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.
Publications
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. 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.
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, 2006.