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Xia Hu 

MSc Student
Computational Intelligence Group
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Beihang University

P.B.: G1002 Main Building, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, P.R.China
E.B.: huxia001 at gmail dot com
Tel : (86) 13810025409 (Beijing),  (65) 84302595 (Singapore)







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WHO AM I

Welcome to my homepage! I am a Second year MSc student in the School of Computer Science and Engineering of BUAA and my advisor is Prof. Yiming Zhou, Meaningwhile, a research Intern in Lab for Multimedia Search , National University of Singapore, under supervision of Prof. Chua Tat-Seng.
I am looking for PhD position in top research groups.

The writing and pronunciation of my Chinese name are as below:


 


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Web Mining, Information Retrival, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge and Information Management and so on.



EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

  • Sep.2007-present MSc. student, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University.
    Admitted into Graduate Program of BUAA exempted from entrance exam.
    GPA: 3.35(overall), 3.69(major). Rank: top 5%.

  • Sep.2002-Aug.2006 Bachelor of Engineering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University.
    Outstanding graduate paper award.
    GPA: 3.31(overall), 3.52(major). Rank: top 8%.
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • Sep.2008 – present, National University of Singapore, Research Intern
    • Aggregated Contextual Search Project for Singapore Press Holdings. Participated in designing and developing query suggestion module, clustering module of the aggregated search system based on Lucene (ACL'09 demo exhibition).
    • Proposed a novel framework to improve the performance of short texts clustering by exploiting the internal semantics from original text and external concepts from Wikipedia and WordNet (CIKM'09).

  • Dec.2006 – Sep.2008, Computational Intelligence Lab, Research Assistant
    • Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Mass Information Organization, Processing and Transmission (the 973 Project).
    • Participated in the design and development of the demo system using the architecture of FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
    • Proposed an algorithm to measure semantic similarity between two short texts based on shallow parsing (ICMLC'08).

  • Oct.2005 –Aug.2007 Beijing Education Examinations Authority, Developer
    • The Long-Distance Information Management System of Beijing Graduate Admission Council. Participated in developing the specific monitoring module of the Information System.
    • Wheel member of the Council for admission of graduate and undergraduate students in Beijing in 2006 and 2007.

  • May.2005-Oct.2005 Virtual Reality Lab, Research Intern
    • Virtual Olympics Museum (The 863 Project). Participated in modeling of the planes and development of the demo system.
    • Investigated in designing and developing a wireless information management system based on Palm OS, gain the 3rd Prize of FengRu Competition.
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PUBLICATION

Conferences

  • Xia Hu, Nan Sun, Chao Zhang, Chua Tat-Seng. “Exploiting Internal and External Semantics for the Clustering of Short Texts Using World Knowledge”. To appear in the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009). November 2-6, 2009, HongKong, China. (Full oral paper, acceptance rate = 14.5%). Download

  • Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang and Chua Tat-Seng. “Query Segmentation Based on Eigenspace Similarity”. In Proceedings of the Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009). August, 2-7, 2009, Singapore. Short paper. (acceptance rate = 25%). <Download>

  • Lei Shen, Yiming Zhou, Xia Hu, Biyun Hu. “Predicting User Behavior in E-Commerce Based on Psychology Model”. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2009). August, 14-16, 2009, Tianjin, China.

  • Lin Li, Xia Hu, Biyun Hu, Jun Wang and Yiming Zhou. “Measuring Sentence Similarity from Different Aspects”. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2009). July, 2009, Baoding, China.

  • Jun Wang, Yiming Zhou and Xia Hu. “Improving Short Text Clustering Performance with Keyword Expansion”. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009). May, 26-29, 2009, WuHan, China.

  • Lin Li, Xia Hu, Chao Xu and Yiming Zhou. “Related News Discovery From a News Collection”. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008). July, 12-15, 2008, KunMing, China.

Technical Report

  • Xia Hu, Zhongliang Wang. "Service Manage System based on Intelligent Equipment". Technical Report D1506016, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, 2005.

B.Sc. Thesis

  • Xia Hu. "Study of Some High-Speed Clustering Algorithms". B.Sc. Thesis. Beihang University. (in Chinese with English abstract) (Outstanding Thesis Award!).


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