Research
Summary
My research interests include machine learning, information retrieval and natural language processing. I'm just finding my way...
Experience
- Apr 2007 - , assistant researcher at Sogou, R & D center of Sohu, Inc.
- Jul 2006 - Dec 2006, intern researcher at Service Asset Technology Group, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Oct 2005 - Mar 2006, intern researcher at Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Patents
- Yabin Zheng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Liyun Ru, Yang Zhang, A Method to Identify New Words(in Chinese), 200910083143.2, pending
- Yang Zhang, A Personalized Error Correction System Used in IME(in Chinese), 200810222203.X, pending
- Yang Zhang, Jian Wang, An IME System w/ Instant Messaging Functionality(in Chinese), 200810113057.7, pending
- Yang Zhang, Jian Wang, A Method to Publish Information(in Chinese), 200810105936.5, pending
- Yang Zhang, Qi Guo, A Method to Extract Oral Words w/ an IME System(in Chinese), 200710121247.9, pending
Publications
- Yabin Zheng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Liyun Ru, Yang Zhang. Incorporating User Behaviors in New Word Detection. Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI'09) Acceptance = 25.7% (331 of 1,290)
- A Discriminative Reranking Approach to Spelling Correction (in Chinese). In Journal of Software, 2008,19(3):557-564. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1001.2008.00557 China. Yang Zhang, Pilian He, Wei Xiang, Mu Li.
- Discriminative Reranking for Spelling Correction. In Proceedings of the 20th Paclic Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2006), pages 64-71. Yang Zhang, Pilian He, Wei Xiang, Mu Li.
- Exploring Distributional Similarity-Based Models for Query Spelling Correction. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2006), pages 1025–1032. Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou.
- Dilimma in Fingerprinting, Mathematics Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2004, Yang Zhang, Yin Xiao, Yang Gao.
- Chaotic Model in SARS Propagation, Chinese Undergraduate Mathematics Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2003, Yang Zhang, Yin Xiao, Yang Gao.