2000-2005, Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Software and Theory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
1998-2000, Master of Philosophy in Control Theory and Control Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
1995-1999, Bachelor of Engineering in Sensor and Instruments, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China

2006-2009, Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong
2005-2006, Visiting Work in Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

natural language processing

[2018]

• Lianhui Qin, Lemao Liu, Wei Bi, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Zhiting Hu, Hai Zhao and Shuming Shi
  Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset,
  ACL-2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018
  
  
• Shexia He, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao*, Hongxiao Bai, Gongshen Liu
  Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, to Be, or Not to Be,
  ACL-2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018
  
  
• Zhuosheng Zhang, Jiangtong Li, Hai Zhao*, Bingjie Tang
  SJTU-NLP at SemEval-2018 Task 9: Neural Hypernym Discovery with Term Embeddings,
  SemEval-2018, Workshop of NAACL-HLT 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1-6, 2018
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• Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Sabine Ploux, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
  Graph-based Bilingual Word Embedding for Statistical Machine Translation,
  ACM Transaciton on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol.17(4), 2018

• Haonan Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yuqi Ju, Hai Zhao*
  Neural Character-level Dependency Parsing for Chinese,
  The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, February 2–7, 2018
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[2017]

• Zhao Hai, Cai Deng, Huang Changning, Kit Chunyu
  Chinese Word Segmentation, a decade review (2007-2017)
  The Frontier of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics, Chunyu Kit and Meijun Liu ed., China Social Sciences Press, Beijing, China, July 2017
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• Hao Wang, Hai Zhao*, Zhisong Zhang
  A Transition-based System for Universal Dependency Parsing,
  CoNLL 2017, pp.191-197, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017
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• Deng Cai, Hai Zhao*, Zhisong Zhang, Yuan Xin, Yongjian Wu, Feiyue Huang
  Fast and Accurate Neural Word Segmentation for Chinese,
  ACL 2017, pp.608-615, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017
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• Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao*, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
  Adversarial Connective-exploiting Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification,
  ACL 2017, pp.1006-1017, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017
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• Deng Cai, Hai Zhao*
  Pair-Aware Neural Sentence Modeling for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification,
  IEA/AIE (2) 2017, LNCS, volume 10351: 458-466
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• Deng Cai, Hai Zhao*, Yang Xin, Yuzhu Wang, Zhongye Jia
  A Hybrid Model for Chinese Spelling Check,
  ACM Transactions on Asian Low-Resource Language Information Process, 2017
  
  

[2016]

• Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichro Sumita,
  Connecting Phrase based Statistical Machine Translation Adaptation,
  COLING-2016, pp.3135-3145, Osaka, Japan, December, 2016
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• Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, and Hai Zhao*
  Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Context-aware Character-enhanced Embeddings,
  COLING-2016, pp.1914-1924, Osaka, Japan, December, 2016
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• Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, and Hai Zhao*
  A stacking gated neural architecture for implicit discourse relation classification.
  Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp.2263-2270, Austin, USA, November, 2016
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• Chenxi Pang, Hai Zhao*, Zhongyi Li,
  I Can Guess What You Mean: A Monolingual Query Enhancement for Machine Translation,
  LNCS Vol.10035, CCL-2016, Yantai, China, Oct 15-16, 2016
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• Zhongyi Li, Hai Zhao*, Chenxi Pang, Lili Wang, Huan Wang
  A Constituent Syntactic Parse Tree based Discourse Parser,
  CoNLL-2016 Shared Task, pp.60-64, Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016
  
  
• Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao*
  Shallow Discourse Parsing using Convolutional Neural Network,
  CoNLL-2016 Shared Task, pp.70-77, Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016
  
