Prof. Sheng Li Full Professor / Doctoral Advisor School of Computer Science and Technology Harbin Institute of Technology

Contact

• EMail: lisheng AT hit DOT edu DOT cn
• Mailing Address: P.O.Box 321 Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Translation
• Information Retrieval

Experience

• 2004.8 - Now, Director of MOE-Microsoft Join Key Lab of NLP& Speech (HIT)
• 1998 - 2004, Chairman of HIT Board
• 1990 - 1998, Vice Chairman of HIT Board(Full Professor since 1992)
• 1988 - 1990, Director of R&D Division (HIT)
• 1987 - 1988, Dean of Computer Department (HIT)
• 1985 - 1987, Vice Director of R&D Division (HIT) (Associate Professor)
• 1965 - 1985, Faculty in the Computer specialty of HIT

Awards and Honors

• XXX Information Processing System, Third Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 2009
• National May 1 Labor Prize, 2003
• BT863-II MT System and WWW Oriented English-Chinese MT, Third Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1999
• BT863 MT System, Third Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1997
• Daya Translation Workstation, Second Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1997
• “Heilongjiang Outstanding Young Experts”, 1996
• CEMT-III MT System, Second Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1995
• Special Government Allowances of the State Council, 1993
• CEMT-I MT System, Second Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1990
• TDM Prototype System, Second Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1988
• Machine Readable Catalogue for West Journals, Third Prize of Ministry Level Technology Progress, 1988
• “Heilongjiang Excellent Teacher”, 1981

Activities

• The final review committee member for computer area in NSF China
• President of Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC)

Projects

• 2011 - 2013, Machine Translation on Internet, 863 Key Project
• 2008 - 2011, Next Generation IR, NSF key project
• 2008 - 2010, Research on Automatic Quantification of Translation Criterion
• 2004 - 2006, Translation Disambiguation Based on Bilingual Information, NSF project
• 1998 - 2000, Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation, NSF project
• 1994 - 1997, BT863 MT System
• 1993 - 1995, Daya Translation Workstation
• 1991 - 1993, CEMT_II and CEMT-II MT System
• 1985 - 1989, CEMT-I MT System

Selected Publications

[ACL/EMNLP/COLING]

1. Liu Zhanyi, Wang Haifeng, Wu Hua, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Reordering with Source Language Collocations. ACL 2011
2. Liu Zhanyi, Wang Haifeng, Wu Hua, Li Sheng. Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Collocation. ACL 2010
3. Liu Zhanyi, Wang Haifeng, Wu Hua, Li Sheng. Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method. ACL-IJCNLP 2009
4. Jiang Hongfei, Yang Muyun, Zhao Tiejun, Li Sheng, Wang Bo. A Statistical Machine Translation Model Based on A Synthetic Synchronous Grammar. ACL-IJCNLP 2009
5. Zhang Min, Jiang Hongfei, Aw Aiti, Li Haizhou, Tan Chew Lim, Li Sheng. A Tree Sequence Alignment-Based Tree-To-Tree Translation Model. ACL 2008
6. Zhao Shiqi, Niu Cheng, Zhou Ming, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-Based Paraphrasing Model. ACL 2008
7. Yang Xiaofeng, Su Jian, Lang Jun, Tan Chew Lim, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. An Entity-Mention Model for Coreference Resolution with Inductive Logic Programming. ACL 2008
8. Zhao Shiqi, Wang Haifeng, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora. ACL 2008
9. Zhang Min, Che Wanxiang, Aw Ai Ti, Tan Chew Lim, Zhou Guodong, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. A Grammar-Driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification. ACL 2007
10. Lu Zhimao, Wang Haifeng, Yao Jianmin, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation. ACL/Coling 2006
11. Guo Yuhang, Qin Bing, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Microblog Entity Linking by Leveraging Extra Posts. EMNLP 2013
12. Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li. Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method. EMNLP 2009
13. Ting Liu, Jinshan Ma, Huijia Zhu, Sheng Li. Dependency Parsing Based on Dynamic Local Optimization. EMNLP 2006
14. Zhimao Lu, Ting Liu, Sheng Li. Combining Neural Networks and Statistics for Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation. EMNLP 2004
15. Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Sheng Li. A New Chinese Natural Language Understanding Architecture Based on Multilayer Search Mechanism. EMNLP 2004
16. Li Weigang, Liu Ting, Wang Zhen, Li Sheng. Aligning Bilingual Corpora Using Sentences Location Information. EMNLP 2004
17. Song Wei, Zhang Yu, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Bridging Topic Modeling and Personalized Search. Coling 2010
18. Li Daren, Yang Muyun, Qi Haoliang, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun. Reexamination on Potential for Personalization in Web Search. Coling 2010
19. Sun Shuqi, Li Sheng, Yang Muyun, Qi Haoliang, Zhao Tiejun. Utilizing Variability of Time and Term Content Within and Across Users in Session Detection. Coling 2010
20. Zhu Junguo, Yang Muyun, Wang Bo, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun. All in Strings: A Powerful String-Based Automatic Mt Evaluation Metric with Multiple Granularities. Coling 2010
21. Liu Shui, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun, Zhang Min, Liu Pengyuan. Head-Modifier Relation Based Non-Lexical Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Translation. Coling 2010
22. Zhang Min, Jiang Hongfei, Li Haizhou, Aw Aiti, Li Sheng. Grammar Comparison Study for Translational Equivalence Modeling and Statistical Machine Translation. Coling 2008
23. Yajuan Lü, Sheng Li, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang. Learning Chinese Bracketing Knowledge Based on a Bilingual Language Model. Coling 2002
24. Jianmin Yao, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao, Hao Yu, Sheng Li. An Automatic Evaluation Method for Localization Oriented Lexicalised EBMT System. Coling 2002

[IJCAI]

1. Yang Muyun, Zhu Junguo, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun. Fusion of Word and Letter Based Metrics for Automatic MT Evaluation. IJCAI 2013
2. Zhao Shiqi, Liu Ting, Yuan Xincheng, Li Sheng, Zhang Yu. Automatic Acquisition of Context-Specific Lexical Paraphrases. IJCAI 2007

[SIGIR/WWW/CIKM]

1. Song Wei, Yu Qing, Xu Zhiheng, Liu Ting, Li Sheng, Wen Ji-Rong. Multi-Aspect Query Summarization by Composite Query. SIGIR 2012
2. Song Wei, Zhang Yu, Xie Yubin, Liu Ting, Li Sheng. Query Term Ranking Based on Search Results Overlap. SIGIR 2011
3. Chen Chen, Yang Muyun, Li Sheng, Zhao Tiejun, Qi Haoliang. Predicting Query Potential for Personalization, Classification Or Regression?. SIGIR 2010
4. Qi Haoliang, Yang Muyun, He Xiaoning, Li Sheng. Re-Examination on Lam% in Spam Filtering. SIGIR 2010
5. Li Dong, Xu Zhiming, Li Sheng, Sun Xin. Link Prediction in Social Networks Based on Hypergraph. WWW 2013
6. Li Dong, Xu Zhiming, Li Sheng, Sun Xin, Gupta Anika, Sycara Katia. Link Recommendation for Promoting Information Diffusion in Social Networks. WWW 2013
7. Li Dong, Xu Zhiming, Luo Yishu, Li Sheng, Gupta Anika, Sycara Katia, Luo Shengmei, Hu Lei, Chen Hong. Modeling Information Diffusion over Social Networks for Temporal Dynamic Prediction. CIKM 2013