Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing
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
God always takes the simplest way.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1956)
About Me
I am affiliated with 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. The pronunciation of my first name is the same with the English word young. The last name pronounces similarly to the English word new, except for replacing n with l. Together with other researchers sharing the same name with me, I am ranked at #317 (sorted by incoming citations) in ACL Antology Network.
There is another my homepage written in Chinese on the ICT's website. (11/03/2009)
I am promoted to the post of Associate Researcher by CAS/ICT. (09/29/2009)
On July 13, I gave a talk entitled 'An Overview of Tree-to-String Translation Models' at Microsoft Research Redmond. The video is publicly available now. (08/26/2009)
I attended ACL 2009 and EMNLP 2009 held in Singapore during August 2-7. It's exhausting to make three oral presentations, espeically for giving two talks in one ACL session. (08/10/2009)
After six months' stay at CMU, I will go back to China. Many thanks go to Stephan Vogel for giving me the opportunity. (07/31/2009)
In the first two weeks of July, I visited Johns Hopkins University, Microsoft Research Redmond, USC/ISI, and Google successively. Although really tired, I benefited a lot from giving five talks and meeting with about 30 people. I am grateful to Zhifei Li (JHU), Jianfeng Gao (MSR), Kevin Knight (USC/ISI), and Hao Zhang (Google) for hosting me, respectively. (07/18/2009)
Publications
2010
Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2010. Discriminative Word Alignment by Linear Modeling. Computational Linguistics, 36(3).
Yang Liu and Qun Liu. 2010. Joint Parsing and Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 707-715, Beijing, China, August. [paper][slides]
Xinyan Xiao, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2010. Joint Tokenization and Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 1200-1208, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2010. Dependency Forest for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 1092-1100, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Jinsong Su, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Hongmei Zhao, Yajuan Lü, and Qun Liu. 2010. Dependency-Based Bracketing Transduction Grammar for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 1185-1193, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Yang Feng, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2010. An Efficient Shift-Reduce Decoding Algorithm for Phrased-Based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 285-293, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lü, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2010. Effective Constituent Projection across Languages. In Proceedings of COLING 2010, pages 516--524, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Jinsong Su, Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü, Haitao Mi, and Qun Liu. 2010. Learning Lexicalized Reordering Models from Reordering Graphs. In Proceedings of ACL 2010 (short paper), Uppsala, Sweden, July. [paper]
Hao Xiong, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2010. Forest-based Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of AAAI 2010, Atlanta, USA, July. [paper]
2009
Yang Liu, Yajuan Lü, and Qun Liu. 2009. Improving Tree-to-Tree Translation with Packed Forests. In Proceedings of ACL/IJCNLP 2009, pages 558-566, Singapore, August. [paper][slides][cited by 12]
Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, and Qun Liu. 2009. Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models. In Proceedings of ACL/IJCNLP 2009, pages 576-584, Singapore, August. [paper][slides][cited by 5]
Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, and Qun Liu. 2009. Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, pages 1017-1026, Singapore, August. [paper][slides][code][cited by 5]
Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, and Yajuan Lü. 2009. Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, pages 1105-1113, Singapore, August. [paper][cited by 2]
Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, and Qun Liu. 2009. Sub-sentence Division for Tree-based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL/IJCNLP 2009 (short paper), pages 137-140, Singapore, August. [paper][cited by 1]
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. [paper]
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. [paper]
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. [paper][cited by 5]
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. [paper][sildes][cited by 29]
Yang Liu. 2007. Research on Tree-to-String Statistical Translation Models. PhD thesis, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, June. (in Chinese) [paper][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) [paper]
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. [paper][slides][cited by 118] 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. [paper][cited by 9]
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. [paper][slides][cited by 60]
Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2005. Fuzzy Matching in Machine Translation Evaluation. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol 19, No. 3, pp 45-53. (in Chinese) [paper][cited by 5]
2004
Yang Liu and Qun Liu. 2004. Fuzzy Matching in Machine Translation Evaluation. In Proceedings of SWCL 2004, pp 267-274, Beijing, China, August. [paper]
Gang Zou, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Yao Meng, Hao Yu, Nishino Fumihito, and Shiyong Kang. 2004. Internet-oriented Chinese New Words Detection. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Vol 18, No. 6, pp 1-9. (in Chinese) [paper][cited by 33]
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. [paper]
Research Projects
Research on Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Machine Learning, National Natural Science Foundation of China Contract 60903138, 2010-2012, Principal Investigator
Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Packed Word Alignment Matrix, Microsoft Research Asia Natural Language Processing Theme Program grant, 2009-2010, Principal Investigator website
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