  
• Deng Cai, Hai Zhao*
  Neural Word Segmentation Learning for Chinese ,
  ACL-2016, pp.409-420, Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016
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• Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao*, Lianhui Qin
  Probabilistic Graph-based Dependency Parsing with Convolutional Neural Network,
  ACL-2016, pp. 1382-1392, Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016
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• Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Sabine Ploux, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama
  A Bilingual Graph-based Semantic Model for Statistical Machine Translation,
  IJCAI-2016, pp.2950-2956, New York, USA, July 9-15, 2016
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• Peilu Wang, Yao Qian,Hai Zhao*, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Ke Wu
  Learning Distributed Word Representations For Bidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network,
  NAACL-2016, pp.527-533, San Diego, USA, June 12-15, 2016
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• Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Isao Goto, Eiichiro Sumita, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu,
  Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-gram Language Models with Efficient Bilingual Pruning for Statistical Machine Translation,
  ACM Transactions on Asian Low-Resource Language Information Process, Vol. 15(3), Article 11, pp.1-26, January, 2016
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• Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao*, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura,
  Learning local word reorderings for hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation,
  Machine Translation, Spinger, 2016
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[2015]

• Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Hai Zhao
  Word Embedding for Recurrent Neural Betwork based TTS Synthesis,
  Proc. of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4879-4883, Brisbane, Australia, 2015
  
  
• Ge Yan, Zhao Hai, Qin Yulin et al.
  Mining National and Regional Images from Newspaper Reports (in Chinese)
  Academic Monthly, Vol.47(7): 163-170, July, 2015
  
  
• Changge Chen, Hai Zhao*, Yang Yang
  Deceptive Opinion Spam Detection using Deep Level Linguistic Features,
  The 4th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing(NLPCC 2015),October 9-13, 2015, Nanchang, China
  
  
• Shuo Zang, Hai Zhao*, Chunyang Wu, Rui Wang,
  A Novel Word Reordering Method for Statistical Machine Translation,
  The 2015 11th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’15) and the 2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’15),
  August 15-17, 2015, Zhangjiajie, China
  
  
• Changge Chen, Peilu Wang, Hai Zhao*,
  Shallow Discourse Parsing Using Constituent Parsing Tree,
  CoNLL 2015, July 30, 2015, Beijing, China
  
  
• Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao*,
  LearningWord Reorderings for Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation,
  ACL-IJCNLP 2015, pp.542-548, July 26-31, 2015, Beijing, China
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• Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita,
  Bilingual Continuous-Space Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation,
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Languange Processing, Vol.23(7): 1209-1220, 2015
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[2014]

• Rui Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichro Sumita
  Neural Network Based Bilingual Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation
  EMNLP 2014: 189-195, Doha, Qatar, October, 2014
  
  
• Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama and Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao
  Learning Hierarchical Translation Spans
  EMNLP 2014: 183-188, Doha, Qatar, October, 2014
  
  
• Yang Xin, Hai Zhao, Yuzhu Wang and Zhongye Jia
  An Improved Graph Model for Chinese Spell Checking
  SIGHAN-2014, Wuhan, China, October, 2014
  
  
• Xiaolin Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu
  A Meta-Top-down Method for Large-scale Hierarchical Classification
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.26(3):500-513,March 2014
  
  
• Xiaolin Wang, Yangyang Chen, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu
  Parallelized Extreme Learning Machine Ensemble Based on Min-Max Modular Network
  Neurocomputing, Vol.128:31-41, March 2014
  
  
• Jia, Zhongye, Hai Zhao
  A Joint Graph Model for Pinyin-to-Chinese Conversion with Typo Correction
  In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Vol.1: 1512-1523, Baltimore, Maryland
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• Wang, Peilu and Jia, Zhongye and Hai Zhao
  Grammatical Error Detection and Correction using a Single Maximum Entropy Model
  Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2014), pages 74--82, Baltimore, Maryland, June
  
  

[2013]

• Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Isao Goto, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
  Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-gram Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
  EMNLP-2013: 845-850, Seattle, USA, October, 2013
  
  
• Xiao-Lin Wang, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
  Labeled Alignment for Recognizing Textual Entailment
  IJCNLP-2013: 605-613, Nagoya, Japan, October, 2013
  
  
• Zhongye Jia, Hai Zhao
  Kyss 1.0: a Framework for Automatic Evaluation of Chinese Input Method Engines
  IJCNLP-2013: 1195-1201, Nagoya, Japan, October, 2013
  
  
• Zhongye Jia, Peilu Wang, Hai Zhao
  Graph Model for Chinese Spell Checking
  SIGHAN-7: 88-92, Nagoya, Japan, October, 2013
  
