Hao Zhang
1996 - 2000,
at the CS Department of
Peking University
(B.S.)
2000 - 2003,
at the
Institute of Computing Technology
, Chinese Academy of Sciences (M.E.)
2003 - 2008,
at the University of Rochester (Ph.D.)
CV
My research interests are in statistical machine translation with synchronous grammars, machine learning for natural language problems, and efficient algorithms for language processing. I defended on May 27, 2008. (
Research Statement
)
Publications:
Extracting Synchronous Grammar Rules From Word-Level Alignments in Linear Time
,
Hao Zhang
, Daniel Gildea and David Chiang. In
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08)
, Manchester, UK, August 2008.
Efficient Multi-pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars
,
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08:HLT)
, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
Bayesian Learning of Non-compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing
,
Hao Zhang
, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08:HLT)
, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
Enumeration of Factorizable Multi-Dimensional Permutations
.
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea.
Journal of Integer Sequences
, Article 07.5.8, 2007. (Integer Sequence
A133262
in the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences)
Factorization of Synchronous Context-Free Grammars in Linear Time
.
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
NAACL Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST)
, Rochester, NY, April 2007.
Efficient Factorization of Synchronous Context-Free Grammars
.
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. TR889, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, December 2006. (submitted to Computational Linguistics)
Efficient Search for Inversion Transduction Grammar
.
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-06)
, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
Factoring Synchronous Grammars by Sorting
, Daniel Gildea, Giorgio Satta, and
Hao Zhang
. In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), Poster Session
, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees
,
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), Poster Session
, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation
,
Hao Zhang
, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea and Kevin Knight. In
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL-06)
, New York City, NY, June 2006. (also
poster
in
NESCAI
) (also
ISI TR-610
with a complete proof)
Machine Translation as Lexicalized Parsing with Hooks
, Liang Huang,
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-05)
, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2005.
Stochastic Lexicalized Inversion Transduction Grammar for Alignment
,
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05)
, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005.
Syntax-Based Alignment: Supervised or Unsupervised?
,
Hao Zhang
and Daniel Gildea. In
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04)
, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.
Talks:
COLING 2004
talk
, Geneva, Switzerland
ACL 2005
talk
, Ann Arbor, MI
URCS 2006 Big Picture
talk on k-arizer
URCS 2006 Big Picture
talk on multi-dimensional permutations
SSST 2007
talk
, Rochester, NY and Beijing, China
Dissertation Defense 2008
talk
, Rochester, NY
last updated on: August 7, 2008