Research Interest

Voice search: marriage between speech recognition and information retrieval

Intent understanding: text/spoken query classification and information extraction, click data mining

Machine learning: semi-supervised learning, adaptive learning, Bayesian networks, conditional random fields, kernel methods

Publications

2010

Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, and Xiao Li, Precomputing Search Features for Fast and Accurate Query Classification, in WSDM 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 February 2010

Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, and Jakub Syzmanski, Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web, in The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2009
Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi and Xiao Li, Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries, in ACL, August 2009
Hisami Suzuki, Xiao Li, and Jianfeng Gao, Discovery of Term Variation in Japanese Web Search Queries, in EMNLP, August 2009
Xiao Li, On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields, in EMNLP, August 2009
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields, in SIGIR, July 2009
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, and Kefeng Deng, Smoothing Clickthrough Data for Web Search Ranking, in SIGIR, July 2009
Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, and Dan Bohus, Leveraging Multiple Query Logs to Improve Language Models for Spoken Query Recognition, in ICASSP, IEEE, April 2009
Georg Heigold, Geoffrey Zweig, Xiao Li, and Patrick Nguyen, A FLAT DIRECT MODEL FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION, in ICASSP-2009, IEEE, 2009

Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, and Alex Acero, Inductive and Example-Based Learning for Text Classification, in Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Learning Query Intent from Regularized Click Graphs, in SIGIR'08: the 31st Annual ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Singapore, Singapore, July 2008
Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, and Geoffrey Zweig, Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application, in Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), June 2008
Alex Acero, Neal Bernstein, Rob Chambers, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xiao Li, Julian Odell, Patrick Nguyen, Oliver Scholtz, and Geoff Zweig, Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2008
Xiao Li, Y.-C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, and Alex Acero, Language modeling for voice search: a machine translation approach, in ICASSP, March 2008
G. Zweig, D. Bohus, X. Li, and P. Nguyen, Structured Models for Joint Decoding of Repeated Utterances, in In Proceedings of Interspeech, 2008

Xiao Li, Asela Guanawardana, and Alex Acero, Adapting grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for name recognition, in IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., December 2007
Xiao Li, Regularized Adaptation: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, June 2007
Xiao Li and Jeff Bilmes, A Bayesian Divergence Prior for Classifier Adaptation, in the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, March 2007

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