  
• Zhongye Jia, Peilu Wang, Hai Zhao
  Grammatical Error Correction as Multiclass Classification with Single Model
  CoNLL-2013: 74-81, Sofia, Bulgaria, August, 2013
  
  
• Jingyi Zhang, Hai Zhao
  Improving Function Word Alignment with Frequency and Syntactic Information
  IJCAI-2013: 2211-2217, Beijing, China, August, 2013
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• Xiaolin Wang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu
  BCMI-NLP Labeled-Alignment-Based Entailment System for NTCIR-10 RITE-2 Task
  NTCIR-10: 474-478, Tokyo, Japan, June, 2013
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama and Eiichro Sumita
  An Improved Patent Machine Translation System Using Adaptive Enhancement for NTCIR-10 PatentMT Task
  NTCIR-10: 376-379, Tokyo, Japan, June, 2013
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Xiaotian Zhang, and Chunyu Kit
  Integrative Semantic Dependency Parsing via Efficient Large-scale Feature Selection
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 46:203-233, 2013
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• Hai Zhao, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, and Bao-Liang Lu
  An Empirical Study on Word Segmentation for Chinese Machine Translation
  A. Gelbukh (Ed.): CICLing 2013, Part II, LNCS 7817, pp. 248-263, 2013
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[2012]

• Shaohua Yang, Hai Zhao, Xiaolin Wang and Bao-liang Lu
  Spell Checking for Chinese
  Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), pages 730-736, Istanbul, Turkey, May, 2012
  
  
• Chunyang Wu and Hai Zhao
  Regression with Phrase Indicators for Estimating MT Quality
  Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation of NAACL-2012, pages 152-156,Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 7 - 8, 2012
  
  
• Heming Shou and Hai Zhao
  Hybrid Rule-based Algorithm for Coreference Resolution
  Proceedings of the Joint Conference on EMNLP and CoNLL, pages 118-121, Jeju Island, Korea, July, 2012
  
  
• Xiaotian Zhang, Chunyang Wu and Hai Zhao
  Chinese Coreference Resolution via Ordered Filtering
  Proceedings of the Joint Conference on EMNLP and CoNLL, pages 95-99, Jeju Island, Korea, July, 2012
  
  
• Shaohua Yang, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu
  A Machine Translation Approach for Chinese Whole-Sentence Pinyin-to-Character Conversion
  PACLIC-26, Bali, Indonesia, November, 2012
  
  
• Xiaotian Zhang, Yao Qian, Hai Zhao, Frank Soong
  Break index labeling of Mandarin text via syntactic-to-prosodic tree mapping
  The 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-2012), Hong Kong, December 5-8, 2012
  
  
• Xiaotian Zhang, Hai Zhao and Cong Hui
  A Machine Learning Approach to Convert CCGbank to Penn Treebank
  the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pp.535-542, Mumbai, India, 8-15 December 2012
  
  
• Qiongkai Xu and Hai Zhao
  Using Deep Linguistic Features for Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam
  the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India, 8-15 December 2012
  
  
• Xuezhe Ma and Hai Zhao
  Fourth-Order Dependency Parsing
  the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India, 8-15 December 2012
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[2011]

• Jian Zhang, Hai Zhao, Liqing Zhang, Bao-Liang Lu
  An Empirical Comparative Study on Two Large-Scale Hierarchical Text Classification Approaches
  International Journal Computer Processing of Oriental Language (IJCPOL) 23(4):309-326 (2011)
  
  
• Xiaolin Wang, Hai Zhao and Bao-Liang Lu
  Enhance Top-down method with Meta-Classification for Very Large-scale Hierarchical Classification
  IJCNLP-2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9-11, 2011
  
  
• Xiaotian Zhang and Hai Zhao
  Unsupervised Chinese Phrase Parsing Based on Tree Pattern Mining
  The 11th Confernece of China Computational Linguistics, Luoyang, China, August 20-22, 2011
  
  
• Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit
  Integrating unsupervised and supervised word segmentation: The role of goodness measures
  Information Sciences, Vol.181(1): 163-183, 2011, Elsevier
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[2010]

• ZHAO Hai
  Natural Language Processing as A Branch of Artificial Intelligence : The Stagnant Tech
  The Seventh Young Scholar Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Shenyang, China, September 18-19, 2010
  [PPT] [MP3(29M)]
  
