Computer Science System Administrator

Richard C. Wang th

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Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-MAIL: ******@***.***

Seeking a full-time job in information extraction/retrieval and natural language processing.

OBJECTIVE:

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

EDUCATION:

Candidate for Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Aug. 2009.

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Masters in Language Technologies, May 2005.

Cumulative QPA: 3.85

Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Science, May 2003.

Major: Computer Science. Minor: Business Administration

July 2003 ~ Present

WORK & Research / Teaching Assistant

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

RESEARCH

Conducted research related to information extraction and the CMU RADAR project.

EXPERIENCE:

Responsible for grading assignments & exams, making exam questions, and holding office hours for the

courses: 1) Information Retrieval and 2) Advanced Natural Language Processing Seminar.

May 2006 ~ Aug. 2006

Google Summer Engineering Intern

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

Developed a system that learns from annotated text and automatically produces regular expressions for

extracting information.

Aug. 2002 ~ May 2003

CMU School of Computer Science Web Programmer

Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Designed and programmed the official School of Computer Science website.

June 2002 ~ Aug. 2002

Merck Computational Biology Summer Scholar

Biological Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Developed a system that extracts information from image captions in biological journal articles.

May 2000 ~ Aug. 2000

System Administrator and Technical Writer

Edimax Technology Co., Ltd., Taipei County, Taiwan

Installed and maintained intranet systems of Novell/Windows servers, hubs, and switches on LAN.

Translated real-time conversations, emails, web pages, user manuals between English and Chinese.

www.BooWa.com A list extractor for many languages

RESEARCH

Automatically

finds all hyponyms of a given noun (e.g. car makers Ford, Nissan, Toyota, etc.)

PROJECTS:

Automatically

expands a given set of entities into a more complete set (like Google Sets).

Personal Names Extractor for E-mails

Recognizes personal names in e-mails using machine-trained sequential learners.

Information Extractor for Space-Request E-mails

Extracts and processes information from e-mails regarding conference and office space requests.

Automatic Named Entity Translator

Automatically translates named entities in multiple languages using snippets returned by search engines.

Personalized Meta-Search Engine

Extracts, filters, and merges search results from multiple search engines.

Personalizes results by re-ranking snippets based on keywords that occurred in user s visited snippets.

FIRST AUTHOR Character-Level Analysis of Semi-Structured Documents for Set Expansion. EMNLP 2009.

PUBLICATIONS: Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web. ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Iterative Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web. ICDM 2008

Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering. EMNLP 2008

Language-Independent Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web. ICDM 2007

Awarded Google Research Grant Award in 2008.

AWARDS:

Java, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, JSP, C, C++, Perl, SQL, Matlab, Lisp, and SML.

LANGUAGES:

Proficient in English and Chinese (both Mandarin and Taiwanese), Intermediate in Japanese.

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