Zhongqiang Huang

Contact:

    Department of Computer Science

    University of Maryland

    3174 A.V. Williams Building

    College Park, MD 20742

    Office: 301.405.2725

    Email: zqhuang at cs dot umd dot edu

Research Interests:

    Machine Learning, Speech & Natural Language Processing, focused on Tagging, Parsing, and Machine Translation.

Publications:

1. •Feature-Rich Log-Linear Lexical Model for PCFG-LA Grammars
   Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
   IJCNLP 2011, Best Paper Award Finalist [paper]
   

1. •Chinese Statistical Parsing
   Mary Harper and Zhongqiang Huang
   Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Joseph Olive, John McCary, and Caitlin Christianson (eds), 2011. [paper]
   

1. •Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Using Latent Syntactic Distributions
   Zhongqiang Huang, Martin Čmejrek, and Bowen Zhou
   EMNLP 2010 [paper] [slides] [bib]
   

1. •Self-training with Products of Latent Variable Grammars
   Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper, and Slav Petrov
   EMNLP 2010 [paper] [slides] [bib]
   

1. •Lessons Learned in Part-of-Speech Tagging Conversational Speech with Prosody
   Vlad Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, and Mary Harper
   EMNLP 2010 [paper] [bib]
   

1. •Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing
   Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
   NAACL 2010 [paper] [bib]
   

1. •Self-Training PCFG Grammars with Latent Annotations Across Languages
   Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
   EMNLP 2009 [paper] [bib]
   

1. •Improving Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training
   Zhongqiang Huang, Vlad Eidelman, and Mary Harper
   NAACL-HLT 2009 [paper] [bib]
   

1. •Mandarin Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking
   Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper, and Wen Wang
   EMNLP 2007 [paper] [bib]
   

1. •Semi-supervised Learning for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Mandarin Transcribed Speech
   Wen Wang, Zhongqiang Huang, and Mary Harper
   ICASSP 2007 [paper]
   

1. •Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech
   Dustin Hillard, Zhongqiang Huang, Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Mari Ostendorf, and Wen Wang
   SLT Workshop 2007 [paper]
   

1. •Using Maximum Entropy (ME) Model to Incorporate Gesture Cues for SU Detection
   Lei Chen, Mary Harper, and Zhongqiang Huang
   ICMI 2006 [paper]
   

1. •An Open Source Prosodic Feature Extraction Tool
   Zhongqiang Huang, Lei Chen, and Mary Harper
   LREC 2006 [paper]
   

1. •A Multimodal Analysis of Floor Control in Meetings
   Lei Chen, Mary Harper, Amy Franklin, Travis Rose, Irene Kimbara, Zhongqiang Huang and Francis Quek
   MLMI 2006 [paper]
   

1. •Speech Activity Detection on Multichannels of Meeting Recordings
   Zhongqiang Huang and Mary Harper
   MLMI 2005 [paper]
   

1. •VACE Multimodal Meeting Corpus
   Lei Chen, Travis Rose, Fey Parrill, Xu Han, Jilin Tu, Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper, Francis Quek, David McNeill, Ronald Tuttle, and Thomas Huang
   MLMI 2005 [paper]