Background and Interests
Xiaodong He is a researcher in the Speech Technology Group of Microsoft Research Redmond. He received the BS degree from Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 1996 and the PhD degree from University of Missouri - Columbia in 2003.
His research interests include machine learning, speech recognition, translation, and understanding, machine translation, natural language processing, and information retrieval. He has authored/coauthored more than 40 papers and one book in these areas. In benchmark evaluations, he and his colleagues developed Chinese-English machine translation entries that obtained No. 1 place in the 2008 NIST MT Evaluation and No. 1 place in the 2011 IWSLT Evaluation, respectively.
He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACL. He is an associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was a Co-Chair of the NIPS 2008 Workshop on Speech and Language and the lead guest editor of the IEEE J-STSP special issue on Speech and Language Processing.
Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
The Special Issue on Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing was published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in December, 2010.
NIPS 2008 Workshop
The NIPS 2008 workshop on Speech and Language: Learning-based Methods and Systems covers a variety of advanced topics in the Speech and Language Processing area. More details can be found at the workshop's homepage NIPS08 WSL(a)
Academic Services
- Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, on Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing
- Co-Chair, NIPS 2008 Workshop on Speech and Language: Learning-Based Methods and Systems, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2008
- Program Committee Member: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, IEEE-ICSC, ISCSLP.
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Computer, Speech Communication, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, ICASSP, Interspeech
Honors and Awards
- ICASSP 2011 Best Student Paper Award received by Yaodong Zhang for the paper co-authored with Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero
- IEEE senior member since 2008
- Gold Star Award from Microsoft, 2005
- Patent awards from Microsoft in 2005-2011
- Technology Transfer Award in 2009
- Member of Sigma Xi since 2002
- Award of student author grant, Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, 2002
- Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Missouri, 2001
- Prizes in the 13rd & 14th "Challenge Cup" Sci & Tech Innovation Competition, Tsinghua University, 1995,1996
Contact
E-mail: xiaohe@microsoft.com
U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052-6399, USA
Tel: (425) 706-4939
Fax: (425) 706-7329 (This is the main MS FAX number so make sure to send documents to Xiaodong He's attention)
2012
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, Maximum Expected BLEU Training of Phrase and Lexicon Translation Models , in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2012
- Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Xiaodong He, Towards Deeper Understanding Deep Convex Networks for Semantic Utterance Classification, IEEE International Confrence on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2012
- Amittai Axelrod, Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Alex Acero, and Mei-Yuh Hwang, New Methods and Evaluation Experiments on Translating TED Talks in the IWSLT Benchmark, IEEE International Confrence on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2012
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, Optimization in Speech-Centric Information Processing: Criteria and techniques, IEEE International Confrence on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2012
2011
- Xiaodong He, Amittai Axelrod, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Alisa Nguyen, Andrew Wang, and Xiahui Huang, THE MSR SYSTEM FOR IWSLT 2011 EVALUATION, in Proceedings of IWSLT 2011, December 2011
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, and Speech Translation – A Unified Discriminative Learning Paradigm, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, September 2011
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, Robust Speech Translation by Domain Adaptation, in Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, August 2011
- Yaodong Zhang, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, and Alex Acero, A Novel Decision Function and the Associated Decision-Feedback Learning for Speech Translation, in ICASSP, IEEE, May 2011
- Xiaodong He, Li Deng, and Alex Acero, Why Word Error Rate is not a Good Metric for Speech Recognizer Training for the Speech Translation Task?, in Proc. ICASSP, IEEE, May 2011
- Amittai Axelrod, Xiaodong He, and Jianfeng Gao, Domain Adaptation via Pseudo In-Domain Data Selection, in EMNLP, ACM, 2011
2010
- Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, and Jian-Yun Nie, Clickthrough-Based Translation Models for Web Search: from Word Models to Phrase Models, in CIKM, 2010
2009
- Xiaodong He and Kristina Toutanova, Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination, in In Proceedings of EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
- Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguyen, and Robert Moore, Improved Monolingual Hypothesis Alignment for Machine Translation System Combination, in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing -- special issue on Machine Translation of Asian Languages, ACM, 2009
- Chi-Ho Li, Xiaodong He, Yupeng Liu, and Ning Xi, Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination, in ACL, 2009
- Yong Zhao and Xiaodong He, Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination, in NAACL-HLT, 2009
2008
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, and Alex Acero, Large-Margin Minimum Classification Error Training: A Theoretical Risk Minimization Perspective, in Computer Speech and Language, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 415-429, Elsevier , October 2008
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION: Theory and Practice, Morgan & Claypool, October 2008
