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School of Computer Science and Technology

Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Email: chenwenliang (at) gmail or wlchen (at) suda.edu.cn

Wenliang joined Soochow University since 2013. Prior to joining Soochow University, he was a research scientist in the Institute for Infocomm Research of Singapore from 2011 to 2013. From 2005 to 2010, he worked as an expert researcher in NICT, Japan.

Before that, he was a student at NLPLab of Northeastern University, China since July, 1999. He received Master degree in Computational Linguistics in Mar. 2002 and received PhD degree in Computational Linguistics in Mar. 2005. The PhD thesis advisers were Prof. Yao Tianshun and Zhu Jingbo.

His current research interests include knowledge graph, information extraction, machine translation, and machine learning.

Participation in Benchmarking Evaluations

• 2009

Top 1 @the shared task (Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages) of CoNLL (2009) with Dr. Hai Zhao. Our submissions achieved: the first in the semantic-only track out of all 20 submitted systems and the second in the syntactic-semantic joint track out of 13 submitted systems for the average score of all seven languages.

• 2008

Top 1 @ English-Chinese cross-lingua task in the CCLQA track of NTCIR-7 (2008) with Dr. Youzheng Wu. Our submissions ranked top 1 @ English-Chinese cross-lingua task, and top 2 @ Chinese-Chinese monolingual task.

• 2006

Top 1 @CityU and LDC data sets in the NER task of SIGHAN Bakeoff (2006). Our submissions ranked top 1 @CityU (out of 13 systems), top 1 @LDC (out of 2 systems), and top 4 @ MSRA (out of 14 systems) on close track. Our report is here.

• 2003

2nd Place @The text categorization task of National 863 evaluation of China (2003). Our submission achieved the 2nd place.

Software/Data

• NYT-H: to release

• IPRE: a Dataset for Inter-Personal Relationship Extraction

  • • Available at https://github.com/SUDA-HLT/IPRE

• • Haitao Wang, Zhengqiu He, Jin Ma, Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang. 2019. IPRE: a Dataset for Inter-Personal Relationship Extraction. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12801

• DuDuPlus: A dependency parser for Chinese and English in C++. Available at http://code.google.com/p/duduplus/ and Github.

• • Achieve the best reported results for Chinese on CTB4/5

  • Achieve the state-of-the-art performance for English on PTB

• ChunkLinkCTB

  • • A tool for extracting Chinese chunks from Penn Chinese Treebank (Chen et. al 2006, ACL-poster). It is available at Github.

Publication List: ([J] Journal article; * Corresponding Author in Articles)

Book

• Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang. 2015. Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing, Book (144 pages), Springer-Verlag, 2015 [http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789812875518]

New Papers

• • Zhengqiu HE, Wenliang CHEN, Yuyi WANG, Wei ZHANG, Guanchun WANG, Min ZHANG. Improving Neural Relation Extraction with Positive and Unlabeled Learning. Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020), New York, 7-12 Feb. 2020 [http://hlt.suda.edu.cn/images/6/6a/AAAI-HeZ.3868.pdf pdf]

Journal articles

• Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang, Xiangyu Duan. Exploiting Meta Features for Dependency Parsing and Part-of-speech Tagging. Artificial Intelligence Journal, 230(2016):173-191, January 2016[J]

• Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang*, Yue Zhang. Distributed Feature Representations for Dependency Parsing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 23(3):451-460, 2015[J]

• Min ZHANG, Xiangyu Duan, Wenliang CHEN. Bayesian Constituent Context Model for Grammar Induction. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 22(2):531-541, 2014[J]

• Zhenghua LI, Min ZHANG, Wanxiang CHE, Ting LIU, Wenliang CHEN. Joint Optimization for Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 22(1):274-286, 2014[J]

• Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen*, Xiangyu Duan, and Rong Zhang. Improving Graph-based Dependency Parsing Models with Dependency Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE-TASL), Vol.21, No.11, pp2313-2323 November 2013.

• Wenliang Chen*, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Kentaro Torisawa. Exploiting Subtrees in Auto-Parsed Data to Improve Dependency Parsing, Computational Intelligence Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp426-451, Auguest 2012.[J] Available at (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00451.x or http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coin.2012.28.issue-3/issuetoc) (Tool: DuDuPlus)[Draft]

  • Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Min Zhang*, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yujie Zhang, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Haizhou Li.Bitext Dependency Parsing with Auto-generated Bilingual Treebanks, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE-TASL), Vol.20, No. 5, pp1461-1472, July 2012.[J] Available at (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2011.2180898)[Draft]

  • Wenliang Chen*, Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara. Using Short Dependency Relations from Auto-Parsed Data for Chinese Dependency Parsing, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Vol.8, No. 3, Article 10, August 2009. [J]

Conference/Workshop papers

2019

• Zhengqiu He, Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Wei Zhang, Hao Shao, Min Zhang. 2019. Syntax-aware Entity Representations for Neural Relation Extraction. Artificial Intelligence Journal.275(2019):602-617, October 2019.online version

