Qing Dao, 04/23/2007

Address

Natural Language Processing Laboratory
State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology
Department of Compute Science and Technology , Nanjing University
NO. 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District
Room 911, Computer Science and Technology Building
Nanjing, 210046, Jiangsu Province, P.R.China

E-mail

xin at nlp dot nju dot edu dot cn

About Me

I am in the third year as a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University. My area of interest is statistical machine translation. I received my B. Sc. degree of Mathematics in 2007 from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I continued to study for a Ph.D. degree of Computer Science at Nanjing University.

Research Interests

• Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)
• Word Segmentation
• Word Alignment
• Parsing
• Multiple Word Expression (MWE)

Recent News

• I am a member of the program committee of WMT 2012
• My short paper was accepted by ACL 2012
• I returned from CWMT 2011 following immediately MT Submit at Xiamen
• I was selected as a volunteer in MT Submit XIII at Xiamen, China. P.R
• We got good results in CWMT 2011.
• I am attending ACL 2011 at Portland in the us
• I am preparing CWMT 2011 as the manager of our group.
• I am preparing paper for EMNLP 2011, but the experiment has driven me into despair
• My submission to ACL 2011 student session has been accepted
• The idea discussed by Boyuan Li and me seems to be working"
• I am preparing paper for Student Session of ACL 2011
• I have been co-worked with Boyuan Li on topic "Training a SMT-orienated segmenter"

Working Experiences

• I am in charge of our SMT group (09/01/2010 till now)
• I was in internship in Natural Language Computing Research Group in MSRA , supervised by Henry Li (01/06/2009 to 08/14/2009)
• Teaching Assistant of "Database System" in our department, supervised by Wenyang Bai (10/01/2007 to 01/15/2008)

Publications

2012

• Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen. 2012. Enhancing Statistical Machine Translation with Character Alignment. Accepted by ACL 2012 (short paper)

2011

• Ning Xi, Yinggong Zhao, Guangchao Tang, Zhonghua Li, Youqiang Liu, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen. 2011. NJU-NLP Technical Report for the 7th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2011). CWMT 2011.
• Ning Xi, Yinggong Zhao, Guangchao Tang, Bin Li, Chunyong Luo, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen. 2011. Combining Language Model with Multiple Word Segmentation for SMT. CWMT 2011.
• Youqiang Liu, Bin Li, Ning Xi. 2011. A Bilingual-Constrained Approach for Extracting Chinese Abbreviations. CNCCL 2011.
• Boyuan Li, Ning Xi, Shujian Huang, Jianbin Zhang, Jiajun Chen. 2011. Training a MT-motivated Segmenter. CNCCL 2011.
• Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Boyuan Li, and Yinggong Zhao. 2011. Word Alignment Combination over Multiple Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of ACL 2011.[paper]

2009

• Li Chi-ho, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu, and Ning Xi. 2009. Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination. In Proceedings of ACL 2009. [paper]
• Shujian Huang, Ning Xi, Yinggong Zhao, Xinyu Dai, and Jiajun Chen. 2009. An Error-Sensitive Metric for Word Alignment in Phrase-based SMT. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 23(3). [paper]

Softwares

• An Interesting Web Demo of Automatic Words Reordering (-TM BTG decoder)
• A phrase-based MT decoder written by C# (to be released)

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.

Acadamic Friends

• Chen, Xingguo (NJU)
• Ji, Yangsheng (NJU)
• Jia, Xiuyi (NJU)
• Li, Bin (NJU & NJNU)
• Li, Xuansong (NJU)
• Shi, yinghuan (NJU)
• Wang, Liang (NJU)
• Zhao, yinggong (NJU)

Trivia

• My favorite sport is volleyball, I enjoyed this game whenever win or lose. The spirit of National Women's Volleyball Team has inspired me all the way. I was a setter, but now play as a attacker. I am a big fan of Ruoqi Hui, a young but excellent attacker in the national team.
• My favorite programming language is C#. Needless to say, I hate C/C++.
• I proudly come from Li Jiang , my home town in Yunnan Province in P.R.China. A place blessed with fresh air, clear streams, breathtaking snow mountains, and an undisturbed landscape inhabited by a friendly group of people.
• I have suffering keratoconus of my right eyes for nine years. Thanks to Dr. Wang and RGP lens, bring me back to the vivid world.

Created on 04/25/2010, updated on 01/18/2011.