National Central University

Web intelligence and Data Mining

Chia-Hui Chang
https://sites.google.com/site/nculab/

Research Field

Smart Computing (Information)

Introduction

Dr. Chia-Hui Chang is a full Professor at National Central University, Taiwan. Her research interests include agentic AI, chatbot construction, AI in education, and machine learning applications in GPS, HCI etc. She has served as the convenor of the Intelligent Computing Department of the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan since 2024.  Dr. Chang has published over 80 papers at refereed conferences and journals, including WWW, PAKDD, TKDE, IEEE Intelligent Systems, etc. and was elected as one of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact)  from 2021-2024.  She is actively involved in organizing major conferences in her field, including serving as local chair for AACL 2022/ACML 2010, General Chair for ROCLING 2021 and TAAI 2020,  area co-chair for ACL 2017 and NAACL 2018 and PC member for ICDE, CIKM, PAKDD, AAAI, ICTIR, etc. She served as the President of the Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) from 2019-2020 and the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) from 2020-2021. 

張嘉惠博士是國立中央大學的教授。她的研究興趣包括Web資訊整合、機器學習、自然語言理解、資料探勘、以及智慧計算在教育、法律、太空等領域的應用。張教授曾在WWW、PAKDD、WISE以及TKDE、IEEE Intelligent Systems, Computer Security and Law等權威期刊發表論文,並在2022 ~ 2024間年被選為斯坦福大學全球前2%科學家(職業生涯影響力)(1960-2022)。她積極參與組織其領域的重要會議,包括協助AACL 2022/ACML 2010等會議在台灣的舉辦,擔任中華民國計算語言學會ROCLING 2021和人工智慧應用與技術研討會TAAI 2020的大會主席、ACL 2017和NAACL 2018資訊擷取領域共同主席。她曾於2019-2021年擔任中華民國計算語言學學會(ACLCLP)理事長、以及2020-2021年擔任中華民國人工智慧學會(TAAI)理事長。張教授自2024年起也擔任國科會工程處智慧計算學門召集人,推動前瞻人工智慧專案徵案。

The Web Intelligence and Data Mining Laboratory at National Central University is dedicated to researching and developing intelligent systems to address complex real-world problems. Our research spans Web information extraction, machine learning, data mining, conversational agents, and knowledge graphs, with applications in web intelligence, information integration, legal AI, human-computer interaction, and educational systems.  Check some of our projects below.

  • ​​​​​​​​Agentic AI, GUI Automation ​ 
  • ​Legal AI: Legal Judgement Predication, Collision Care Guide chatbot, Legigation Visualization 
  • ​Meetup Event Extraction, Point-of-Interest Extraction​ 
  • ​AI for Education: EduACT, Storybot 
  • ​Smart campus: NCUFree, WiFiPass, Mobile Advertising​​ 
  • ​Web Information Extraction and Text Mining ​ 
  • ​Web intelligence: Mobile Web Creator, Opinion mining for social study ​ 
  • Data Mining, e.g. ​Periodic pattern mining
  • ​Web data extraction: IEPAD, FiVaTech, Data API Creator 

國立中央大學資訊技術系網路智慧與資料探勘實驗室致力於研究和開發智慧系統以解決複雜的現實問題。我們的研究涵蓋自然語言處理、機器學習、資料探勘、對話代理和知識圖譜,應用於網路資料擷取、資訊整合、法律人工智慧、人機互動和教育系統。  以下為我們過去的一些計畫。


Research Topics
  • Large language model training, fine-tuning
  • Dialog Systems / Conversational Agents
  • Agentic AI: No code GUI Automation
  • Litigation visualization
  • Chatbot-assisted language learning 

Honor
  • 2020-2025 Distinguished Research Award, NCU
  • 2016-2018 Excellent Young Scholar Research Grant, Ministry Of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2010-2018 Distinguished Research Award, NCU
  • 2011-2014 Excellent Young Scholar Research Grant, Ministry Of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2015 Supervision (Co-advising) Award for Best Master Thesis, Taiwan Computer Game Association
  • 2016 National Central University Technology Transfer Award
  • 2014 Best Paper Award - Domestic Track, TAAI
  • 2013 Supervision Award for NCU Excellent Student Research
  • 2010 Supervision Award for Best Master Thesis, Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • 2008 Supervision Award for Excellent Student Research, NCU
  • 2005 Supervision Award for NCU President Scholarship
  • 2003 National Central University College of Electronics Engineering & Computer Science New Research Excellent Teacher Award

Services

  • 2024 - Now  Director, Taiwan Association for Institutional Research, TAIR (台灣校務研究專業協會理事)
  • 2023 - Now Supervisor, Association for Computational Linguistic and Chinese Language Processing, ACLCLP (中華民國計算語言學會監事)
  • 2023 - Now  Supervisor, Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence, TAAI (第十五屆 中華民國人工智慧學會監事)
  • 2021 - 2022 Supervisor, Association for Computational Linguistic and Chinese Language Processing, ACLCLP (中華民國計算語言學會常務監事)
  • 2021 - 2022  Supervisor, Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence, TAAI (第十四屆 中華民國人工智慧學會常務監事)
  • 2014 - 2018  Committee Member, Research and Evaluation Commission, Taoyuan City Government (桃園市研考委員會委員)
  • 2019.11 - 2021.10  President, Association for Computational Linguistic and Chinese Language Processing, ACLCLP (中華民國計算語言學會理事長)
  • 2019 - 2020  President, Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence, TAAI (第十三屆中華民國人工智慧學會理事長)
  • 2017.11 - 2019.10  Vice President, Association for Computational Linguistic and Chinese Language Processing, ACLCLP (中華民國計算語言學會理事長)
  • 2018.7 - 2019.6  Committee Member, Disaster Prevention Advisory Committee (災害防救專家諮詢委員)

Educational Background
  • 1993.9 - 1999.1      台灣大學碩士直攻博士
  • 1989.9 - 1993.6     台灣大學學士學位

Experiences

  • 2024.1 - 2026       Convenor of Intelligent Computing, NSTC Engineering and Technology Office 國科會工程處智慧計算學門召集人
  • 2020.2 - 2024.12  Director of Institutional Research Center (中央大學校務研究辦公室主任)
  • 2019.7 - 2020.6    Visiting Faculty at Neural Science Department, UCSD (加州大學聖地牙哥分校)
  • 2011.8 - Now         Professor at CSIE department, NCU (中央大學資工系教授)
  • 2014.8 - 2017.7      Director of CSIE department, NCU (中央大學資工系主任)
  • 2007.8 - 2008.7   Visiting Faculty at Machine Learning Dept, Carnegie Mellon University (卡內基美濃機器學習系訪問學者)
  • 2004.8 - 2010.7    Associate Professor at CSIE, NCU, (中央大學資工系副教授)
  • 1999.8 - 2004.7    Assistant Professor at CSIE, NCU, (中央大學資工系助理教授)
  • 1999.2 - 1999.7     Postdoc at Institue of Information Science, Academic Sinica (中央研究院博士後)