2021 Graduation Ceremony
December 2021
Congratulations to Dr Michael Stewart, Dr Majiga Enkhsaikhan and Jordan Makins who graduated at the 2021 University of Western Australia Graduation Ceremony.
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Dr Naeha Sharif wins ACS 1962 Medal
October 2021
Congratulations to CSSE graduate Dr Naeha Sharif who has won the ACS 1962 Medal for outstanding doctoral research.
Neha's thesis was on using AI to capture in natural language the details of an image.
The award was announced at the ACS Dennis Moore Oration on 28 October 2021.
Team UWA Wins ICDM 2019 Knowledge Graph Contest
November 2019
In 2019 the NLP research group at UWA entered the 2019 ICDM Knowledge Graph Contest. The goal of the competition was to construct a knowledge graph from scratch from news articles across various domains, such as catering news and automotive news.
Our team, consisting of Dr Wei Liu, Michael Stewart, Majiga Enkhsaikhan, Tom Smoker and Morgan Lewis experimented with a variety of different approaches ranging from rule-based methods to fully end-to-end deep learning methods. We ultimately found the rule-based methods produced the most accurate knowledge graph, which cemented our place in the second round of the competition.
In the second round, we were tasked with developing a visualisation of our knowledge graph. We took this opportunity to develop Text2KG, a d3-based app for visualising knowledge graphs constructed directly from text.
Shortly after submitting our entry "Team UWA" was announced as the first prize winner of the competition, and we had the opportunity to fly to Beijing to present our work and receive our award. While at the conference we met the father of data mining, Jiawei Han, and the legendary Gödel prize winners Ronald Fagin and Joseph Halpern. The conference was a fantastic opportunity for us all and led us to future exciting research in knowledge graph construction from text.
