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Limin Yao

Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst

140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: lmyao AT cs DOT umass DOT edu

I am a second-year PhD student. I am working with Professor Andrew McCallum.



Education

08/2005 - 07/2008, M.E., Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China.

09/2001 - 07/2005, B.E., Computer Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Research Interests

Semi-supervised learning, Information Extraction, Topic Model, Natural Language Processing.

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Umass Amherst, Aug. 2008 - Present
Intern at Information Retrieval Group of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Jun. 2009 - Aug. 2009
Intern at Natural Language Computation Group of Microsoft Research Asia, Aug. 2006 - Jan. 2007

Publications


  • Limin Yao, David Mimno, Andrew McCallum. Efficient Methods for Topic Model Inference on Streaming Document Collections. In Proceedings of SIGKDD 2009, Paris, France.

  • Jie Tang, Limin Yao, Dewei Chen. Multi-topic based Query-oriented Summarization. In Proceedings of SDM 2009.

  • Jie Tang, Jing Zhang, Limin Yao, Juanzi Li, Li Zhang, Zhong Su. Extraction and Mining of Academic Social Network. In Proceedings of SIGKDD 2008.

  • Limin Yao, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li. The Entire Solution Path for Support Vector Machine in Positive and Unlabeled Classification. Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2008

  • Jie Tang, Jing Zhang, Limin Yao, Juanzi Li. Extraction and Mining of an Academic Social Network. (Poster Paper). In Proceedings of WWW 2008.

  • Jie Tang, Duo Zhang, Limin Yao, Yi Li. Automatic Semantic Annotation using Machine Learning. In the book of The Semantic Web for Knowledge and Data Management: Technologies and Practices. Zhongmin Ma (Ed.), Springer Inc.

  • Jie Tang, Duo Zhang, Limin Yao. Social Network Extraction of Academic Researchers. In Proceedings of ICDM 2007.

  • Limin Yao, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li. A Unified Approach to Researcher Profiling. In Proceedings of Web Intelligence 2007, Silicon Valley, CA, US.

  • Limin Yao, Mu Li, Changning Huang. Improving Chinese Chunking with Enriched Statistical and Morphological Knowledge. NLP-KE 2007.

    Awards

    KDD Student Travel Award and Google Diversity Award, 2009
    Third class scholarship in Tsinghua University
    First National Prize for excellent performance in study (top 5%)
    Excellent Graduate Student Award in Shaanxi Province (top 5%)
    First Prize in Mathematical Competition in Shaanxi Province (top 10%)
    Enterprise Scholarship sponsored by China National Petroleum Company (top 5%)
    First class scholarship of Xian Jiaotong University (top 8%)