Dr Chenghua Lin
Department of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Course Director for MSc Data Analytics
PGT Admissions Tutor
Member of the Natural Language Processing research group

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Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Dr Chenghua Lin is a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. Prior to joining Sheffield, he was a SICSA Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Exeter.
- Research interests
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Dr Chenghua Lin's research is centred around machine learning, natural language processing, data and text mining. Currently, he is particularly interested in the development of algorithms and models for sentiment analysis, text summarisation, natural language generation and cognitive inspired context learning.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- A unified latent variable model for contrastive opinion mining. Frontiers of Computer Science, 14(2), 404-416. View this article in WRRO
- Extractive and abstractive sentence labelling of sentiment-bearing topics. Frontiers of Computer Science. View this article in WRRO
- Data-driven two-layer visual dictionary structure learning. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 28(02), 1-1.
- Sherlock: A semi-automatic framework for quiz generation using a hybrid semantic similarity measure. Cognitive Computation, 7, 667-679.
- Sentiment-topic modeling in text mining. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 5(5), 246-254.
- Dynamic joint sentiment-topic model. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 5(1), 1-21.
- Weakly Supervised Joint Sentiment-Topic Detection from Text. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 24(6), 1134-1145.
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Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
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- Word embedding and wordnet based metaphor identification and interpretation. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp 1222-1231). Melbourne, Australia, 15 July 2018 - 20 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Affective Lexicons for Depression Classification (pp 65-69)
- Incorporating Constraints into Matrix Factorization for Clothes Package Recommendation. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
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- Automatically Labelling Sentiment-Bearing Topics with Descriptive Sentence Labels (pp 299-312)
- Tracking Sentiment and Topic Dynamics from Social Media (pp 457-465)
- Automatically Predicting Quiz Difficulty Level Using Similarity Measures. Proceedings of the Knowledge Capture Conference on ZZZ - K-CAP 2015, 7 October 2015 - 10 October 2015.
- Applying Rule Extraction & Rule Refinement techniques to (Blackbox) Classifiers. Proceedings of the Knowledge Capture Conference on ZZZ - K-CAP 2015, 7 October 2015 - 10 October 2015.
- Web as Corpus Supporting Natural Language Generation for Online River Information Communication. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '15 Companion, 18 May 2015 - 22 May 2015.
- Online Sentiment and Topic Dynamics Tracking over the Streaming Data. 2012 International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing, 3 September 2012 - 5 September 2012.
- Feature LDA: A supervised topic model for automatic detection of web API documentations from the web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7649 LNCS(PART 1) (pp 328-343)
- Protein-Protein Interactions Classification from Text via Local Learning with Class Priors (pp 182-191)
- Joint sentiment/topic model for sentiment analysis. Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '09, 2 November 2009 - 6 November 2009.
- A multi-agent system for intelligent pervasive spaces. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 12 October 2008 - 15 October 2008.
- A multi-agent system for intelligent pervasive spaces. Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008, Vol. 1 (pp 1005-1010)
Reports
Theses / Dissertations
- A unified latent variable model for contrastive opinion mining. Frontiers of Computer Science, 14(2), 404-416. View this article in WRRO
- Professional activities
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Member of the Natural Language Processing research group