Curriculum Vitae

I received my Ph.D in Nov. 2009 from the Singapore-MIT Alliance (Computer Science) of the National University of Singapore. Currently I am working as a research fellow in the Computer Science department of the National University of Singapore. During my Ph.D, I worked with Assoc. Prof. Ng Hwee Tou, Assoc. Prof. Lee Wee Sun, and Prof. Leslie Pack Kaelbling. I studied in School of Computing of National University of Singapore as an undergraduate, where I worked with Assoc. Prof. Kan Min-Yen.

Ph.D Thesis: A Hybrid Tree Framework For Semantic Parsing and Natural Language Generation [Thesis]

Referred Journal Publications:

• Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features
  Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan
  Information Processing and Management, 43, issue 2 (Mar. 2007), pp.431-444. (Invited Journal Paper)
  [Paper]

Referred Conference Publications:

• A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions
  Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng
  In Proceedings of EMNLP'11 (The 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing). Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 27 - 31, 2011; pp.1611-1622. (Oral Presentation)
  Best Paper Award
  [Paper][Slides][Code]

• Better Punctuation Prediction with Dynamic Conditional Random Fields
  Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng
  In Proceedings of EMNLP'10 (The 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing). MIT, Massachusetts, October 09 - 11, 2010; pp.177-186. (Oral Presentation)
  [Paper][Slides]

• Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields
  Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng and Wee Sun Lee
  In Proceedings of EMNLP'09 (The 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing). Suntec, Singapore, August 06 - 07, 2009; pp.400-409. (Oral Presentation)
  [Paper][Slides]

• A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
  Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee and Luke S. Zettlemoyer
  In Proceedings of EMNLP'08 (The 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing). Honolulu, Hawaii, October 25 - 27, 2008; pp.783-792 (Oral Presentation)
  [Paper][Slides][Code]

Referred Workshop/Symposium Publications:

• The NUS statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2009
  Preslav Nakov, Chang Liu, Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng
  In Proceedings of IWSLT'09 (The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2009). Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009; pp.91-98.
  (our BTEC C->E translation system was ranked 2nd out of 12 teams, based on either automatic or human evaluations)
  [Paper]

• Supervised Categorization of Javascript using Program Analysis Features
  Wei Lu and Min-Yen Kan
  In Proceedings of AIRS'05 (The second Asian Information Retrieval Symposium). Jeju Island, Korea, October 2005. (Nominated for best paper)
  [Paper] [Undergraduate Thesis]

Current interests:

Machine learning methods for NLP.

Personal Links:

Machine Translation Reading Group