[Chinese]

Haifeng WANG  (Íõº£·å)

wanghaifeng [at] baidu [dot] com

Address: Baidu Campus, No. 10, Shangdi 10th Street, Beijing, 100085, China

News

I joined Baidu.com Inc. as a senior scientist in Jan. 2010.

Tutorial co-chair for ACL 2010

Workshop co-chair for COLING 2010

Session chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Area co-chair for "Machine Translation" in ACL-IJCNLP 2009

IWSLT 08 Evaluation Campaign, best in CT_EC, BTEC_CS, PIVOT_CES tasks, and equal best in CT_CE, BTEC_CE tasks

Research Interests (Publication: By Year | By Area)

Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval

Current Position

Senior scientist at Baidu

Visiting Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology

Previous Position

Chief research scientist and deputy director at Toshiba (China) R&D Center, General Manager of Research Division of Toshiba (China) R&D Center (2002.3 - 2010.1)
Research Scientist at iSilk.com (2000.8 - 2002.2)
Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research China (1999.3 - 2000.6)

Education

B.Sc. (1989~1993) Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology
M.Sc (1993~1996) Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology
PhD (1996~1999) Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology

Professional Activities

Tutorial co-chair for ACL 2010
Workshop co-chair for COLING 2010
Area co-chair for "Machine Translation" in ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Session chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, IWSLT 2008, et al.

PC member of SIGIR 2010, KDD 2010, COLING 2010, NAACL-HLT 2010, LREC 2010 ......
PC member of SIGIR 2009
PC member of ACL 2007, 2008
PC member or reviewer of many other MT, NLP, IR and speech conferences
Reviewer of Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Editorial board member of Journal of Chinese Information Processing

Member of ACL
Member of ACM
Member of the council of Chinese Information Processing Society of China
Senior Member of China Computer Federation

Selected Publications [Full list]

[Machine Translation]

  1. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2007. Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. Machine Translation, 21(3): 165-181. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
  2. LIU Zhanyi, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua. 2006. Example-Based Machine Translation Based on Tree-string Correspondence and Statistical Generation. Machine Translation, 20(1): 25-41. [draft version] (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
    3.

[Natural Language Engineering]

  1. ZHAO Shiqi, WANG Haifeng, LIU Ting, LI Sheng. 2009. Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Parallel Corpora. Natural Language Engineering, 15(4): 503-526.
    2.

[ACL]

  1. NIU Zhengyu, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua. 2009. Exploiting Heterogeneous Treebanks for Parsing. In Proceedings of Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 46-54. August 3-5, 2009. Singapore. [PDF]
  2. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2009. Revisiting Pivot Language Approach for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 154-162. August 3-5, 2009. Singapore. [PDF]
  3. HE Wei, WANG Haifeng, GUO Yuqing, LIU Ting. 2009. Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization. In Proceedings of Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 809-816. August 3-5, 2009. Singapore. [PDF]
    4.
  4. ZHAO Shiqi, WANG Haifeng, LIU Ting, LI Sheng. 2008. Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora. In Proceedings of ACL-08, pages 780-788. 16th-18th June, 2008. Columbus, Ohio, U.S. [PDF]
  5. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2007. Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL2007, pages 856-863. 25th-27th June, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]
  6. ZHU Jiang, WANG Haifeng. 2006. The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006, pages 593-600. 17th-21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  7. LI Jianfeng, WANG Haifeng, REN Dengjun, LI Guohua. 2006. Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006, Pages 1001-1008. 17th-21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  8. LU Zhimao, WANG Haifeng, YAO Jianmin, LIU Ting and LI Sheng. 2006. An Equivalent Pseudoword for Unsupervised Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006. pages 457-464. 17th-21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  9. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng, LIU Zhanyi. 2006. Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data. In Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 913-920. 17th-21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  10. WANG Haifeng, WU Hua, LIU Zhanyi. 2006. Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs. In Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 874-881. 17th¨C21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  11. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng, Liu Zhanyi. 2005. Alignment Model Adaptation for Domain-Specific Word Alignment. In Proceedings of ACL-05, pages 467-474. June 25-30, 2005. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. [PDF]

  12. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2004. Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment for Computer Assisted Translation. In Companion Volume to the Proceedings of ACL-04, pages 97-100. July 22-24, 2004. Barcelona, Spain. [PDF]

    13.

[COLING]

  1. Yuqing Guo, Josef van Genabith and Haifeng Wang. 2008. Dependency-Based N-Gram Models for General Purpose Sentence Realisation. In Proceedings of COLING 08 , pages 297-304. June 18-22, 2008. Manchester, UK. [PDF]
  2. Weiwei Sun, Zhifang Sui and Haifeng Wang. 2008. Prediction of Maximal Projection for Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of COLING 08 , pages 833-840. June 18-22, 2008. Manchester, UK. [PDF]
  3. Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Chengqing Zong. 2008. Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Domain Dictionary and Monolingual Corpora. In Proceedings of COLING 08 , pages 993-1000. June 18-22, 2008. Manchester, UK. [PDF]
  4. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2004. Improving Statistical Word Alignment with a Rule-Based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of COLING-04, pages 29-35. August 23-27, 2004. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF]
    5.

[MT Summit]

  1. REN Dengjun, WU Hua and WANG Haifeng. 2007. Improving Statistical Word Alignment with Various Clues. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT XI, pages 391-397. 10th-14th September, 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark. [PDF]
  2. WU Hua and WANG Haifeng. 2007. Comparative Study of Word Alignment Heuristics and Phrase-Based SMT. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT XI, pages 507-514.10th-14th September, 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark. [PDF]
  3. LIU Zhanyi, WANG Haifeng and WU Hua. 2007. Log-linear Generation Models for Example-based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT XI, pages 305-312. 10th-14th September, 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark. [PDF]
  4. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng. 2005. Boosting Statistical Word Alignment. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT X, pages 364-371. September 12-16, 2005. Phuket Island, Thailand. [PDF]

  5. WU Hua, WANG Haifeng, LIU Zhanyi, TANG Kai. 2005. Improving Translation Memory with Word Alignment Information. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT X, pages 364-371. September 12-16, 2005. Phuket Island, Thailand. [PDF]

  6. ZHU Jiang, WANG Haifeng. 2005. The Effect of Adding Rules into the Rule-based MT System. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT X, pages 298-304. September 12-16, 2005. Phuket Island, Thailand. [PDF]
  7. LIU Zhanyi, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua. 2005. Example-based Machine Translation Based on TSC and Statistical Generation. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT X, pages 25-32. September 12-16, 2005. Phuket Island, Thailand. [PDF]
    8.

[EMNLP]

  1. Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu and Sheng Li. 2009. Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2009 (EMNLP 2009), pages 487-495. August 6-7, 2009. Singapore. [PDF]
  2. HU Xiaoguang, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua. 2007. Using RBMT Systems to Produce Bilingual Corpus for SMT. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, pages 287-295. 28th-30th June, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]
  3. Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith. 2007. Recovering Non-Local Dependencies for Chinese. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, pages 257-266. 28th-30th June, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]
    4.

[IWSLT]

  1. Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Hu, Zhanyi Liu, Jianfeng Li, Dengjun Ren and Zhengyu Niu. 2008. The TCH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2008 (IWSLT 2008), pages 124-131. October 21-22, 2008. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [PDF]

More Publications

Last updated date: 2010/02/07