Regular biography
KAN Min-Yen is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Department of Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is an active member of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), currently serving as co-chair of the ACL Ethics Committee. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval, and digital libraries. He leads the Web Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING.NUS) and has published extensively in top conferences and journals. He is an associate editor for Information Retrieval and survey editor for the Journal of AI Research (JAIR).
Scholar-generated biography
Min-Yen Kan is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, and Large Language Models. His research focuses on advancing techniques for keyphrase extraction, recommendation systems, and discourse parsing. He has contributed to projects such as Semeval-2010 task 5, ParsCit, and the ACL anthology reference corpus. His work addresses challenges in fake news detection, misinformation pollution, and scholarly paper recommendation. Kan's research emphasizes the integration of social context, user behavior, and deep learning for improved information retrieval and dialogue systems.