Welcome to the Home of Vanessa Long
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Background
Vanessa Long is a PhD student at the Department of Computing at Macquarie University .
She was awarded a diploma in mathematics from Zhong Shan University, China in 1989,
a Bachelor of Business degree from the Australian Catholic University in 1995,
and a BSc Honours (With Distinction) from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1999.
Between 1999 and 2003, She worked for various software companies in the U.S.A., Canada and Australia.
She enjoys working on problems that do not have determinitic answers - the kind of problems that involve human languages.
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Research Project
Vanessa is interested in a wide range of topics in computational linguistics.
The goal of her PhD research project is to improve methods for extracting and understanding tabular data
embedded in written documents.
Her current work focuses on various aspects of document engineering: text mining,
information extraction, document analysis, pattern recognition, knowledge representation and statistical machine learning methods.
Vanessa works under the supervision of Steve Cassidy and Robert Dale .
Publications
V Long. An RDF-Based Blackboard Architecture for Improving Table Analysis. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 July 2009.
V Long, S Cassidy, and R Dale. A Multi-Level Table Evaluation Method For Plain Text Documents. In the Extended Abstracts of the 7th International Association for Pattern Recognition Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2006),
pages 21-24, Nelson, New Zealand, 13-15 February 2006.
V Long, R Dale, and S Cassidy. A Model For Detecting and Merging Vertically Spanned Cells from Tables in
Plain Text Documents. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), pages 1242-1246, Seoul, South Korea, 28 August - 1 September 2005.
Teaching
Mar - July 2008 and July - November 2008: I have lectured and tutored the Foundations of Software Engineering (ITEC200) course for postgraduate diploma students.
Mar - July 2006: I was responsible for teaching the practical sessions for Object-oriented programming (COMP229)
Mar - July 2005: I was a tutor for Algorithms and Data Structures
(COMP225) and I also taught the practical session for Numerical Computing (COMP238)
July - November 2004: I was a tutor for Database Systems (COPM224)
Mar - July 2004: I was a lecturer for Fundamentals of Computer Science (COMP125) and a lab instructor for Introduction to Information Technology (COMP123)
July - November 2003: I was a lab instructor for Introduction to Information Technology (COMP123)
Links
JavaCC home
Machine Learning Explained - introductory materials
Boosting algorithm page
IAPR TC-11 (International Association for Pattern Recognition web site)
Hobbies
Vaness's hobbies change from time to time. In the past, I had been interested in running, swimming, travelling, dancing, roller blading and various court sports. Her current hobbies are wind surfing, playing badminton and bush walking.
Contact Information
Vanessa Long
E6A330
Department of Computing
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9850 6347
Fax: +61 2 9850 9551
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