2004
• Int’l Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG): 2004
• Int’l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP): 2004
• Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI): 2007 and 2006
• Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR): 2006
• Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2006 (poster reviewer)
• Int’l Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2007 and 2005

Workshop Program Committees

• AAAI's 2006 workshop on event extraction and synthesis
• Workshop on Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction aand Summarization (MMIES) : 2007, 2008
• Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS): 2006 and 2005
• Web Information and Data Management (WIDM): 2008, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

Ph.D. Students Supervised

• 2003-2006: Hang Cui (Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Engineering)
• 2003-2008: Long Qiu (Research Fellow, Institute of Infocomm Research)
• 2003-2008: Hendra Setiawan (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland)

Students in progress

• 2005-present: Tan Yee Fan
• 2006-present: Zhao Jin
• 2007-present: Jesse Prabawa Gozali
• 2007-present: Lin Ziheng
• 2008-present: Hoang Cong Duy Vu

Patents and Awards

• Invention Disclosure, August 2006, “System for synthetic image classification”, M. Kan, W. Fei.
• US Provisional Application No: 60/582,736, September 2004. “An Automatic System for Forced Alignment between Polyphonic Song and Textual Lyrics”, Y. Wang, M. Kan, T. Nwe, A. Shenoy, J. Yin.
• Best student paper award to joint project work for LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Acoustic Musical Signals and Textual Lyrics at ACM Multimedia 2004.
• "Method for partitioning natural language texts into topical, multi-paragraph segments" M. Kan, J. Klavans and K. McKeown, U.S. Patent 6,473,730, October 2002.
• The Paul Michelman Award for Exemplary Service to the Computer Science Department, on October 2000.

Research Grants

All grants listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first)

1. 2008-current: PI for CSIDM grant, Co-training NLP systems and Language Learners, SGD 234K.
2. 2007-current: Co-P.I. for NRF grant, Interactive Media Seaerch. SGD 1.5M
3. 2007-2008: Co-P.I. for HFS pilot grant, Empirical Usability Studies with E-Learning Systems: Towards Executable Cognitive User Models as Design and Usability Evaluation Aids. SGD 24K.
4. 2006-current:P.I. for ARF grant, Mathematical Equation Indexing, Search and Retrieval. SGD 39K
5. 2006-2008: Collaborator on Hewlett Packard (HP) external grant, Document Information Mining for Digital Libraries. SGD 23K
6. 2006-2008: P.I. for ARF grant, Natural Language Query Analysis for Web Queries. SGD 41K
7. 2004: P.I. on ICITI equipment grant for interdisciplinary research. SGD 60K
8. 2003- 2006: P.I. for ARF grant, Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs. SGD 31K
9. 2003-2004: P.I. for ARF grant, Towards multi document indicative summarization via automated metadata extraction. SGD 23K

Invited Presentations

International

1. Machine Translation Projects at WING at Microsoft Research Asia's Workshop on Machine Translation for Multiple Language Information Access in Tokyo, Japan Host: Chin-Yew Lin and Ming Zhou (15-16 Dec)
2. NLP Lecture at Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Host: Dr Dina Demner, MD (7 Apr 2008)
3. Web IR/NLP Group (WING) @ NUS at Workshop on Web-Scale Natural Language Processing in Daejong, Korea. Host: Chin-Yew Lin and Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia (21-22 Feb 2008)
4. Elements of Enterprise NLP at Workshop on Natural Language Applications in Enterprise Class Systems in New Delhi, India. Host: C Anantaram, Tata Consultancy Services (4-5 Oct 2007)
5. Linked Anthology Proposal (joint with Brett Powley, Macquarie Univ.) at ACL Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Host: ACL Executive Board (24 June 2007)
6. Recent Directions in List and Definitional Question Answering at Pennsylvania State Univ. Host: Dongwon Lee and Prasenjit Mitra (20 Feb 2006)
7. Text processing for Web page classification and SMS optimization, Host: Hari Sundarama, at Arizona State University (24 Feb 2005)
8. Question Answering Research at NUS, Host: Kathleen R. McKeown, at Columbia University (17 May 2004)

