Yuk Wah Wong (John) Ph.D. (2007) Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin

I finished my Ph.D. in August 2007. My Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Raymond J. Mooney. My interests are natural-language processing and machine learning.

I usually go by John, but my college buddies usually call me something else. Check out my wedding web site!

Publications

• Yuk Wah Wong. 2007.
  Learning for Semantic Parsing and Natural Language Generation Using Statistical Machine Translation Techniques.
  Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, August. 188 pages.
   
• Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney. 2007.
  Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus.
  In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2007), pp. 960-967, Prague, Czech Republic, June. (Best Paper Award)
   
• Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney. 2007.
  Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser That Uses Statistical Machine Translation.
  In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL/HLT-2007), pp. 172-179, Rochester, NY, April.
   
• Aaron J. Jacobs and Yuk Wah Wong. 2006.
  Maximum Entropy Word Segmentation of Chinese Text.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, pp. 185-188, Sydney, Australia, July.
   
• Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney. 2006.
  Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation.
  In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL-2006), pp. 439-446, New York City, NY, June.
  Download the WASP Semantic Parser.
   
• Rohit J. Kate, Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney. 2005.
  Learning to Transform Natural to Formal Languages.
  In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2005), pp. 1062-1068, Pittsburgh, PA, July.
   
• Razvan Bunescu, Ruifang Ge, Rohit J. Kate, Edward M. Marcotte, Raymond J. Mooney, Arun K. Ramani and Yuk Wah Wong. 2005.
  Comparative Experiments on Learning Information Extractors for Proteins and Their Interactions.
  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 33:139-155.
   
• Jayant Kalagnanam, Moninder Singh, Sudhir Verma, Michael Patek and Yuk Wah Wong. 2004.
  A System for Automated Mapping of Bill-of-Materials Part Numbers.
  In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2004), pp. 805-810, Seattle, WA, August.
   
• Razvan Bunescu, Ruifang Ge, Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney, Yuk Wah Wong, Edward M. Marcotte and Arun Kumar Ramani. 2003.
  Learning to Extract Proteins and Their Interactions from Medline Abstracts.
  In Proceedings of ICML-2003 Workshop on Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, pp. 46-53, Washington, DC, August.

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