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Liang Huang

I am a visiting student from the University of Pennsylvania where my main homepage is here. Marina del Rey is really a great place! I enjoy working here under the supervision of Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu during summer 2005 and summer 2006. My other collaborators at ISI include David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Jonathan May, and Victoria Fossum.

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

-- G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)

Contact Information

Email: lhuang3 AT-SIGN cis DOT upenn DOT edu.

Department of Computer & Information Science (CIS)
3330 Walnut Street, Levine Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-8543

Research

My primary research interests are in the intersection of computational linguistics and theoretical computer science. In particular, I have been developing better algorithms for parsing and translation, along with the formal properties of synchronous grammars.

Representative Publications:

Better k-best Parsing (2005). with David Chiang.
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT).
Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation (2006). with Hao Zhang, Dan Gildea, and Kevin Knight.
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL.
Statistical Syntax-Directed Translation with Extended Domain of Locality (2006). with Kevin Knight and Aravind Joshi.
Proceedings of AMTA.
Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models (2007). with David Chiang.
Proceedings of ACL.
Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features (2008).
Proceedings of ACL-HLT. Received Outstanding Paper Award.
Forest-based Translation (2008). with Haitao Mi and Qun Liu.
Proceedings of ACL-HLT.

Under Review:

Binarization of Synchronous Context-Free Grammars. with Hao Zhang, Dan Gildea, and Kevin Knight.
Submitted to Computational Linguistics.

Software:

Cubit - A Cube Pruning Decoder for Phrase-based Translation

For the list of all publications, please check my Penn homepage.

“Real progress does not come from new answers to old questions, but from entirely different questions...”
(from Tali Tishby's website)

“God has a Book where he maintains the best proofs of all mathematical theorems, proofs that are elegant and perfect... You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in the Book.”
-- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
-- G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)

“Indeed, apartness, distance, and free perception are related concepts, referring to an essential element in all human creativity, in science, in art, and in literature.”
-- C. N. Yang (1922-) on Einstein (full text)

First they came for Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

    Pastor Martin Neimoller, 1937

Liang Huang

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