WEI XU (徐 薇)
Updates on March 31st, 2011:
- My current research project is about paraphrasing, sentence alignment and summarization on Social Media data.
- I am also interested in relation extraction, event extraction and other natural language processing fields.
- I live a bi-coastal life, spending half of my time in New York City and half at University of Washington in Seattle.
PhD student
Natural Language Processing group (The Proteus Project)
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Email: xuwei@cs.nyu.edu
Office: 719 Broadway, Room 713, New York, NY 10003, U.S.A
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Computer Science, New York University (Expected 2012)
Master of Science in Computer Science, New York University (2011)
Advisor: Professor Ralph Grishman
Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China (2007)
Advisor: Professor Chunfa Yuan
Thesis: Deriving Event Relevance from Event Ontology and Event Graph
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China (2004)
Thesis: Improving Finance Event Extraction System
EXPERIENCES
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Visiting Student (1/2012 - )
- Webpage Information Extraction
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA - Research Intern (6/2011 - 9/2011)
- Webpage Information Extraction
New York University, NY - Teach Assistant (9/2009 - 12/2009)
- G22.2580 Web Search Engines
Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ - Research Intern (3/2010 - 5/2010 & 9/2010 - 12/2010)
- Contextual Word Error Correction
Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Software Development Intern (6/2010 - 8/2010)
- Product Catalog Classification
New York University, NY - Teach Assistant (9/2009 - 12/2009)
- G22.2110 Programming Languages
France Telecom, Beijing, China - Research Intern (2/2007 - 5/2007)
- Name Entity Recognition
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China - Research Assistant (9/2005 - 2/2006)
- Multiple Document Summarization
- Name Entity Recognition
- Information Retrieval
Qinghai University, Qinghai, China - Volunteer Teacher (7/2005)
- 10-session course Flash Application
Beijing Tsinghua Software Information Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China - Software Development Intern (1/2004 - 2/2004)
- User Interface for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software
PUBLICATIONS
SOCIAL MEDIA
A Preliminary Study of Tweet Summarization using Information Extraction (NAACL-Workshop-2013)
Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Oren Etzioni, Ralph Grishman
PARAPHRASING
Paraphrasing for Style (COLING-2012) [PDF, DEMO]
Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman, Colin Cherry
WORD ERROR CORRECTION
Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models (EMNLP-2011) [PDF] Wei Xu, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman, Le Zhao
INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision (IJCNLP-2011) [PDF, PPT] Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman, Le Zhao
New York University 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling (TAC-2011) [PDF]
Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, Wei Xu, Bonan Min
Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task (ACL-2009) [PDF]
Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper,
Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu, Sibel Yaman
SUMMARIZATION
A Parse-and-Trim Approach with Information Significance for Chinese Sentence (ACL-Workshop-2009) [PDF, PPT]
Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman
Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event (ACL-2006) [PDF, PPT]
Wenjie Li, Wei Xu, Mingli Wu, Chunfa Yuan, Qin Lu (Author order refer to cswjli@comp.polyu.edu.hk)
Deriving Event Relevance from the Ontology Constructed with Formal Concept Analysis (CICLing-2006) [PDF, PPT]
Wei Xu, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Wei Li, Chunfa Yuan
Building Document Graph for Text Summarization: An Event-based Approach (ICCPOL-2006) [PDF, PPT]
Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Kam-Fai Wong
The THU/PolyU System at MSE 2006: An Event-relevance based Approach (MSE-2006) [PDF]
Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan, Mingli Wu, Wenjie Li
NAME ENTITY RECOGNITION
Domain Extension of Chinese Named Entity Recognition (Journal: Frontiers of Content Computing 2007) [in Chinese Wei Xu, Bin Fu, Liu Liu, Chunfa Yuan, Wenjie Li
Using Non-Local Features to Improve Named Entity Recognition (PACLIC-2007) [PDF]
Xinnian Mao, Wei Xu, Yuan Dong, Haila Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at ACE2005 (ACE-2005)
Wenjie Li, Wei Li, Mingli Wu, Wei Xu
SEMANTIC ROLE LABELING
Transducing Logical Relations from Automatic and Manual Annotation (ACL-Workshop-2009) [PDF]
Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Heng Ji, Nianwen Xue, Mary Harper, Ang Sun, Wei Xu, Shasha Liao
Automatic Recognition of Logical Relations for English, Chinese and Japanese in the GLARF Framework (NAACL-Workshop-2009) [PDF]
Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Nianwen Xue, Heng Ji, Ang Sun, Shasha Liao, Wei Xu
