Language Technology and Application including:
Opinion Mining, Information Extraction,
Machine Learning, Information Retrieval,
Ontology Learning,
Natural Language Generation

Ph.D., Scientific-Technical Faculty I: Mathematics and Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. 2005.
Thesis: A Study of Chinese Named Entity and Relation Identification in a Specific Domain
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster
1999 – 2004: Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science / Computational Linguistics, the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.

B.Eng., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. 1982.
Thesis: The Analysis of PASCAL-S Compiler and Its Transplantation
Supervisors:
Prof. Gao Hanqing
Prof. Liang Jinqin
1978 - 1982: Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

2009 - present: Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
2004 - 2009: Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
2001 - 2004: Research Staff in the Department of Computational Linguistics, the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.
1999 - 2001: Visiting Scholar in German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany.
1995 - 1999: Vice Chairman, Associate Professor and Project Leader in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
1993 - 1995: Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
1990 - 1993: Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
1988 - 1990: Guest Researcher in China Commission, the University of Constance, Constance, Germany.
1987 - 1988: Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
1982 - 1987: Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Current：\r
?\tOpinion Mining Techniques and Applications for Chinese Texts\r
This project is proposed and financially supported by UdS-SJTU Joint Research Lab for Language Technology. Main tasks in the project are shown as follows: (1) Mining opinions of free texts regarding automobiles on web, and (2) Making statistics of opinion categorization for evaluated objects, especially polarity and strength of topics (attributes), finally, (3) Giving visualization results depending on the above statistics. The research period is from Dec. 2005 to Dec. 2007.\r
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Role: Project leader\r
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1988-2004:\r
?\tCOLLATE (Computational Linguistics and Language Technology for Real Life Applications)\r
This is a BMBF, Germany funded project that supports the building of a German Competence Center for Language Technology in Saarbrücken. Involved partners are various departements at the University of the Saarland and at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI, main coordinator). On the University side the basic research will be concerned mainly with three central application scenarios for language technology and will strongly support the transfer of new methods from academia into real world applications. The three topics are (1) the goal-oriented extraction of information from huge sets of digital documents, (2) the life-like interaction with information services and (3) the management of a large set of information through improved search and summarization techniques. The competence center as such will consist in three components, which will be coordinated at DFKI: (1) a virtual information center, (2) a demonstration center und (3) a evaluation center. The project will be jointly directed by Prof. Dr. H. Uszkoreit, Prof. Dr. M. Pinkal und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster. The research period is from April 2001 to Dec. 2003.\r
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Role: Project member\r
?\tResearch on Information Extraction and Template Generation based multilingual Information Retrieval\r
This project is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The research period is three years (Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2003).\r
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Role: Project coordinator\r
?\tResearch on the Multilingual Text Generation Model for Natural Language\r
This project is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The research period is three years (Jan. 1997 - Dec. 1999).\r
Role: Project leader\r
?\tACNLG (Applied Chinese Natural Language Generation)\r
ACNLG is a cooperation research project between German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). It is financially supported by the Volkswagen-Stiftung of Germany. The research period is three years (Feb. 1996 - Jan. 1999).\r
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Role: Project leader at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.\r
?\tResearch on the Theory, Technique and Application of Multilingual Text Generation for Natural Language\r
It is financially supported by the the Science and Technology Committee of Shanghai Municipal Government (STCSM). The research period is from Aug. 1996 to Dec. 1998.\r
Role: Project leader\r
Note: This project was evaluated as “achieving international advanced level” on May, 29, 1999. \r
?\tGerman-Chinese Title Machine Translation\r
It is financially supported by STCSM, China. The research period is from Aug. 1992 to Dec. 1994.\r
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Role: Project member\r
Note: This system obtained the “gold award” of the Third Shanghai Science and Technology Exhibition in Oct., 1995.\r
?\tRecognition for Off - Line Chinese Hand-Written Characters\r
It is a cooperation research project between the China Commission, University of Constance, Germany and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. The research period is two years (Aug. 1988 - July. 1990).\r
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Role: Project membe

Research:
In 1995, an application system “German-Chinese Title Machine Translation” developed by the research group received the “gold award” from the Third Shanghai Science and Technology Exhibition.

