Wei Chen    

I am a Ph.D. student at Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.  My research interest is spoken language understanding.  Most recently I work with Jack Mostow on understanding children¡¯s free-form spoken responses in tutorial activities.  I also worked with Scott Fahlman on representations of mental states in natural language. 

Please see my CV for details of my experience.

Education

M.S.E. in Computer Science, the Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2007

B.S. in Computer Science, Peking University, China, 2005

 

Selected Publications

 

Wei Chen, Jack Mostow, and Gregory Aist. 2011. Using Automatic Question Generation to Evaluate Questions Generated by Children.  AAAI 2011 Fall Symposium on Question Generation. Arlington, VA.    

 

Wei Chen and Jack Mostow. A Tale of Two Tasks: Detecting Children¡¯s Off-Task Speech in a Reading Tutor. In Interspeech2011:  Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Florence, Italy.

 

Wei Chen, Jack Mostow, and Gregory Aist. Exploiting Predictable Response Training to Improve Automatic Recognition of Children¡¯s Spoken Responses. In Proceedings of ITS2010. Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Wei Chen, Gregory Aist and Jack Mostow. Generating Questions Automatically from Informational Text. In Proceedings of The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation. Brighton, UK.

 

Jack Mostow and Wei Chen, Generating Instruction Automatically for the Reading Strategy of Self-Questioning. In Proceeding of AIED2009. Brighton, UK.

 

Wei Chen, Understanding Mental States in Natural Language. In Proceedings of IWCS-8. Tilburg, The Netherlands.

 

Wei Chen and Scott E. Fahlman, Modeling Mental State and Their Interactions. In AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. Arlington, VA.

 

Wei Chen, Dimensions of Subjectivity in Natural Language (short paper). In Proceedings of ACL-HLT¡¯08. Columbus, Ohio.

 

Technical Reports

 

Discriminative Word Alignment with Syntactic Features. Machine Translation Lab Report. LTI, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2008.

 

Cross Lingual Syntax Projection for Resource-Poor Languages. Literature Review (with Vamshi Ambati), Dec 2007.

 

Building Language Models on Continuous Space using Gaussian Mixture Models. Technical Report, Johns Hopkins University, July 2007.

 

Downloads

 

Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Large Sparse Matrices: a C implementation.

 

Professional Activities

 

Reviewer: Journal of Dialog and Discourse (D&D)

Program committee member: the Question Generation Workshop (2009-2011), AAAI FSS BICA(2008-2009), BICA (2011)