Introduction to TIMAN: Text Information Managemetn & Analysis ChengXiang (“Cheng”) Zhai Department of Computer Science Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Department of Statistics School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign czhai@Illinois.edu http://czhai.cs.Illinois.edu/
Text data cover all kinds of topics People Events Products Services, … … Sources: Blogs Microblogs Forums Reviews ,… 45M reviews 53M blogs 1307M posts 65M msgs/day 115M users 10M groups …
Humans as Subjective & Intelligent “Sensors” Sense Report Real World Sensor Data Weather Thermometer 3C , 15F, … Perceive Express “Human Sensor” Locations Geo Sensor 41°N and 120°W …. Network Sensor 01000100011100 Networks
Unique Value of Text Data Useful to all big data applications Especially useful for mining knowledge about people’s behavior, attitude, and opinions Directly express knowledge about our world: Small text data are also useful! Data Information Knowledge Text Data
TextScope to enhance human perception Microscope Telescope Intelligent Interactive Retrieval & Text Analysis for Task Support and Decision Making
TextScope in Action: intelligent interactive decision support Predicted Values of Real World Variables Optimal Decision Making Predictive Model Multiple Predictors (Features) … Sensor 1 Sensor k … Non-Text Data Text Joint Mining of Non-Text and Text Real World
Overview of TIMAN Research Biomedical & Healthcare Intelligent Education Systems Security … … Text-Based Prediction General Text Mining System (MeTA) Joint Analysis of Text & Non-Text Data Intelligent Interactive Search Algorithms Text Data Mining Algorithms
Looking forward to opportunities for collaboration! Thank You! More information about TIMAN can be found at http://timan.cs.uiuc.edu/ Looking forward to opportunities for collaboration! czhai@Illinois.edu
Additional Slides Text Mining Intelligent Task Agent Applications Opinion analysis: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/kdd-wisdom-13-final.ppt TextScope: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/ieee-bigdata17-keynote-textscope-zhai.pptx Text Analysis Engine: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/sigir11-keynote-analysis-engine-zhai.pptx Intelligent Task Agent Personalization: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/max-personalization.pptx Game Theoretic Framework for Intelligent Information Retrieval: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/sigir15-keynote-game-theory-zhai.pptx Interface Computing: http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/ict-2016-interface-final.pptx Applications Biomedical & Health Informatics (Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine patient records) http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/tcm-pitt-2017-final.ppt Education (Virtual Data Science Lab): http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/bigdata-panel-zhai.pptx Accelerate scientific discovery (Researcher’s Workbench): http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/pub/intelligent-workbench.pptx