Mengqiu Wang (王孟秋)

email address: my first name@cs.stanford.edu

I defended my PhD thesis in Winter 2013 at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University.
My advisor is Prof. Chris Manning, and I work in the NLP Lab at Stanford.
Other members of my dissertation committee are Dan Jurafsky, Percy Liang, John DeNero, and Lester Mackey.
Prior to Stanford, I was a CS master's student at Carnegie Mellon University,
working with Teruko Mitamura and Noah Smith on Open-Domain Question Answering.
You can find my resume here.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science	Stanford University	2007-2014 (on leave: 2008-09, 2010-11)
M.S. in Computer Science	Carnegie Mellon University	2005-2007
Exchange student	University of Texas at Austin	2003-2004
B.S. in Computer Science	University of Otago	2001-2004
B.App.S. in Telecom (1st class honours)	University of Otago	2001-2005

Work Experience

Fellow	XSeed Capital	2013.2-2014.3
Software Engineer	Twitter Inc.	2010.6-2012.1
Data Scientist	Alibaba Cloud Computing	2009.5-2009.12
Data Scientist Intern	Facebook Inc.	2008.6-2008.9

Publications

2014

• new Mengqiu Wang, Rob Voigt and Chris Manning Two Knives Cut Better Than One: Chinese Word Segmentation with Dual Decomposition, In Proceedings of ACL Short, 2014
  


• Mengqiu Wang Bilingual and Cross-lingual Learning of Sequence Models with Bitext, PhD Dissertation Thesis, 2014
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning Cross-lingual Projected Expectation Regularization for Weakly Supervised Learning, Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2(Feb):55−66(TACL), 2014 [code] [arXiv preprint]
  

2013

• Sida Wang*, Mengqiu Wang*, Chris Manning, Percy Liang and Stefan Wager Feature Noising for Log-linear Structured Prediction, In Proceedings of EMNLP, 2013
  * equal contribution
  


• Aju Thalappillil Scaria, Jonathan Berant, Mengqiu Wang, Peter Clark, Justin Lewis, Brittany Harding and Chris Manning Learning Biological Processes with Global Constraints, In Proceedings of EMNLP, 2013 [code]
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning Learning a Product of Experts with Elitist Lasso, In Proceedings of IJCNLP, 2013
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning Effect of Non-linear Deep Architecture in Sequence Labeling, In Proceedings of IJCNLP (short paper), 2013
  An earlier version appeared in Proceedings of ICML 2013 Workshop on Deep Learning for Audio, Speech and Language Processing
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Wanxiang Che and Chris Manning Joint Word Alignment and Bilingual Named Entity Recognition Using Dual Decomposition, In Proceedings of ACL, 2013 [code]
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Wanxiang Che and Chris Manning Effective Bilingual Constraints for Semi-supervised Learning of Named Entity Recognizers, In Proceedings of AAAI, 2013 [code]
  Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention, Best Engineering Award
  


• Wanxiang Che, Mengqiu Wang, Chris Manning and Ting Liu Named Entity Recognition with Bilingual Constraints, In Proceedings of NAACL, 2013 [code]
  

2012

• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning Probabilistic Finite State Machines for Regression-based MT Evaluation, In Proceedings of EMNLP, 2012
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning, SPEDE: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for MT Evaluation, In Proceedings of the Seventh WMT Workshop at NAACL, 2012
  1st Place in Segment-level MT Evaluation Task
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Daniel Cer, Stanford: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for STS, In Proceedings of the First Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) Shared Task at SemEval Workshop, 2012
  


• David McClosky, Wanxiang Che, Marta Recasens, Mengqiu Wang, Richard Socher, and Chris Manning, Stanford’s System for Parsing the English Web, In Proceedings of First Workshop on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language (SANCL) at NAACL, 2012
  
2nd Place in Dependency Parsing Track

2011

• Stephen Guo, Mengqiu Wang and Jure Leskovec The Role of Social Networks in Online Shopping: Information Passing, Price of Trust, and Consumer Choice, In Proceedings of 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2011
  

2010

• Mengqiu Wang and Chris Manning Probabilistic Tree-Edit Models with Structured Latent Variables for Textual Entailment and Question Answering, In Proceedings of COLING, 2010
  

2008

• Mengqiu Wang and Luo Si, Discriminative Probabilistic Models for Passage Based Retrieval, In Proceedings of SIGIR, 2008
  


• Mengqiu Wang, A Re-examination of Dependency Path Kernels for Relation Extraction, In Proceedings of IJCNLP, 2008
  

2007

• Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith and Teruko Mitamura, What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for Question Answering, In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL, 2007
  Nominated for Best Paper Award
  


• Yanxin Shi and Mengqiu Wang, A Dual-layer CRFs Based Joint Decoding Method for Cascaded Segmentation and Labeling Tasks, In Proceedings of IJCAI, 2007
  An earlier version appeared in Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
  


• Teruko Mitamura, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Eric Nyberg, JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents, In Proceedings of the Sixth NTCIR Workshop, 2007
  

2006

• Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae and Teruko Mitamura, A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese, In Proceedings of COLING-ACL, 2006
  


• Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Frank Lin and Teruko Mitamura, Modular Approach to Error Analysis and Evaluation for Multilingual Question Answering, In Proceedings of LREC, 2006
  


• Teruko Mitamura, Mengqiu Wang, Hideki Shima and Frank Lin, Keyword Translation Accuracy and Cross-Lingual Question Answering in Chinese and Japanese, In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering, EACL, 2006
  


• Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang and Teruko Mitamura, CMU JAVELIN System for NTCIR5 CLQA1, In Proceedings of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop, 2006
  

2005

• Mengqiu Wang, Martin Purvis and Mariusz Nowostawski, An Internal Agent Architecture Incorporating Standard Reasoning Components and Standards-Based Agent Communication, In Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), 2005
  


• Heiko Wolf and Mengqiu Wang, A Framework with a Peer Fostering Mechanism for Mobile P2P Game Development, In Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business, 2005
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Heiko Wolf and Martin Purvis, An Agent-based Collaborative Framework for Mobile P2P Applications, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC), AAMAS, 2005
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Mariusz Nowostawski and Martin Purvis, Declarative Agent Programming Support for a FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform, In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS), AAMAS, 2005
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Extending OPAL Platform with Multiple High-level Reasoning Engines, Undergrad Honour's Thesis at University of Otago, 2005

Reports

CMU 11-761 Language and Statistics I course project report, with Amr Ahmed and Yi Wu, Detecting Fake Articles from Real Articles, 2006
Winner in both soft measure and hard measure
CMU 11-762 Language and Statistics II literature review project, A Survey of Answer Extraction Techniques in Factoid Question Answering, 2006

Datasets

QA Dataset for EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 paper
Same dataset was used in Michael Heilman's Tree Edit Model paper, a detailed description of the dataset can be found in this appendix

Professional Activities

Reviewer TACL
PC member CoNLL '14
PC member COLING '14
PC member ACL '14
Reviewer NLE
Reviewer JAIR
PC member EACL SRW '14
PC member ACL '13
Reviewer SIGIR '13
PC member AIRS '12
Reviewer YCCL '12
Reviewer SIGIR '12
Reviewer EMNLP '11
PC member COLING '10
Reviewer WWW '08
Reviewer EMNLP-CoNLL '07
Reviewer IAT '05