Name
Qun Liu (刘群)
Title
Professor, Dr.
Affiliation
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
Position
Chief Scientist of Speech and Language Computing
Work Experience
- 2012/07-2018/06: Dublin City University
- 1992/07-2018/06: Institute of Computing Technology(ICT) at Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) (part time from 2012/07), Researcher, Professor (from 2005)
- 2003/11-2018/06: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) (part time from 2012/07), Professor (from 2005)
Education
- 1999/09-2004/05: Ph.D. of Computer Science, Institute of Computational Linguistics , Peking University
- 1989/09-1992/07: M.Sc. of Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1984/09-1989/07: B.Sc. of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics
- Natural Language Processing
Research Topics
My research work focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, its theory, technology and application, including:
- Morphological Analysis
- Parsing
- Semantic Processing
- Language Modeling
- Machine Translation
- Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction
- Large Scale Linguistic Resource Construction
- Evaluation Technologies for NLP & MT
- Chinese Language Processing
- Cross-Language/Cross-Standard/Cross-Domain Adaption for NLP
- Dialog and Question Answering
- Language Generation
- Neural Symbolic Computing
Publications
Please visit the following websites for my publication list and citations at:
Codes
Talks
- 2020/10/31 预训练语言模型研究进展和趋势展望, an invited talk at 全国计算语言学大会（CCL2020）, online
- 2020/06/18 Research and Practice of Simultaneous Speech Translation in Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, an invited talk at AutoSimTrans Workshop, attached with ACL 2020, online
- 2019/11/03 Document-level Machine Translation: the Current State and the Challenges, an invited talk at DiscoMT 2019 Workshop, attached with EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China
- 2019/10/31 预训练语言模型的研究与应用, at 北京智源大会NLP论坛, Beijing, China
- 2019/08/24 基于深度学习的自然语言处理:边界在哪里?, at 第四届语言与智能高峰论坛, Beijing, China
- 2018/03/21 What has Deep Learning brought to Natural Language Processing?, at Deep Learning Meetup Accenture The Dock, Dublin, Ireland
- 2018/01/29 Neural Machine Translation, at DeepHack.Babel, MIPT, Moscow, Rassia (online)
- 2017/10/11 Research and Applications of Machine Translation: Personal Experience, at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2016/10/28 Dependency-Based Statistical Machine Translation, a tutorial at AMTA 2016, Austin, TX, USA
- 2016/09/25 The Oppotunities of Deep Learning in NLP, at ADAPT Industry Showcase, Dublin, Ireland
- 2016/05/18 Recent Progress in Syntax-based Machine Translation, at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- 2016/05/18 A Novel Approach to Dropped Pronoun Translation, at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- 2015/07/14 Syntax in Statistical Machine Translation, at IIS Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2014/08/28 Adaptation for Natural Language Processing, at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
- 2013/04/10 Context-Aware Rule-Selection for SMT, at University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
- 2012/11/5-6 Context-Aware Rule-Selection for SMT, at City University of New York (CUNY) and IBM Watson Research Center, New York
- 2012/11/1 Maximum Rank Correlation Training for SMT at MONOMT Workshop, attached with AMTA2012, San Diego
Supervision
Professional Services
- Journel/Associate Editor:
- Machine Translation (2011/12-present),
- ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP) (2010/6-2011/12),
- Journal of Chinese Information Processing (2006-present)
- Journal/Reviewer:
- Machine Translation,
- ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP),
- Journal of Chinese Information Processing,
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology,
- Journal of Computer Research and Development, ACTA Automata Sinica
- Conference or Workshop/Chair:
- ACL2013(workshop co-chair),
- IUCS2011(general chair),
- MT SUMMIT 2011 (organization co-chair),
- EMNLP2010(area co-chair),
- COLING2010(area co-chair),
- CLP2010(PC co-chair)
- Conference or Workshop/Reviewer:
- NAACL-HLT2013, NAACL-HLT2012,
- ACL2013, ACL2013,
- EMNLP2013, EMNLP-CoNLL2012,
- IJCNLP2013,
- IALP2013,
- MTSummit2013,
- PACLIC2013,
- RANLP2013,
- SLSP2013,
- COLING2012,
- AMTA2012
- Organization Duties:
- ACL SIGHAN (Information Officer of China, 2011/12-2013), Chinese Information Processing Society of China (Executive Council Member, 2012-present)
Email
qun(dot)liu(at)huawei(dot)com
Social Media
Post Address
Huawei Tech. Investment Co.,Ltd
Bio-informatics Center
Hong Kong Science Park
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
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