Kris Jack, BSc Hons, PhD

Data Mining Team Lead, Mendeley
London, United Kingdom

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Artificial Intelligence
Text Mining, Informaton Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, Personalisation, Language Acquisition, Semantic Technologies

Publications

Book (1)
- Kris Jack (2011) Mendeley: crowdsourcing and recommending research on a large scale, 34.
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Book Section (1)
- L Candillier, K Jack, F Fessant et al. (2009) State-of-the-Art Recommender Systems, 1-22. In Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access Techniques for Improved User Modeling.
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Conference Proceedings (9)
- Michael Granitzer, Maya Hristakeva, Robert Knight et al. (2012) A Comparison of Metadata Extraction Techniques for Crowdsourced Bibliographic Metadata Management, to appear. In Proceedings of the 27th Symposium On Applied Computing.
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- Kris Jack (2009) A Collaborative Tool for the Computational Modelling of Child Language Acquisition. In Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition EACL.
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- Kris Jack, Florence Duclaye (2008) Improving Explicit Preference Entry by Visualising Data Similarities. In Recommendation and Collaboration Intelligence User Interfaces.
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- Kris Jack, Liv Lefebvre (2008) Investigating the Effects of Two Types of Feedback in Recommendation Systems. In Interaction Homme-Machine.
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- Kris Jack, Florence Duclaye (2007) A Study into the Relevance of Search Criteria in Information Retrieval on Structured Data. In PeCUSI INFORSID 07 X (X).
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- Kris Jack, Chris Reed, Annalu Waller (2006) From Syllables to Syntax: Investigating Staged Linguistic Development through Computational Modeling. In Proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the cognitive science society.
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- Kris Jack (2005) Introducing a Scene Building Game to Model Early First Language Acquisition. In CLUK, Manchester, England.
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- Kris Jack, Chris Reed, Annalu Waller (2004) A Computational Model of Emergent Simple Syntax: Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-Word Stage to the Two-Word Stage.. In COLING Psycho-Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition.
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- Annalu Waller, Kris Jack (2002) A predictive Blissymbolic to English translation system, 186. In Assets.
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Journal Article (1)
- Kris Jack, James Hammerton, Dan Harvey et al. (2010) Mendeley's Reply to the DataTEL Challenge. In Procedia Computer Science 1 (2).
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Awards and Grants

Jun 2005

Nuffield Foundation View website
Jun 2005

Royal Academy of Engineering View website
Jun 2004

AISB View website
Apr 2001

NCR Scotland Prize for Excellence in Computing View website
Apr 2000

NCR Scotland Prize for Excellence in Computing View website
Apr 1999

NCR Scotland Prize for Excellence in Computing View website
Apr 1998

NCR Scotland Prize for Excellence in Computing View website

Biographical Information

Mendeley (Senior Data Mining Engineer)
- Personalised recommendation system for research material.
- Building related research feature from document relatedness algorithms.
- Automatic reference extraction using Conditional Random Fields.
+ lots more!

NaCTeM, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK (Research Associate)
- Developing text mining tools in the biomedical domain.
- Recommendation system for clinical trial protocols.
- Semantically-based information extraction.

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France (Expert Research & Development Engineer)
- Developing a semantic map of the French language.
- Machine learning techniques including automatic classification of huge sets of web pages.
- Researcher's tool for studying child language acquisition.

Orange Labs (Formally France Télécom R&D), France (Expert Research & Development Engineer)
- Developing a personalised system for Orange film buyers.
- Recommendation system for films using a new hybrid approach giving more control to users.
- Data visualisation of actor similarity using the google distance metric and displayed as radial trees.

School of Computing, University of Dundee, UK (PhD in Computational Linguistics (Artificial Intelligence)
- A computational model of language acquisition.
- Modelling the developmental trajectory of child language through multiple stages from word learning to employing role-based syntax.
- Explaining psycholinguistic data through computational modeling.