Li Wang 王砺

Supervisors: Timothy Baldwin and Su Nam Kim

PhD Completed 5 Feb 2015

NICTA VRL
Language Technology Group
Dept of Computing and Information Systems
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Office:  Room 8.19, Level 8, Doug McDonell Building (I am no longer here)
Email: 

Updates

I just started an exciting new adventure in Evernote, as a Machine Learning Software Engineer. As part of the Augmented Intelligence team, I am working on improving Evernote, so Evernote can make users smarter.

PhD Thesis

Knowledge discovery and extraction of domain-specific web data

Research Interests

My research interests lie in knowledge discovery and content extraction from social media data. My current research focuses on improving information access over troubleshooting-oriented web user forums, by utilising and combining Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval technologies.

Publications

• Li Wang, Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin (2013) The Utility of Discourse Structure in Forum Thread Retrieval, In Proceedings of the Ninth Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013), Singapore, pp. 284—295. [bib]
• Marco Lui and Li Wang (2013)Recovering Casing and Punctuation using Conditional Random Fields, in Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2013 (ALTW 2013), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 137—141. [bib]
• Timothy Baldwin, Paul Cook, Marco Lui, Andrew MacKinlay and Li Wang (2013) How Noisy Social Media Text, How Diffrnt Social Media Sources?, In Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), Nagoya, Japan, pp. 356—364. [bib]
• Li Wang, Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin (2012) The Utility of Discourse Structure in Identifying Resolved Threads in Technical User Forums, In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India, pp. 2739—2756. [bib]
• Li Wang, Diana McCarthy and Timothy Baldwin (2011) Predicting Thread Linking Structure by Lexical Chaining, In Proceedings of the 2011 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2011), Canberra, Australia, pp. 76—85. [slides|bib]
• Li Wang, Marco Lui, Su Nam Kim, Joakim Nivre and Timothy Baldwin (2011) Predicting Thread Discourse Structure over Technical Web Forums, In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 13—25. [slides|bib|dataset] (Google Plenary Highlight Paper Award)
• Li Wang, Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin (2010) Thread-level Analysis over Technical User Forum Data, In Proceedings of the 2010 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2010), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 27—31 [slides|bib|dataset]
• Su Nam Kim, Li Wang and Timothy Baldwin (2010) Tagging and Linking Web Forum Posts, In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 192—202. [bib |dataset|report]
• Timothy Baldwin, David Martinez, Richard Penman, Su Nam Kim, Marco Lui, Li Wang and Andrew MacKinlay (2010) Intelligent Linux Information Access by Data Mining: the ILIAD Project, In Proceedings of the NAACL 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media: #SocialMedia, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 15—16. [bib]

Miscellania

• A list of forum-related papers
• My recent seminars at National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University
• A walk-through example of a simple linear-chain CRF
• A Short Resume
• Some of my presentation slides
• I am the student representative of the Australasian Language Technology Association (2011—2012)
• I am part of the winning team of Australasian Language Technology Programming Competition 2010 [poster]
• I am part of the winning team of ALTA Shared Task 2013 [paper]