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  • Hung-Yu Kao

    Hung-Yu KaoProfessor

    Contact Info.

    Department: dept. CSIE / inst. CSIE / IMI / AI Program

    Tel: 06-2757575 ext 62546

    E-mail: hykao@mail.ncku.edu.tw

    Lab: Intelligent Knowledge Management Laboratory (65903, 9F, CSIE new building)

    Personal Website: https://ikmlab.csie.ncku.edu.tw/advisor.html
    Research Interests

    Information Retrieval / Extraction、Data Mining、Machine Learning、Web Computing、Bioinformatics、Social Network Computing、Nature Language Processing

    School Record

    Taiwan \ National Taiwan University \ Electrical Engineering \ Ph.D(1999 ~ 2003)

    Taiwan \ National Tsing Hua University \ Computer Science \ M.S.(1994 ~ 1996)

    Taiwan \ National Tsing Hua University \ Computer Science \ B.S.(1989 ~ 1994)

    \ \ \ B.S.(0000 ~ 0000)

    Record

    Taiwanese Association of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) \ \ Chair (2021 ~ now)

    The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) \ \ Vice Chair (2021 ~ now)

    National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Professor (2014 ~ now)

    National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Associate Professor (2011 ~ 2014)

    National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Assistant Professor (2004 ~ 2011)

    Academia Sinica \ Institute of Information Science \ Post-doctoral Fellow (2003 ~ 2004)

    Academia Sinica \ Institute of Information Science \ Research Assistant (1996 ~ 2003)

    Honor & Awards

    國立成功大學電資學院輔導優良導師, 2014

    台灣綜合大學系統年輕學者創新競賽佳作獎, 2014

    國立成功大學教學傑出教師, 2011

    Reseach Grant of Intel Research Quad Core Seeding Program, 2007

    Biographical Listings in Marquis\'s Who\'s Who in Science and Engineering 10th Anniversary Edition, 2007-2008

    Research Grant of Intel Research Quad Core Seeding Program

    Biographical Listings in Marquis\'s Who\'s Who in Science and Engineering 9th Anniversary Edition, 2006-2007

    Long Term Award for PhD Thesis, Acer Foundation
    Publications

    Refereed Papers

    1. Y.-T. Tang, H.-Y. Kao, S.-J. Tsai, H.-C. Wang "A semi-supervised, weighted pattern-learning approach for extraction of gene regulation relationships from scientific literature" nternational Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Vol. 9, No. 4SCI

    2. C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "PubTator: a Web-based text mining tool for assisting Biocuration" Nucleic Acids Research, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt441, 2013SCI

    3. C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "PubTator: a Web-based text mining tool for assisting Biocuration" Nucleic Acids Research, 2013; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt441SCI

    4. S. V. Landeghem, J. Bjorne, C.-H. Wei, K. Hakala, S. Pyysalo, S. Ananiadou, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu, T. Salakoski, Y. V. de Peer, F. Ginter "Large-Scale Event Extraction from Literature with Multi-Level Gene Normalization" PLOS ONE, doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0055814, 2013SCI

    5. C.-H. Wei, B. R. Harris, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "tmVar: A text mining approach for extracting sequence variants in biomedical literature" Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt156, 2013SCI

    6. C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Unsupervised Corpus Distillation for Represented Indicator Measurement on Focus Species Detection" International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 8(4): 413-426SCI

    7. W.-T. Yang, and H.-Y. Kao "Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia Signed Network" Journal of Information Science and Engineering Vol. 29, No. 4, 615-630SCI

    8. C.-H. Wei, B. R. Harris, D. Li, T. Z. Berardini, E. H., H.-Y. Kao, and Z. Lu "Accelerating literature curation with text mining tools: A case study of using PubTator to curate genes in PubMed abstracts" Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2012:bas041. doi: 10.1093/database/bas041, 2012SCI

    9. Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships with High Impact Protein Distillation in Protein Interaction Prediction" BBA - Proteins and Proteomics, Volume 1824, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 1468–1475, DOI:10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.05.013, 2012SCI

