Ni Lao

Office: 4622 Newell Simon Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Mail:  nlao [ at ] cs.cmu.edu

I am a 4th year graduate student in Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

I am co-advised by Professor William Cohen and Eric Xing. My research interests are Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Artificial Intelligence.

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Publications

Shima, Hideki, Ni Lao, Eric Nyberg and Teruko Mitamura. 2008. "Complex Cross-lingual Question Answering as Sequential Classification and Multi-Document Summarization Taskk", in Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop, Japan.

Lao, Ni, Hideki Shima, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg. 2008. "Query Expansion and Machine Translation for Robust Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval", in Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop, Japan.

Yiming Yang,Abhimanyu Lad, Ni Lao, Abhay Harpale, Bryan Kisiel, Monica Rogati, Utility-based information distillation over temporally sequenced documents, SIGIR, pp. 31-38, 2007. [pdf]

Chun Yuan; Ni Lao; Ji-Rong Wen; Jiwei Li; Zheng Zhang; Yi-Min Wang; Wei-Ying Ma, Automated Known Problem Diagnosis with Event Traces, EuroSys, 2006.[pdf]

Ni Lao, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma, Yi-Min Wang, Combine High Level Symptom and Low Level State Information for Configuration Fault Diagnosis, LISA, 2004.  [pdf]

Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao, Wei-Ying Ma, Probabilistic Model for Contextual Retrieval, SIGIR, 2004. [pdf]

Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong Wen, Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems, Dependable System and Network (DSN), 2004. [pdf]

Bachelor thesis, 2003. ¡°Mining Spatial-Temporal Data Using Constructive Induction¡±. Tsinghua University [pdf]

Jinyi Yao, Lao Ni, Fan Yang, Yunpeng Cai, Zengqi Sun: Technical Solutions of TsinghuAeolus for Robotic Soccer, RoboCup, pp. 205-213, 2003