GUO, Yuqing
Postgraduate Research Student

Degree sought: Ph.D.
Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith

Contact Details:
National Center for Language Technology (L2.08)
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)1 700 6913
Email: yuqing.guo@computing.dcu.ie

Research

My Ph.D. research topic is "Automatic treebank-based acquisition of Chinese Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources for parsing and generation", which is part of  a multilingual GramLab project.

Project Reports

• Slides
  • An Introduction to Chinese Treebanks -
  • Automatic f-structure annotation for the Penn Chinese Treebank -
  • An Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammars -
• Documents
  • Chinese LFG definition -
  • 250-sentence gold standard of Chinese f-structures - (utf-8 encoding)

Research Links

• Linguistic Theories
  • Lexical Functional Grammar
  • Combinatory Categorial Grammar
• Treebanks
  • Penn Chinese Treebank
  • Sinica Treebank
• Tools
  • phpSyntaxTree -- a graphical tree view tool
  • XLE -- a parser and grammar development platform for LFG
• Others
  • LaTeX for Linguists -- A guide to LaTex for linguists (Essex)

Publications

• Yuqing Guo, Josef van Genabith and Haifeng Wang, 2008. Dependency-Based N-Gram Models for General Purpose Sentence Realisation. In Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), pages 297-304. Manchester, UK.
• Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith, 2008. Accurate and Robust LFG-Based Generation for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 08), pages 86-94. Ohio, USA.
• Yuqing Guo, Josef van Genabith and Haifeng Wang, 2007. Acquisition of Wide-Coverage, Robust, Probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 12th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG 2007), pages 214-232. California, USA.
• Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith, 2007. Recovering Non-Local Dependencies for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Meeting of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) and the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 257-266, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Ying Zhang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Sen Zhang, Bin Wang, Yuqing Guo and Yanjun Ma. 2007. An Investigation of Question Translation for English-Chinese Cross-Language Question Answering. In Proceedings of 2007 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT 2007), Dublin, Ireland.
• John Judge, Yuqing Guo, Gareth J. F. Jones and Bin Wang, 2005. An Analysis of Question Processing of English and Chinese for the NTCIR 5 Cross-Language Question Answering Task. In Proceedings of the 5th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access (NTCIR-5), pages 545-551. Tokyo, Japan.

• Yuqing Guo and Haifeng Wang, 2004. Chinese-to-English Backward Machine Transliteration. In Companion Volume to Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 04), pages 17-20. Hainan, China.

Software & Demos