Xuchen Yao (姚旭晨), Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.





Publication
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About Me


I'm a PhD candidate starting from 2010 with a research interest in natural language processing, specifically, computational semantics. My super2visors are Benjamin Van Durme and Chris Callison-Burch.

Short Bio


Bachelor of Science in Acoustics. Department of Electronic and Science Engineering, Nanjing University, China. 2002 - 2006.

European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (EMLCT):
Master of Arts in Linguistics. Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 2008 - 2009.
Master of Science in Language Science and Technology. Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany. 2009 - 2010.

Master Thesis


Xuchen Yao. Question Generation with Minimal Recursion Semantics. Master Thesis. Saarland University & University of Groningen. 2010. (slides)

Two implementation systems can be found at Code.

Experience


2011. Internship. USC/ISI with David Chiang.
2010-2011. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Eisner's NLP class (600.465).
2011. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Yarowsky's Information Retrieval and Web Agents (600.466).
2010. Visiting Research Student. Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics. City University of Hong Kong.
2010. Internship. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Sourthern California.
2008. Internship. Nokia Research Center Beijing.
2007. Internship. America On Line China Lab.
2006. Student. Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2006. Internship. The Next Generation Java team, Motorola Global Software Group.
2005. Internship. EnReach Technology,Inc.