Regional / National

1. Latest Trends in Web Research and Web Data Mining. Host: Chiew Ying Oi, World Scientific Publishers (Singapore, 23 September 2008)
2. NLP in Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. Host: Stephane Bressan, at NUS for Malay Indonesian NLP workshop (13 Nov 2007)
3. Next generation Digital Libraries. Host: at SERC Human Factors Engineering Workshop (24 Aug 2006)
4. Automatic Text Summarization in Information Retrieval. Host: Dekai Wu, at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (21 March 2003).
5. Automatic Text Summarization in Information Retrieval. Hosts: Wai Lam and Ee Peng Lim, at Chinese University of Hong Kong, SEEM (19 March 2003).
6. SERC Human Factors Engineering Workshop (24 Aug 2006)
7. “Trends in automatic text summarization”. Hosted by Chieu Hai Leong, at DSO National Labs (14 Oct 2003)

Visitors Invited and Hosted

1. Yahoo! Visiting Team to NUS SoC: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Rosie Jones, Donald Metzler, Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research Labs (Santa Clara, CA, USA and Barcelona, Spain), 25 Jul 2008
2. Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, Computer Lab, 11-18 Dec 2007
3. Dongwon Lee, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, December 2006. Supported by OAP exchange grant
4. David K Evans and Michel Galley, Graduate Research Assistants Columbia Univesity, 22 December 2005
5. John Chen, Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia, 25 July 2005.
6. Hari Kalva, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University, 5 July 2004

Content Adaptation for Mobile Multimedia

1. Krishna Bharat, Principle Scientist, Google Corporation, 12 July 2004 Google from the Inside

List of All Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Publications (74 total):

• Books Edited: 2

• Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee and Ee-Peng Lim (2008) Scholarly digital libraries at scale: introduction to the special issue on very large digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries 9(2): pp. 81-82

• Hwee Tou Ng, Mun-Kew Leong, Min-Yen Kan and Donghong Ji (Eds.) (2006) Information Retrieval Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4182. Book Chapters: 1
• Min-Yen Kan (2005) Using multi-document summarisation to assist in semi-structured literature retrieval: A case study in consumer healthcare In Theng, Yin Leng and Foo, Schubert (Eds.) "Design and Usability of Digital Libraries : Case Studies in the Asia Pacific", Idea Group Publishing. Most significant journal publications: 2
• Min-Yen Kan, Ye Wang, Denny Iskandar, Tin Lay Nwe and Arun Shenoy (2008) LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Textual Lyrics to Acoustic Music Signals. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16(2), February. pp. 338-349.
• Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2007) Soft Pattern Matching Models for Definitional Question Answering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 25(2). April. Journal publications (others): 4
• Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2008) Record Linkage in Digital Library Metadata. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), Technical Opinion Column, 51(2), pp 91-94, February.
• Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan and Long Qiu (2007) Document concept lattice for text understanding and summarization, Information Processing and Management, 43(6), pp. 1643-1662.
• Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features, Information Processing and Management, 43(2).

• Noemie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Judith Klavans, and Kathleen McKeown (2005) Customization in a Unified Framework for Summarizing Medical Literature, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 33 (2), pp. 179-198.

• Most significant conference papers: 16

• Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Yin Leng Theng (2008) Math Information Retrieval: User Requirements and Prototype Implementation. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, pages 187-196.
• Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2007), Ordering Phrases with Function Words, In Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics, (ACL 07). Prague, Czech Republic, June.
• Min-Yen Kan (2007) SlideSeer: A Digital Library of Aligned Document and Presentation Pairs, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June.
• Su Yan, Dongwon Lee, Min-Yen Kan and C. Lee Giles (2007) Adaptive Sorted Neighborhood Methods for Efficient Record Linkage, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June.
• Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Paraphrase Recognition via Dissimilarity Significance Classification, In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '06), Syndey, Australia, July 2006.
• Cui Hang, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Generic Soft Pattern Models for Definitional Question Answering. Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 05). Brazil, August 2005.
• Cui Hang, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Question Answering Passage Retrieval Using Depedency Relations. Proc. of ACM SIG on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 05). Brazil, August 2005.
• Min-Yen Kan and Danny C. C. Poo Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 05). Denver, 7-11 June 2005. pp. 91-99.
• Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram and Min Yen-Kan (2005) A Collaborative Annotation Framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '05), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2005.
• Wang Ye, Min-Yen Kan, Tin Lay Nwe, Arun Shenoy and Jun Yin (2004) LyricAlly: Automatic Synchronization of Acoustic Musical Signals and Textual Lyrics. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 (MM '04), New York, USA, 10-16 October.
• Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) Unsupervised Learning of Soft Patterns for Generating Definitions from Online News. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA.
• Jeffry Komarjaya, Danny C.C. Poo and Min-Yen Kan (2004) Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL '04), Bath, United Kingdom, 12-17 September.
• Andre W. Kushniruk, Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown, Judith L. Klavans, Desmond Jordan, Mark LaFlamme and Vimla L. Patel (2002) Usability Evaluation of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Search Engines: Implications for the Reengineering of Health Care Interfaces. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2002), San Antonio, Texas, USA: November 2002.
• Min-Yen Kan and Judith L. Klavans (2002) Using Librarian Techniques in Automatic Text Summarization for Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, Oregon, USA: July 2002. pp. 36-45.
• Judith L. Klavans and Min-Yen Kan (1998) Role of Verbs in Document Analysis. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Aug. 1998. pp. 680-686. (Posted to cmp-lg archives)

• Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans and Kathleen R. McKeown (1998) Linear Segmentation and Segment Relevence. Proceedings of 6th International Workshop of Very Large Corpora (WVLC-6), Montréal, Québec, Canada: August 1998. pp. 197-205.

• Conference Papers (Others): 35

• Dinh-Trung Dang, Yee Fan Tan and Min-Yen Kan (2008) Towards a Webpage-based Bibliographic Manager. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), pp. 313-316, Bali, Indonesia. December. Short paper.
• Yee Fan Tan, Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2008). Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms. International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
• Guo Min Liew and Min-Yen Kan (2008) Slide Image Retrieval: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, pages 359-362. Short paper.
• Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir Radev and Yee Fan Tan (2008) The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08). Marrakesh, Morocco, May.
• Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles and Min-Yen Kan (2008) ParsCit: An open-source CRF reference string parsing package. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08). Marrakesh, Morocco, May
• Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2008) Modeling Context in Scenario Template Creation, In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP '08), Hyderabad, India.
• Thuy Dung Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2007). Keyphrase Extraction in Scientific Publications. In Proc. of International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL '07). Hanoi, Vietnam, December.
• Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee and Yi Zhang (2007). Web Based Linkage. In Proc. of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '07). Lisboa, Portugal, September.
• Ergin Elmacioglu, Yee Fan Tan, Su Yan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2007). PSNUS: Web People Name Disambiguation by Simple Clustering with Rich Features. In Proceedings of SemEval 2007 Workshop, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June.
• Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007) A Rich OPAC User Interface with AJAX, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07). Vancouver, Canada, June. Short paper.
• Bang Viet Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Functional Faceted Web Query Classification. In Proc. of Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges, Banff, Canada, May.
• Ziheng Lin and Min-Yen Kan (2007) Timestamped Graphs: Evolutionary Models of Text for Multi-document Summarization, In Proceedings of Textgraphs-2: Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Rochester, NY, USA, April.
• Denny Iskandar, Ye Wang, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li (2006) Syllabic Level Automatic Synchronization of Music Signals and Text Lyrics, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia (MM '06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 2006.
• Shi-yong Neo, Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2006) Video Retrieval using High Level Features: Exploiting Query Matching and Confidence-based Weighting, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006.
• Fei Wang and Min-Yen Kan (2006) NPIC: Hierarchical synthetic image classification using image search and generic features, In Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 2006.
• Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee (2006). Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006. (Short Paper).
• Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Hang Cui (2006) Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework. In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context (MWEmc), Trento, Italy, April 2006, pages 47-54.
• Renxu Sun, Jing Jiang, Yee Fan Tan, Hang Cui, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Using Syntactic and Semantic Relation Analysis in Question Answering, In Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2005.
• Min-Yen Kan and Hoang Oanh Nguyen Thi (2005) Fast webpage classification using URL features. In Proc. of Conf. on Info and Knowledge Management (CIKM '05). Bremen, Germany, November 2005. Poster Paper.
• Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features. In Proc. of Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 05). Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005.
• Yijue How and Min-Yen Kan (2005) Optimizing predictive text entry for short message service on mobile phones. In Proc. of Human Computer Interfaces International (HCII 05). Las Vegas, July 2005.
• Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua and Jing Xiao (2004) A Comparative Study on Sentence Retrieval for Definitional Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA), SIGIR '04. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
• Chee How Lee, Min-Yen Kan and Sandra Lai (2004) Stylistic and Lexical Co-training for Web Block Classification. In Proceedings of Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM '04), Washington, D.C., USA, 12-13 November.
• Min-Yen Kan (2004) Web Page Classification Without the Web Page. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. New York, New York, USA. Poster Paper.
• Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua (2004) A Public Reference Implementation of the RAP Anaphora Resolution Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2004 (LREC 04), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Simon Lok and Min-Yen Kan (2003) Employing Natural Language Summarization and Automated Layout for Effective Presentation and Navigation of Information Retrieval Results. Proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), May 2003. Poster paper.
• Andre W. Kushniruk, Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown, Judith L. Klavans and Vimla L. Patel (2002) Evaluating the Content and Usability of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Web-Based Search Engines. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics 46th Annual Meeting (HFES 2002), Baltimore, Maryland, USA: September 2002.
• Min-Yen Kan and Kathleen R. McKeown (2002) Corpus-trained text generation for summarization. Proceedings of the Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2002), Harriman, New York, USA: July 2002. pp. 1-8.
• Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans and Kathleen R. McKeown (2002) Using the Annotated Bibliography as a Resource for Indicative Summarization. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain: May 2002. pp. 1746-1752.
• Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown and Judith L. Klavans (2001) Domain-specific informative and indicative summarization for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Workshop (DUC 2001), New Orleans, USA: September 2001.
• Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Min-Yen Kan, Barry Schiffman and Simone Teufel (2001) Columbia Multi-Document Summarization: Approach and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Workshop (DUC 2001), New Orleans, USA: September 2001.
• Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen R. McKeown and Judith L. Klavans (2001) Applying Natural Language Generation to Indicative Summarization. In Proceedings of 8th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Toulouse, France: July 2001. pp. 92-100.
• Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Melissa L. Holcombe, Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan, and Kathleen R. McKeown (2001) Simfinder: A Flexible Clustering Tool for Summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Summarization in NAACL 01, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA: June 2001.
• Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown, Min-Yen Kan, and Susan Lee (1998) Resources for the Evaluation of Summarization Techniques. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Grenada, Spain: May 1998.

