Machine Learning and Networked Information Spaces (MALNIS) Laboratory
Combining content and link information for describing, classifying, clustering and visualizing networked information spaces.
The focus of the group is the application of machine learning, graph theory
and natural language processing to problems in networked information spaces,
i.e. large document collections which have the form of a graph, where nodes
are occupied by documents and links represent relations between documents (hyperlinks
or citations). Specific research problems addressed include similarity and clustering
based on both content and link information, low-dimensional representations
of special text corpora based on lexical ontologies and automatically extracted
terms, summarization of web document
collections, and information extraction. Networked information spaces of particular
interest include the scientific and medical research literature, the Web and
corporate Web spaces. To address the computational requirements associated with
processing large data sets, attention is focusing on the use
of coarse-grained parallelism (on clusters of Linux workstations).
Specific projects include web site summarization, information extraction from
web sources, automatic term extraction from special text corpora, modelling
of user browsing patterns, detection of abnormal patters in large dynamic communication
graphs.
The MALNIS lab cooperates with the Web Information
Filtering Lab and the Natural Language
Processing Group.
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| Project/Students | Visual Text Analytics | Text Mining | Netpal |
| Postdoctoral Fellows |
Axel Soto (7/10) (with V. Keselj) Aminul Islam (9/11) (with V. Keselj) |
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| PhD | Raheleh
Makki Niri (9/11) (cosup. S. Brooks) Armin Sajadi (9/11) (cosup. V. Keselj) Magda Jankowska (9/11)(cosup. V. Keselj) |
Marek Lipczak (9/07-2) Yeming Hu (9/06-2) (cosup. J. Blustein) Özge Yeloğlu (9/07-2) (cosup. N. Zincir-Heywood) Yael Kollet (1/09-2) (cosup. J. Slonim) Hamid Nourashraf (1/10) (cosup. D. Arnold) |
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| MCS | Tomasz
Niewiariowski (9/11) (cosup. V. Keselj) Shali Liu (9/11) (cosup. K. Hawkey) |
Zainab
Zolaktaf (9/09) (cosup: Nur Zincir-Heywood) Fatemeh Riahi (01/10) |
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| Former PhD | H.
Tanta-ngai (9/02-2--4/10) (cosup: V. Keselj) M. Shafiei (1/04-2 -- 8/09) Jane Mason (1/06-2 -- 12/09, cosup. M. Shepherd) Yongzheng Zhang (5/02-2--7/07) (cosup: N.Zincir-Heywood) |
Ashley
George (9/06--ABD) (cosup: Nur Zincir-Heywood) |
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| Former MCS | Roger Zhang (1/04 - 1 --
) (cosup: V. Keselj) (PT: 04/06) adam, bhe, bchen, jliang, shan,atuttle,lingyan maccara, wgao, gwei, zyu |
Research collaborations:
Intelligent Systems Laboratory,
Technical University of Crete (Prof.
E. Petrakis)
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