Haifeng WANG  (卼漆瑕)

Vice President, Baidu
President, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Chair, Department of Language Information Engineering, Peking University
Visiting Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology

Email: wanghaifeng [at] baidu [dot] com
Address: Baidu Campus, Beijing, 100085, China

Research Interests (Publications)

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

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

Area co-chair for "Natural Language Processing" in IJCAI 2013
Industrial Liaison co-chair for KDD 2012
Program co-chair for IJCNLP 2011
Program chair for CWMT 2011
Program chair for Summer School on NLP and IR, in cooperation with ACL and SIGIR, 2011
Industrial Track co-chair for SIGIR 2011
Tutorial co-chair for ACL 2010
Workshop co-chair for COLING 2010
Area co-chair for "Machine Translation" in ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Session chair, PC member, reviewer for many conferences

Associate Editor of Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) (2010-2011)
Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) (2012-2015)
Guest Editor of a Special Section on Paraphrasing of ACM TIST

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. Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang, Josef van Genabith. 2011. Dependency-Based N-Gram Models for General Purpose Sentence Realisation. Natural Language Engineering, 17(4): 455-483.
  2. ZHAO Shiqi, WANG Haifeng, LIU Ting, LI Sheng. 2009. Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Parallel Corpora. Natural Language Engineering, 15(4): 503-526.
    3.

[ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)]

  1. Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang, Josef van Genabith. 2010. A Linguistically Inspired Statistical Model for Chinese Punctuation Generation. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 9(2): Article 6.
    2.

[ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)]

  1. Haifeng Wang, Bill Dolan, Idan Szpektor and Shiqi Zhao. 2013. Introduction to special section on paraphrasing. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 4(3): 37.
    2.
  2. Liu Zhanyi, Wang Haifeng, Wu Hua, and Li Sheng. 2011. Two-word Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 3(1): 16.
    3.

[ACL]

  1. Wei He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang and Ting Liu. 2012. Improve SMT Quality with Automatically Extracted Paraphrase Rules. In Proceedings of the 50th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), pages 979每987. Jeju Island, Korea. [PDF]
  2. Jinsong Su, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, Huailin Dong and Qun Liu. 2012. Translation Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Topic Information. In Proceedings of the 50th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), pages 459每468. Jeju Island, Korea. [PDF]
  3. LIU Zhanyi, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua, LIU Ting, LI Sheng. 2011. Reordering with Source Language Collocations. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), pages 1036每1044. Portland, Oregon, USA. [PDF]
  4. LIU Zhanyi, WANG Haifeng, WU Hua, LI Sheng. 2010. Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Collocation. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), , pages 825每833. July 12-14, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden. [PDF]
  5. 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]
  6. 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]
  7. 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]
    8.
  8. 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]
  9. 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]
  10. 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]
  11. 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]
  12. 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]
  13. 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]
  14. 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每21st July, 2006. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
  15. 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]

  16. 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]

    17.

[COLING]

  1. Shiqi Zhao, HaifengWang, and Ting Liu. 2010. Paraphrasing with Search Engine Query Logs. To appear in Proceedings of COLING 2010. Aug 23-27, 2010. Beijing, China. [PDF]
  2. Shiqi Zhao, HaifengWang, Xiang Lan, and Ting Liu. 2010. Leveraging Multiple MT Engines for Paraphrase Generation. To appear in Proceedings of COLING 2010. Aug 23-27, 2010. Beijing, China. [PDF]
  3. 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]
  4. 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]
  5. 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]
    6.

[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]

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