Bo Wang
Basic Information:
Bo Wang is an Assistant Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, Web Intelligence(WIT) group. He joined MSR Asia in July of 2008.
Eduation:
- Bo received M.S. degree in computer software and theory at Peking University in 2008.07, his research directions are natural language processing and machine learning.
- He got B.E. degree in information and computing science at Beijing Jiaotong University in 2005.07.
Interests:
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Online Advertisements, Pattern Recognition
Career Path:
- 2009.06~present, Assistant Researcher at MSR Asia, Web Intelligence(WIT) Group.
- 2008.07~2009.06, Assistant Researcher at MSR Asia, Natural Language Computing(NLC) Group.
- 2008.03~2008.05, Research Intern at MSR Asia, Search Technology Center(STC).
- 2007.07~2007.09, Extreme Blue Internship at IBM Research Lab.
- 2006.06~2006.11, Research Intern at MSR Asia, Incubation Group.
- 2005.06~2006.06, R&D Intern at Baidu company.
Projects:
- WIT.TY (Web Intelligence To You, 2009.06 to present, MSRA), aims to provide a smart UI, seamless integration of search, browsing, advertisement and social experience. (demo)
- AdTrail(2008.12 to present, MSRA), provides an intelligent UI to visulize users' search, browse, and advertisement behavior and predict users' intent based on history information.(demo)
- AdTextQualityRater(2008.12 to 2009.06, MSRA), automatically detects those ad texts with intrinsic errors such as grammar error, punctuation error, misspelling issue, semantic awarkardness. (demo)
- SQUAD(Social Question Understanding and Distillation, 2008.07~12, MSRA), question detection and answer finding module.
- Query Clustering(2008.03~2008.05, MSRA), partitions queries into groups to improve query-specific ranking.
- Virtual 3D Browser(2007.07~2007.09, IBM), develops a 3D internet browser used at Virtual Support Center.
- Prototype Search of Baidu Space(2006.04~2006.06, Baidu), developes the back-end search prototype of Baidu Space, which was the core parts of current Baidu Space Search. (product link)
- In-Forum Search(2005.11~2006.04, Baidu), advances search functionality of Baidu Forum. (product link)
- AC (Automatic Classification, 2005.06~2005.10, Baidu) of Baidu Zhidao, classifies short questions into top3 relevant categories.(product link)
- SimTerm(2006.04~2006.06, Baidu), mine similar terms for Baidu Wikipedia. (product link)
- Research projects at ICL, PKU: Chinese multiword name entity recognition, subjective orientation identification, data mining of custmer reviews, word clustering, document clustering, Chinese abbreviation identification and recovery and so on.
Publications:
- Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang: A Cross-Inducing Method for Bootstrapping Product Features and Opinion Words. In Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), India. (pdf)
- Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang: Bootstrapping both Product Features and Opinion Words from Chinese Customer Reviews with Cross-Training. In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Silicon Valley, USA. (pdf)
- Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang: Mining Opinion Words from Chinese Customer Reviews. ICCC 2007, Wuhan,China.
- Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang: A Comparative Study on Chinese Word Clustering. ICCPOL 2006, Singapore.(pdf)
- Xu Sun, Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang: Automatic Abbreviation Identification: Direct Pattern Recognition Using Word Clustering on Journal of Computer Science and Technology. (pdf)
- Wang HF, Wang B. A Computational Model for Chinese Syntactic Structure Induction based on Sentence Alignment. Journal of Software, 2007,18(3):538-546.(pdf)
- 王波，王厚峰: 基于自学习策略的产品特征自动识别. 第九届全国计算语言学联合会议(JSCL2007), 大连。
Contact Information:
Microsoft Research Asia, 5F, Sigma Center No. 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian Distinct
Beijing, China 100190
Email: bowang@microsoft.com MSN: daxingqiao@163.com
Live Space: http://daxingqiao3wai.spaces.live.com
Tel: +86-10-58965961
