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Donghui Feng, Ph.D.

Google Inc.

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

I am with Google Inc. since Mar. 2012. Before that I was with eBay Inc. on various engineering roles and a research scientist with AT&T

Interactive. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2007, where I worked with

my advisor, Dr. Eduard Hovy, in the Natural Language Technologies Group at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI).

Research Interests
Statistical Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning.
Crowdsourcing for Solving Challenging Business Problems.

Recent Activities
Organizing Co-Chair for NAACL-HLT-2010 Workshop on Semantic Search (SemanticSearch 2010)

Session Chair for the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010)

Program Committee Member for the 23rd International Conference ACM Hypertext and Social Media (HT' 2012)

Program Committee Member for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 2012 conference (NAACL HLT 2012)
Program Committee Member for the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012)
Program Committee Member for the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration (STIIC 2012)

Program Committee Member for the 7th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2012)
Program Committee Member for the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011)

Program Committee Member for the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL HLT 2011)

Publications

Donghui Feng, Sveva Besana, Kirk Boydston, Gwen Christian. 2010. Towards High-Quality Data Extraction via Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the The World's First Conference on the Future of Distributed Work (CrowdConf-2010). San Francisco, Oct., 2010. Poster.

Donghui Feng, James G. Shanahan, Nate Murray, and Remi Zajac. 2010. Learning A Query Parser for Local Web Search. In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-2010). Pittsburg, Sept., 2010.

Donghui Feng. 2010. Bringing Semantics into Search: An Overview of the NAACL-HLT-2010 Workshop on Semantic Search. Article in IEEE SLTC July Newsletter. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2010-07/semantic-search-workshop/.

Donghui Feng, Sveva Besana, and Remi Zajac. 2009. Acquiring High Quality Non-Expert Knowledge from On-demand Workforce. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop: The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources. Singapore. Aug., 2009..

Donghui Feng, Gully Burns, and Eduard Hovy. 2008. Adaptive Information Extraction for Complex Biomedical Tasks. In Proceedings of ACL 2008 the BioNLP Workshop (BioNLP 2008) . Poster Paper.

Donghui Feng, Gully Burns, Jingbo Zhu, and Eduard Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Biomedical Research Articles. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008). Poster Paper.

Donghui Feng. 2007. Factorizing Information Extraction from Text Corpora. Ph.D Dissertation. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California.

Donghui Feng, Gully Burns, and Eduard Hovy. 2007. Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text. In Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007). pp. 837-846. (16.6%, Oral).

Gully Burns, Donghui Feng, Tommy Ingulfsen, and Eduard Hovy. 2007. Information Infrastructure for Text Mining of the Primary Scientific Literature: Principles and Practice. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007).

Gully Burns, Donghui Feng, and Eduard Hovy. 2007. Intelligent Approaches to Mining the Primary Research Literature: Techniques, Systems, and Examples. Book Chapter in Kelemen, A., Abraham, A., and Chen, Y. Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Springer-Verlag, Germany.

Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Grace Chern, and Donghui Feng. 2007. An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Guiding Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions. In Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants.

Jihie Kim, Grace Chern, Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Mining and Assessing Discussions on the Web through Speech Act Analysis. In Proceedings of ISWC'06 Workshop on Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies (WebConMine 2006).

Donghui Feng, Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Towards Modeling Threaded Discussions using Induced Ontology Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006). pp. 1289-1294. (22.1%, Oral).

Donghui Feng, Deepak Ravichandran, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Mining and Re-ranking for Answering Biographical Queries on the Web. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006). pp. 1283-1288. (30.5%).

Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Donghui Feng, Carole Beal, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Modeling and Assessing Student Activities in On-Line Discussions. In Proceedings of the AAAI-2006 Workshop on Educational Data Mining. pp. 67-74.

Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions. In Proceedings of the 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006). (24.1%). pp. 208-215.

Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Answering Student Queries in Threaded Discussions. In Procceddings of the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2006). (23.6%). pp. 171-177.

Donghui Feng and Eduard Hovy. 2005. Handling Biographical Questions with Implicature. In Proceedings of the 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP 2005). (31.6%). pp. 596-603.

Donghui Feng and Eduard Hovy. 2005. MRE: A Study on Evolutionary Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science (NLUCS 2005). pp. 45-54.

Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lv, and Ming Zhou. 2004. A New Approach for English-Chinese Named Entity Alignment. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004). (24.2%). pp. 372-379.

Donghui Feng and Eduard Hovy. 2003. Semantics-Oriented Language Understanding with Automatic Adaptability. In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE 2003). pp. 33-39.

Donghui Feng. 2003. Cooperative Model Based Language Understanding in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2003). Student Research Workshop. pp. 55-60.

Donghui Feng and Cungen Cao. 2002. Application of Knowledge Interface in NKI. In Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications. (in Chinese), Vol 38-17, pp. 115-118.

Donghui Feng. 2001. M.S Thesis, NKI Knowledge Interface: Realizing Dialogue between People and Knowledge. (in Chinese). Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Donghui Feng and Cungen Cao. 2001. Communication between User and Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference for Young Computer Scientist (ICYCS 2001). pp. 1204-1208.

Donghui Feng and Cungen Cao. 2001. A Knowledge Query Language for NKI Users. In Proceedings of the Sixth Chinese Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CJCAI 2001). (in Chinese). pp. 208-213.