Xing Shi (史兴)
I am a Ph.D. student at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of University of Southern California (USC), adviced by Prof. Kevin Knight. Interested in Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Neural Sequence Models. Prior to USC, I worked with Prof. Minlie Huang on Information Extraction and Sentence Compression at Tsinghua Univeristy. [Curriculum Vitae]
Publication
Incident-Driven Machine Translation and Name Tagging for Low-resource Languages
[Link]
Hafez: an Interactive Poetry Generation System
[PDF] [DEMO] [Alexa Skill] [Alexa Demo Video] [R!CH]
Speeding up Neural Machine Translation Decoding by Shrinking Run-time Vocabulary
[PDF]
Using First-Order Logic to Compress Sentences
[PDF]
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. student in Computer Science ( 2012 - Present )
Tsinghua University, Beijing
B.E. in Computer Science and Technology ( 2008 - 2012 )
Award
Best Demo Paper Award in ACL 2017
Finalist Award in at Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge 2017
Second prize in PoetiX 2017 (a sonnets generation competition)
First prize in PoetiX 2016 (a sonnets generation competition)
Second-class scholarship offered by ESS Inc. 2010-2011
Second-class scholarship offered by Geru Zheng. 2009-2010
First-class scholarship offered by Huawei Inc. 2008-2009
Elected as the Beijing Olympic Torch Escorts. Jul. 2008
Contact
Email: xingshi@usc.edu
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292