Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes
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Papers:

2014

  • Michaela Regneri and Rui Wang. To Appear. Aligning Predicate-Argument Structures for Paraphrase Fragment Extraction. In Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland. PDF Slides

2013

  • Sebastian Pado, Tae-Gil Noh, Asher Stern, Rui Wang, and Roberto Zanoli. To Appear. Design and Realization of a Modular Architecture for Textual Entailment. In Natural Language Engineering. Copyright Cambridge University Press, 2013. PDF Link
  • Ulrich Schäfer, Bernd Kiefer, Christian Spurk, Jörg Steffen, Rui Wang, Benjamin Weitz, Magdalena Wolska. 2013. The Searchbench - Combining Sentence-semantic, Full-text and Bibliographic Search in Digital Libraries. In LIBER quarterly, Volume 22 Number 4. PDF

2012

  • Moshe Wasserblat, Ezra Daya, Eyal Hurvitz, Maya Gorodetsky, Dmitri Volsky, Ido Dagan, Meni Adler, Asher Stern, Sebastian Pado, Tae-Gil Noh, Britta Zeller, Günter Neumann, Kathrin Eichler, Rui Wang, Gabriele Fidanza, Giorgio Gianforme, Matthias Meisdrock, Magnini Bernardom, Bentivogli Luisa, Zanoli Roberto, and Lavelli Alberto. 2012. Introduction to the EXCITEMENT project: towards an open platform for EXploring Customer Interactions through Textual entailMENT. In Proceedings of the Afeka-AVIOS Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel. PDF
  • Rui Wang and Yi Zhang. 2012. Sentence Realization with Unlexicalized Tree Linearization Grammars. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India. PDF Poster
  • Michaela Regneri and Rui Wang. 2012. Using Discourse Information for Paraphrase Extraction. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2012), Jeju, Korea. PDF Slides(from Michaela Regneri) Data
  • Rui Wang, Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov. 2012. Linguistically-Enriched Models for Bulgarian-to-English Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6), Jeju, Korea. PDF Slides
  • Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Laska Laskova, Stanislava Kancheva, Aleksandar Savkov, and Rui Wang. 2012. HPSG-based Bulgarian-English Statistical Machine Translation. Littera et Lingua. Spring Issue. ISSN 1312-6172. URL
  • Rui Wang and Shuguang Li. 2012. Constructing a Question Corpus for Textual Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey. PDF Poster Data
  • Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, and Yu Chen. 2012. Joint Grammar and Treebank Development for Mandarin Chinese with HPSG. In Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey. PDF Poster(11M) Grammar
  • Rui Wang, Petya Osenova, and Kiril Simov. 2012. Linguistically-Augmented Bulgarian-to-English Statistical Machine Translation Model. In Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra), Avignon, France. PDF Slides(from Kiril Simov)

2011

  • Christian Federmann, Yu Chen, Sabine Hunsicker, and Rui Wang. 2011. DFKI System Combination using Syntactic Information at ML4HMT-2011. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation (LIHMT 2011) and of the Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation (ML4), Barcelona, Spain. PDF
  • Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, and Yu Chen. 2011. Engineering a Deep HPSG for Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop On Asian Language Resources, Chiang Mai, Thailand. PDF Slides Grammar
  • Yu Chen, Rui Wang, and Yi Zhang. 2011. Statistical Machine Transliteration with Multi-to-Multi Joint Source Channel Model. In Proceedings of the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2011) Shared Task on Machine Transliteration, Chiang Mai, Thailand. PDF Slides
  • Ulrich Schäfer, Bernd Kiefer, Christian Spurk, Jörg Steffen, and Rui Wang. 2011. The ACL Anthology Searchbench. In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 System Demonstrations, Portland, Oregon, USA. PDF Demo
  • Rui Wang and Chris Callison-Burch. 2011. Paraphrase Fragment Extraction from Monolingual Comparable Corpora. In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Porland, Oregon, USA. PDF Slides Data
  • Rui Wang and Yi Zhang. 2011. A Multi-Dimensional Classification Approach towards Textual Semantic Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Tokyo, Japan. PDF Poster

