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                                       Wei-Yun Ma

                                    PhD Candidate

           Computer Science at Columbia University

                                New York City, U.S.A.

                             wm2174@columbia.edu

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I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Columbia University.
I work with Prof. Kathy McKeown in the Natural Language Processing Group.
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My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation,
Semantic and Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning.
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My current research topic is "Multi-Engine Machine Translation", focusing on
fusing the outputs of MT systems based on syntactic and semantic analyses of the
source and the target language to produce a new better translation. 
[related papers] [my slides]

Background

I come from Taiwan. I received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at 
Yuan Ze University (YZU), and a Masters degree in Computer Science Information Engineering at 
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), where I focused on how to improve speed for 
continuous speech recognition. I had interned at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) for one year to develop 
speech-command-recognition 8051 chip and had worked in Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group (CKIP)
at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, participating in several Chinese NLP projects for five years.
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Professional Activities

Reviewer: The 2012 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2012)

Publications

Journal Articles

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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2012. Detecting and Correcting Syntactic Errors in Machine Translation Using
Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars. In International Journal of Computational Linguistics 
and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP), Vol 17, No. 4, pp. 1-14. 
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Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, 2005, Design of CKIP Chinese Word Segmentation System,
In International Journal of Asian Language Processing, Vol 14. No. 3.  pp. 235-249.
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Book Chapters

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Kristen Parton, Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown, and James Allan. 2010. Using Query Time Information to Improve Multilingual 
Search and Response Generation. In Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: 
DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation. Joseph Olive (ed.)
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Conference Papers

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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2013. Using a Supertagged Dependency Model to Select a Good Translation 
in System Combination. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT
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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2012. Phrase-level System Combination for Machine Translation Based on
Target-to-Target Decoding. In Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of the 
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), San Diego, CA. [my slides]
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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2012. Detecting and Correcting Syntactic Errors in Machine Translation Using
Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Proceedings of Conference on 
Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING) [my slides]
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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2011. System Combination for Machine Translation Based on Text-to-Text Generation
In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII
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Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen McKeown. 2009. Where's the Verb Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
In Proceedings of  ACL-IJCNLP
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Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, 
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei-Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, 
Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel Yaman. 2009. 
Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task, 
In Proceedings of  ACL-IJCNLP  
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Chu-Ren Huang, Wei-Yun Ma, Yi-Ching Wu, and Chih-Ming Chiu, 2006, Knowledge-Rich Approach to Automatic
Grammatical Information Acquisition:Enriching Chinese Sketch Engine with a Lexical Grammar,
In Proceedings of the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. 
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Wei-Yun Ma and Chu-Ren Huang, 2006, The Identification of Nominalizations in
Mandarin Chinese Using Corpus-based Models (in Chinese), In Proceedings of Conference on 
Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING).
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Wei-Yun Ma and Chu-Ren Huang, 2006, Uniform and Effective Tagging of a Heterogeneous Giga-word Corpus,
In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).
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Keh-Jiann Chen, Wei-Yun Ma, 2002, Unknown Word Extraction for Chinese Documents,
In Proceedings of COLING 2002, pp.169-175.
   
Wei-Yun Ma, Chen Keh-Jiann, 2001, Construction and Management for Chinese Corpus (in Chinese),
In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING), pp.175-191.
   

Workshop Papers

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Jia-Fei Hong, Chu-Ren Huang, and Wei-Yun Ma, 2006, Corpus-based Extraction of Cross-strait
Corresponding Words (in Chinese), In Proceedings of the seventh Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW)

Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, 2003, A Bottom-up Merging Algorithm for Chinese Unknown Word Extraction,
In Proceedings of ACL, Second SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, pp31-38.
   
Wei-Yun Ma and Keh-Jiann Chen, 2003, Introduction to CKIP Chinese Word Segmentation System for 
the First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff, In Proceedings of ACL, Second SIGHAN Workshop
on Chinese Language Processing, pp168-171.