Research Interest

2011

• Jingjing Liu, Xiao Li, Alex Acero, and Ye-Yi Wang, Lexicon Modeling for Query Understanding, in ICASSP, IEEE, May 2011

2010

• Xiao Li, Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries, in ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2010
• Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Dou Shen, and Alex Acero, Learning with Click Graph for Query Intent Classification, in ACM Transaction on Information Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2010
• Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Xiao Li, and Yi-Chin Tu, Automatic Extraction of Clickable Structured Web Contents for Name Entity Queries, in WWW 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 26 April 2010
• Jui-Ting Huang, Xiao Li, and Alex Acero, Discriminative Training Methods for Language Models Using Conditional Entropy Criteria, in ICASSP, IEEE, March 2010
• Wei Wu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xiao Li, and Ye-Yi Wang, Paraphrase Detection on SMS Messages in Automobiles, in ICASSP, IEEE, March 2010
• Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, and Xiao Li, Precomputing Search Features for Fast and Accurate Query Classification, in Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 February 2010

2009

• 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
• Hisami Suzuki, Xiao Li, and Jianfeng Gao, Discovery of Term Variation in Japanese Web Search Queries, in Proceedings of EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
• Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi and Xiao Li, Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries, in ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
• Xiao Li, On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields, in EMNLP, August 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, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields, 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

2008

• 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

2007

• 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