• Pascale Fung, Min-Yen Kan and Yurie Horita (1996) Extracting Japanese Domain and Technical Terms is Relatively Easy. Second International Conference in New Methods for Language Processing, (NEMLP) Bilkent, Turkey: September 1996. pp. 148-159.

• Technical Reports: 13

• Ziheng Lin, Huu Hung Hoang, Min-Yen Kan, Long Qiu and Shiren Ye (2008) NUS at TAC 2008: Using Augmented Timestamped Graph Model and Opinion Snippet Sentence Mining. To appear in Proc. of Text Analysis Conference.
• Paula Proctor, Siti Zubaid, Jin Zhao and Min-Yen Kan (2008) eEvidence: Evidence Based Care Supported By Technology. Presented at 2008 Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics - Building Connections for Patient-Centered Records". Poster Abstract. Highest Scholarship Poster Abstract Award Winner.
• Jesse Prabawa Gozali and Min-Yen Kan (2007). Rich and Dynamic Library Catalogs: A Case Study of Online Search Interfaces. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRA 8/07.
• Ziheng Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan, Wee Sun Lee, Long Qiu and Shiren Ye (2007). NUS at DUC 2007: Using Evolutionary Models of Text. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC '07), Rochester, NY, USA.
• Min-Yen Kan and Hoang Oanh Nguyen Thi (2005) Fast webpage classification using URL features. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRC 8/05.
• Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Hang Cui (2005) Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TRB 8/05.
• Hang Cui, Keya Li, Renxu Sun, Tat-Seng Chua and Min-Yen Kan (2004) National University of Singapore at the TREC-13 Question Answering Main Task. In Proceedings of TREC 13.
• Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua (2003) QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task. In Proceedings of TREC 12, pages 480-488.
• Min-Yen Kan (2003) Metadata extraction and text categorization using Universal Resource Locator expansions. National University of Singapore Department of Computer Science Technical Report, TR 10/03.
• Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown (2001) Synthesizing composite topic structure trees for multiple domain specific documents. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-003-01.
• Min-Yen Kan (2001) Combining visual layout and lexical cohesion features for text segmentation. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-002-01.
• Min-Yen Kan and Kathleen R. McKeown (1999) Information Extraction and Summarization: Domain Independence through Focus Types. Columbia University Computer Science Technical Report, CUCS-030-99.
• Martin Braschler, Min-Yen Kan, Peter Schäuble and Judith L. Klavans The Eurospider Retreival System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Task. Proceedings of TREC-8, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA: Nov. 1999. Ph.D. Thesis: 1
• Min-Yen Kan, Automatic text summarization as applied to information retrieval: Using indicative and informative summaries, New York, New York, US