Fangtao Li (In Chinese)

Ph.D Student,
Group of Intelligent Information Processing and Bioinfomatics,
State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology & Systems,
National Lab for Information Science & Technology,
Department of Computer Science & Technology,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Address: Room 4-504, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
Email: fangtao06(at)gmail.com

Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Applied Machine Learning, Social Network
^DEMO~~ See Our Question Answering Demo: QUANTA

• One paper was accepted as full oral paper in ACL 2012.

Education

• Sep, 2008 ~ present Ph.D, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, with supervisor Prof. Xiaoyan Zhu.
• Sep, 2006 ~ Jul. 2008, M.S Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, with supervisor Prof. Xiaoyan Zhu.
• Sep, 2002 ~ Jul, 2006. B.S. (With Honours), School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University.
• Feb, 2005 ~ Aug, 2005. Exchange Student, School of Information and Communication Engineering, SungKyunKwan University, with supervisor Prof. Dongho Won.

Publications

• Fangtao Li, Sinno Jialin Pan, Ou Jin, Qiang Yang and Xiaoyan ZHu. Cross-Domain Co-Extraction of Sentiment and Topic Lexicons. To appear In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-12). Jeju, Republic of Korea. July 8-14, 2012. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Nathan Liu, Hongwei Jin, Kai Zhao, Qiang Yang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Incorporating Reviewer and Product Information for Review Rating Prediction. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). (Full Oral Paper) ( 227 /1325 = 17%) [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang, Yi Yang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Learning to Identify Review Spam. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). (Full Oral Paper) ( 227 /1325 = 17%) [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Chao Han, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Structure-Aware Review Mining and Summarization. To Appear In The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China. (Oral Paper, 158/815 = 19%)[PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Sentiment Analysis with Global Topics and Local Dependency. In The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [PDF]
• Zhicheng Zheng, Fangtao Li, Xiaoyan Zhu and Minlie Huang. Learning to Link Entities with Knowledge Base. The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2010), Los Angeles, USA. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Fan Bu, Yang Tang, Xiaoyan Zhu and Minlie Huang. THU QUANTA at TAC 2009 KBP and RTE Track. Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2009), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, November 2009.. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2009), Singapore. Aug 2-7, 2009. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yang Tang, Fan Bu, Rong Ge, Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu and Minlie Huang. THU QUANTA at TAC 2008 QA and RTE track. Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, November 2008.[PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Answer Validation by Information Distance Calculation. Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering in (Coling 2008), pp. 42-49, August 2008, Manchester, UK. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan and Xiaoyan Zhu. Classifying What-Type Questions by Head Noun Tagging. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), pp. 481-488, August 2008, Manchester, UK. [PDF]
  
• Fangtao Li, Zhang Xian, Sun Jianshu, Zhu Xiaoyan. A Novel Hierarchical Structure Question Classifier. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2008 (in Chinese)
  
• Jianshu Sun, Xian Zhang, Fangtao Li, Xiaoyan Zhu. THUQA at TREC 2007 QA Track. Proceedings of 16th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2007), November, Gaithersburg, USA.
  
• Fangtao Li, Tao Guan, Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu. An Aggressive Feature Selection based on Rough Set Theory. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Japan, September 2007
  
• Li Fangtao, Zhu Xiaoyan, Meng Lirong. Integrated Database Security Architecture based on Intrusion Tolerance. Computer Engineering and Design, 2006. (in Chinese)
  

Academic Activities

• Program Committe Member: NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2012, AAAI 2012, EMNLP 2012
  
• Program Committee Member, The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011)
  
• Program Committee Member, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011)
  
• Program Committee Member, The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2011)
  
• Program Committee Track Co-Chair, The 4th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum 2009. Hong Kong, China, Aug 6 ~ Aug 10, 2009
  
• Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing(ACL-IJCNLP 2009). Singapore, Aug 2 ~ Aug 5, 2009
  
• The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008). Manchester, UK, Aug 18 ~ Aug 22, 2008
  
• Technical Committees, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI08), HongKong, 2008.
  
• The Third National Conference on Information Retrieval and Content Security (NCIRCS07). Suzhou, China, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 2, 2007
  
• The Second International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Kumamoto, Japan, Sep. 5 ~ Sep. 7, 2007
  
• Microsoft Research Asia Summer School on Internet Innovation. Weihai, China, Aug 22 ~ Aug 24, 2007.
  
• 2007 Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China (GSSBC'07). Beijing, China, July 26 ~ Aug 25, 2007
  
• The Second Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum. Hong Kong, China, July 3 ~ July 6, 2007.
  
• Organizer, the 147th Tsinghua Doctoral Forum, Sanbao, Beijing, May 25 ~ May 27, 2007
  
• Research Assistant, SKKU Information Security Group, Korea, Mar. 2 ~ Aug. 25, 2005
  

Activities of Contests and Evaluations

• Recognizing Textual Entailment Track at Text Analysis Conference (TAC RTE). (Rank 3rd among 54 submissions). 2009
  
• Knowledge Base Population Track at Text Analysis Conference (TAC KBP). (Rank 1st among 35 submissions at Non-NIL Evaluation). 2009
  
• Question Answering Track at Text Analysis Conference (TAC QA). (Rank 1st among 17 submissions). 2008
  
• Recognizing Textual Entailment Track at Text Analysis Conference (TAC RTE). (Rank 6th among 45 submissions) 2008
  
• Question Answering Track at Text Retrieval Conference (TREC QA). (Top 10). 2007
  
• National Post-Graduate Mathematic Contest in Moleding(NGMCM). (National Second Prize). 2007
  
• The International Mathematical Contest in Modeling(MCM). (Meritorious Winners/16%). 2005
  
• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM). (National First Prize). 2004
  

Awards

• 2010 Google PhD Fellowship on Natural Language Processing
• 2009 Jiangzhen Scholarship, Tsinghua University, First Prize.
• 2008 Dongshidongfang Scholarship, Tsinghua University, First Prize.
• 2007 Feitu Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Second Prize.
• 2006 Excellent Graduate Student, Shandong Province.
• 2005 President Scholarship of Shandong University(Top).
• 2005 Excellent Exchange Student at SungKyunKwan University.
• 2005 International Mathematic Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Winner(16%).
• 2004 China Undergraduate Mathematic Contest for Modeling(CUMCM), National First Prize.
• 2002-2006 Various Scholorships,(including Excellent Study and University Contests Scorlarships etc.), from Shandong University.

Social Services

• Sep, 2007 ~ Aug, 2008. Instructor of Graduate Career Affairs, Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University.
• Aug, 2007 ~ Feb, 2008. Vice-president in charge of Career Affairs. Graduate Union of Department of Computer Science and Technology.
• Feb, 2007 ~ Aug, 2007. Minister of Career Affairs Department. Graduate Union of Department of Computer Science and Technology.
• Sep, 2006 ~ Aug, 2007. Minister of Academic Department, Graduate Union of Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Useful links

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