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Yao-Chung Fan

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--Albert Einstein

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About Me

/Who Am I

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Hi, there, I am Yao-Chung Fan. I am an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan


I received a PhD degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, where I was a member of the Multimedia and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, working on query processing and query optimization over sensor data streams. My PhD dissertation received the 2011 Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Award. I received the Taiwan National Science Council Award for visiting the Pennsylvania State University, where I was hosted as a Visiting Scholar of the Pervasive Data Access (PDA) Research Group in 2010. My current research interests include natural language processing, social data management, and text mining. You can also check my research group at NLP Lab @ NCHU

Statistics

8 years of experience
35 academic publications
14 research project completed
810 lecture hours

Research Interesting

/What I would like to do

Research Project

/What I am doing and done

自然語言處理

本實驗室主要利用深度學習技術於文字資料探勘與自然語言處理(Text Mining and Natural Language Processing)之研究,目前實驗室研究成員之研究主題著重於機器閱讀理解(Machine Reading Comprehension)與自然語言生成(Natural Language Generation)兩面向。

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Representative Papers

  • Shih-Wei Guo, Yao-Chung Fan: X-Phishing-Writer: A Framework for Cross-lingual Phishing E-mail Generation. ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 23(7): 102:1-102:34 (2024)
  • Ho-Lam Chung, Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan: Handover QG: Question Generation by Decoder Fusion and Reinforcement Learning. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 32: 3644-3655 (2024)
  • Po-Chun Huang, Ying-Hong Chan, Chingyu Yang, Hung-Yuan Chen, Yao-Chung Fan:EQGG: Automatic Question Group Generation. IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol. 2024
  • Han-Cheng Yu, Yu-An Shih, Kin-Man Law, Kai-Yu Hsieh, Yu-Chen Cheng, Hsin-Chih Ho, Zih-An Lin, Wen-Chuan Hsu, Yao-Chung Fan: Enhancing Distractor Generation for Multiple-Choice Questions with Retrieval Augmented Pretraining and Knowledge Graph Integration. ACL (Findings) 2024:
  • Hui-Juan Wang, Kai-Yu Hsieh, Han-Cheng Yu, Jui-Ching Tsou, Yu-An Shih, Chen-Hua Huang, Yao-Chung Fan: Distractor Generation based on Text2Text Language Models with Pseudo Kullback-Leibler Divergence Regulation. ACL (Findings) 2023
  • Shih-Wei Guo, Ya-Chun Wen, Jui-Ling Yu, Yao-Chung Fan: JH-Ranker: Enhancing Keigo Recognition in Japanese Sentences through Multi-Task Learning. IJCNN 2024
  • Chen-Jui Yu, Wen Hung Lee, Lin Tse Ke, Shih-Wei Guo, Yao-Chung Fan: Automating True-False Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Evaluation with Retrieval-based Accuracy Differential. INLG 2024:
  • Chih-Hsuan Shen, Yi-Li Kuo, Yao-Chung Fan: Personalized Cloze Test Generation with Large Language Models: Streamlining MCQ Development and Enhancing Adaptive Learning. INLG 2024
  • Shang-Hsuan Chiang, Ssu-Cheng Wang, Yao-Chung Fan: CDGP: Automatic Cloze Distractor Generation based on Pre-trained Language Model. EMNLP (Findings) 2022
  • Hsien-Yung Peng, Ho-Lam Chung, Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan: Misleading Inference Generation via Proximal Policy Optimization. PAKDD 2022
  • Ying-Hong Chan, Ho-Lam Chung, Yao-Chung Fan: Improving Controllability of Educational Question Generation by Keyword Provision, INLG 2022
  • Chih-Shuo Tsai, Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan: Hierarchical Cache Transformer: Dynamic Early Exit for Language Translation, IJCNN 2022
  • Wei-Yao Wang, Teng-Fong Chan, Hui-Kuo Yang, Chih-Chuan Wang, Yao-Chung Fan, Wen-Chih Peng: Exploring the Long Short-Term Dependencies to Infer Shot Influence in Badminton Matches, ICDM 2022
  • Hao-Yi Chih, Yao-Chung Fan, Wen-Chih Peng, Hai-Yuan Kuo: Product Quality Prediction with Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture and Transfer Learning, CIKM 2020
  • Ho-Lam Chung, Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan: A BERT-based Distractor Generation Scheme with Multi-tasking and Negative Answer Training Strategies, EMNLP (Findings) 2020
  • Ying-Hong Chan, Yao-Chung Fan: A Recurrent BERT-based Model for Question Generation, EMNLP 2019 Workshop
  • Cheng-Han Yeh, Yao-Chung Fan, Wen-Chih Peng: Interpretable Multi-task Learning for Product Quality Prediction with Attention Mechanism, ICDE 2019
  • Si-Ying Huang, Yung-Yu Chen, Hung-Yuan Chen, Lun-Chi Chen, Yao-Chung Fan: Personalized Item-of-Interest Recommendation on Storage Constrained Smartphone Based on Word Embedding Quantization, PAKDD 2018
  • Yao-Chung Fan, Yu-Chi Chen, Kuan-Chieh Tung, Kuo-Chen Wu, Arbee L. P. Chen: A Framework for Enabling User Preference Profiling through Wi-Fi logs, ICDE 2016.
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    Academic Awards

