Dr. CHEN Bin
​陈彬
Senior Scientist I
Lab Head, Information Extraction
Natural Language Processing Dept.
Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR
+(65)-6408-2131
I am a research scientist in the Natural Language Processing field for more than 6 years. I am enthusiastic not only in the research advancement, but also the industrial deployment of our research outcomes.
NLP Unit from I2R is hiring, please refer to the Inforsheet for details.
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Research Interests:
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Information Extraction
Named Entity​ Recognition / Entity Linking
Relation Extarction / Slot Filling
Coreference Resolution / Discourse Relation
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Sentiment Analysis
Polarity Analysis / Aspect Based ​Sentiment
Emotion Analysis / Social Media Sentiment Analysis
Research and Industrial Projects
Sentiment Analysis
- Baidu-I2R Research Centre
Deployed in multiple application domains across 4 Baidu Platforms: Duer (度秘) / NuoMi(糯米) / Mobile Search / AI Open Platform
2016
Sentiment analysis technology has been used in various Baidu platforms such as Duer (AI personal assistant), mobile search and Nuomi (O2O app) in 2016.
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Sentiment Analysis technology has also been used in 2 operators on Sentiment Classification and Comment Opinion Extraction which were published at Baidu AI Open Platform in 2017
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Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction
- Baidu-I2R Research Centre
Deployed in Duer (度秘)
2016
Entity recognition and relation extraction technology has been used in Duer in 2016.
Thai and Vietnamese Linguistic Resource, Word Segmentation, POS-Tagging and Named Entity Recognition
- Baidu-I2R Research Centre
Deployed on AI Open Platform / Baidu Translation / Thai Web Search
2014 - 2016
Thai/Vietnamese word segmentation and named entity recognition were released through Baidu NLP cloud in 2016.
Semantic and Sentiment Analysis on Singlish Social Media Contents
- Local Agency
2016 - 2019
This project will provide a platform for semantic and sentiment analysis of noisy Singlish user generated content (UGC) over various online sources beyond social media, which covers Singlish phenomena besides the typical UGC disorder.
Text and Speech Information Extraction
- An MNC from Industry
2014 - 2017
A 3 year project founded by industry.
Education
June, 2013
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Thesis on Event Coreference Resolution
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Supervisors: Prof. TAN Chew-Lim from National University of Singapore
Dr. Su Jian from Institute for Infocomm Research
June, 2007
Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics (Second Upper Class of Honor)
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National University of Singapore
Honor Year Project on Other-Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts
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Supervisors: Prof. TAN Chew-Lim from National University of Singapore
Dr. Su Jian from Institute for Infocomm Research
Working Experience
Apr 2019 ~ Present
Senior Scientist I
Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR
Apr 2014 ~ Mar 2019
Lab Head for Information Extraction
Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR
July 2013 ~ Mar 2014
Research Scientist
Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR
Aug 2011 ~ Jun 2013
Research Engineer
Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR
Publications
Random Walks down the Mention Graphs for Event Coreference Resolution
Bin Chen, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan,
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 4, No. 4, Article 74, September 2013
A Unified Event Coreference Resolution by Integrating Multiple Resolvers
Bin Chen, Jian Su, Sinno Jialin Pan and Chew Lim Tan
The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'11), November 2011
Resolving Event Noun Phrases to Their Verbal Mentions
Bin Chen, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan
The 2010 conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'10), October 2010
A Twin-Candidate Based Approach for Event Pronoun Resolution using Composite Kernel
Bin Chen, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan
The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'10), August 2010
Other-Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts with Automatic Mined Patterns
Bin Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), August 2008
I2R-NUS-MSRA at TAC 2011: Entity Linking
Wei Zhang, Jian Su, Bin Chen, Wenting Wang, Zhiqiang Toh, Yanchuan Sim, Yunbo Cao, Chin Yew Lin and Chew Lim Tan
The 2011 Text Analysis Conference (TAC'11) Benchmark on Entity Linking, November 2011
Improving Twitter Named Entity Recognition Using Word Representations
Zhiqiang Toh, Bin Chen and Jian Su
ACL 2015 Benchmark on Noisy User-generated Text. July 2015