    10. C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "SR4GN: A Species Recognition Software Tool for Gene Normalization" PLoS ONE 7(6): e38460. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038460, 2012SCI

    11. H.-C. Wang, Y.-S. Chen, H.-Y. Kao and S.-J. Tsai "Inference of transcriptional regulatory network by bootstrapping patterns" Bioinformatics, 27(10), 1422-1428, 2011SCI

    12. Y.-T. Tang, S.-J. Li, H.-Y. Kao, S.-J. Tsai and H.-C. Wang "Using Unsupervised Patterns to Extract Gene Regulation Relationships for Network Construction" PLoS ONE 6(5): e19633. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019633, May 2011SCI

    13. Z. Lu, H.-Y. Kao, C.-H. Wei, et. al. "The Gene Normalization Task in BioCreative III" BMC Bioinformatics 12(Suppl 8):S2, 2011SCI

    14. C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Cross-species gene normalization by species inference" BMC Bioinformatics 12(Suppl 8):S5, 2011.SCI

    15. C.-L. Lin, H.-Y. Kao "Blog Popularity Mining Using Social Interconnection Analysis" IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 41-49, 2010SCI

    16. H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "WISDOM: Web Intra-page Informative Structure Mining based on Document Object Model" IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2005SCI EI

    17. H.-Y. Kao, S.-H. Lin, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Mining Web Information Structures and Contents based on Entropy Analysis" IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2004SCI EI

    Conference Papers

    International Conference

    1. Y.-F. Lin and H.-Y. Kao "The Retrieval of Important News Stories by Influence Propagation among Communities and Categories" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2012), Dec. 4 - Dec. 6, 2012.EI

    2. L.-C. Lai and H.-Y. Kao "Question Routing by Modeling User Expertise and Activity in cQA services" Proc. of the 26th Annual Conference of JSAI, Yamaguchi, Japan, 2012

    3. C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao and Z. Lu "PubTator: A PubMed-like interactive curation system for document triage and literature curation" BioCreative 2012 workshop, Washington DC, USA, 145-150, 2012

    4. Y.-Y. Hsu and H.-Y. Kao "CoIN: a network exploration for document triage" BioCreative 2012 workshop, Washington DC, USA, 39-44, 2012

    5. Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships with High Impact Protein Distillation in Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of the 10th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC-2012), Jan. 17-19, 2012

    6. Wen-Teng Yang and H.-Y. Kao "Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia Revision Information in a Signed Network" Proc. of the 2011 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2011), Nov. 11-13, 2011

    7. H.-Y. Kao, Y.-T. Tang and J.-F. Wang "Evolutional dependency parse trees for biological relation extraction" Proc. of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE-2011), Oct. 24-26, 2011

    8. H.-C. Huang and H.-Y. Kao "CAIS: Community based Annotation Insight Search in a Folksonomy Network" Proc. of 2011 International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM-2011), July 25-July 27, 2011.

    9. Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships in Direct Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM-2011), June 30- July 2, 2011.

    10. Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "TransDomain: A Transitive Domain-Based Method in Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA-2011), May 27-29, 2011.

    11. Y.-F. Lin, J.-H. Wang, L.-C. Lai, H.-Y. Kao "Top Stories Identification From Blog to News In TREC 2010 Blog Track" Proc. of TREC-2010, 2010.

    12. H.-Y. Kao and C.-H. Wei "Inference network method on cross species gene normalization in full-text articles" Proc. of 2010 BioCreative III workshop, Bethesda, Maryland, 73-81, 2010.

    13. C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Represented Indicator Measurement and Corpus Distillation on Focus Species Detection" Proc. of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM-2010), Dec. 18-21, 2010.

    14. Y.-L. Chen and H.-Y. Kao "Finding Hard Questions by Knowledge Gap Analysis in Question Answer Communities" Proc. of the Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS-2010), December 1-3, 2010.

    15. H.-Y. Kao and Z.-Y. Lin "A Categorized Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Reviews by Mining Dependency in Product Features and Opinions from Blogs" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2010), Sept 1-3, 2010.

    16. C.-L. Lin, H.-L. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining" Proc. of the The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS-2009), October 21-23, 2009.

