Name
Qun Liu
Title
Professor, Dr.
Affiliation
ADAPT Centre (formerly CNGL)
School of Computing
Dublin City University (DCU)
Position
Principal Investigator
Research Theme Leader
NLP Group Leader
Teaching
Project Tutoring
Research Interests
Machine Translation
Natural Language Processing
Research Topics
My research work focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, its theory, technology and application, including:
- Morphological Analysis
- Parsing
- Semantic Processing
- Statistical Language Model
- Machine Translation
- Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction
- Large Scale Linguistic Resource Construction
- Evaluation Technologies for Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation
- Chinese Language Processing
Publications
Please visit the following websites for my publication list and citations at:
Talks
Supervision
- Christopher Hokamp (2013-) (FP7 EXPERT): Investigation of the ideal infrastructure for computer-aided translation: pipeline with NLP tools for pre/post-processing, SMT, EBMT and TM techniques-a hybrid CAT tool
- Liangyou Li (2013-) (FP7 EXPERT): Investigation of how each individual corpusbased translation approach (TM, EBMT and SMT) can benefit from each other
- Jian Zhang (2013-) (CNGL II T&L): Domain Adaptation Based on Multi-Dimensional Quality Estimation, Similarity Metrics, Clustering and Search
- Iacer Galixto (2013-) (CNGL II T&L+S&D): Machine Translation and Cross Language Information Retrieval
- Ali Vahid (2014-) (CNGL II T&L+D&I): Machine Translation and Multi-Modal Interation
- Peyman Passban (2014-) (CNGL II T&L): Syntax and Semantics-Enhanced Machine Learning Based MT
- Longyue Wang (2015-) (ADAPT Theme B): Deep Learning for Machine Translation
- Daria Dzendzik (2016-) (ADAPT Theme A): Answering Questions about Events
I also have students at CAS-ICT. Please visit
my website at CAS-ICT for details.
Professional Services
- Journel/Associate Editor:Machine Translation (2011/12-present), ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP) (2010/6-2011/12), Journal of Chinese Information Processing (2006-present)
- Journal/ReviewerMachine Translation, ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP), Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Journal of Computer Research and Development, ACTA Automata Sinica
- Conference or Workshop/Chair: ACL2013(workshop co-chair), IUCS2011(general chair), MT SUMMIT 2011 (organization co-chair), EMNLP2010(area co-chair), COLING2010(area co-chair), CLP2010(PC co-chair)
- Conference or Workshop/Reviewer: NAACL-HLT2013, ACL2013, EMNLP2013, IJCNLP2013, IALP2013, MTSummit2013, PACLIC2013, RANLP2013, SLSP2013, NAACL-HLT2012, ACL2013, EMNLP-CoNLL2012, COLING2012, AMTA2012
- Organization Duties: ACL SIGHAN (Information Officer of China, 2011/12-2013), Chinese Information Processing Society of China (Executive Council Member, 2012-present)
Experience
- 2012/07-present: Dublin City University
- 2003/11-present: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) (part time), Professor (from 2005)
- 1992/07-present: Institute of Computing Technology(ICT) at Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) (part time from 2012), Researcher, Professor (from 2005)
Education
- 1999/09-2004/05:Studied (on-job) and got Ph.D. degree in the Institute of Computational Linguistics in Peking University
- 1989/09-1992/07: Studied and got M.S. degree in Computer Sciences in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1984/09-1989/07: Studied and got B.S. degree in Computer Sciences in University of Science and Technology of China
Email
qun(dot)liu(at)dcu(dot)ie
Personal Homepage
Post Address
ADAPT Centre
School of Computing
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
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