Facts
I am a PhD student in [Computational Linguistics].[Artificial Intelligence].[DCS@UofT]. My supervisor is Professor Graeme Hirst.
I received a BSc degree in a joint program of cs and maths and an MSc in automatic control theory from [Northeastern University] in Shenyang, China. Adding to my ESL teaching experience, it's not surprising that one day I woke up thinking of putting cs, maths and linguistics together and came to Toronto for study and research in computational linguistics.
In my spare time (if any), I enjoy playing tennis and pool and taking pictures.
Research
My MSc project was on extracting synonyms from dictionary definitions. Here are the courses I've taken or TA-ed in Toronto.
Conferences, Workshops, and Publications
- Wang and Hirst - Extracting Synonyms from Dictionary Definitions, to appear in RANLP09, Borovets, Bulgaria (PDF, Bibtex)
- JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology 2009, Baltimore, MD
- ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, OH