Kam-Fai Wong's Research Profile (2005)

Research Grants

(co-I = co-Investigator; I = Investigator; PI = Principal Investigator)

Total grant money secured since 1993 = HK$20M. (2005)

1. PI, “School eNewsletter”, HK$2.6M, Quality Education Fund (QEF), November 2004 to April 2006.

2. Co-I, “A support program to increase the competitiveness of Hong Kong software SMEs in mainland China (Part 2)”, HK$1.03M, SME Development Fund, February 03 to January 04. (Collaboration with the Hong Kong Mainland Software Industry Cooperation Association and Hong Kong IT Joint Council)

3. PI, “XML Database: Technology and Applications”, HK$800k, Strategic Grant, CUHK, June 2003 to May 2006.

4. PI, “Digital Asset Management System – NewsML CIDAX Gateway”, HK$98k, private consultancy project funded by LinkPower Tech. Co. Ltd and HK Sc. and Tech. Park Ltd., June 2003 to November 2003.

5. Co-I, “HKTAIS – Hong Kong Traditional Architecture Information System”, HK$300k, funded by Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO), HKSAR, April 2003 to September 2003. (In collaboration with Dept. of Architecture, CUHK)

6. Co-I, “Advanced Indexing Strategies for Chinese Information Retrieval”, HK$560k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 2003/04, October 03 to September 05. (Collaboration with Dept of Computing, Polytechnic Univ., H.K.)

7. Co-I, "Determination of Temporal References in Chinese News Articles", HK$473k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 2002/03, October 02 to September 04. (Collaboration with Dept of Computing, Polytechnic Univ., H.K.)

8. Co-I, "i-CAT: Internet-based Creativity Assessment Test", sub-contractor, HK$961,000, Hong Kong Quality Education Fund (QEF), August 1, 2001 to July 31, 2003. (Collaboration with Faculty of Education, CUHK and H.K. Baptist University)

9. PI, "Towards Cost-Effective E-Business in the News Media and Publishing Industry Using NewsML", HK$6M, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), August 1, 2001 to July 31, 2004.

10. Co-I, "Translingual Access of Chinese Text Using English", US$130,000, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA TIDES program), April 2000 to March 2003. (Collaboration with Queens College, City Univ. of New York)

11. Co-I, "A Study on the Extraction of Events and Their Temporal Information From Internet Chinese Financial News", 120,000 RMB, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Basic Research Grant, January 2000 to December 2002. (Collaboration with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

12. PI, "OCF: Open Component Foundation", HK$3.7M, HKSAR Industrial Support Fund (ISF), October 99 to March 03.

13. Co-I, "Natural Chinese Database Query Language", 600K RMB, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Research Grant, January 1997 to December 1999. (Collaboration with Peking U. and Renmin U., China)

14. PI, "CORA - Computer-assisted Open Response Analysis", HK$200k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) Direct Grant, February 1999 to January 2000.

15. PI, “A Machine Tractable Chinese Thesaurus and its Applications to Natural Language Processing", HK$100K, Direct Grant, CUHK.

16. PI, "Retrieval-By-Sense - a Novice Scheme for Information Retrieval", HK$400k, Strategic grant, CUHK, March 1, 95 to February 28, 98.

17. PI, "A Chinese Database Management System Interface", HK$436k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 1994-95, July 94 to June 98.

18. PI, "Towards a Natural Language Oriented Chinese Information Retrieval Engine", HK$582k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 1994-95, July 94 to June 98.

19. Co-I, “Pythagoras: Performance Quality Assessment of Advanced Database Systems", 2M ECU, European ESPRIT-III project grant, May 1992 to April 93.

Research Students

(A) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

1. name: Li Wenjie

title: Automatic Noun Phrase Extraction from Full Chinese Text

year: 1997

supervisors: V. Lum / K.F. Wong

2. name: Song Da Wei

title: A Commonsense Aboutness Theory for Information Retrieval Modeling

year: 2000

supervisors: C.H. Cheng / K.F. Wong

3. name: Ren Yongjie

title: Multi-Agent Workflow Model (MAWN): a Workflow Model Designed for Chinese Business

year: 2001

supervisors: K.F. Wong

4. name: Wang Qiuyue

title: Schema Extraction for Semi-Structured Data

year: 2003

supervisors: K.F. Wong

5. name: Jin Honglan

title: Using Web Sources in English to Chinese Cross Lingual Information Retrieval

year: 2005

supervisor: K.F. Wong

6. name: Gao Wei

title: in the area of Chinese information processing (to be finalized)

year: 2007 (expected)

supervisor: K.F. Wong

7. name: Tang Nan

title: in the area of semi-structured database (to be finalized)

year: 2007 (expected)

supervisors: K.F. Wong/Jeffrey Yu

(B) Master (by research) Students

8. name: Lam Chin Keung

title: A DBMS Quary Language in Natural Chinese Language Form

year: 1995

supervisor: K.F. Wong

9. name: Tse Suet Yi

title: Chinese Noun Phrase Parsing with a Hybrid Approach

year: 1996

supervisors: B.T. Low / K.F. Wong

10. name: Ng Hin Kwong, Benson

title: Disjunctive Argunmention Semantics (DAS) For Reasoning Over Distributed Uncertain

year: 1998

supervisors: B.T. Low / K.F. Wong

11. name: Lam Wai Ip

title: Realization of Automatic Concept Extractionfor Chinese Conceptual Information Retrieval

year: 1998

supervisor: K.F. Wong

12. name: Leung Wai Kwong

title: Hybrid Tag-Set For Natural Language Processing

year: 1999

supervisor: K.F. Wong

13. name: Ma Ka Ho

title: Automatic Caption Generation For Content-Based Image Information Retrieval

year: 1999

supervisors: K.F. Wong

14. name: Su Yat Fan

title: Evaluation of Conceptual Graphs as Schemas for Semi-Structured Databases

year: 2001

supervisor: K.F. Wong

15. name: Tam Ka Wing

title: Access Control Model for Webservices e-Government Infrastructure

year: 2003

supervisor: K.F. Wong

16. name: Yu Sheung Fan

title: Personalized location-sensing for context-aware applications

year: 2003

supervisors: W.Lam / K.F. Wong

17 name: Gao Wei

title: Phoneme-based Statistical Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV Problem

year: 2004

supervisor: K.F. Wong