Ian H. Witten

Ian Witten is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand where he directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include language learning, information retrieval, and machine learning. He has published widely, including several books, such as Managing Gigabytes (1999), Data Mining (2005), Web Dragons (2007), and How to Build a Digital Library (2003). He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He received the 2004 IFIP Namur Award, a biennial honour accorded for “outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information and communication technology” and (with the rest of the Weka team) the 2005 SIGKDD Service Award for “an outstanding contribution to the data mining field.” In 2006, he received the Royal Society of New Zealand Hector Medal for “an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the mathematical and information sciences,” and in 2010, was officially inaugurated as a “World Class New Zealander” in Research, Science, and Technology.

Publications

Constructing a Collocation Learning System From the Wikipedia Corpus
Constructing a Collocation Learning System From the Wikipedia Corpus
Shaoqun Wu, Liang Li, Ian H. Witten, Alex Yu. © 2019. 20 pages.
The importance of collocations for success in language learning is widely recognized. Concordancers, originally designed for linguists, are among the most popular tools for...
Automatically Augmenting Academic Text for Language Learning: PhD Abstract Corpora With the British Library
Automatically Augmenting Academic Text for Language Learning: PhD Abstract Corpora With the British Library
Shaoqun Wu, Alannah Fitzgerald, Ian H. Witten, Alex Yu. © 2018. 26 pages.
This chapter describes the automated FLAX language system (flax.nzdl.org) that extracts salient linguistic features from academic text and presents them in an interface designed...
First Person Singular: A Digital Library Collection that Helps Second Language Learners Express Themselves
First Person Singular: A Digital Library Collection that Helps Second Language Learners Express Themselves
Shaoqun Wu, Ian H. Witten. © 2012. 19 pages.
We use digital library technology to help language learners express themselves by capitalizing on the human-generated text available on the Web. From a massive collection of...
Foreword
Foreword
Ian H. Witten. © 2011. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances.
First Person Singular: A Digital Library Collection that Helps Second Language Learners Express Themselves
First Person Singular: A Digital Library Collection that Helps Second Language Learners Express Themselves
Shaoqun Wu, Ian H. Witten. © 2010. 20 pages.
We use digital library technology to help language learners express themselves by capitalizing on the humangenerated text available on the Web. From a massive collection of...