    /What I was

    • 2018 第22屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 亞太交流組 『深度學習於醫療檢測之應用』 第三名 獎金10000元 with 王韋鈞、沈柏瑋

    • 2018全國大專校院軟體創作競賽『基於深度學習之金黃色葡萄球菌定量辨識App』銅牌獎獎金30000。with 王韋鈞、沈柏瑋

    • 2018 第22屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『眾裡尋他三維度』 資訊技術應用組 佳作 with 蔡佳樺、鄭筠庭

    • 2018 第1屆總統盃社會創新黑客松『台中市大眾運輸系統暨人流移動分析與視覺化系統』佳作獎 佳作 with 王韋鈞、沈柏瑋

    • 2018 第22屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『網軍糾察隊』第二名 獎金10000元 with 董欣謙、王浚睿

    • 2017 第21屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『芝事通鑒』資訊技術應用組 佳作 with 王韋鈞、沈柏瑋

    • 2017 第21屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『品牌放大鏡』商工行政創新雲端應用組 第二名 獎金30000元 with 楊牧樺、李子昀

    • 2016 第20屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『鄉民的力量之決勝焦點』資訊技術應用組(IAP8) 第一名 獎金20000元 with 楊尚恩、郭介騵

    • 2016 第20屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『親民上河圖』資訊技術應用組(IAP5) 第一名 獎金20000元 with 張泰瑋、黃翔宇

    • 2015 第19屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 『無敵風火輪』資訊技術應用組 第一名 獎金20000元 with 陳勇瑜

    • 2015 第19屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 Open Data創意應用開發組 佳作

    • 2015 全國能源科技創意實作競賽 入選獎 獎金8000元

    • 2015 全國大專校院軟體創作競賽 社群運算與巨量資料應用組 銀牌獎 獎金50000元

    • 2015 全國大專校院軟體創作競賽 雲端網際服務應用組 佳作獎 獎金5000元

    • 2014 第19屆全國大專校院資訊應用服務創新競賽 智慧生活行動大數據應用組第二名 獎金30000元

    • 2015 全國雲端創新應用大賽 佳作 獎金5000元

    • 2014 經濟部工業局自行車研究發展中心app開發競賽 金牌獎 (HTC M8一具)

    • 2014 經濟部工業局自行車研究發展中心app開發競賽 銀牌獎 (Asus ZenPhone一具)

    • 2012 年華義創新行動軟體競賽佳作獎

    • 2011 TIEEE 台灣電子電機工程協會最佳博士論文獎

    • 2009 國科會千里馬獎學金

    • 2008 IEEE電子電機工程協會TCPP學生獎學金

    Publications

    /What I learned

      Conference Paper

    • Si-Ying Huang, Yung-Yu Chen, Hung-Yuan Chen, Lun-Chi Chen, Yao-Chung Fan: Personalized Item-of-Interest Recommendation on Storage Constrained Smartphone Based on Word Embedding Quantization. PAKDD (3) 2018

    • Vorakit Vorakitphan, Fang-Yie Leu, Yao-Chung Fan: Clickbait Detection Based on Word Embedding Models. IMIS 2018: 557-564

    • Ming-Yi Zheng, Hung-Yuan Chen, Huan Chen, Yao-Chung Fan: On cleaning and organizing context logs for mobile user profiling. ICDIM 2017: 161-164

    • Cheng-Ying Hsu, Shang-En Yang, Hung-Yuan Chen, Fang-Yie Leu, Yao-Chung Fan: Inferring Smartphone User Demographics from Wi-Fi trace Logs: A Study of Users' Privacy Concerns. BWCCA 2016:

    • Yao-Chung Fan, Yu-Chi Chen, Kuan-Chieh Tung, Kuo-Chen Wu, Arbee L.P. Chen, A Framework for Enabling User Preference Profiling through Wi-Fi Logs, IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016

    • Chih-Wei Chang, Yao-Chung Fan, Ku-Chen Wu and Arbee L.P. Chen, On the Semantic Annotation of Daily Places: A Machine-Learning Approach, ACM LobWeb 2014, ACM CIKM 2014 Workshop, slide

    • Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Yao-Chung Fan, and Shiann-Tsong Sheu, Node Joining and Grouping Scheme for Avoiding Hidden Node Problem in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network., ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review.

