Wanxiang Che
Professor
Language Analysis Group
Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval
School of Computer Science and Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
Biography
Dr. Wanxiang Che is a professor of School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. He is the vice director of Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval. He is a young scholar of “Heilongjiang Scholar” and a visiting scholar of Stanford University. He is currently the vice director and secretary-general of the Computational Linguistics Professional Committee of the Chinese Information Society of China; Officer and Secretary of AACL Executive Board; a senior member of the China Computer Federation (CCF). He achieved for the AAAI 2013 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention Award. His Language Technology Platform (LTP) has been shared by over 600 organizations, and authorized to Baidu, Tencent, and so on. He won the first place in CoNLL 2018 and 2019 shared tasks. In 2020, he won the Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award; in 2015 and 2016, he won the Google Focused Research Award; in 2016, he won the first prize of the Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award (2nd Place); in 2012, he won the second prize of the Heilongjiang Province Technology Invention Award (2nd Place); in 2010, he won the first prize of the “Qian Weichang” Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Information Society of China (2nd Place), the Hanwang Youth Innovation Award (individual). In 2017, the MOOC course “Advanced Language Programming (Python)” taught by him won the National Excellent Online Open Course.
Interests
Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Ph.D Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2008.12
Harbin Institute of Technology
Bachelor Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2002.07
Harbin Institute of Technology
Experience
Professor
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Visiting Associate Professor
Natural Language Processing Group, Stanford University
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Visitor
Baidu
Intern
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
Intern
IBM China Research Lab (CRL)
Intern
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Selected Professional Services
Organizations
Computational Linguistics Professional Committee of the Chinese Information Society of China: The Vice Director and Secretary-general
Officer and Secretary of AACL Executive Board
Senior Member of China Computer Federation (CCF)
Conferences
ACL: Sponsor Chair (2017, 2018), Area Chair (2016), Publication Chair (2015), Faculty Advisor of Student Research Workshop (2015, 2018), Reviewer
EMNLP: Publication Chair (2011)
SemEval: Organizers of Semantic Evaluation Exercises (2012, 2016)
Journals
Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS): Associate Editor
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP): Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP): Reviewer
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR): Reviewer
Projects
Open Domain Multiple Knowledge Acquisition and Deep Structured Semantic Analysis (2020AAA0106501)
Research on Cross-lingual Semantic Dependency Parsing (61976072)
Theory and Method of Internet Chinese Information Processing Oriented to Ternary Space (2014CB340503)
Research on Sub-Strucutre Reliability Computing of Dependency Syntactic Parsing (61370164)
Chinese Dependency Parsing (60803093)
Evaluation Results
CoNLL 2019 Shared Task: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing, The First Place in 16 submission teams
CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, The First Place in 27 submission teams
CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, The Fourth Place in 33 submissions of 131 registration teams
NLPTEA 2016 Shared Task: Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED), The First Place
SANCL 2012 Shared Task: Parsing the Web, The Second (Stanford) and Third (HIT) Places in Dependency Parsing Track
CoNLL 2009 Shared Task: Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages, The First Place in 21 teams
CoNLL 2008 Shared Task: English Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies, The Second Place in 19 teams
SemEval 2007 Task 11: English Lexical Sample Task via English-Chinese Parallel Text, The First Place
Talks
The 16th CIPS Summer School and the 23th CIPS Advanced Technology Tutorial: Natural Language Processing: A Pre-trained Model Approach. Beijing, China. 2021-7-22.
The 9th Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence-Artificial Intelligence Disciplines Lectures (CAAI-AIDL): Pre-training Models: A New Paradigm for NLP. Online. 2020-12-11.
CCL 2019 Tutorial and the 19th CIPS Advanced Technology Tutorial: Pre-training Models: A New Paradigm for NLP. Kun Minag, China. 2019-10-18.
The Eighteenth China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2019) Student Workshop Invited Talk: How to give a great talk? Kun Minag, China. 2019-10-18.
The 8th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC2019) Student Workshop Invited Talk: What is the core competency of an NLPer? Dun Huang, China. 2019-10-12.
The 6th Artificial Intelligence Disciplines Lectures of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCAI-AIDL: Natural Language Processing): Deep Learning for Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing. Shenzhen, China. 2018-12-22.
The 13th CIPS Summer School and the CIPS Advanced Technology Tutorial: Deep Learnig and Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Analysis. Beijing, China. 2018-7-27.
SIGHAN 2017 Invited Talk: Syntactic and Semantic Parsing. Taibei, China. 2017-12-1.
IJCNLP 2017 Tutorial: Deep Learning in Lexical Analysis and Parsing (Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6). Taibei, China. 2017-11-27.
The 12th CIPS Summer School and the 1st CIPS Advanced Technology Tutorial: Deep Learnig and Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Analysis. Beijing, China. 2017-8-18.
CCL 2016 Tutorial: Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5). Yantai, China. 2016-10-14.
CCL 2016 Technical Review: Parsing. Yantai, China. 2016-10-16.
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing. Peking University, Beijing, China. 2015-05-06.
Cross-Lingual Natural Language Processing. Thinghua University, Beijing, China. 2015-04-16.
Publications
Please see: Publications of Language Analysis Group
Or search: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, dblp
Contact
Room K1228, Harbin Institute of Technology Science & Technology Innovation Building