Khoo Soo Guan Christopher

Associate Professor
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Chris Khoo is an associate professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Division of Information Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he teaches courses in knowledge organization, information architecture, data mining and Web-based information systems. He obtained his PhD at Syracuse University in 1997, his MSc in Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987, and a BA from Harvard University. He has also worked for several years as a science reference librarian, cataloger and online information searcher at the National University of Singapore Libraries. His main research interests are in knowledge organization, ontologies, automatic sentiment categorization, human categorization behavior, natural language processing, information extraction, multidocument summarization, and clinical decision support systems.

Research Interests

Chris Khoo’s current research projects are:

• Digital intelligence (WKWSCI Academic Research Cluster funding)
• Automatic multidocument summarization of research articles
• Automatic extraction of treatment information from a medical database
• Automatic sentiment analysis of multiple Web genres
• Human categorization behaviour
• Integrated clinical decision support system for wound care management
• Knowledge organization of websites, portals & learning object repositories