2010

  • Weiwei Sun, Rui Wang, and Yi Zhang. 2010. Discriminative Parse Reranking for Chinese with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Annotations. In Proceedings of CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010), Beijing, China. PDF
  • Rui Wang and Yi Zhang. 2010. MARS: A Specialized RTE System for Parser Evaluation. In Proceedings of the SemEval-2010 Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation, Uppsala. Sweden. PDF Slides
  • Rui Wang and Chris Callison-Burch. 2010. Cheap Facts and Counter-Facts. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Amazon Mechanical Turk, Los Angeles, California, USA. PDF Poster Data
  • Rui Wang and Caroline Sporleder. 2010. Constructing a Textual Semantic Relation Corpus Using a Discourse Treebank. In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta. PDF Poster Data(Please contact the authors)
  • Rui Wang and Yi Zhang. 2010. Hybrid Constituent and Dependency Parsing with Tsinghua Chinese Treebank. In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta. PDF Poster

2009

  • Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Giorgio Gianforme, and Rui Wang. 2009. A Novel Client-Server Sketch Recognition Approach for Advanced Mobile Services. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the International Association for Development of the Information Society, Pages 400-407, Rome, Italy, WWW/INTERNET '09. IADIS Press, Nov. 19-22. PDF
  • Rui Wang, Yi Zhang, and Günter Neumann. 2009. A Joint Syntactic-Semantic Representation for Recognizing Textual Relatedness. In Text Analysis Conference TAC 2009 WORKSHOP Notebook Papers and Results, Pages 1-7, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. PDF Slides Poster
  • Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Giorgio Gianforme, and Rui Wang. 2009. A Novel Sketch-Based Interface to Support Devices Applications and Services in Cultural Heritage Environments. In Proceedings of the 2009 National Conference on the Italian Association for Informatics and Automatic Calculation, Rome, Italy, AICA '09, Nov. 4-6. PDF
  • Rui Wang, Yi Zhang, Wei Qiu, Mosha Chen, Tingyu Li, Wenbo Zhang, and Tianfang Yao. 2009. Combining Data-Driven Constituent and Dependency Parsers for CIPS-ParsEval-2009. In Proceedings of CIPS-ParsEval-2009, Beijing, China. PDF
  • Mosha Chen, Rui Wang, Xiaojun Zhang, Wei Qiu, Yi Zhang, Tingyu Li, Wenbo Zhang, and Tianfang Yao. 2009. Analysis of the Evaluation Results for our Tasks in COAE2009. In Proceedings of the second Chinese opinion analysis evaluation, Pages 134-143, Shanghai, China. PDF
  • Yi Zhang and Rui Wang. 2009. Correlating Natural Language Parser Performance with Statistical Measures of the Text. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009), Paderborn, Germany. PDF Slides Data
  • Rui Wang and Yi Zhang. 2009. Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore, Singapore. PDF Slides Data
  • Yi Zhang and Rui Wang. 2009. Cross-Domain Dependency Parsing Using a Deep Linguistic Grammar. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, Singapore. PDF
  • Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, and Stephan Oepen. 2009. Hybrid Multilingual Parsing with HPSG for SRL. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2009), Boulder, USA. PDF Slides Poster
  • Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Pierluigi Del Nostro, and Rui Wang. 2009. A Novel Online Textual/Graphical Domain Separation Approach for Sketch-Based Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Pages 167-176, Mogliano Veneto, Italy, KES-IIMSS '09. E. Damiani, J. Jeong, R.J. Howlett, and L.C. Jain, Eds. Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), vol. 226. Springer-Verlag, July 15-17. PDF
  • Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Giorgio Gianforme, Stefano Paolozzi, and Rui Wang. 2009. SketchML a Representation Language for Novel Sketch Recognition Approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Pages 1-8, Corfu, Greece, PETRA '09. ACM, June 9-13. PDF
  • Georgiana Dinu and Rui Wang. 2009. Inference Rules and their Application to Recognizing Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), Athens, Greece. PDF Slides Poster
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2009. An Accuracy-Oriented Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Recognizing Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008) Workshop - RTE-4 Track, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). PDF Slides Poster
  • Rui Wang, Shirley W.I. Siu, and Rainer A. Böckmann. 2009. Fine-Grained Protein Mutation Extraction from Biological Literature. In: Safaa S. Mahmoud, Kamaruyaman Jusoff, Kai Li (eds.): Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electronic Computer Technology (ICECT 2009), Pages 401-405, Macau, China, IEEE Computer Society, 2009.2. PDF Slides
  • Georgiana Dinu and Rui Wang. 2009. Inference Rules for Recognizing Textual Entailment. In: Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Sander Wubben (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Pages 90-103, Tilburg, Netherlands, International Conference on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, 2009.1. PDF

