Speaker: Prof. Yi-Ling Lin, National Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大學 林怡伶教授)

Topic : Finding the right image: Harnessing the power of experts and crowds

Date : 13:20～15:00 Wednesday 12 Nov. 2014

Place : 105 Delta Building (台達館)

Dr. Yi-Ling Lin is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Management of National Sun Yat-Sen University since February 2014. She received her Ph.D. in Information Sciences from University of Pittsburgh in 2013. She has specialized in all aspects of information retrieval, and human-computer interaction (HCI). She had an internship at the Free University of Amsterdam where she worked on information issues related to various cultural heritage corpuses. Her dissertation focused on integrating social contributions and professional taxonomies to facilitate information retrieval in the cultural heritage domain. Her recent projects include using eye trackers to study interface elements for facilitating search performance, and applying social factors to find experts in healthcare question answering websites.