Kelly
Itakura, Ph.D.
Research
Post-Doc
I was a postdoctral fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
from March to November 2011 to be an organizer of NTCIR Cross-Link Track for 2011.
PhD
I was supervised
by Charlie Clarke. I worked on information retrieval, broadly
passage retrieval that includes XML retrieval, or anything that makes our life easier and fun : )
INEX 2009: I participated in Ad Hoc(Focused), Book(Focused), Entity, and Link-the-Wiki tracks. The official results showed that I ranked #1 again in Ad Hoc/Focused task.
INEX 2008: I participated in INEX 2008 Adhoc, Link-the-Wiki, and Book tracks. The results show that I ranked #1 in all of Adhoc tasks; focused, relevant-in-context, and best-in-context tasks, as well as in the Book track, Page-in-Context task! In the Link-the-Wiki track, the results of our algorithm from INEX2007 were adopted by others to show superior performance over other methods.
INEX 2007:
I participated in INEX2007 adhoc and Link-the-Wiki tracks, and ranked the third
for focused and best-entry-point tasks in adhoc track, and had an overall good results (ranking 1st in one, and amongst the tops in others) in Link-the-Wiki tracks. In addition, our revised algorithm for Link-the-Wiki track produced results that consistantly sits on top of all the others in the official results; however, our revised algorithm remains to be unofficial, though it appears in the official publication.
Etc. As an aside, I also work on spam filtering and efficient passage retrieval algorithm.
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Shlomo Geva, Six Degrees of Cohesion in Patent Citation Network. in ADCS 2011.
- Wei-Che(Darren) Huang, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, and Kelly Itakura, Mobile Applications of Focused Link Discovery. in ADCS 2011.
- Ling-Xiang Tang, Kelly Y. Itakura, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, and Yue Xu, The effectiveness of Cross-lingual Link Discovery. in the Fourth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA) 2011.
- Ling-Xiang Tang, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, Yue Xu, and Kelly Y. Itakura, Overview of the NTCIR-9 Crosslink Task: Cross-lingual Link Discovery. in NTCIR-9, 2011
- Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L.A. Clarke, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, and Wei Chi Huang, Topical and Structual Linkage in Wikipedia. in ECIR 2011.
- Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L.A. Clarke, A Framework for BM25F-based XML Retrieval. In SIGIR 2010 843-844 Actual Poster
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L.A. Clarke, Univeristy of Waterloo at INEX 2009, Ad Hoc, Book, Entity Ranking, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks. in Focused Retrieval and Evaluation, LNCS6203, Springer, 2010.
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L.A. Clarke, Using Dynamic Markov Compression to Detect Vandalism in the Wikipedia. In SIGIR 2009 822-823 Poster in PowerPoint 2003 on Windows XP How it actually looked [download [cited by]
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L.A. Clarke, University of Waterloo at INEX2008: Adhoc, Book, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks
in Advances in Focused Retrieval, LNCS5631, Springer, 2009.
[download] [cited by]
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L.A. Clarke, University
of Waterloo at INEX 2007; Adhoc and Link-theWiki Tracks
in Focused Access to XML Documents, LNCS4862, Springer, 2008. [download] [cited by]
- Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L.A. Clarke, From passages into elements in XML retrieval
in SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, 2007. [download] [cited by]
MMath
I worked on quantum computing at University of Waterloo: [download] and [cited by].
Miscellaneous
Activities
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In addition to various TA positions, I was also an instructor for "CS100: Introduction to Computer Usage" for Winter 2008 at University of Waterloo.
- I helped translate a children's book from English to Japanese for a charity group that helps African children:
The English title is "Myambi's Second Chance" by Brenda L. Murray,
translated into Japanese by Kelly Y. Itakura and Sumiko Yamagishi.
ISBN:0-9735749-1-7.
- I am also an avid dancer, especially Salsa dancing. If you drop by the town and needed a partner, let me know :D
Contact
Information
itakura [a] alumni [d] uwaterloo [d] ca
Last updated: February 3, 2012.