    • Yao-Chung Fan and Huan Chen, An Approximate Framework for Scaling Social Influence Computation in Large Networks, In Proceeding of the ACM 29th Symposium On Applied Computing, ACM SAC 2014 (EI)

    • Yao-Chung Fan and et al. In-door Place Name Annotations with Crowd, In Proceeding of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE ICPADS 2013 (EI)

    • Yao-Chung Fan and et al. LocalSense: An Infrastructure-Mediated Sensing Method for Locating Appliance Usage Events in Homes, In Proceeding of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE ICPADS, (EI)

    • Yao-Chung Fan and Huan Chen, GreenSensing: A Fine Grained Power Monitoring System for a Network of Computer, ACM/IEEE International conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS2013 (EI)

    • Yao-Chung Fan and et al. TeleEye: Enabling Real-time Geospatial Query Answering with Mobile Crowd, ACM/IEEE International conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS2013 (EI)

    • Yao-Chung Fan, XingJie Liu, Wang-Chien Lee, Arbee L.P. Chen, Time Series Disaggregation for Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC2012

    • Yao-Chung Fan and Arbee L.P. Chen, An Approximation Algorithm for Optimizing Multiple Path Tracking Queries over Sensor Data Streams, In Proceeding of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA2009.

    • Yao-Chung Fan and Arbee L.P. Chen, Efficient and Robust Sensor Data Aggregation using Linear Counting Sketches, In Proceeding of the 22th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS2008. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate:22.5%, EI) (with TCPP Student Travel Award)

    • Guan-Rong Lin, Yao-Chung Fan, En Tzu Wang, Tao Zou, Arbee L.P. Chen, Energy-Efficient Sensor Data Acquisition based on Periodic Patterns, In Proceeding of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2009. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate:29%, EI)

    Resume

    /My entire career

    Education
    Sept. 2004

    Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    As a Member of the Multimedia and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, supervised by Professor Arbee L.P. Chen,working on query processing and query optimization over sensor data streams.

    Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University

    As a Visiting Scholar of the Pervasive Data Access (PDA) Research Group in 2010, hosted by Professor Wang-Chien Lee

    Feb. 2010
    Oct. 2010

    Ph.D. Degree Obtained

    My Dissertation received the 2011 Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Award.

    Oct. 2010

    Military Service

    As a Second Lieutenant, a Platoon Commander of Military Police

    Department of Computer Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

    As an Assistant Professor

    Feb 2012
    Publication Chronicle
    2008

    Efficient and Robust Sensor Data Aggregation using Linear Counting Sketches

    In Proceeding of the 22th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS2008. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate:22.5%, EI) (with TCPP Student Travel Award)

    Energy-Efficient Sensor Data Acquisition based on Periodic Patterns

    In Proceeding of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2009. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate:29%, EI)

    2009

    An Approximation Algorithm for Optimizing Multiple Path Tracking Queries over Sensor Data Streams

    In Proceeding of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, LNCS, DEXA2009. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate:17.5%, EI)

    2009

    Efficient and Robust Schemes for Sensor Data Aggregation based on Linear Counting

    IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Vol.11, no 11, pp1675-1691, 2010. (EI, SCI, impact factor: 1.796, journal ranking:16/100)

    2010
    After the Ph.D degress

    Efficient Time Series Disaggregation for Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring

    In Processing of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC2012.

    2012

    Energy Efficient Schemes for Accuracy-Guaranteed Sensor Data Aggregation using Scalable Counting

    IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol.24, no 8, pp1463-1477, 2012. (EI, SCI, impact factor: 1.892, journal ranking:22/132)

    2012

    TeleEye: Enabling Real-time Geospatial Query Answering with Mobile Crowd

    In Proceeding of the 9th IEEE conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2013.

    2013

    A Fine Grained Power Monitoring System for a Network of Computers

    In Proceeding of the 9th IEEE conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2013.

    2013

    An Infrastructure-Mediated Sensing Method for Locating Appliance Usage Events in Homes

    In Proceeding of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE ICPADS 2013

    2013

    In-door Place Name Annotations with Crowd

    In Proceeding of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE ICPADS 2013

    2013

    An Approximate Framework for Scaling Social Influence Computation in Large Networks

    In Proceeding of of the ACM 29th Symposium On Applied Computing, ACM SAC 2014 (EI)

    2014

    Node Joining and Grouping Scheme for Avoiding Hidden Node Problem in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network.

    ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review

    2014

    Place Name Annotations with Mobile Crowd

    International Journal of Web and Grid Services.(EI, SCI, impact factor: 1.615, journal ranking: 28/132)

    2014