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Hao Zhang

picture at Cape Cod, 2008

 

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.)
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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.

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last updated on:  August 7, 2008