    17. H.-Y. Kao and W.-T. Cho "Entropy-based Visual Tree Evaluation on Block Extraction" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2009), Sept 15-18, 2009.

    18. H.-Y. Kao, C.-S. Liu, C.-C. Shih and T.-M. Tsai "DRANK+: a directory based pagerank prediction method for fast pagerank convergence" Proc. of 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'08)

    19. H.-Y. Kao, H.-W. Hsiao, C.-L. Lin, C.-C. Shih and T.-M. Tsai "An Entropy-Based Hierarchical Search Result Clustering Method by Utilizing Augmented Information" Proc. of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'08)

    20. H.-Y. Kao and S.-F. Lin "A Fast PageRank Convergence Method based on the Cluster Prediction" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2007)

    21. Yi-Feng Tseng, Hung-Yu Kao "The Mining and Extraction of Primary Informative Blocks and Data Objects from Systematic Web Pages" 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2006)

    22. C.-L. Lin and H.-Y. Kao "Query Result Aggregation on Multiple Search Engines" Proc. of International Workshop on Software Engineering, Databases, and Knowledge Discovery

    23. Yi-Feng Tseng, H.-Y. Kao "Web Information Hierarchy and Importance Mining Based on DOM Information Distillation" Proceedings of the 5th Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC-05)

    24. I-Ane Huang, Jan-Ming Ho, Hung-Yu Kao, Wen-Chang Lin "Extracting Citation Metadata from Online Publication Lists Using BLAST" Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-04)

    25. H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "DOMISA: DOM-based Information Space Adsorption for Web Information Hierarchy Mining" Proc. of the 4th SIAM Intern'l Conference on Data Mining (SDM-04)

    26. H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Clustering for Web Information Hierarchy Mining" Proc. of the IEEE 2003 Intern'l Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI-2003)

    27. H.-Y. Kao, S.-H. Lin, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Entropy-Based Link Analysis for Mining Web Informative Structures" Proceedings of the ACM 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-02)

    28. Chia-Hui Wang, H.-Y. Kao, Shin-Hung Chang, Ray-I Chang, Shun-Chin Hsu, Jan-Ming Ho "Design and Implementation of an Interactive True VOD System on ADSL with Scarce Resources at the Set-top Box" The International Computer Symposium on Workshop on Computer Networks, Internet, and Multimedia, 2000

    29. H.-Y. Kao, Shin-Yuan Iap, Yau-Tsung Lee, Shian-Hua Lin, et. al. "Design and Implementation of ASIS Multimedia Digital Library" Proceedings of SPIE on Multimedia Systems and Applications, 1999

    30. H.-Y. Kao, Sin-Yuan Iap, Chin-Fu Ku, Yau-Tsung Lee, Shian-Hua Lin, Yu-Chung Pan, Chi-Sheng Shih, Chia-Hui Wang, Yu-Chung, Meng-Chang Chen, Jan-Ming Ho, Ming-Ta Kao "ASIS MDL: a prototype electronic content service" IEEE workshop on Dependable and Real-time E-Commerce Systems, Denver, 1998

    31. H.-Y. Kao, Yu-Chen Kuo, Shing-Tsaan Huang, Biing-Feng Wang "Design and Implementation of a PC-based Video-On-Demand System" The 12th International Conference on information Networking (ICOIN-12), Jan 1998
    Students

    Students

      123(Grade 1)、123(Grade 1)、123(Grade 1)、123(Grade 1)

    Honor & Awards

    • BioCreAtIvE III Competition
    • BioCreAtIvE III Competition
    • BioCreAtIvE III Competition, Gene Normalization Task, 1st award Winner, 2010

    International Conference

    • The Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-04), May 26-28, 2004.(2004)
    • The 4th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM-04), April 22-24, 2004(2004)
    • The IEEE 2003 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2003), October 13-17, 2003.(2003)
    • The ACM 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-02). November 4-9, 2002.(2002)
    • PC member, the 1st Workshop on Intelligent Web Technologies(2000)
    • The IEEE workshop on Dependable and Real-time E-Commerce Systems, Denver, U.S.A , 1998.(1998)