Liang Zhou

• I live and work in NYC. My email is listed here.

Education

• University of Southern California, 2002 -- 2006: Ph.D. (Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence).

• Stanford University, 1999 -- 2001: M.S. (Computer Science - Systems, Database).

• University of Tennessee, 1995 -- 1999: B.S. Summa Cum Laude (Computer Science, Mathematics minor).

• West High School, Class of 1996, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2007

• Liang Zhou, Namhee Kwon, and Eduard Hovy. A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2007), Rochester, NY. Short paper.

• Liang Zhou. Text Comparison Using Machine-Generated Nuggets. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2007 demo), Rochester, NY.

• Namhee Kwon, Liang Zhou, Eduard Hovy, and Stuart Shulman. Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims. In Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2007), Philadelphia, PA.

  2006

• Liang Zhou. The Importance of Using Domain Knowledge in Solving Information Distillation Problems.
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, 2006.

• Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006), Sydney, Australia.

• Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, and Eduard Hovy. ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2006), New York City, NY.

• Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2006), Genoa, Italy.

• Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, and Junichi Fukumoto. Automated Summarization Evaluation with Basic Elements. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2006), Genoa, Italy.

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. On the Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online Discussions and Blogs. In Proceedings of AAAI-2006 Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs, Stanford, CA.

  2005

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. Digesting Virtual "Geek" Culture: The Summarization of Technical Internet Relay Chats. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, MI.

• Liang Zhou, Erin Shaw, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. Classummary: Introducing Discussion Summarization to Online Classrooms. In Proceedings of 2005 Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/EMNLP-2005 demo), Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. Fine-grained Clustering for Summarizing Chat Logs. In Proceedings of Beyond Threaded Conversation (CHI-2005 workshop), Portland, Oregon, April 2-7, 2005.

• Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Query Interpretation. In Proceedings of Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2005), Vancouver, B.C. Canada, Oct. 10-11, 2005.

• Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, and Liang Zhou. Evaluating DUC 2005 using Basic Elements. In Proceedings of Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2005), Vancouver, B.C. Canada, Oct. 10-11, 2005.

• Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, and Eduard Hovy. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report. In Proceedings of Multilingual Summarization Evaluation (ACL-2005 workshop), Ann Arbor, MI. Technical report.

• Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, and Liang Zhou. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of Multilingual Summarization Evaluation (ACL-2005 workshop), Ann Arbor, MI.

  2004

• Liang Zhou, Miruna Ticrea, and Eduard Hovy. Multi-document Biography Summarization. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. Template-Filtered Headline Summarization. In Proceedings of Text Summarization Branches Out (ACL-2004 workshop), Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.

• Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold, Jim Leckie, Barton Thompson, Shawn Kerrigan, Gloria T. Lau, Bill Labiosa, Charles Heenan, Haoyi Wang, Liang Zhou, Pooja Trivedi, Jun Peng. 2004. ITR/IM+SII: A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations. In Proceedings of Digital Government Conference (DG.O-2004).

  2003

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. A Web-trained Extraction Summarization System. In Proceedings of 2003 Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL-2003), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 27 - June 1 2003.

• Leuski, Anton, Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, Ulrich Germann, Franz Josef Och, and Eduard Hovy. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information. In ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2003.

• Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy. Headline Summarization at ISI. In Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2003), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 31 - June 1 2003.