Yue Zhang

Postdoctoral research associate
University of Cambridge
yue.zhang (a) cl.cam.ac.uk


Biography

I am a postdocoral researcher working on the FAUST project. My research interest includes machine translation, natural language parsing (in particular for the English and Chinese languages), and machine learning.

Before I came to Cambridge, I received my PhD degree from University of Oxford. I worked on statistical Chinese processing for my thesis. I received my MSc degree from University of Oxford, working on statistical machine translation from Chinese to English by parsing. MSc thesis. I received my undergrad degree on Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China.

Software

ZPar: statistical multi-language parser, with language-specific support for Chinese and English.

Publications

Yue Zhang, Graeme Blackwood and Stephen Clark. Syntax-Based Word Ordering Incorporating a Large-Scale Language Model. In proceedings of EACL 2012. Avignon, France. April. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. Syntax-based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search. In proceedings of EMNLP 2011. Edinburgh, UK. July. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing. In proceedings of ACL 2011. Portland, USA. June. [PDF][BIB][MP4]
Yue Zhang and Joakim Nivre. Transition-based Dependency Parsing with Rich Non-local Features. In proceedings of ACL 2011, short papers. Portland, USA. June. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. 2011. Syntactic Processing Using the Generalized Perceptron and Beam Search. In Computational Linguistics, 37(1), March. [PDF]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-tagging Using a Single Discriminative Model. In proceedings of EMNLP 2010. Massachusetts, USA. October. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang, Byung-Gyu Ahn, Stephen Clark, Curt Van Wyk, James R. Curran and Laura Rimell. Chart Pruning for Fast Lexicalised-Grammar Parsing. In proceedings of COLING 2010. Beijing, China. August. [PDF][BIB]
Karo Moilanen, Stephen Pulman and Yue Zhang. Packed Feelings and Ordered Sentiments: Sentiment Parsing with Quasi-compositional Polarity Sequencing and Compression. In proceedings of WASSA 2010. Lisbon, Portugal. August. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. Transition-Based Parsing of the Chinese Treebank using a Global Discriminative Model. In proceedings of IWPT 2009. Paris, France. October. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. A Tale of Two Parsers: Investigating and Combining Graph-based And transition-based Dependency Parsing Using Beam-search. In proceedings of EMNLP 2008. Hawaii, USA. October. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using a Single Perceptron. In proceedings of ACL 2008. Ohio, USA. June. [PDF][BIB]
Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark. Chinese Segmentation Using a Word-based Perceptron Algorithm. In proceedings of ACL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. June. [PDF][BIB]

Talks, tutorials and consultancy

2011. Stephen Clark and Yue Zhang. Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser. Cambridge NLIP seminar.
2010. Invited talk to Uppsala University on dependency parsing.
2010. Qin Iris Wang and Yue Zhang. Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing. A tutorial for the NAACL conference. [PDF]
2009. Invited talk to the NLIP seminar, University of Cambridge on dependency parsing.
2008. Invited talk to the School of Informatics (ICCS), University of Edinburgh on dependency parsing.
2008. Consultancy for Sharp Research Europe Ltd. on word segmentation.

Teaching

2011. Supervisor of undergraduate students on C/C++ Programming (University of Cambridge).
2011. Practical demonstrator for Statistical Machine Translation (University of Cambridge).
2010-11. M.Phil project supervisor (University of Cambridge).
2010-11. Undergraduate project supervisor (University of Cambridge).
2010-11. Supervisor of undergraduate students on Natural Language Processing (University of Cambridge).
2008. Class tutor for the Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing class (University of Oxford).
2006 and 07. Teaching assistant for the Introduction to Specification class (University of Oxford).

Research visits

2010. Research visit to Uppsala University (Joakim Nivre).
2009. Participant of the Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop (parsing the web).

Professional services

Reviewer, Journal of Logic and Computation, 2012.
Reviewer, Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 2011.
Reviewer, Knowledge and Information Systems, 2010, 11.
Reviewer, Computational Speech and Language, 2010.
Reviewer, Computational Linguistics, 2010, 11, 12.
Reviewer, Computational Intelligence, 2010.
Reviewer, the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
Reviewer, PC member, AAAI conference, 2012.
Program Committee, IJCNLP conference, 2011.
Program Committee, IWPT conference, 2011.
Program Committee, ADIM workshop, 2011.
Reviewer, PC member, EACL conference, 2012.
Reviewer, PC member, NAACL conference, 2010, 12.
Reviewer, EMNLP conference, 2009, 10, 12.
Reviewer, PC member, ACL conference, 2008, 09, 12.
Reviewer, PC member, ACL student research workshop, 2012.
Reviewer and session chair, CLUK colloquium, 2008.