Ni Lao

Office: A502 Newell Simon Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Mail: nlao [ at ] cs.cmu.edu

I am a 3rd year graduate student in Language Technologies Institute,
School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

My advisor is Professor Teruko Mitamura
My research interests are Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Artificial Intelligence.

Now I am working on feature induction for syntactic parsing.

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Friend

Chong Wang

Publications

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

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 (to appear).

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”. [pdf]

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