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I have joined Microsoft Research Asia on Jan 2015 after I received my Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology.

For new information, please visit my new homepage at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/lecu/

Brief Biography

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Machine Intelligence and Translation Laboratory, at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. My advisor is Professor Ming Zhou, who is also the research manager of the Natural Language Computing (NLC) group in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Before that, I received M.S. degree in Computer Science from HIT under the supervision of Professor Ming Zhou and Professor Tiejun Zhao. I received B.S. degree in Computer Science from Honors School of HIT.

From December in 2007 till now, I have been a research intern in the NLC group at MSRA. My research interest is natural language processing (NLP), especially statistical machine translation (SMT).

Honors and Awards

• 2014 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award, reported in Chinese and English

• 2011 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship Award (29/102 in Asian-Pacific Region), reported in Chinese and English

• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Second Prize, 2006

• The 31st ACM/ICPC Asia Programming Contest Shanghai [Team: Corsair, Silver Medal], 2006

• The 31st ACM/ICPC Asia Programming Contest Beijing [Team:Corsair, Bronze Medal], 2006

Publications

2014

• Machine Translation with Real-time Web Search

Lei Cui, Qiming Chen, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

In the Proceedings of 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014, full paper).[pdf]

• Learning Topic Representation for SMT with Neural Networks 

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Qiming Chen, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

In the Proceedings of 52st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014, full paper).[pdf]

• 基于主题模型和统计机器翻译方法的中文格律诗自动生成 (Topic Model and Statistical Machine Translation based Computer Assisted Poetry Generation)

Ruiying Jiang, Lei Cui, Jing He, Ming Zhou, and Zhigeng Pan.

To appear in the Chinese Journal of Computers (计算机学报).

2013

• Bilingual Data Cleaning for SMT using Graph-based Random Walk 

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

In the Proceedings of 51st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013, short paper).[pdf]

• Multi-domain Adaptation for SMT using Multi-task Learning 

Lei Cui, Xilun Chen, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

In the Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013, full paper).[pdf]

• Collective Corpus Weighting and Phrase Scoring for SMT using Graph-based Random Walk 

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

The 2nd Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLP&CC 2013, full paper).[pdf]

2011

• Function Word Generation in Statistical Machine Translation Systems

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.

In the Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII (MT Summit 2011, full paper).[pdf]

2010

• A Joint Rule Selection Model for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation 

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, and Tiejun Zhao. 

In the Proceedings of 48th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010, short paper).[pdf]

• Hybrid Decoding: Decoding with Partial Hypotheses Combination over Multiple SMT Systems

Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, and Tiejun Zhao.

In the Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010, full paper).[pdf]

• DIALOG task: The MSRA Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010 

Chi-Ho Li, Nan Duan, Yinggong Zhao, Shujie Liu, Lei Cui, Mei-yuh Hwang, Amittai Axelrod, Jianfeng Gao, Yaodong Zhang, and Li Deng.

In the Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010). [pdf]

• 关于层次短语翻译模型调序问题的研究 (Research on Reordering Problems of Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Model)

Master Thesis (in Chinese), June 2010.[pdf]

Participated Projects

• Bing Dictionary (Participated in the data mining and machine translation sub-projects)

• Bing Translator (Participated in Chinese-English translation)

Links

• Lei Cui @LinkedIn

• Lei Cui @Google Scholar