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This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in December
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on winning the Innovation and Excellence in Research award in the Australian Business Deans Council (abdc.edu.au) . This is a great honour especially coming from WA.
Congratulations to Research Fellow
NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Hoa Bui attended AustMS meeting at the University of Queensland. Her trip was funded by the GSOP 2023 Grant Development Funding. She shared her exciting research on new fast and exact algorithms to solve a classical facility locations problem.
Hoa sharing her research at the University of Queensland
Sandy Spiers and Ponpot Jartnillaphand attended and presented their research at the WOMBAT/WICO conference in Sydney 11-15 December 2023. In 2023, the annual Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality (WOMBAT 2023) was run in conjunction with the second biennial Workshop on the Intersections of Computation and Optimisation (WICO 2023). Together, these workshops brought together Australian and international researchers interested in all areas of optimisation and computational mathematics.
Ponpot presenting Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Flexible Resourced and Shift Consideration the WOMBAT conference.
Ziyu Zhao presented her research at the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Brisbane 2023. Ziyu presented CySpider: A Neural Semantic Parsing Corpus with Baseline Models for Property Graphs. Enterprise knowledge graphs are gaining increasing popularity in industrial applications, with a pressing demand for natural language interfaces to support non-technical end-users.
TEAM NEWS
CTMTDS wished three of our researchers farewell from Perth in December, knowing that it will not be the last we will hear from them.
- Dr Eden Li will start a position as a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowen University
- PhD candidate Ziyu Zhao submitted her PHD on 20 December returning to China to catch up with her family after four year not being able to see them.
- PhD candidate Ryan Leadbetter completed his final presentation ready to submit his PhD early this year. He joined his partner in Queensland WA.
We wish them every success and look forward to a continued involvement in their research.
Events
Researchers Catch-Up
Maintenance short texts (MST) are value resources for asset management as they offer insights into the condition and maintenance of machines and infrastructure. However, extracting and using this information efficiently on a large scale can be challenging.
In this presentation, Tyler will introduce "MaintIE," a novel multi-level annotation scheme designed for entity recognition and relation extraction within MST. This scheme categorises information into five primary classes - PhysicalObject, State, Process, Activity, and Property - and further breaks them into 224 specific entities. Additionally, it includes six relations tailored to the context of MST.
Tyler will discuss the creation of two corpora using MaintIE. The first is a meticulously annotated corpus of 1,076 texts characterised by its high quality and fine-grained detail. The second is a larger, coarse-grained corpus comprising 7,000 texts, which has been instrumental in enhancing the capabilities of fine-grained information extraction.
The presentation will explore the performance of various deep-learning models using these corpora, setting benchmarks for automated entity recognition and relation extraction in MST. Tyler will demonstrate how the MaintIE scheme, corpus, and models can be adopted by industry through their public release made available under the MIT license to foster further research and innovation in this domain.
In this presentation, Hoa will give a general picture on how researchers at the Optimisation Theme at ITTC are working to bridge these gaps and develop practical solutions for optimising maintenance schedules for our industry partners.