- Xiaodong He, Li Deng, and Chou Wu, Discriminative Learning in Sequential Pattern Recognition --- A Unifying Review for Optimization-Oriented Speech Recognition, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 14-36, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., September 2008
- Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Quirk, Patrick Nguyen, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Kristina Toutanova, Mei Yang, Bill dolan, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Long Jiang, and Ming Zhou, The MSR-MSRA MT System for NIST Open Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation, in The 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop, 2008
- Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Quirk, Patrick Nguyen, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Kristina Toutanova, Mei Yang, Bill dolan, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Long Jiang, Ming Zhou, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang, Necip Fazil Ayan, Dimitra Vergyri, Nicolas Scheffer, and Andreas Stolcke, The MSR-NRC-SRI MT System for NIST Open Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation, in The 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop, 2008
- Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguyen, and Robert Moore, Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems, in EMNLP, 2008
2007
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, Discriminative Learning in Speech Recognition, no. MSR-TR-2007-129, October 2007
- Masaki Itagaki, Takako Aikawa, and Xiaodong He, Automatic Validation of Terminology Translation Consistency with Statistical Method, European Association for Machine Translation, September 2007
- Qiang Fu, Xiaodong He, and Li Deng, Phone-Discriminating Minimum Classification Error (P-MCE) Training for Phonetic Recognition, in Proc. Interspeech, August 2007
- Patrick Nguyen, Milind Mahajan, and Xiaodong He, Training Non-Parametric Features for Statistical Machine Translation , in WMT, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2007
- Xiaodong He, Using Word-Dependent Transition Models in HMM based Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation, in WMT, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2007
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Xiaodong, and Alex Acero, Large-Margin Minimum Classification Error Training for Large-Scale Speech Recognition Tasks, in Proceedings of the ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, IEEE, April 2007
- Xiaodong He and Li Deng, A new look at discriminative learning for hidden Markov models, in Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28, pp. 1285-1294, 2007
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Prior Knowledge Guided Maximum Expected Likelihood based Model Selection and Adaptation for Nonnative Speech Recognition, in Computer Speech and Language, Elsevier, 2007
2006
- X. He, Li Deng, and W. Chou, A Novel Learning Method for Hidden Markov Models in Speech and Audio Processing,, in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 2006
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, and Alex Acero, Use of Incrementally Regulated Discriminative Margins in MCE Training for Speech Recognition, in Proc. of the Interspeech Conference, International Speech Communication Association, September 2006
- Xiaodong He, Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk, Anthony Aue, Simon Corston-Oliver, Jianfeng Gao, and Patrick Nguyen, Microsoft Research Treelet Translation System: NIST MT Evaluation 06, National Institute of Standards and Technology , March 2006
- Xin Lei, Jon Hamaker, and Xiaodong He, Robust Feature Space Adaptation For Telephony Speech Recognition, in InterSpeech , 2006
2004
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Prior knowledge guided MEL based model selection and adaptation for nonnative speech recognition, in ICASSP, 2004
2003
- Xiaodong He and Wu Chou, Minimum Classification Error (MCE) Model Adaptation of Continuous Density HMMs, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, ISCA, 2003
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Fast Model Selection Based Speaker Adaptation for Nonnative Speech, in IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE, 2003
- Wu Chou and Xiaodong He, Maximum a Posteriori Linear Regression (MAPLR) Variance Adaptation for Continuous Density HMMs, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, ISCA, 2003
- Xiaodong He and Wu Chou, Minimum Classification Error Linear Regression for Acoustic Model Adaptation of Continuous Density HMMs, in ICASSP, 2003
- Xiaodong He, Model Selection based Speaker Adaptation and its Application to Nonnative Speech Recognition, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2003
2002
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Fast model adaptation and complexity selection for nonnative English speakers, in ICASSP, IEEE, 2002
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Maximum Expected Likelihood Based Model Selection and Adaptation for Nonnative English Speakers, in ICSLP, 2002
2001
- Xiaodong He and Yunxin Zhao, Model Complexity Optimization for Nonnative English Speakers, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, 2001
2000
- Yunxin Zhao, Xiao Zhang, Xiaodong He, and Laura Schopp, A Combined Adaptive and Decision Tree Based Speech Separation Technique for Telemedicine Applications, in ICSLP, 2000
1999
- Jian Liu, Xiaodong He, Fuyuan Mo, and Tiecheng Yu, Study on Tone Classification of Chinese Continuous Speech in Speech Recognition System, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
- Jianlai Zhou, Xiaodong He, Tiecheng Yu, and Fuyuan Mo, A New Hybrid Structure of Speech Recognizer Based on HMM and Neural Network, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
- Xiaodong He, Jianlai Zhou, Jian Liu, and Tiecheng Yu, A Speaker independent vocabulary extensible Chinese speech recognition system, in International Symposium on Machine Translation and Computer Language Information Processing , 1999
- Xiaodong He, Jian Liu, Jianlai Zhou, and Tiecheng Yu, Research on Speech Units Modeling in Continuous Speech Recognition, in European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
- Xiaodong He, Jian Liu, and Tiecheng Yu, Research on Segmentation and Labeling of Speech Corpora, in International Workshop on East-Asian Language Resource and Evaluation, 1999



