Ye-Yi Wang
Phone: (412) 268-5299 (W)
(412) 363-9169 (H)
Fax: (412) 268-5578
Email:
WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yyw/
Objective:
To actively contribute to innovative projects in Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Internet Applications, Information Retrieval and Data Mining.
Background:
I am a graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests lie in:
q corpus-based natural language processing
q language modeling for speech recognition
q information retrieval and data mining
q machine learning
q neural networks
Education:
BS in Computer Science, July 1985
Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China ("The MIT of China" --- The Wall Street Journal)
MS in Computer Science, January 1988
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science since October 1988
Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
MS in Computational Linguistics, July 1992
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Ph.D. Candidate in Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Ph.D. Thesis:
“Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation.” Carnegie Mellon University. Forthcoming.
Thesis Committee: Dr. Alex Waibel , Dr. Jaime Carbonell , Dr. John Lafferty, Dr. Wayne Ward
and Dr. Allen Gorin (AT&T Research Labs)
This resume is available online in html, Microsoft Word, Postscript and plain text format:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yyw/resume.html.
Academic Experience:
q Editor, Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series
q Editor, IEEE Computing Futures, 1989-1990
q Reviewer, Computational Linguistics
q Reviewer, Machine Translation
q Reviewer, ACL, COLING, ICSLP
Work Experience:
Computer Science Department, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Position: Researcher
Summer1996 / Research / Programming:
q Developed a search algorithm for statistical machine translation
q Worked on grammar inference and machine learning
Teaching / Lecturing:
Organized a seminar on Grammar Inference
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Position: Visiting Scientist
1988~1990 / Research / Programming:q Investigated connectionist approached in natural language processing
q Developed a learning system to automatically acquire distributed representation for linguistic entities
q Implemented a neural network system for dialogue structure analysis
q Built an automatic leaning mechanism to detect junk email with information-theoretic neural networks
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica:
Position: Research Programmer
1986~1987 / Research / Programming:q Implemented a Chinese understanding system with unification grammar.
q Developed a prototype system for English-Chinese machine translation
Experience as a Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
1990~1997 / Research / Programming:q Statistical machine translation
q Statistical dialogue modeling
q Class-based language modeling
q Bilingual grammar inference
q Corpus-based language structure acquisition
q Connectionist f-structure transfer between different languages
q Connectionist text generation
q Connectionist lexical selection
q Connectionist dialogue modeling
Teaching / Lecturing:
q Presented research work at international conferences and workshops
q Presented research work at graduate level courses and seminars
Selected Publications:
q F. Weng and Y. Wang. Introduction to Computational Linguistics. China Social Science Press. To appear. (In Chinese)
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Fast Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. Accepted by ICSLP'98, Sydney, Australia
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Modeling with Structures in Statistical MachineTranslation. Accepted by COLING-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada. August 1998.
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Connectionist F-structure Transfer. In Recent Advances in NLP, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 136. Eds. Mitkov & Nicolov. John Benjamins,1997.
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Statistical Analysis of Dialogue Structure. In Proceedings of EUROSPEECH’97. 1997.
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Decoding Algorithm in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL/EACL’97, 1997.
q Y. Wang, J. Lafferty and A. Waibel. Word Clustering with Parallel Spoken Language Corpora. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. (ICSLP’96). 1996.
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Connectionist Transfer in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. 1995.
q K. Ries, F. D. Buo and Y. Wang. Improved Language Modeling by Unsupervised Acquisition of Structure. In Proceedings of ICASSP’95. 1995.
q Y. Wang. Dual-Coding Theory and Connectionist Lexical Selection. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the ACL, student session, 1994.
q Y. Wang and A. Waibel. A Connectionist Model for Dialog Processing. In Proceedings of ICASSP’91. 1991.
Computer Skills:
Computer Languages: / C, C++, Perl, JavaScript, Common Lisp, Prolog, PascalComputer Systems: / SUN Ultra (Solaris), DEC Alpha (DEC-OSF), HP9000 (HP-UX), PC (LINUX, DOS, Windows 95)
Language Skills:
English, Chinese: fluent and literate
Basic knowledge of German
Visa Status:
US Permanent Resident