Fan Yang

Ph.D. student (Curriculum Vitae   Research Statement)

Center for Spoken Language Understanding
OGI School of Science and Engineering

Oregon Health & Science University

20000 NW Walker Rd, Beaverton, OR 97006

Office: Central Building 141

Email: fly AT cslu DOT ogi DOT edu
Phone: (503)748-1925
Fax: (503)748-1306

Advisor: Prof. Peter A. Heeman

I used to think that working on a PhD is a lot of pleasure, now it turns out to be a lot of pressure :-)

Research Interests:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Dialogue Processing
  • Speech Processing

Education:

M.Eng. in Computer Software and Theory (Jul, 01)

Institute of Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.CHINA.

Master Thesis is Research of Dialog  Processing in Turing Test.

Supervisor: Professor Ruqian LU

 

B.Sc.in Computer Science (Jul,98)

Department of Computer Science, Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sun) University, Guangzhou, P.R.CHINA

Awards:

ISCA Travel Grant to ICSLP Korea 2004

Tools:

DialogueView: a tool we are building for annotating dialogues.

MTD-cardgame: a tool we built for collecting our multi-threaded dialogues. Available on request.

 

Publications:

Fan Yang and Peter A. Heeman: Exploring initiative strategies using computer simulation. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2007.

Fan Yang and Peter A. Heeman: Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts. In Proceedings of NAACL/HLT 2007.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Kristy Hollingshead, and Susan E. Strayer: DialogueView: Annotating dialogues in Multiple Views with Abstraction. Accepted by Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

Siew Leng Toh, Fan Yang, and Peter A. Heeman: An annotation scheme for agreement analysis. In proceedings of Interspeech 2006.

Fan Yang, Junlan Feng, and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio: A Data Driven Approach to Relevancy Recognition for Contextual Question Answering. In proceedings of 2006 HLT/NAACL Workshop on Interactive QA.

Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang, Andrew L. Kun and Alexander Shyrokov: Conventions in Human-Human Multi-threaded Dialogues: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of IUI 2005 (short paper session).

Fan Yang and Peter A. Heeman: Using Computer Simulation to Study Two Models of Mixed-Initiative. In proceedings of 8th ICSLP, Seoul, 2004.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman and Kristy Hollingshead: Towards Understanding Mixed-Initiative in Task-Oriented Dialogues. In proceedings of 8th ICSLP, Seoul, 2004.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman and Susan E. Strayer: Evaluation of "Clean Display" in DialogueView. Technical Report CSLU-04-001, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI School of Science & Engineering, June 2004.

Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang and Susan E. Strayer: Control in Task-Oriented Dialogues. In Proceedings of 8th Eurospeech, 2003.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman and Susan E. Strayer: Acoustically Verifying Speech Repair Annotation. In Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop, pages 97-100, Sweden, 2003.

Susan E Strayer, Peter A Heeman and Fan Yang: Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure.  Book chapter on dialogue by Kluwer, 2002.

Fan Yang, Susan E. Strayer and Peter A. Heeman: ACT: A Graphical Dialogue Annotation Comparison Tool.  In proceedings of 7th ICSLP, Denver, 2002.

Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang and Susan E. Strayer: DialogueView: An Annotation Tool for Dialogue.  In proceedings of 3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Philadelphia, 2002. 

Ruqian Lu, Songmao Zhang, Lengning Liu, Fan Yang, etc: Children Turing Test. Second China-Japan Natural Language Processing, Peking University, China, 30 October-2 November, 2002.  

Fan Yang: A Model of Fuzzy Commonsense Knowledge Base.  Computer Engineering and Applications (CE&A, in Chinese), 37(21): 106-108 (2001) .

Fan Yang: Commonsense about Emotion based Anaphora Analysis.  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Future Software Technology, 347-349. Guiyang, China, 2000.

Fan Yang and Ruqian Lu: The Combination of CBR and Commonsense to Machine Translation.  In Proceedings of Conference on Intelligent Information Procession (IFIP Congress), 268-271, Beijing, China, 2000.