Welcome to General Ozochiawaeze's Homepage! http://obiorag.github.io VLDB 2019 Tutorial: Tutorial 6: TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Jingbo Shang, Jiawei Han Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: 2:00PM - 5:30PM, Aug 29, 2019 Location: Avalon Slides Preliminary Version Abstract Today’s society is immersed in a wealth of text data,... Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2019-08-23-vldb-tutorial/ http://obiorag.github.io/2019-08-23-vldb-tutorial/ I’m joining UC San Diego as Assistant Professor starting from Jan 2020. I will be jointly appointed by Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI). I’m looking for talented & dedicated students to work together on data-driven, large-scale text mining and network mining problems. Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2019-07-24-joining-ucsd/ http://obiorag.github.io/2019-07-24-joining-ucsd/ SIGKDD 2019 Tutorial: T17: Constructing and Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks from Massive Text Jingbo Shang, Jiaming Shen, Liyuan Liu, Jiawei Han Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: 1:00PM - 5:00PM, Aug 4, 2019 Location: Kahtnu 2-Level 2, Dena’ina Slides preliminary version Abstract Real-world data exists largely in... Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2019-04-22-kdd-tutorial/ http://obiorag.github.io/2019-04-22-kdd-tutorial/ My team (Jingbo Shang, Zhengkai Wu, Wenda Qiu), representing UIUC, wins the world champion of the IEEEXtreme 12.0 competition! The final leaderboard can be found here. Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-11-24-ieee-xtreme12/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-11-24-ieee-xtreme12/ Recently, we have gradually developed many theoretically sound and practically useful named entity recognition (NER) tools. Check Our New NER Toolkit🚀🚀🚀 Inference: LightNER: inference w. models pre-trained / trained w. any following tools, efficiently. Training: LD-Net: train NER models w. efficient contextualized representations. VanillaNER: train vanilla NER models w. pre-trained... Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-10-10-checkout-new-ner-tools/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-10-10-checkout-new-ner-tools/ Recently, we have 3 papers got accepted by EMNLP and CIKM. I will travel to Turin, Italy and Brussels, Belgium for the conferences. The camera-ready versions are coming soon. Please stay tuned. Jingbo Shang, Liyuan Liu, Xiaotao Gu, Xiang Ren, Teng Ren and Jiawei Han, “Learning Named Entity Tagger using... Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-08-15-emnlp-and-cikm/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-08-15-emnlp-and-cikm/ Our two KDD Showcase Projects have been selected for oral presentations, poster presentations, and demo presentations! Jingbo Shang, Qi Zhu, Jiaming Shen, Xuan Wang, Xiaotao Gu, Lance Kaplan, Timothy Harratty and Jiawei Han, “AutoNet: Automated Network Construction and Exploration System from Domain-Specific Corpora”, in Proc. of 2018 ACM SIGKDD Int.... Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-06-15-autonet/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-06-15-autonet/ SIGKDD 2018 Tutorial: Towards Multidimensional Analysis of Text Corpora Jingbo Shang, Chao Zhang, Jiaming Shen, Jiawei Han Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: August 19, 2018, 1:00PM - 5:00PM Location: ICC Capital Suite Room 4 Slides [preliminary version] Abstract In today’s information society, we are soaked with... Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-21-kdd-tutorial/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-21-kdd-tutorial/ Results Last Thursday, Apr 19, our team Unicorn competed in the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2018 at Peking University. This year, Moscow State University won the champion by solving 9 (out of 11) problems. We solved 4 problems and ranked 56, tied with a couple of Universities, like Zhejiang University, who... Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-20-acm-icpc-wf/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-20-acm-icpc-wf/ This award is for one outstanding graduate student each year in the CS Department at UIUC. Details In recognition of the longtime contributions and services of Charles W. Gear to the University of Illinois and to the Department of Computer Science, contributions from alumni, friends, and former students established an... Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:50:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-02-cw-award/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-04-02-cw-award/ Great news! Our paper of “Automated Phrase Mining from Massive Text Corpora” has been just accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering! Please checkout the toolkit at my GibHub: AutoPhrase. It currently support English, Spanish, and Chinese. If you encounter any issue, please raise your question in GitHub.... Mon, 05 Mar 2018 01:25:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2018-03-05-autophrase/ http://obiorag.github.io/2018-03-05-autophrase/ Last Saturday, Nov 4, our 5 teams went to the ACM/ICPC Mid-Central Regional Contest (MCPC)! We are using the theme of “corn” to name the teams, i.e., Popcorn, Unicorn, Scorn, .*corn, and Acorn. The suffix “corn” is always replaced by the emoji U+1F33D. The final leaderboard is available here: https://mcpc17.kattis.com/standings.... Tue, 07 Nov 2017 03:25:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-11-07-mcpc2017/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-11-07-mcpc2017/ Problemset The problemset is available here Acknowledgment This editorial is mainly drafted by Lan Dao. I only wrote problem A and edit some format. A: Birthday Cake First, you should know the Euler formula about the relation between the number of points, edges, and planes. Furthermore, there is a super... Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:25:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-10-12-icpc-tryout-2-solution/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-10-12-icpc-tryout-2-solution/ Problemset The problemset is available here Solutions Problem A. Jumbled Compass This is a similar problem to A + B. You just need to compare two directions and take the better one. Pay close attentions to the following special case mentioned in the output section. If the two input numbers... Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:50:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-10-10-icpc-tryout-1-solution/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-10-10-icpc-tryout-1-solution/ Outlines Practice Contest: Sept 16, Saturday, 12:30 PM - 17:30 PM on VJudge. 1st Tryout: Sept 23, 12PM - 5PM, free pizza is provided at 11AM, at DCL 0440 and DCL 0520 (basement). 2nd Tryout: Oct 7, 11AM - 4PM, free pizza is provided at 10AM, at DCL 0440 and... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-09-15-tryouts/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-09-15-tryouts/ More details can be found here. Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-30-illinois-team-icpc-2017/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-30-illinois-team-icpc-2017/ I’m visiting Google MTV office on this Monday and Tuesday. More details of this event will be updated later. Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-28-google-phd-summit/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-28-google-phd-summit/ Since the original 50 seats have been filled up quickly, we have extended the class to 150 seats! So CS 491 CAP 2017 Fall has about 100 seats for registration now! Go to U of I self-service and secure your seat (CRN 65816) today! Basic Info CAP is Competitive Algorithmic... Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-13-cs491cap/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-13-cs491cap/ SIGKDD 2017 Tutorial: Mining Entity-Relation-Attribute Structures from Massive Text Data Jingbo Shang, Xiang Ren, Meng Jiang, Jiawei Han Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: Aug 13, 2017, Sunday, 8:00AM --- 12:00PM Location: Room 200C2 Abstract Entity-Relation-Attribute (ERA) structures, forming structured networks between entities and attributes, have demonstrated... Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-11-kdd-tutorial/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-08-11-kdd-tutorial/ From left to right: Bill Poucher, Uttam Thakore, Mattox Beckman, Yewen Fan, Tong Li, Yuting Zhang, Jingbo Shang. ACM-ICPC World Finals 2017 is held in Rapid City, South Dakota. Starting from the Uber to the airport, it seems to me that most of, if not all, American people rarely heard... Fri, 26 May 2017 03:00:00 +0000 http://obiorag.github.io/2017-05-26-icpc-world-finals-2017/ http://obiorag.github.io/2017-05-26-icpc-world-finals-2017/