At 13:30, I went on the train K5 on time. It was the second train of my returning home from Harbin to Sichuan. It would a very long journey. The whole time would be 40 hours. This was the second time I seated on such long journey by train. K5 was an additional train for transport during the Spring Festival. I was little luckily that there was not so congested. We could walk to get hot water and go to WC conveniently. In term of national institute for training, today was the first day of transport during the Spring Festival. Comparing last years, this was the earliest one of my studying outbound.
How to spend the time in the 40 nhours? I had no answer firstly. I could chat and play card with others. Otherways, I could think more about my life and research. Somebody said that life is compplicated that you will do all kinds of things and appear on every occasion. On my experience, I knew seating on train was one of them. I could not change it. So why not enjoy it?
May lucky to you! If you will go for long journey in the Spring Festival, please enjoy it.
2006年1月14日
2006年1月13日
Ph.D. research topic: Guiding from Dr. Ming Zhou
This morning, I got up at 8:30. When I came to MSRA, it was about 10:00. Accompanied by Yi Chen and Jizhou Huang, I came to Dr. Ming Zhou’s office. Dr. Ming Zhou was my mentor in my first four months in MSRA. I asked some questions about Ph.D. research topics. He gave me a lot of guidance, I concluded as following:
1) To a Ph.D. research topic, you could do some applied subjects. Ph.D. subject should be very different with masters’ and undergraduates’. They should be very useful, novel, and few or no people had researched. To usefulness, it must be for practical application, such as for industrial goal or some big systems modules. Novel is same as few or no people have researched it. Yeah! If many ones have do a lot research on it, you should not do it again. Because it is time consuming and could not achieve more high level.
2) To each person, you should push over and clear yourself. If you are doing things with more old experiences, you could not be fresh and novel again. Coreference resolution is a very old research topic. Nowadays, many researchers had done lots of works on it. IBM had achieved best performance on it. If you cost three months, you will finish it. But there is no more space for your Ph.D. research.
3) Considering a Ph.D. level research topic, in the beginning, you should put yourself into a blank position. You should consider nothing especially to your old experience. The current industrial hotspots and applications would be surveyed. Then you can find out the hottest and most frontal points. Surveying such point, you could find out the one or two points for your research. Then you can start your Ph.D. research. There are two examples: Kaifu’s Statistical Speech Processing and Paraphrase in NLP.
4) Research topic should be systematical and practical. You should change your viewpoint from deeply point to whole architectural one.
I conclude Dr. Ming Zhou’s suggestion to me in three words: practical, novel, and potential. In our talking, Dr. Ming Zhou disclosed some possible research topics: Blog and RSS in Web 2.0, Multi-lingual multi-document summarization for QA, Comparison Shopping. He gave me a hint: finding research topic about Web. It was the way out.
Sincerely thanks to Dr. Ming Zhou. I will call at him again when I return to Harbin.
1) To a Ph.D. research topic, you could do some applied subjects. Ph.D. subject should be very different with masters’ and undergraduates’. They should be very useful, novel, and few or no people had researched. To usefulness, it must be for practical application, such as for industrial goal or some big systems modules. Novel is same as few or no people have researched it. Yeah! If many ones have do a lot research on it, you should not do it again. Because it is time consuming and could not achieve more high level.
2) To each person, you should push over and clear yourself. If you are doing things with more old experiences, you could not be fresh and novel again. Coreference resolution is a very old research topic. Nowadays, many researchers had done lots of works on it. IBM had achieved best performance on it. If you cost three months, you will finish it. But there is no more space for your Ph.D. research.
3) Considering a Ph.D. level research topic, in the beginning, you should put yourself into a blank position. You should consider nothing especially to your old experience. The current industrial hotspots and applications would be surveyed. Then you can find out the hottest and most frontal points. Surveying such point, you could find out the one or two points for your research. Then you can start your Ph.D. research. There are two examples: Kaifu’s Statistical Speech Processing and Paraphrase in NLP.
4) Research topic should be systematical and practical. You should change your viewpoint from deeply point to whole architectural one.
I conclude Dr. Ming Zhou’s suggestion to me in three words: practical, novel, and potential. In our talking, Dr. Ming Zhou disclosed some possible research topics: Blog and RSS in Web 2.0, Multi-lingual multi-document summarization for QA, Comparison Shopping. He gave me a hint: finding research topic about Web. It was the way out.
Sincerely thanks to Dr. Ming Zhou. I will call at him again when I return to Harbin.
2006年1月12日
T158 for Beijing
Last night, after the Ph.D. Candidate Report meeting, Carl treated us a nice dinner. He was the Microsoft Scholar in 2005. We all fell exciting with him. Thanks for his nice dinner with us. Yajie took part in such dinner of our laboratory. She was welcomed. We all liked her. Then Yajie went with me to buy some food and chatted a lot with me. We said goodbye to each other before the gate of No.3 dormitory.
