CURRICULUM VITAE

 Pu-Jen Cheng

　

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering

National Taiwan University

Office: Room 323, CSIE Building

Phone: +886-2-23625336 ext. 323

E-mail: pjcheng@csie.ntu.edu.tw

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~pjcheng

 

 

EDUCATION                                                                       

 

09/94 ~ 05/01          Ph.D., Computer and Information Science,

                                National Chiao Tung University.

09/90 ~ 06/94          B.A., Computer and Information Science,

                                National Chiao Tung University.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

08/06 ~ present        Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and

Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

10/01 ~ 06/06          Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Information Science,

                                Academia Sinica

07/01 ~ 10/01          Military Service

05/01 ~ 07/01          Project Manager, VisionNEXT corporation

 

RESEARCH INERESTS

 

Information Retrieval, Web Mining, Web Image Search, Content-Based Image/Video Retrieval, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Databases, Chinese Information Processing

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

A. Program Committee Member

• The 5th Workshop on Digital Archives Technology (DATF), 2006.

• The 4th Workshop on Digital Archives Technology (DATF), 2005.

• The 1st Workshop on Intelligent Web Technologies (IWT), 2004.

• The 2003 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL), 2003.

 

B. Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).

• ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing (TALIP).

• Information Processing Letters (IPL).

• International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2005.

 

C. Organizing Committee Member

• The 4th International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT), 2006.

• The 3rd International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT), 2005.

• The 16th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING), 2004.

 

D. Invited Lectures

• “Image and Video Retrieval,” National Digital Archives Program, National Taipei University of Education, September 2006.

• “Information Retrieval,” National Digital Archives Program, National Taipei University of Education, July 2006.

• “Clustering and Classifying Patterns in Text Collections,” Workshop on Text Mining Technologies, Academia Sinica, December 2004.

• “Image Retrieval,” National Digital Archives Program, National Taiwan University, September 2004.

• “Personalized Image Browsing and Annotation on the Web Using Query Taxonomy,” International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies, Academia Sinica, December 2002.

• “Web Image Classification,” Workshop on Automatic Information Classification Technologies, Academia Sinica, April 2002.

 

HONOR & AWARDS

 

1994-present    Member of the ROC Phi-Tau-Phi Academic Honor Society

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

A.     Journal Papers

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Lee-Feng Chien. Effective Image Annotation for Search Using Multi-Level Semantics. Journal of Digital Libraries: Special Issue on Asian Digital Libraries, pp. 258-271, 2004.

  †Journal of Digital Libraries is a premier journal in digital library related area

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Wei-Pang Yang. Composition and Retrieval of Visual Information for Video Databases. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 12(6), pp. 627-656, 2001. (SCI)

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Wei-Pang Yang. A New Content-Based Access Method for Video Databases. Information Science 118, pp. 37-73, 1999. (SCI, EI)

B.     Conference Papers

• Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Chen Chiao, Yi-Cheng Pan, and Lee-Feng Chien. Annotating Text Segments in Documents for Search. In Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’05) (poster), 2005. Acceptance rate: 18%.

• Pu-Jen Cheng, Jei-Wen Teng, Ruei-Cheng Chen, Jenq-Haur Wang, Wen-Hsiang Lu, and Lee-Feng Chien. Translating Unknown Queries with Web Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proc. of the 27th ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’04), 2004. Acceptance rate: 21%.

  †ACM SIGIR is a first-tier IR conference.

• Pu-Jen Cheng, Yi-Cheng Pan, Wen-Hsiang Lu, and Lee-Feng Chien. Creating Multilingual Translation Lexicons with Regional Variations Using Web Corpora. In Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the 42 th Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’04), 2004. Acceptance rate: 25%.

  †ACL is a first-tier NLP conference.

• Jenq-Haur Wang, Jei-Wen Teng, Pu-Jen Cheng, Wen-Hsiang Lu, and Lee-Feng Chien. Translating Unknown Cross-Lingual Queries in Digital Libraries Using a Web-based Approach," In Proc. of the 4 th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’04), 2004. Acceptance rate: 30%.

  †JCDL is a first-tier DL conference.

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Lee-Feng Chien. Effective Image Annotation for Search Using Multi-level Semantics. In Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL’03), pp. 230-242, 2003.

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Lee-Feng Chien. Auto-Generation of Topic Hierarchies for Web Images from Users’ Perspectives. In Proc. of the 12th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’03) (poster), pp. 544-547, 2003. Acceptance rate: 15%.

  †ACM CIKM publishes high quality papers in multiple disciplines, including databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management.

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Lee-Feng Chien. Personalized Image Browsing and Annotation on the Web Using Query Taxonomy. In Proc. of International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies, 2002. (invited)

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Wei-Pang Yang. An Approach of Modeling Object Motions for Video Libraries. In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), pp. 226-242, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 1999.

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Wei-Pang Yang. Querying Video Contents by Motion Example. In Proc. of the 1st International Symposium on Database Applications in Non-Traditional Environments (DANTE), pp. 291-297, Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 1999.

• Pu-Jen Cheng, H.-L. Lee, and Wei-Pang Yang. Hierarchical Video Retrieval on the Internet Using Block Similarity Measures. In Proc. of National Computer Symposium (NCS) 1, pp. A305-312, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 1999.

• Pu-Jen Cheng and Wei-Pang Yang. A New Content-Based Video Retrieval System - Data Model and Query Processing. In Proc. of Workshop on Software Engineering and Database Systems, International Computer Symposium (ICS), pp. 115-122, Taiwan, 1998.

 

CONDUCTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

• National Digital Archives Program – Research and Development of Technology Division, National Science Council

• A Study on Web Mining Technology, National Science Council

• A study on cross-language retrieval for patent, Institute for Information Industry

• Chinese Multimedia Information Extraction – Techniques for Automatic Chinese Knowledge Extraction, National Science Council

• Design and Implementation of a Query-by-motion Video Database, National Science Council

• Design and Implementation of a Content-based Video Retrieval System, Institute for Information Industry

• Design and Implementation of a Video Database, National Science Council

• Distributed Transaction Manager of an Object-oriented Database System, Institute for Information Industry

• Design and Implementation of a Storage System with Concurrency Control and Recovery for ObjectPro/ODB, Institute for Information Industry

• Design and Implementation of an Object-oriented Database Kernel Model, National Science Council

• Design and Implementation of an Object-base Storage System for ObjectPro/ODB, Institute for Information Industry

• Design and Implementation of an Object-oriented Database System, National Science Council

• Design and Implementation of an Object-oriented Database for PN Service, Ministry of Transportation and Communications