Welcome

I am a PhD student in Computational Linguistics group in DCS@UofT. My supervisor is Professor Graeme Hirst; Professor Gerald Penn and Professor Suzanne Stevenson are on my supervising committee.

I received MSc from UofT in June 2009 on the topic of extracting synonyms from dictionary definitions. Currently my research interests are in computational models for differentiating near-synonyms and making lexical choice among them. My publications can be found here. I have also been a sub-reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering and CICLing.

Prior to Toronto, I received BSc from a joint program of cs and maths, and MSc in automatic control theory from Northeastern University ^wiki in China. Adding to my ESL teaching experience at Northeastern and New Oriental ^reuters, one day I woke up thinking of putting cs, maths and my interests in languges together and came to Toronto for study and research in computational linguistics.