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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
"If we do not honor our past, we lose our future.
If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow."
--- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Yuk Wah Wong
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