Publication
Code
About
Me
I'm a PhD candidate starting from 2010 with a research interest in natural language processing, specifically, computational semantics. My super2visors are Benjamin Van Durme and Chris Callison-Burch.
Short
Bio
Bachelor of Science in Acoustics. Department of Electronic and Science Engineering, Nanjing University, China. 2002 - 2006.
European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (EMLCT):
Master of Arts in Linguistics. Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 2008 - 2009.
Master of Science in Language Science and Technology. Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany. 2009 - 2010.
Master Thesis
Xuchen Yao. Question Generation with Minimal Recursion Semantics. Master Thesis. Saarland University & University of Groningen. 2010. (slides)
Two implementation systems can be found at Code.
A condensed and revised version of the long Master thesis was published to Journal of Dialogue and Discourse: Semantics-based Question Generation and Implementation.
An evaluation of Question Generation tools used in a Question Answer engine: Creating Conversational Characters Using Question Generation Tools.
Experience
2012. Internship. Vulcan Inc with Peter Clark.
2011. Internship. USC/ISI with David Chiang.
2010-2011. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Eisner's NLP class (600.465).
2011. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Yarowsky's Information Retrieval and Web Agents (600.466).
2010. Visiting Research Student. Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics. City University of Hong Kong.
2010. Internship. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Sourthern California.
2008. Internship. Nokia Research Center Beijing.
2007. Internship. America On Line China Lab.
2006. Student. Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2006. Internship. The Next Generation Java team, Motorola Global Software Group.
2005. Internship. EnReach Technology,Inc.