Ye-Yi Wang
RESEARCHER
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Research interests
- Query Analysis/Users' Intent Understanding -- query classification, sequential labeling, information extraction.
- Statistical Model Learning with Minimum Labeled Data -- robust model training, automatic data acquisition, semi-supervised learning.
- Knowledge Acquisition from the Web.
- Information Retrieval -- search/ranking of structured data.
- Spoken Language Understanding: robust understanding, parsing, semantic modeling, call routing, voice search.
- Spoken Language Systems: rapid prototyping of speech understanding systems, language learning tools for semantic grammar development.
- Speech Recognition: language modeling, language model adaptation.
- Statistical Machine Translation.
Background
- Ye-Yi Wang joined Microsoft in 1998. He received a Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, a M.S. in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, a M.S. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1988, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Ye-Yi was born in Yangzhou, China. He's married to Xuebo Tang and is the proud father of Susan.
Publications
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
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System, in Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bonn, Germany, 15 September 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
- Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Voice Search of Structured Media Data, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electornic Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 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
- Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, An Introduction to Voice Search, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 2008
- Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, An integrative and discriminative technique for spoken utterance classification, in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1207-1214, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2008
2007
- Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, and Alex Acero, Automated Directory Assistance System - from Theory to Practice, in Proc. of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007
- Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, A Discriminative Training Framework using N-Best Speech Recognition Transcriptions and Scores for Spoken Utterance Classification, in Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., April 2007
- Ye-Yi Wang, Voice search - Information access via voice queries (Invited Talk), in IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Kyoto, Japan, 2007
- Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yu-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, and Alex Acero, Confidence Measures for Voice Search Applications, in 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007
- Geoffrey Zweig, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings, in NAACL/HLT (Demonstration Program), Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, New York, USA, 2007
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Maximum Entropy Model Parameterization with Tf-Idf Weighted Vector Space Model, in IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Kyoto, Japan, 2007
- Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings, in INTERSPEECH, International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007
2006
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding., in the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Rapid development of spoken language understanding grammars, in Speech Communication, vol. 48, no. 3-4, pp. 390-416, Elsevier , 2006
- Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, and Alex Acero, Speech Utterance Classification Model Training without Manual Transcriptions, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Roulouse, France, 2006
- Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Toulouse, France, 2006
- Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Call Analysis with Classification Using Speech and Non-Speech Features, in the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006
- Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Milind Mahajan, and Alex Acero, Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models, in COLING/ACL06, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, Australia, 2006
2005
- Ye-Yi Wang, Li Deng, and Alex Acero, Spoken Language Understanding — An Introduction to the Statistical Framework, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 16-31, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2005
- Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Milind Mahajan, and Alex Acero, Statistical Spoken Language Understanding: from Generative Model to Conditional Model, in NIPS Workshop: Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2005
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, SGStudio: Rapid Semantic Grammar Development for Spoken Language Understanding, in 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, International Speech Communication Association, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
2004
- Li Deng, Ye-Yi Wang, Kuansan Wang, Alex Acero, Hsiao Hon, Jasha Droppo, C. Boulis, Derek Jacoby, Milind Mahajan, Ciprian Chelba, and Xuedong Huang, Speech and language processing for multimodal human-computer interaction (Invited Article) , in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (Special issue on Real-World Speech Processing), vol. 36, no. 2-3, pp. 161 - 187, Kluwer Academic , 2004
- Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang, and Kuansan Wang, A Semantically Structured Language Model, in Special Workshop in Maui, Maui, Hawaii, 2004
- Kuansan Wang, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Use and Acquisition of Semantic Language Model, in NAACL/HLT (Short Paper), Association for Computational Linguistics, Boston, MA, 2004
- Ye-Yi Wang and Yun-Cheng Ju, Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts, in International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Jeju, Korea, 2004
2003
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy, in IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 2003
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Concept Acquisition in Example-Based Grammar Authoring, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Hong Kong, China, 2003
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Combination of CFG and N-gram Modeling in Semantic Grammar Learning, in Eurospeech 2003, International Speech Communication Association, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003
2002
- Li Deng, Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang, Kuansan Wang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Jasha Droppo, Milind Mahajan, and XD Huang, A speech-centric perspective for human-computer interface, in Proc. of the IEEE Fifth Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., December 2002
- Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan Frey, and Leon Wong, Combination of Statistical and Rule-Based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding., in International Conference on Spoken Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Denver, Colorado, 2002
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Evaluation of Spoken Language Grammar Learning in ATIS Domain, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Orlando, Florida, 2002
- Li Deng, Kuansan Wang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Jasha Droppo, Constantinos Boulis, Ye-Yi Wang, Derek Jacoby, Milind Mahajan, Ciprian Chelba, and Xuedong D. Huang, Distributed Speech Processing in MiPad’s Multimodal User Interface, in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 605-619, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2002
2001
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Grammar Learning for Spoken Language Understanding, in IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 2001
- Ye-Yi Wang, Robust Spoken Language Understanding in MiPad, in Eurospeech, International Speech Communication Association, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001
- Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, C. Chelba, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, D. Duchene, J. Goodman, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, D. Jacoby, L. Jiang, R. Loynd, Milind Mahajan, P. Mau, S. Meredith, S. Mughal, S. Neto, M. Plumpe, K. Stery, G. Venolia, Kuansan Wang, and Ye-Yi Wang, MIPAD: A Multimodal Interactive Prototype, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2001
2000
- Ye-Yi Wang, Milind Mahajan, and Xuedong Huang, A unified context-free grammar and n-gram model for spoken language processing, in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., June 2000
- Ye-Yi Wang, Milind Mahajan, and Xudong Huang, A Unified Context-Free Grammar And N-Gram Model For Spoken Language Processing, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Istanbul, Turkey, 2000
- Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Li Deng, Doug Duchene, Joshua Goodman, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Derek Jacoby, Li Jiang, Ricky Loynd, Milind Mahajan, Peter Mau, Scott Meredith, Salman Mughal, Salvado Neto, Mike Plumpe, Kuansan Wang, and Ye-Yi Wang, MiPad: A Next Generation PDA Prototype, in International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Beijing, China, 2000
1999
- Ye-Yi Wang, A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding, in Eurospeech, International Speech Communication Association, Budapest, Hungary, 1999
1998
- Ye-Yi Wang, Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation, 1998
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Fast Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation, in International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Sydney, Australia, 1998
- Fuliang Weng and Ye-Yi Wang, Introduction to Computational Linguistics, China Social Science Press, 1998
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Modeling with Structures in Statistical Machine Translation, in COLING/ACL98, Association for Computational Linguistics, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 1998
1997
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Decoding Algorithm in Statistical Machine Translation, in the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain, 1997
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Connectionist F-Structure Transfer, in Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: CILT 136, John Benjamins, 1997
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Statistical Analysis of Dialogue Structure, in 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, International Speech Communication Association, Rhodes, Greece, 1997
1996
- Ye-Yi Wang, John Lafferty, and Alex Waibel, Word clustering with parallel spoken language corpora, in Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1996
1995
- Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel, Connectionist Transfer in Machine Translation, in Rencet Advances in Natural language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 1995
- Klaus Ries, Finn Dag Buo, and Ye-Yi Wang, Improved language modelling by unsupervised acquisition of structure, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Detroit, MI, USA, 1995
Contact
E-mail: Ye-Yi Wang
U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052, USA
Tel: (425) 706-6967
Fax: (425) 936-7329 (This is the main MS FAX number so make sure to send documents to my attention)
This webpage was updated on December 10, 2008