2018

• Yaosheng Yang, Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Zhengqiu He and Min Zhang. Distantly Supervised NER with Partial Annotation Learning and Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of COLING2018, pp.2159–2169, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20-26, 2018[C] Code PDF

• YaoSheng Yang, Meishan Zhang, Wenliang Chen*, Haofen Wang, Wei Zhang, Min Zhang. Adversarial Learning for Chinese NER from Crowd Annotations, Proceedings of AAAI-2018, pp1627-1634, New Orleans, USA,Feb 2018[C] PDF

• Zhengqiu He, Wenliang Chen*, Zhenghua Li, Meishan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Min Zhang. SEE: Syntax-aware Entity Embedding for Neural Relation Extraction, Proceedings of AAAI-2018, pp5795-5802, New Orleans, USA,Feb 2018[C] PDF

• Qi Lu, YaoSheng Yang, Zhenghua Li, Wenliang Chen and Min Zhang. M-CNER: A Corpus for Chinese Named Entity Recognition in Multi-Domains, Proceedings of LREC-2018, pp4458-4461, Japan, May 2018 PDF

2017

• Wenliang Chen, Muhua Zhu, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang, Jingbo Zhu. Improving Shift-Reduce Phrase-Structure Parsing with Constituent Boundary Information. Computational Intelligence Journal, 33(3):428-447, August 2017[J]

• Zhenghua Li, Jiayuan Chao, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen, Meishan Zhang, Guohong Fu. 2016. Coupled POS Tagging on Heterogeneous Annotations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE/ACM-TASL [J]). 2017. 25(3), pp. 557-571.PDF

2016

• • Wenliang Chen, Zhenjie Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang. Distributed Representations for Building Profiles of Users and Items from Text Reviews. Coling-2016, pp2143-2153, Osaka, 11-17 Dec. 2016

  • Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang, Zhanyi Liu, Wenliang Chen, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang. 2016.Active Learning for Dependency Parsing with Partial Annotation. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2016), pp. 344-354. Berlin, 7-12 Aug. 2016

2015

• • Zhenghua Li, Jiayuan Chao, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen. 2015. Coupled Sequence Labeling on Heterogeneous Annotations: POS Tagging as a Case Study. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2015), pp1783-1792, Beijing, 26-31 July 2015

2014

• • Wenliang Chen, Yue Zhang, Min Zhang*. Feature Embedding for Dependency Parsing. In Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2014), pp816-826, Dublin, Ireland, August 2014

  • Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen. Soft Cross-lingual Syntax Projection for Dependency Parsing. In Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2014), pp783-793, Dublin, Ireland, August 2014

  • Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen. Ambiguity-aware Ensemble Training for Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing. In Proc. of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2014), pp457-467, Baltimore, June 2014

2013

• Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang. Semi-Supervised Feature Transformation for Dependency Parsing. In Proc. of EMNLP2013, pp1303-1313, Seattle, Washington, USA, 18-21 October 2013.

• Muhua Zhu, Yue Zhang, Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang, and Jingbo Zhu. Fast and Accurate Constituent Parsing. In Proc. of ACL2013, pp 434-443, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.

• Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen. Smoothing for Bracketing Induction. In Proc. of IJCAI2013, pp 2085-2091, Beijing, China, August 2013.

2012

• Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang, and Haizhou Li. Utilizing Dependency Language Models for Graph-based Dependency Parsing Models, The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL2012), pp 213-222, Jeju, Korea, July 8-14, 2012. (pdf) (bib)

2011

• Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Min Zhang, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yujie Zhang, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Haizhou Li. SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP2011), pp73-83, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 27-31, 2011. (pdf)

• Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Wenliang Chen and Haizhou Li. Joint Models for Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP2011), pp1180-1191, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 27-31, 2011. (pdf)

• Yiou Wang, Jun'ichi Kazama, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Kentaro Torisawa. Improving Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging with Semi-supervised Methods Using Large Auto-Analyzed Data, The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), pp309-317, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November, 2011.

2010

• Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Kentaro Torisawa. Improving Graph-based Dependency Parsing with Decision History, The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2010) (poster), pp126-134, Beijing, China, Auguest 23-27, 2010. (pdf)

• Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, and Kentaro Torisawa. Bitext Dependency Parsing with Bilingual Subtree Constraints, The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL2010), pp21-29, Uppsala, Sweden, July 11–16, 2010. (pdf)

2009

• Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Kentaro Torisawa. Improving Dependency Parsing with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Data, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP2009), pp570-579, Singapore, August 2-7, 2009. (pdf) (Tool: DuDuPlus)

• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen and Chunyu Kit. Semantic Dependency Parsing of NomBank and PropBank: An Efficient Integrated Approach via a Large-scale Feature Selection, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP2009), pp30-39, Singapore, August 2-7, 2009. (pdf)

• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Kentaro Torisawa. Multilingual Dependency Learning: Exploiting Rich Features for Tagging Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies, Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL2009) (Shared task Session), pp61-66, Boulder, CO, USA, June 4-5, 2009. (pdf)

• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit, and Guodong Zhou. Multilingual Dependency Learning: A Huge Feature Engineering Method to Semantic Dependency Parsing, Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL2009) (Shared task Session), pp55-60, Boulder, CO, USA, June 4-5, 2009. (pdf)

2008

• Wenliang Chen, Youzheng Wu, and Hitoshi Isahara. Learning Reliable Information for Dependency Parsing Adaptation, The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling2008), pp133-120, Manchester, UK, August 18-22, 2008. (pdf)

• Wenliang Chen, Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. Dependency Parsing with Short Dependency Relations in Unlabeled Data, The third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2008), pp. 88-94, Hyderabad, India, January 7-12, 2008. (pdf)

• Youzheng WU, Wenliang Chen, Hideki Kashioka. NiCT/ATR at NTCIR-7: Answering Complex Cross-lingual Question Answering. NTCIR-7, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 16-19, 2008.

2007

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. A Two-stage Parser for Multilingual Dependency Parsing, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL2007) (Shared task Session), pp. 1129-1133, Prague, June 28-30, 2007.(pdf)

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. Improving Chinese chunking by Using a Large Scale Corpus, Japan-NLP2007, Ryukoku University, Japan, pp. 163-166, Mar. 2007.

2006

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. Chinese Chunking with Tri-training Learning, The 21st International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL2006), LNCS, Vol. 4285, Springer, pp. 466-473, Singapore, Dec. 2006. (pdf).

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Conditional Random Fields, The Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN 2006) (Bakeoff Session), Sydney, Australia, pp.118-121, Jul. 2006 (pdf).

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking, The joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling-ACL2006) (Poster Session), Sydney, Australia, pp. 97-104, Jul. 2006 (pdf) (Tool:ChunkLinkCTB)

• Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang and Hitoshi Isahara. Chinese Chunking based on Conditional Random Fields, Japan-NLP2006, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 149-152, Mar. 2006.

• Yujie Zhang, Qun Liu, Qing Ma, Wenliang Chen, Hitoshi Isahara. Acquiring Translational Equivalence from a Japanese-Chinese Parallel Corpus, The 21st International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL2006), LNCS, Vol. 4285, Springer, pp. 378-386, Singapore, Dec. 2006.

2005

• Zhu Jingbo, Ye Na, Chang Xinzhi, Chen Wenliang, Benjamin K Tsou. Using Multiple Discriminant Analysis Approach for Linear Text Segmentation, The Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP05), Jeju Island, Korean, Oct. 2005

• Zhu Jingbo, Chen Wenliang. Some Studies on Chinese Domain Knowledge Dictionary and Its Application to Text Classification, The Forth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN2005), Jeju Island, Korean, Oct. 2005

2004

• Chen Wenliang, Chang Xingzhi, Wang Huizhen, Zhu Jingbo, and Yao Tianshun. Automatic Word Clustering for Text Categorization Using Global Information. The First Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2004), LNCS, Vol. 3411, Springer-Verlag, pp.1-11, 2004. (pdf)

• Chen Wenliang, Zhu Jingbo, Wu Honglin, Yao Tianshun. Automatic Learning Features Using Bootstrapping for Text Categorization. A. Gelbukh (Ed.) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing2004). LNCS, Vol. 2945, Springer-Verlag, pp.571-579, 2004 (pdf)

~2003

• Chen Wenliang, Zhu Jingbo, Yao Tianshun. Automatic Learning Field Words by Bootstrapping (In Chinese). JSCL2003, Harbin, pp.67-72, 2003.8.

• Chen Wenliang, Zhu Jingbo, Yao Tianshun. Acquisition and Optimization of Rules for Part of Speech (In Chinese). SWCL02, Beijing, 2002.8.

Tutorial/Talks

• Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang. Tutorial @ COLING2014: Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future. In COLING2014. Dublin, Ireland, 2014

• Zhenghua Li, Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang. Tutorial @ IJCNLP2013: Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future. In IJCNLP2013. Nagoya, Japan, 2013

Research Related Activities

• • Conferences (Chairs)

    • IJCNLP-2017 Area-Chair; CCKS-2017 Area-Chair

    • IALP-2015 PC Co-Chair

  • Conferences (PC member/Reviewer)

    • ...

    • NAACL-2014, ACL-2014

    • IJCAI-2013, ACL-2013, IJCNLP-2013

    • EACL-2012, NAACL-2012, CoLING-2012

    • IJCNLP-2011, CLIA-2011

    • EMNLP-2010, CoLING-2010, ACL-2010, IUCS-2008, ICCPOL-2006, ...

  • Journals (Reviewer)

    • Neurocomputing (2013-)

    • IEEE Intelligent Systems(2012-)

    • Natural Language Engineering (2011-)

    • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (2010-)

    • Computational Intelligence (2010-)

    • IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems: Reviewer (2008-)

    • Journal of Computer Science and Technology: Reviewer (2009-)

    • Chinese Journal of Computers: Reviewer (2008-)

...Last updated date: Dev. 2019, by Chen Wenliang