Research interests

• Spoken Language Understanding: robust understanding, parsing, semantic modeling
• 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

• Y. Wang and A. Acero. Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. September 2006.
• Y.-C. Ju, Y. Wang and A. Acero. Call Analysis with Classification Using Speech and Non-Speech Features. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. September 2006.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero, M. Mahajan and J. Lee Combining Statistical and Knowledge-based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL. July 2006.
• Y. Wang, J. Lee and A. Acero. Speech Utterance Classification Model Training Without Manual Transcriptions . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. May 2006.
• D. Yu, Y.-C. Ju, Y. Wang and A. Acero. N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. May 2006.
• Y. Wang and A. Acero. Rapid Development of Speech Recognition Grammars. Speech Communication, Vol. 48, No. 3-4. 2006.
• Y. Wang, J. Lee, M. Mahajan and A. Acero. Statistical Spoken Language Understanding: from Generative Model to Conditional Model . In NIPS Workshop: Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing. December 2005.
• Y. Wang, L. Deng, and A. Acero. Spoken Language Understanding --- An Introduction to the Statistical Framework. In IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol 27 No. 5. Sepetmber 2005.
• Y. Wang and Alex Acero. SGStudio: Rapid Semantic Grammar Development for Spoken Language Understanding In Proceedings of the Eurospeech Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. September, 2005.
• Y. Wang and Y-C Ju. Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing.Jeju Island, Korea. October 2004.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero and C. Chelba. Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy? In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition Workshop and Understanding (ASRU) . St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. November 2003.
• Y. Wang and A. Acero. Combination of CFG and N-gram Modeling in Semantic Grammar Learning. In Proceedings of the Eurospeech Conference. Geneva, Switzerland. September 2003.
• L. Deng, Y. Wang, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, J. Droppo, C. Boulis, D. Jacoby, M. Mahajan, C. Chelba, and X.D.Huang (invited). Speech and language processing for multimodal human-computer interaction, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (Special issue on Real-World Speech Processing), 2003.
• L. Deng, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, J. Droppo, C. Boulis, Y. Wang, D. Jacoby, M. Mahajan, C. Chelba, and X.D.Huang. Distributed speech processing in MiPad's multimodal user interface. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, November 2002.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero. Concept Acquisition in Example-Based Grammar Authoring. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hong Kong, China. April, 2003.
• Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan Frey and Leon Wong Combination of Statistical and Rule-Based Approaches for Spoken language Understanding. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. Denver, Colorado. September, 2002.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero. Evaluation of Spoken Language Grammar Learning in the ATIS Domain. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Orlando, Florida. May, 2002.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero. Grammar Learning for Spoken Language Understanding. In Proceedings of ASRU Workshop. Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 2001.
• Y. Wang. Robust Language Understanding in MiPAD. In Proceedings of the Eurospeech Conference. Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.
• Y. Wang, M. Mahajan and X. Huang. A Unified Context-Free Grammar And N-Gram Model for Spoken Language Processing. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Istanbul, Turkey. June, 2000.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, C. Chelba, L. Deng, D. Duchene, J. Goodman, H. Hon, D. Jacoby, L. Jiang, R. Loynd, M. Mahajan, P. Mau, S. Meredith, S. Mughal, S. Neto, M. Plumpe, K. Wang, Y. Wang. MIPAD: A Next Generation PDA Prototype in Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. Beijing, China, Oct, 2000.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, C. Chelba, L. Deng, J. Droppo, D. Duchene, J. Goodman, H. Hon, D. Jacoby, L. Jiang, R. Loynd, M. Mahajan, P. Mau, S. Meredith, S. Mughal, S. Neto, M. Plumpe, K. Stery,. G. Venolia, K. Wang, Y. Wang. MIPAD: A Multimodal Interactive Prototype. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2000.
• Y. Wang. A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the Eurospeech Conference. Budapest, Hungary. September, 1999.
• F. Weng and Y. Wang. Introduction to Computational Linguistics. (in Chinese) China Social Science Press, 1998.
• Y. Wang. Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation. Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. 1998.
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Fast Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. Sydney, Australia. 1998
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Modeling with Structures in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Montreal, Canada. August 1998.
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Connectionist F-Structure Transfer. In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: CILT 136, John Benjamins, 1997.
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Statistical Analysis of Dialogue Structure. In Proceedings of EuroSpeech Conference. Rhodes, Greece. 1997
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Decoding Algorithm in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Madrid, Span. July 1997.
• Y. Wang, J. Lafferty and A. Waibel. Word Clustering with Parallel Spoken Language Corpora. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. October 1996.
• Y. Wang and A. Waibel. Connectionist Transfer in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 1st Rencet Advances in Natural language Processing. Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria. September 1995.
• K. Ries, F. D. Buo and Y. Wang. Improved Language Modeling by Unsupervised Acquisition of Structure. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Detroit, Michigan. May 1995.

Last updated: November 16, 2005

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