Chin-Yew Lin

I am a lead researcher and research manager at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft at the end of February 2006, I was a senior research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California (USC/ISI) where I worked in the Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation group since 1997. My research interests are automated summarization, opinion analysis, question answering (QA), computational advertising, community intelligence, machine translation (MT), and machine learning.

Recently, my main focus is developing scalable automatic question answering and distillation system – SQuAD. I also developed automatic evaluation technologies for summarization, QA, and MT. In particular, I created the ROUGE automatic summarization evaluation package. It has become the de facto standard in summarization evaluations. More than 200 research sites worldwide have downloaded this package so far. ROUGE has been chosen as the official automatic evaluation package for Document Understanding Conference since 2004.

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