General Information
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I'm a Ph.D. student in Computational Linguistics group at University of Toronto, under the supervision of Professor Graeme Hirst. I finished my M.Sc. program in CL group at UofT as well. Before coming to Canada, I completed my undergraduate in the major of Infomation Security at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.
Education
- 2011-current: Ph.D. at University of Toronto
- 2009-2011: M.Sc. at University of Toronto
- 2005-2009: B.Eng at Shanghai Jiaotong University
Research Interests
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Before my research life in UofT, I was
interested in information visualization regarding textual content. My
undergraduate thesis was about a real-time search result visualization system by clustering similar
documents (the figure to the left is our prototype system). I also worked on opinion mining in e-commerce area during my internship at eBay research lab-China. |
During my Master's program at UofT, I was studying argumentation, and since then, I've been looking at discourse coherence, authorship attribution, and their relevance in detecting Alzheimer's disease. Regarding my Ph.D.'s thesis topic, I'd like to synthesize the problems in these topics, and also other topics of my broad interest in Computational Linguistics.
Courses
- CSC2501 Computational Linguistics
- CSC2221 Introduction to Distributed Computing
- CSC2405 Automata Theory
- CSC2511 Natural Language Computing
- CSC2504 Computer Graphics
- CSC2600 Topics in Computer Science -- Climate Change Information
- CSC2503 Foundations of Computer Vision
- CSC2515 Introduction to Machine Learning
Teaching Assistantship
- 2009 Fall- 2012 Winter: CSC343 Introduction to Databases
Publications
- Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst, 2012. Text-level discourse parsing with rich linguistic features. In Proceedings of the The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2012), Jeju, Korea.[pdf]
- Graeme Hirst and Vanessa Wei Feng, 2012. Changes in Style in Authors with Alzheimer's Disease. English Studies, 93 (3), pp. 357-370. Routledge, UK. [draft pdf]
- Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst, 2012. Extending the Entity-based Coherence Model with Multiple Ranks. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2012), Avignon, France. [pdf]
- Vanessa Wei Feng and Graeme Hirst, 2011. Classifying Arguments by Scheme. In Proceedings of the The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2011), Portland, Oregon. [pdf]
- Vanessa Wei Feng, 2010. Classifying Arguments by Scheme. Master's Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. November. [pdf]
- Shen Huang, Dan Shen, Wei Feng, Yongzheng Zhang, and Catherine Baudin. 2009. Discovering Clues for Review Quality from Author's Behaviors on E-commerce Sites. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 133-141.
- Shen Huang, Dan Shen, Wei Feng, Catherine Baudin, and Yongzheng Zhang. 2009. Improving Product Review Search Experiences on General Search Engines. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 107-116.