2008

  • Tianfang Yao, Xiwen Cheng, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, and Rui Wang. 2008. A Survey of Opinion Mining for Texts. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2008, 22 (03): 71-80. (in Chinese) PDF
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2008. Information Synthesis for Answer Validation. In: Carol Peters et al. (ed.): CLEF 2008 Working Notes, Aarhus, Denmark, Springer Verlag, 2008. PDF
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2008. Ontology-based Query Construction for GeoCLEF. In: Carol Peters et al. (ed.): CLEF 2008 Working Notes, Aarhus, Denmark, Springer Verlag, 2008. PDF
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2008. Relation Validation via Textual Entailment. In: Benjamin Adrian, Günter Neumann, Alexander Troussov, Borislav Popov (eds.): 1st International and KI-08 Workshop on Ontology-based Information Extraction Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany, DFKI, 2008. PDF Slides
  • Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, and Hans Uszkoreit. 2008. Hybrid Learning of Dependency Structures from Heterogeneous Linguistic Resources. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2008), Pages 198-202, Manchester, United Kingdom, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2008. PDF Slides(from Yi Zhang)
  • Rui Wang and Yajing Zhang. 2008. Recognizing Textual Entailment with Temporal Expressions in Natural Language Texts. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Applications (IWSCA-2008), Pages 109-116, Incheon, Korea, Republic of, IEEE Computer Society, 2008. PDF

2007

  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2007. Recognizing Textual Entailment Using a Subsequence Kernel Method. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), July 22-26, Vancouver, Canada. PDF Slides(from Günter Neumann)
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2007. Applying Subsequence Kernels to Recognizing Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, June 28-29, Prague, Czech Republic. PDF Poster
  • Rui Wang and Günter Neumann. 2007. DFKI-LT at AVE 2007: Using Recognizing Textual Entailment for Answer Validation. In online proceedings of CLEF 2007 Working Notes, ISBN: 2-912335-31-0, September 2007, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
  • Günter Neumann and Rui Wang. 2007. DFKI-LT at QAST 2007: Adapting QA components to mine answers in speech transcripts. In online proceedings of CLEF 2007 Working Notes, ISBN: 2-912335-31-0, September 2007, Budapest, Hungary. PDF

Before

  • Rui Wang, Jie Zhang, Youyi Zhang, Zhen Yu, and Tianfang Yao 2005. Research and Implementation on Chinese Name Entity Extraction System based on a Hybrid Model. Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol. 45, No. S1, Beijing, 2005.9. (in Chinese) PDF Slides
  • Rui Wang and Tianfang Yao. 2004. Research on Chinese Question-Answering Relationships Based on Entity Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Information Retrieval and Content Security, Shanghai, 2004.10. (in Chinese) PDF Slides

Theses:

  • Rui Wang. 2010. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Approaches to Recognizing Textual Entailment. PhD Thesis. November, 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany. PDF Slides
  • Rui Wang. 2007. Textual Entailment Recognition: A Data-Driven Approach. Master Thesis. September 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. PDF
  • Rui Wang. 2005. Research on Chinese Question Classification and Analysis based on a Hybrid Model. Bachelor Thesis. July, 2005, Shanghai, China. (in Chinese) PDF Slides