Hi! I'm Xiaodong
About me
I am currently a PhD student at University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Computer Science, as well as a research assistant in the Cognitive Computational Group, advised by Professor Dan Roth. Before coming to Penn, I was a master's student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
My research generally focuses on Natural Language Processing, and my research interest includes Coreference Resolution, Relation Extraction, Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking. My current research focuses on Event Coreference Resolution.
Email: xdyu AT seas DOT upenn DOT edu
Publications
Paired Representation Learning for Event and Entity Coreference
Xiaodong Yu, Wenpeng Yin, Dan Roth
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Design Challenges in Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking
Xingyu Fu*, Weijia Shi*, Xiaodong Yu, Zian Zhao, Dan Roth
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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On the Strength of Character Language Models for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition (short paper)
Xiaodong Yu, Stephen Mayhew, Mark Sammons and Dan Roth
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018
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CogCompNLP: Your Swiss Army Knife for NLP
Daniel Khashabi, Mark Sammons, Ben Zhou, Tom Redman, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Vivek Srikumar, Nicholas Rizzolo, Lev Ratinov, Guanheng Luo, Quang Do, Chen-Tse Tsai, Subhro Roy, Stephen Mayhew, Zhili Feng, John Wieting, Xiaodong Yu, Yangqiu Song, Shashank Gupta, Shyam Upadhyay, Naveen Arivazhagan, Qiang Ning, Shaoshi Ling and Dan Roth
11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2018
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Education
2019/05 - present: University of Pennsylvania
PhD in Computer and Information Science
Advisor: Professor Dan Roth
2017/08 - 2019/05: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science in Computer Science
Advisor: Professor Dan Roth
2016/01 - 2017/05: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Advisor: Professor Dan Roth
2013/09 - 2015/12: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Working Experience
2020/05 - 2020/08: Salesforce Research
Research Intern
2017/05 - 2017/08: Brain, LLC
Research Intern