My Life Goal:

 Help people to learn what they want to know. Provide the knowledge and information to the people who need them and offer an effective way for them to learn with help of information technology.

My Research Interests

I want to endow computers with linguistic knowledge and ability of learning. My long-term goal is to build systems that help people from different areas communicate, help people find the information they want and help people analyze the data they collect. My research area is in Artificial Intelligence, especially in NLP (Natural Language Processing), IR (Information Retrieval) and machine learning.

 

Publication

 

Book Chapter:

? Chapter 11 An Introduction of Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar,(doc) In Natural Language Understanding---A study of making a machine understand human languages, second edition, (ISBN 7-302-05435-5/TP 3203) YAO Tian-shun et al., P.214-242, Tstinghua University Press, Beijing, 2002

 

Translation of Book: (Chinese to English)

? Chinese Health Preservation, Author: Wenbin Du, Translator: Dayu Wang, Warwick Press and Liaoning Education Press, 2002

Conference Papers:

? D.Y. Wang, R.W.P. Luk, K.F. Wong, K.L. Kwok. An Information Retrieval Approach based on Discourse Type. NLDB 2006 (PDF (181 kb))

? D.Y. Wang, R.W.P. Luk, K.F. Wong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at the TREC 2004 Robust Track, TREC 2004

? Dayu WANG and Tian-shun YAO Using a Semi-supervised Learning Mechanism to Recognize Chinese Names in Unsegmented Text, ICCPOL 2003 (pdf,doc)