Research Interest

2009

• Xiao Li, On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields, in Proceedings of EMNLP, August 2009
• Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi and Xiao Li, Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
• Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, and Kefeng Deng, Smoothing Clickthrough Data for Web Search Ranking, in SIGIR'09, July 2009
• Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields, in SIGIR'09, 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 and Jeff Bilmes, A Bayesian Divergence Prior for Classifier Adaptation, in the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, March 2007

2006

• Xiao Li, Jonathan Malkin, and Jeff Bilmes, A High-speed, Low-Resource ASR Back-end Based on Custom Arithmetic, in IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1683-1693, IEEE, September 2006

2005

• Jeff A. Bilmes, Xiao Li, Jonathan Malkin, Kelley Kilanski, Richard Wright, Katrin Kirchhoff, Amarnag Subramanya, Susumu Harada, James A. Landay, Patricia Dowden, and Howard Chizeck, The Vocal Joystick: A Voice-Based Human-Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments, in Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology, October 2005
• Xiao Li, Jeff Bilmes, and Jon Malkin, Maximum Margin Learning and Adaptation of MLP Classifiers, in Proceedings of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, September 2005
• Xiao Li, Asela Gunawardana, and Alex Acero, Unsupervised semantic intent discovery from call log acoustics, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., August 2005

2004

• Xiao Li, Jonathan Malkin, and Jeff Bilmes, Graphical Model Approach to Pitch Tracking, in the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 2004
• Jonathan Malkin, Xiao Li, and Jeff Bilmes, Custom Arithmetic for High-speed, Low-resource ASR Systems, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2004
• Xiao Li, Jonathan Malkin, and Jeff Bilmes, Codebook Design for ASR Systems Using Custom Arithmetic Units, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2004