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I am a 3rd year Ph.D candidate ( Sep. 2005 ~
present) in the Computer Science &
Engineering Department, University of Washington at Seattle. I am working
with professor Daniel S. Weld and Oren Etzioni.
I received my Master degree in the Automation
Department at Tsinghua University in 2005, and my advisor was professor Changshui
Zhang. Before this, I received my B.E. degree in the same
department in 2002.
Research Interests
My
main research interests are in the fields of Machine Learning and Data
Mining, especially on the Web. Related topics include Graphical Models,
Statistical Relational Learning, Information Extraction & Integration,
Information Retrieval Data Management... I am also interested in
Intelligent User Interface and Database.
Currently,
I am working on the “Intelligence in Wikipedia” project. This project aims to
accelerate the extraction of Wikipedia knowledge, e.g. with construction of
infoboxes, and link the resulting schemata together to form a knowledge base of
outstanding size. Not only will this “semantified Wikipedia” be an even more
valuable resource for AI, but it will support faceted browsing and simple forms
of inference that may increase the recall of question-answering systems.
Publications
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2008 -
o
Information Extraction from
Wikipedia: Moving Down the Long Tail
[pdf]
Fei Wu, Raphael
Hoffmann, Daniel S. Weld
In
the 14th ACM SIGKDD international Conference on Knowledge Discovery
& Data Mining, (KDD-08), Las
Vegas, USA, August, 2008.
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Intelligence in
Wikipedia [pdf]
Daniel
S. Weld, Fei Wu, Eytan Adar, Saleema
Amershi, James Fogarty, Raphael Hoffmann, Kayur Patel, Michael Skinner
In
the 23rd AAAI Conference, (AAAI-08),
Chicago, USA, July, 2008.
o
Augmenting
Wikipedia-Extraction with Results from the Web [pdf]
Fei Wu, Raphael Hoffmann,
Daniel S. Weld
In
the “Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence: An Evolving Synergy” Workshop at
23rd
AAAI Conference, (AAAI-08-Workshop),
Chicago, USA, July, 2008.
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Automatically Refining the
Wikipedia Infobox Ontology [pdf] (Best student paper nominee)
Fei Wu, Daniel S.
Weld
In the 17th International World Wide
Web Conference, (WWW-08), Beijing,
China, April, 2008.
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2007 -
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Autonomously Semantifying
Wikipedia [pdf] (Best paper award)
Fei Wu, Daniel S. Weld
In the Sixteenth ACM Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-07),
Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2007.
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Exploring Patterns of Social
Commonality Among File Directories at Work [pdf]
John C. Tang, Clemens Drews, Mark
Smith, Fei Wu, Alison Sue, and Tessa
Lau
Conference on Computer Human
Interaction (CHI-07), San Jose, CA,
May 2007, pp. 951-960, 2007.
o
An Evolutionary System for Near-regular
Texture Synthesis
Fei Wu, Changshui Zhang, Jing-rui He
Journal of Pattern Recognition,
2007.
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Before 2007 -
o
Extracting Objects from the
Web [pdf]
Zaiqing Nie, Fei Wu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
In the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE -06), 2006. (Poster paper)
o
Relevant Linear Feature
Extraction Using Side-information and Unlabeled Data [pdf]
Fei Wu, Yonglei Zhou, Changshui Zhang
17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-04), Cambridge, Aug. 23-25, 2004. (Oral paper)
o
Self-enhanced Relevant
Component Analysis with Side-information and Unlabeled Data [pdf]
Fei Wu, Yonglei Zhou, Changshui Zhang
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2004 (IJCNN-04), Budapest, Hungary, Jul. 25-29, 2004.
o
Active Texture Synthesis
Based on Multi-agent [pdf]
Fei Wu, Changshui Zhang
Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2004 (ACCV-04),
Jeju Island, Korea, Jan. 27-30, 2004.
o
Web Object Extraction
Fei Wu, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Microsoft Research Technical Report,
MSR-TR-2004-121, 2004.
Main Courses
2007 Autumn
Stat 516 Stochastic Modeling
2007 Spring
CSE
551 Operating System
2007 Winter
Stat 513
Statistical Inference(2)
2006 Autumn
Stat 512 Statistical Inference(1)
2006 Spring
CSE
503 Software Engineering
CSE 544 Principles of Database Systems
2006 Winter
CSE
521 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CSE 573 Artificial Intelligence(2)
Project: Continuous Markov Logic Networks
With Hoifung Poon
2005 Autumn
CSE
531 Computability and Complexity
CSE 573 Artificial Intelligence(1)
Project: Exploring Communities and
Their Rankings in Citeseer and DBLP With Nodira Khoussainova
Teaching
Assistant
2006 Winter
CSE
444 Introduction to Database
Systems
Instructor: Dan Suciu
2005 Autumn
CSE 321 Discrete
Mathematics
Instructor: Dieter Fox, Anna Karlin
Personal Experiences
o March 2006 to present, research assistant with Prof. Daniel S. Weld, University of Washington at Seattle.
o June 2006, intern at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA. Working with Dr. Jonh Tang, and Tessa Lau.
o September 2002 to July 2005, research assistant with Prof. Changshui Zhang, Tsinghua University.
o Summer 2004, visiting student in the Web Search & Mining group, Microsoft Research Asia, working with Dr. Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen, and Wei-ying Ma.
Other Interests
o Sports, especially badminton.
o Reading, music, cinema.