This morning, I went on the train T158 for Beijing. It was a long journey to us. Since the air condition was not running well. We fell sleepy in the 11 hours. Luckily, it was only 11 hours. Then Zhichang, Taozi, and me went to Train Station of West Beijing for checking transferring ticket. But there was not any proper ticket for us. We fell depressed a lot firstly. Then we decided to buy standing tickets tomorrow morning. However, we met somebody returning their tickets. We asked one by one. And luckily, we bought our tickets with seats. Taozi went on her train this evening on 1363 with sleeper. I would go on a K-type train after two days. Zhichang had bought a ticket with the help of Xu Wen. We were lucky guys.
We three had a common, expensive, happy dinner beside the train station. Then Zhichang and me sent off Taozi in the waiting room. At 10:50 she went on the train safely. Zhichang and me went to our accommodation.
In a word, it was a tired journey to us.
This morning, I went on the train T158 for Beijing. It was a long journey to us. Since the air condition was not running well. We fell sleepy in the 11 hours. Luckily, it was only 11 hours. Then Zhichang, Taozi, and me went to Train Station of West Beijing for checking transferring ticket. But there was not any proper ticket for us. We fell depressed a lot firstly. Then we decided to buy standing tickets tomorrow morning. However, we met somebody returning their tickets. We asked one by one. And luckily, we bought our tickets with seats. Taozi went on her train this evening on 1363 with sleeper. I would go on a K-type train after two days. Zhichang had bought a ticket with the help of Xu Wen. We were lucky guys.
We three had a common, expensive, happy dinner beside the train station. Then Zhichang and me sent off Taozi in the waiting room. At 10:50 she went on the train safely. Zhichang and me went to our accommodation.
In a word, it was a tired journey to us.
2006年1月11日
Ph.D. Checking report
This afternoon, the expecting Ph.D. Checking Reporting was hold. Prof. Li and Liu came here. Our ten Ph.D. Candidates reported one by one. Prof. Li and Liu gave comments after each report. Yeah! There were several students of us had achieved nice performance on many high-level papers. We all were exciting with them.
To my report, I introduced my studying state of my Ph.D. candidate. And then, there were many paper collecting information and my paper reading and research roadmaps. The final slide of my presentation was my research timeline of 2006. It’s beautiful. I thought so.
This Ph.D. Candidate Report was very important to us. We all had experienced on concluding and writing report to our works. Thanks to Prof. Li and Liu.
To my report, I introduced my studying state of my Ph.D. candidate. And then, there were many paper collecting information and my paper reading and research roadmaps. The final slide of my presentation was my research timeline of 2006. It’s beautiful. I thought so.
This Ph.D. Candidate Report was very important to us. We all had experienced on concluding and writing report to our works. Thanks to Prof. Li and Liu.
2006年1月10日
Ph.D. Candidate Enrollment Advice Note
I got my Ph.D. Candidate Enrollment Advice Note this afternoon. It's very exciting to me. Yeah! It was expected. At the beginning of next term, I would be a formal Ph.D. Candidate.
Study for Ph.D. degree was my biggest dream when I was young. After more than ten years diligent studying, I would stride into my dream. From enrollment to graduation, it would be a hard process. However, I love it. The result is not very important. I believe the process is perfect. I would try my best for the Ph.D. studying and do more for our IRLab.
Tomorrow afternoon, we would have the Ph.D. checking. I have prepared enough for it. There would be my research plan in 2006. Let me try more and more.
Study for Ph.D. degree was my biggest dream when I was young. After more than ten years diligent studying, I would stride into my dream. From enrollment to graduation, it would be a hard process. However, I love it. The result is not very important. I believe the process is perfect. I would try my best for the Ph.D. studying and do more for our IRLab.
Tomorrow afternoon, we would have the Ph.D. checking. I have prepared enough for it. There would be my research plan in 2006. Let me try more and more.
2006年1月9日
Studying Home
I will return to my hometown after several days. Now, there are many things I should finish. The most important one is defining the studying plan when I will be at home.
Yeah! I can not use computer convininently in my hometown. But it is a nice chance to studying in silence. I will bring one book and ten papers with me. They are enough for me. If more, I know I can not finish them.
Preparing some presents and printing some pictures, I have done good prepartion for my returning. Yeah, I have not seen my parents for a whole year. I am missing them very much. Tomorrow, I will prepare some other items. After the Ph.D. checking report, I will go home. Nice feeling!
Yeah! I can not use computer convininently in my hometown. But it is a nice chance to studying in silence. I will bring one book and ten papers with me. They are enough for me. If more, I know I can not finish them.
Preparing some presents and printing some pictures, I have done good prepartion for my returning. Yeah, I have not seen my parents for a whole year. I am missing them very much. Tomorrow, I will prepare some other items. After the Ph.D. checking report, I will go home. Nice feeling!
2006年1月8日
Yajie on nice day
This was the last weekend which I stayed in Harbin in lunar calendar for 2005. This morning we came to look around Harbin again. This afternoon, we three had a nice dinner and went to bowling again.
From tomorrow, we all would be busy again. Nice feeling with Yajie! Thanks!
From tomorrow, we all would be busy again. Nice feeling with Yajie! Thanks!
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