Mountain Rainier, 2009/07/12

Yang Liu

Address

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
NO. 6 Kexueyuan South Road, Haidian District
P.O. Box 2704, Beijing, 100190, China

Phone

(office) 86-10-62600667

E-mail

yliu@ict.ac.cn

I am an assistant researcher of Natural Language Processing Group at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My area of interest is statistical machine translation.

I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. I graduated from Wuhan University with a bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2002.

I will stay at interACT of Carnegie Mellon Univeristy as a Visiting Scholar from February 1, 2009 to August 1, 2009.

Publications

2009

• Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, and Qun Liu. 2009. Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models. To appear in ACL/IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, August. [pdf]


• Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü, and Qun Liu. 2009. Improving Tree-to-Tree Translation with Packed Forests. To appear in ACL/IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, August. [pdf]


• Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, and Qun Liu. 2009. Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation. To appear in EMNLP 2009, Singapore, August. [pdf]


• Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, and Yajuan Lü. 2009. Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation. To appear in EMNLP 2009, Singapore, August. [pdf]


• Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2009. Sub-sentence Division for Tree-based Machine Translation. To apprear in ACL/IJCNLP 2009 (short paper), Singapore, August. [pdf]

2008

• Yang Liu, Zhongjun He, Haitao Mi, Yun Huang, Yang Feng, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lü and Qun Liu. 2008. The ICT System Description for IWSLT 2008. In Proceedings of IWSLT 2008, pages 52-57, Hawaii, USA, October. [pdf]


• Ming Li, Yang Liu, Yongdong Zhang, and Shouxun Lin. 2008. Synopsis Alignment: Importing External Text Information for Multi-Model Movie Analysis. In Proceedings of PCM 2008, Taiwan, December. [pdf]


• Qun Liu, Zhongjun He, Yang Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2008. Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008, pages 89-97, Hawaii, USA, October. [pdf]

2007

• Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2007. Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules. In Proceedings of ACL 2007, pages 704-711, Prague, Czech Republic, June. [pdf][sildes]


• Yang Liu. 2007. Research on Tree-to-String Statistical Translation Models. PhD thesis, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, June. (in Chinese) [pdf][slides]


• Yun Huang, Yajuan Lü, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2007. The N-best Decoding Algorithm for TAT-based Translation Model. In Proceedings of JSCL 2007, pages 386-391, Dalian, China, August. (in Chinese) [pdf]

2006

• Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2006. Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, pages 609-616, Sydney, Australia, July. [pdf][slides] Received Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award


• Zhongjun He, Yang Liu, Deyi Xiong, Hongxu Hou, and Qun Liu. 2006. ICT System Description for the 2006 TC-STAR Run#2 SLT Evaluation. In Proceedings of TC-STAR 2006, pages 63-68, Barcelona, Spain, June. [pdf]

2005

• Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2005. Log-linear Models for Word Alignment. In Proceedings of ACL 2005, pages 459-466, Ann Arbor, USA, June. [pdf][slides]


• Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2005. Fuzzy Matching in Machine Translation Evaluation. The Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol 19, No. 3, pp 45-53. (in Chinese) [pdf]

2004

• Yang Liu and Qun Liu. 2004. Fuzzy Matching in Machine Translation Evaluation. In Proceedings of SWCL 2004, pp 267-274, Beijing, China, August. [pdf] Received Excellent Paper Award


• Gang Zou, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Yao Meng, Hao Yu, Nishino Fumihito, and Shiyong Kang. 2004. Internet-oriented Chinese New Words Detection. The Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol 18, No. 6, pp 1-9. (in Chinese) [pdf]


• Yueliang Qian, Shouxun Lin, Yongdong Zhang, Yang Liu, Hong Liu, and Qun Liu. 2004. An Introduction to Corpora Resources of 863 Program for Chinese Language Processing and Human-Machine Interaction. In Proceedings of ALR-04 affiliated to IJCNLP 2004, Hainan, China, March. [pdf]

Honors

• Second Prize of CASICT Excellent Paper Award, 2008
• Selected in "Top 100 Stars" Program of CASICT, 2007
• The Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund, 2007
• Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award of COLING/ACL 2006, 2006
• The Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund, 2006
• The AFNLP-Nagao Conference Participation Award, 2006
• The Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund, 2005
• Outstanding Authors Prize of SONY Research Award, 2005
• Excellent Paper Award of the second Student Workshop on Computational Linguistics (SWCL 2004), 2004

Professional Services

• Journals
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Reviewer (2008)
  • ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Reviewer (2009)
  • Natural Language Engineering, Reviewer (2009)
  • Acta Automatica Sinica, Reviewer (2008-2009)
• Conferences
  • ACL, Reviewer (2008)
  • EMNLP, Reviewer (2008)
  • SSST, Reviewer (2008)
  • AMTA, Reviewer (2008)
  • HLT, Reviewer (2008)

Collected Tips

• How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab by David Chapman (Editor)
  Highlights (statements that I like):
  • The few people in the field who seem to consistently succeed, turning out papers year after year, in fact fail as often as anyone else.
  • Crucial to success is making your research part of your everyday life.
• The Researcher's Bible by Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe, and Gordon Plotkin
  Highlights:
  • The way out of this vicious circle is to realise that research ability does not depend on some magic essence. It is a skill which can be learnt, like any other.
• How to Write a Great Research Paper by Simon P. Jones
  Highlights:
  • Giving credit to others does not diminish the credit you get from your paper.
  • Failing to give credit to others can kill your paper!
• How to Find Research Problems by Jason Eisner
  Highlights:
  • Ignorance leaves your mind free to see new ways of doing things.

Miscellaneous

• Log-linear Models for Word Alignment (in Chinese). Yang Liu. April, 2006.
• Construct a Statistical Machine Translation System Using Available Toolkits (in Chinese). Yang Liu. June, 2004.

Created on 2004/04/03, updated on 2009/07/29.