  
• Xuezhe Ma, Xiaotian Zhang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu
  Dependency Parser for Chinese Constituent Parsing
  CIPS-SIGHAN-2010, August, 2010, Beijing, China
  
  
• Yan Song, Chunyu Kit and Hai Zhao
  Reranking with Multiple Features for Better Transliteration
  NEWS-2010, pp.62-65, July, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
  
  
• Cong Hui, Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Bao-Liang Lu
  An Empirical Study on Development Set Selection Strategy for Machine Translation Learning
  WMT-2010, pp.67-71, July, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
  
  
• Shaodian Zhang, Hai Zhao, Guodong Zhou and Bao-liang Lu
  Hedge Detection and Scope Finding by Sequence Labeling with Procedural Feature Selection
  CoNLL-2010, pp.92-99, July, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
  
  
• Jian Zhang, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
  A Comparative Study on Two Large-Scale Hierarchical Text Categorization Tasks’ Solutions
  IWWIP-2010, July, 2010, Qingdao, China
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Chang-Ning Huang, Mu Li, Bao-Liang Lu
  A Unified Character-Based Tagging Framework for Chinese Word Segmentation
  ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. 9(2): 2010
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• Gang Jin, Qi Kong, Jian Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Cong Hui, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
  Multiple Strategies for NTCIR-08 Patent Mining at BCMI
  NTCIR-8, June, 2010, Tokyo, Japan
  
  
• Minzhang Huang, Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu
  Pruning Training Samples Using a Supervised Clustering Algorithm
  ISNN (2) 2010: 250-257, June, 2010, Shanghai, China
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit
  How Large a Corpus Do We Need: Statistical Method Versus Rule-based Method.
  LREC 2010, May, 2010, Malta
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[2009]

• SONG Yan, CAI Dong-Feng, ZHANG Gui-Ping, ZHAO Hai
  An Approach to Chinese Word Segmentation based on Character-Word Joint Decoding
  Journal of Software, Vol.20, No.9, pp.2366-2375, 2009
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit
  Semantic Dependency Parsing of NomBank and PropBank: An Efficient Integrated Approach via a Large-scale Feature Selection
  EMNLP 2009: conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp.30-30, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009
  
  
• Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hai Zhao, Qiaoming Zhu, Peide Qian
  Improving Nominal SRL in Chinese Language with Verbal SRL Information and Automatic Predicate Recognition
  EMNLP 2009: conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp.1280-1288, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit, and Guodong Zhou
  Cross Language Dependency Parsing using a Bilingual Lexicon
  Joint conference 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), pp.55-63, Singapore, August 2-5, 2009
  
  
• Hai Zhao, Chunyu Kit, and Yan Song
  Character Dependency Tree based Lexical and Syntactic All-in-one Parsing for Chinese
  The 10th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CNCCL-2009), pp.82-88, Yantai, China, July 24-26, 2009
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• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Kentaro Torisawa
  Multilingual Dependency Learning: Exploiting Rich Features for Tagging Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies
  Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, (CoNLL-09), pp. 61-66, Boulder, CO, USA, June 4-5, 2009
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• Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit, and Guodong Zhou
  Multilingual Dependency Learning: A Huge Feature Engineering Method to Semantic Dependency Parsing
  Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, (CoNLL-09), pp. 55-60, Boulder, CO, USA, June 4-5, 2009
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• Hai Zhao
  Character-Level Dependencies in Chinese: Usefulness and Learning
  The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (EACL-09), pp.879-887, Athens, Greece, March 30 - April 3, 2009
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• Hai Zhao and Chunyu Kit
  A Simple and Efficient Model Pruning Method for Conditional Random Fields
  The 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 2009), LNCS, Vol.5459, pp.149-159, Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009
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自然科学基金面上项目: 基于语言特性分析的互联网伪信息的自动识别与评估研究, 2012-2015

自然科学基金青年项目: 基于字依存的中文精细结构标注及其学习算法研究, 2010-2012

ACL-2018 area chair on word segmentation, morphology

ACL-2017 area chair on parsing

NLPCC 2017 area chair on fundamental NLP

ACL-2016 publication co-chair

PACLIC 29 Program chair

ACM professional member

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