I am a PhD. student in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. As a member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group and a member of the Alberta Ingenuity Center for Machine Learning (AICML), I am studying under Prof. Dekang Lin and Prof. Dale Schuurmans in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

My research is focused on developing machine learning algorithms for inferring dependency parsers from language data. Beyond dependency parsing, I am also interested in Part-Of-Speech tagging, information extraction and machine translation.

Natural Language Processing Group (Colin, Chris, and Shane)

Machine Learning Group

Alberta Ingenuity Center for Machine Learning

Local interests: DOCSDB  WebMail  AI Seminar  AICML  NLP Seminar

                        Distinguished Lecture Series

Resources: WordNet    CiteSeer  KernelCourse (fall 2004)

 

Incoming Conferences:   ACL-2008    ICML-2008    NIPS-2007

Others:  Weather of UofA   Weather of Edmonton  Google  Useful links  Roget's thesaurus

Qin Iris Wang. 2008. Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing. PhD Thesis. University of Alberta. [PDF]

Qin Iris Wang, Dekang Lin and Dale Schuurmans. 2008. Semi-supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of  ACL-08. Columbus, OH, USA. [PDF]

Shane Bergsma and Qin Iris Wang. 2007. Learning Noun Phrase Query Segmentation. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF] [Query Data]

Qin Iris Wang. 2007. Learning Structured Classifiers for Statistical Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007 Doctoral Consortium, pp. 5-8. Rochester, New York, USA. [PDF] [talk slides]

Qin Iris Wang, Dekang Lin and Dale Schuurmans. 2007. Simple Training of Dependency Parsers via Structured Boosting. In Proceedings of  IJCAI-07, pp. 1756-1762. Hyderabad, India. [PDF] [PS] [talk slides]

Qin Iris Wang, Colin Cherry, Dan Lizotte and Dale Schuurmans. 2006. Improved Large Margin Dependency Parsing via Local Constraints and Laplacian Regularization. In Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2006), pp.21-28. New York City, USA.[PDF] [PS] [talk slides]

Qin Iris Wang, Dale Schuurmans and Dekang Lin. 2005. Strictly Lexical Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-2005), pp.152-159. Vancouver, BC, Canada. [PDF] [PS] [talk slides]

Qin Iris Wang and Dale Schuurmans. 2005. Improved Estimation for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'2005), pp. 219-224. Wuhan, China.[PDF] [PS] [talk slides]