Web IR / NLP Group (WING) @ NUS

The Web, Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING) explores the research area of applied language processing and information retrieval to the Web and related technologies. Areas of current interest are question answering, scholarly digital libraries, verb similarity, focused crawling, citation parsing and spidering, web page classification and division, text segmentation, and full text analysis. WING is headed by Min (A/P Min-Yen KAN). We are based in the Computational Linguistics Laboratory of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. We often work with the Natural Language Processing Group and the Lab for Media Search. We are part of the Media Technologies research group umbrella.

Latest News

Min-Yen Kan

4 Feb, 2026 1 min read

Open-source AI for science: OpenScholar and why replicability matters

Min was quoted in Science on the value of open, replicable AI for research: It’s very important to put this type of open-source research out there because it is replicable."

Min-Yen Kan

27 Jan, 2026 2 min read

Min's AAAI workshop keynotes (26–27 Jan 2026)

Min gave two invited keynotes at AAAI 2026 workshops on 26 and 27 January, entitled “The Research Manifold” and “Top 5 trends to watch in the future of IR research (and why they are irrelevant)”. Both talks are now available to watch.

Min-Yen Kan

15 Dec, 2025 4 min read

WING is looking for postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students!

The Web, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing (WING) group at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore is actively seeking postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students to start in 2026 across three cutting-edge research areas: AI for Science, LLM Socioethical Alignment, and Fact Checking. WING is led by Associate Professor Kan Min-Yen.

Jiaying Wu

10 Dec, 2025 1 min read

Jiaying represents iGyro project at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego

Jiaying helped to represent WING’s interest in the iGyro information resilience project at the NUS Computing networking session recently at NeurIPS 2025.

Yisong Miao

8 Dec, 2025 1 min read

Yisong featured as a Vector Institute Intern

Check out 👀 Yisong Miao’s feature as a Vector Institute research intern in the latest 2025 installment of their news cast. Although he wasn’t able to travel to the institute in 🇨🇦 for the immersive physical part, WING is proud that he was able to participate in the programme while staying on the other side of the world!

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