Ruey-Cheng Chen

I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Canva working on search and recommender systems. Prior to that, I have been working as a Data Scientist at SEEK Ltd, and a few more years back as a Research Fellow at RMIT University. I have a background in natural language processing and information retrieval, with recent work focused mostly on representation, neural models, ranking, and NLP applications. I review for academic conferences as an industry researcher in related areas such as SIGIR, WSDM, KDD, and EMNLP.

I received my doctorate in 2013 from National Taiwan University. Detailed track records can be found in my CV.

I'm also on twitter and github.

Publications

Incorporating Behavioral Hypotheses for Query Generation
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chia-Jung Lee
EMNLP '20 [pdf]

Correcting for Recency Bias in Job Recommendation
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Qingyao Ai, Gaya Jayasinghe, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM '19 [pdf, poster]

Joint Optimization of Cascade Ranking Models
Luke Gallagher, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Roi Blanco, J. Shane Culpepper
WSDM '19 [pdf, code]

Ranking Documents by Answer-Passage Quality
Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR '18 [pdf, slides, code]

Document Summarization for Answering Non-Factoid Queries
Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson
IEEE TKDE vol. 30, no. 1 [pdf]

RMIT at the NTCIR-13 We Want Web Task
Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper
NTCIR-13 [pdf]

RMIT at the TREC CORE Track
Rodger Benham, Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Tadale T. Damessie, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
TREC 2017 [pdf]

An Empirical Analysis of Pruning Techniques
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Leif Azzopardi, Falk Scholer
CIKM '17 [pdf, poster, code]

On the Benefit of Incorporating External Features in a Neural Architecture for Answer Sentence Selection
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Evi Yulianti, Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR '17 [pdf, poster, code]

Efficient Cost-Aware Cascade Ranking for Multi-Stage Retrieval
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Luke Gallagher, Roi Blanco, J. Shane Culpepper
SIGIR '17 [pdf, code]

RMIT at the TREC 2016 LiveQA Track
Joel Mackenzie, Ruey-Cheng Chen, J. Shane Culpepper
TREC 2016 [pdf]

Using Semantic and Context Features for Answer Summary Extraction
Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
ADCS 2016 [pdf, poster]

RMIT at the NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2: iUnit Ranking and Summarization Subtasks
Kevin Ong, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer
NTCIR-12 [pdf]

Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-Factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer
ECIR '16 [pdf, code]

RMIT at the TREC 2015 LiveQA Track
Ruey-Cheng Chen, J. Shane Culpepper, Tadele Tadela Damessie, Timothy Jones, Ahmed Mourad, Kevin Ong, Falk Scholer, Evi Yulianti
TREC 2015 [pdf]

Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Damiano Spina, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
ESAIR '15 (CIKM '15 Workshop) [pdf, slides]

On Divergence Measures and Static Index Pruning
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft
ICTIR '15 [pdf, slides, code]

Incremental Learning for Fully Unsupervised Word Segmentation Using Penalized Likelihood and Model Selection
Ruey-Cheng Chen
arXiv, 2014 [pdf]

An Improved MDL-Based Compression Algorithm for Unsupervised Word Segmentation
Ruey-Cheng Chen
ACL '13 [pdf, poster]

An Information-Theoretic Account of Static Index Pruning
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chia-Jung Lee
SIGIR '13 [pdf, slides, code]

Information Preservation and Its Application to Natural Language Processing
Ruey-Cheng Chen
National Taiwan University, 2013 [pdf]

Information Preservation in Static Index Pruning
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chia-Jung Lee, Chiung-Min Tsai, Jieh Hsiang
CIKM '12 [pdf, poster, code]

A Regularized Compression Method to Unsupervised Word Segmentation
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chiung-Min Tsai, Jieh Hsiang
SIGMORPHON '12 (NAACL '12 Workshop) [pdf]

Sampling the Web as Training Data for Text Classification
Wei-Yen Day, Chun-Yi Chi, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng
International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 1(4) [publisher]

Relevance Model Revisited: With Multiple Document Representations
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chiung-Min Tsai, Jieh Hsiang
AIRS 2010 [pdf]

An Adaptation of Topic Modeling to Sentences
Ruey-Cheng Chen, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
arXiv, 2010 [pdf]

Query Formulation by Selecting Good Terms
Chia-Jung Lee, Yi-Chun Lin, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Pei-Sen Liu, Pu-Jen Cheng
ROCLING 2009 [pdf]

Web Mining for Unsupervised Classification
Wei-Yen Day, Chun-Yi Chi, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng, Pei-Sen Liu
ROCLING 2009 [pdf]

Selecting Effective Terms for Query Formulation
Chia-Jung Lee, Yi-Chun Lin, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng
AIRS 2009 [pdf]

A Term Dependency-Based Approach for Query Terms Ranking
Chia-Jung Lee, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Shao-Hang Kao, Pu-Jen Cheng
CIKM '09 [pdf]

LiveImage: Organizing Web Images by Relevant Concepts
Shuo-Peng Liao, Pu-Jen Cheng, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Lee-Feng Chien
Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial 2005 [pdf]

Translating Unknown Queries with Web Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Pu-Jen Cheng, Jei-Wen Teng, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Jenq-Haur Wang, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Lee-Feng Chien
SIGIR '04 [pdf]

On the Verification of Wireless Transaction Protocol Using SGM and RED
Pao-Ann Hsiung, Farn Wang, Ruey-Cheng Chen
RTCSA '00 [pdf]