Yulan Feng - 冯屿岚

About Me

I'm currently a Master of Language Technologies student at CMU, and a Research Assistant in DialRC, co-supervised by Prof. Alan Black and Dr. Maxine Eskenazi. Before I moved to Pittsburgh, I worked as an NLU Research Engineer at Nuance Communications for two years. I received my BASc in Cognitive Science with minor in Statistics at McGill University in 2017. My research interests are in dialogue systems and natural language processing (NLP). At McGill, I was supervised by Prof. Jackie Cheung in the Reasoning and Learning Lab (now part of MILA). I also worked with Prof. Michael Wagner in the Prosody Lab for a summer.

Industry

Being part of the Corporate Research division, my job consists of 2 parts, NLU research and software development. On the research side, I play with machine learning models, like Seq2Seq and Transformer, to solve challenging problems in NLU, such as multi-intention detection, name entity recognition, and mention prediction. On the development side, I deploy trained models into production, build toolkit, and construct pipelines for our engine's new features.

Academic

Publications

• Towards Automatic Route Description Unification In Spoken Dialog Systems
  Yulan Feng, Alan Black, Maxine Eskenazi SLT 2021
• "None of the Above": Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval [Paper]
  Yulan Feng, Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi, Tiancheng Zhao ACL 2020
• Let's do it "again": A First Computational Approach to Detecting Adverbial Presupposition Triggers [Paper]
  Andre Cianflone*, Yulan Feng*, Jad Kabbara*, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung ACL 2018   Best long paper award
  * contributed equally
• Capturing Pragmatic Knowledge in Article Usage Prediction using LSTMs [Paper]
  Jad Kabbara, Yulan Feng, and Jackie C.K. Cheung COLING 2016

Personal Projects

For details about the projects, please refer to my [CV]

• A CNN Approach to Detecting Adverbial Presupposition Triggers [Project]
• Functional Analysis of Three Dimensions of Sentence Prosody [Project]

Skills

Programming & Scripting Languages

• Capable of: Python, Java, R, LaTeX, bash.
• Knowledge of: Javascript, C, HTML/CSS

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Other Knowledge

• Framworks: Apache UIMA, TensorFlow, Theano
• Softwares: Git, Maven, Jenkins

Relevant Courses

Listed on my program explanation page

Life

Outside of work, I like playing jigsaw puzzles and Werewolf. I also enjoy spending weekend time in the kitchen, cooking for my family and friends.