Research Interests

My PhD research focuses on the development of non-parametric Bayesian methods (e.g., Pitman-Yor processes) for Structured Topic Modeling. I am also interested in Nature Langauge Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Sentiment Analysis, Data Mining (includes text mining), especially by utilizing topic modelling.

Research Activities

  • Visited Prof. Yi Zhang, director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in Feb 2009
  • Visited IBM China research lab, Beijing, China, in August, 2010
  • Attended the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2010, Beijing, China
  • Visited Prof. Yi Zhang, director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in September 2010
  • Visited Prof. Mao Ye, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in Oct 2010
  • Attended the 10th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2010, Sydney, Australia
  • Attended the 4th ACM International Confernce on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2011, Hong Kong, China
  • Attended the Machine Learning Summer School in Singapore, June, 2011
  • Attended ECML-PKDD 2011, Athens, Greece, September, 2011
  • Attended Australian Language Technology Association (ALTA) conference, December, 2011

    • Awards

  • ANU-NICTA PhD scholarship, 2008 - 2011
  • NICTA Supplementary scholarship, 2008 - 2011
  • NICTA PhD Assignment scholarship, 2008 - 2011
  • ANU summer research scholarship, 2008
  • ANU-NICTA honours scholarship, 2007
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    Publications

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  • Jianping Gou, Lan Du, Taisong Xiong
    Weighted k-Nearest Centroid Neighbor Classification
    Journal of Computational Information Systems 8: 2(2012) 851-860
  • Jianping Gou, Lan Du, Yuhong Zhang, Taisong Xiong
    A new distance-weighted k-nearest neighbor classifier
    Journal of Information & Computational Science 9: 1(2012) 1-8
  • Jianping Gou, Zhang Yi, Lan Du, Taisong Xiong
    A Local Mean-based K-Nearest Centriod Neighbor Classifier
    The Computer Journal 2012
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  • Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Huidong Jin, Changyou Chen
    Sequential Latent Dirichlet Allocation
    Knowledge and Inforamtion System, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp 475-503, 2012
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  • Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Huidong Jin
    A Segmented Topic Model based on the Two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Process
    Machine Learning Journal, Volume 81, Number 1, 5-19, 2010
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    • ------ Conference Papers ------

  • Changyou Chen, Lan Du, Wray Buntine
    Sampling Table Configuration for the Hierarchical Poisson-Dirichlet Process
    ECML-PKDD 2011, page 296-311, 2011

  • Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Huidong Jin
    Sequential Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Discover Underlying Topic Structures within a Document
    ICDM 2010, page 148-157

  • Wray Buntine, Lan Du, Petteri Nurmi
    Bayesian Networks on Dirichlet Distributed Vectors
    Proceedings of the Fifth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-2010), page 33-40
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  • Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Huidong Jin
    A Segmented Topic Model based on the Two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Process
    ECML-PKDD 2010 (18% acceptance rate, published as a special issued in Machine Learning Journal)
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  • Lan Du, Huidong Jin, Olivier Y. de Vel, Nianjun Liu
    A Latent Semantic Indexing and WordNet based Information Retrieval Model for Digital Forensics
    IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2008: 70-75
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  • Phan Thien Son, Lan Du, Huidong Jin, Olivier Y. de Vel, Nianjun Liu, Terry Caelli
    A Simple WordNet-Ontology Based Email Retrieval System for Digital Forensics
    Pacific Asia Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics(ISI 2008 workshop): 217-228
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  • Junlei Song, Dianhong Wang, Nianjun Liu, Li Cheng, Lan Du, Ke Zhang
    Soil Moisture Prediction with Feature Selection Using a Neural Network
    International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2008: 130-136
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    Collaborators and Friends

  • Prof. Wray Buntine, Principal Researcher, NICTA, Canberra
  • Dr. Peter Christen, Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research) and Senior Lecturer, ANU, Canberra, Australia
  • Dr. Huidong Jin, Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Canberra, Australia
  • Dr. Lei Wang, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
  • Prof. Yi Zhang, Lab director of Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Chengdu, China
  • Mr. Changyou Chen, PhD candidate, ANU, canberra, Australia
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