Research Interests

• Machine Learning: adaptive learning, kernel methods, graphical models
• Speech Recognition: language modeling, pronunciation modeling, voice search
• Information Retrieval: spoken/textual query language modeling, query intent understanding, implicit user feedback
• Human Computer Interaction: voice-based assistive/access technologies

Background

Xiao Li joined Microsoft in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2007.

Recent Publications

• Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, "Learning Query Intent from Regularized Click Graphs," In Proc. of SIGIR'08, July 2008
• Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, "Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application," Proc. of SIGDIAL'08, June, 2008
• Xiao Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig and Alex Acero, "Language Modeling for Voice Search: a Machine Translation Approach," In Proc. of ICASSP, Las Vegas, March 2008.
• Alex Acero, Neal Bernstein, Rob Chambers, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xiao Li, Julian Odell, Patrick Nguyen, Oliver Scholz, Geoffrey Zweig, "Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone," In Proc. of ICASSP, Las Vegas, March 2008.
• Xiao Li, Asela Gunawardana and Alex Acero, "Adapting Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Name Recognition," In Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Kyoto, Dec 2007.
• Xiao Li, and Jeff Bilmes, "A Bayesian Divergence Prior for Classifier Adaptation," In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2007.
• Xiao Li, "Regularized Adaptation: Theory, Algorithms and Applications," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2007.

Prior 2007 publications

E-mail: xiaol (AT) microsoft (DOT) com
U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Tel: (425) 706-4768
Fax: (425) 936-7329 (ATTN: Xiao Li)