Mengqiu Wang (王孟秋)

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

I am a PhD student at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University.
Prior to coming to Stanford, I was a Master's student at the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
My advisor is Prof. Chris Manning, and I work with the NLP research group at Stanford.
In the past, I had worked on Statistical Parsing, Information Retrieval and Open-Domain Question Answering.
In general, I am interested in multi-lingual and cross-lingual NLP and statistical machine learning.
You can find my resume here.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
B.App.Sc.(equiv. to B.E.) in Telecommunications (first class honours), University of Otago, New Zealand
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
Exchange Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Work Experience

Fellow, XSeed Capital, 2013.2-now
Software Engineer, Twitter Inc., 2010.6-2012.1
Lead Data Scientist, Alibaba Group R&D Center (later became Alibaba Cloud Computing), 2009.5-2009.12
Data Scientist Intern, Facebook Inc., 2008.6-2008.9

Publications

• Mengqiu Wang, Wanxiang Che and Christopher Manning Joint Word Alignment and Bilingual Named Entity Recognition Using Dual Decomposition, In Proceedings of ACL '13, 2013
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Wanxiang Che and Christopher Manning Effective Bilingual Constraints for Semi-supervised Learning of Named Entity Recognizers, In Proceedings of AAAI '13, 2013
  Won Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention
  


• Wanxiang Che, Mengqiu Wang, Christopher Manning and Ting Liu Named Entity Recognition with Bilingual Constraints, In Proceedings of NAACL '13, 2013
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning Probabilistic Finite State Machines for Regression-based MT Evaluation, In Proceedings of EMNLP '12, 2012
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning, SPEDE: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for MT Evaluation, In Proceedings of the Seventh WMT Workshop at NAACL 12', 2012
  Won 1st Place in Into-English 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 Christopher Manning, Stanford’s System for Parsing the English Web, In Proceedings of First Workshop on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language (SANCL) at NAACL 12', 2012
  
Won 2nd Place in Dependency Parsing Track


• 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 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce '11, 2011
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Christopher Manning Probabilistic Tree-Edit Models with Structured Latent Variables for Textual Entailment and Question Answering, In Proceedings of COLING '10, 2010
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Luo Si, Discriminative Probabilistic Models for Passage Based Retrieval, In Proceedings of SIGIR '08, 2008
  


• Mengqiu Wang, A Re-examination of Dependency Path Kernels for Relation Extraction, In Proceedings of IJCNLP '08, 2008
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith and Teruko Mitamura, What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for Question Answering, In Proceedings of EMNLP '07, 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 '07, 2007
  


• 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
  


• Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae and Teruko Mitamura, A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese, In Proceedings of ACL '06, 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 '06, 2006
  


• Mengqiu Wang and Yanxin Shi, Using Part-of-Speech Reranking to Improve Chinese Word Segmentation, In Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, ACL '06, 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 '06, 2006
  


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


• 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 Conference on 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 05', 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 '05), AAMAS '05, 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 '05), AAMAS '05, 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, Winner in both soft measure and hard measure, 2006 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 ACL '13
Reviewer SIGIR '13
Reviewer AIRS '12
Reviewer YCCL '12
Reviewer SIGIR '12
Reviewer EMNLP '11
Program Committee COLING '10
Reviewer WWW '08
Reviewer EMNLP-CoNLL '07
Reviewer IAT '05