Teaching:
■ 以专业理论为基础、阶梯式实践环节为主线的计算机专业创新人才培养 上海市教学成果一等奖2001年12月 排名第四
■ 面向21世纪计算机专业教学改革 国家级教学成果二等奖 1997年10月 排名第二
■ 面向21世纪计算机专业教学改革 上海市教学成果一等奖 1996年11月 排名第二

SS 2010
Course \"C++ Programming\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Web Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2009/10
Course \"Object-Oriented Analysis and Design\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 2009
Course \"Web Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Data Warehouse and Data Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Database\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2008/09
Course \"Object-Oriented Analysis and Design\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Data Warehouse and Data Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 2008
Course \"Web Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2007/08
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\" , SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Principles of Database\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 2007
Course \"Data Warehouse and Data Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Web Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2006/07
Course \"Natural Language Understanding\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 2006
Course \"Web Mining\"(Postgraduate), SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2005/06
Course \"Natural Language Understanding\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 2005
Course \"Design of Large-Scale Application Software\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 2004/05
Course \"Natural Language Understanding\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Internet-based Information Extraction Technology\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 1999
Course \"Natural Language Understanding\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 1998
Course \"C Programming\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"Natural Language Understanding\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 1997/98
Course \"Introduction to Computer Science and Engineering\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
Course \"C Programming\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 1997
Course \"Software Engineering\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
WS 1996/97
Course \"PASCAL Programming\", SJTU, Shanghai, China
SS 1996
Course \"Software Engineering\", SJTU, Shanghai, China

Opinion Mining
■ 黄高辉，姚天昉. 基于CRF算法的汉语比较句识别和关系抽取. 计算机应用研究. 2010年第6或7期. (待出版)
■ 刘军，姚天昉. 利用Wikipedia计算语义相似度. 计算机工程. 2010年第20期. (待出版)
■ Hongyan Song and Tianfang Yao. Improving Chinese Topic Extraction Using Word Sense Disambiguation Information. In Proc of the Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control. December 7 - 9, 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
■ 陈漠沙，王睿，张潇君，仇伟，章毅，李婷玉，张文波，姚天昉. Analysis of the Evaluation Results for our Tasks in COAE2009. 第二届中文倾向性分析评测研讨会（COAE2009）论文集. 上海，2009年11月. 第134-143页.
■ 许洪波，姚天昉，黄萱菁，唐慧丰，关峰，张瑾. 第二届中文倾向性分析评测技术报告. 第二届中文倾向性分析评测研讨会（COAE2009）论文集. 上海，2009年11月. 第1-23页.
■ 陈奇哲 刘全升 姚天昉. 汉语意见型语句主题与情感成分及关系抽取的研究. 第五届全国信息检索学术会议（CCIR’2009）论文集. 上海, 2009年11月.第504-512页.
■ 王睿，章毅，仇伟，陈漠沙，李婷玉，张文波，姚天昉. Combining Data-Driven Constituent and Dependency Parsers for CIPS-ParsEval-2009. 第一届汉语句法分析评测学术研讨会（CIPS-ParsEval-2009）论文集. 北京，2009年11月. 第138-144页.
■ 姚天昉，张霄凯. 一种网络非规范汉语词汇的识别方法. 全国第十届计算语言学学术会议(CNCCL-2009) 论文集. 烟台, 2009年7月. 第540 - 545页.
■ 姚天昉，张鑫. 一种基于正例的汉语意见型主观性文本分类方法. 第十二届中国少数民族语言信息处理学术研讨会论文集. 拉萨, 2009年7月.
■ Tianfang Yao and Linlin Li. A Kernel-based Sentiment Classification Approach for Chinese Sentences. In Proc of the 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009). Los Angeles, CA, USA. April 2, 2009. pp 513-518.
■ 宋鸿彦，刘军，姚天昉，刘全升，黄高辉. 汉语意见型主观性文本标注语料库的构建. 中文信息学报. 第23卷第二期. 2009年 3月. 123-128.
■ 刘军，刘全升，陈漠沙，宋鸿彦，黄高辉，张潇君，姚天昉. 第一届中文倾向性分析评测结果浅析. 第一届中文倾向性分析评测研讨会论文集. 北京, 2008年11月. 125-141.
■ 刘全升，姚天昉，黄高辉，刘军，宋鸿彦. 汉语意见型主观性文本类型体系的研究. 中文信息学报. 第22卷第六期. 2008年 11月. 63-68.
■ 宋鸿彦，刘军，姚天昉，刘全升，黄高辉. 汉语意见型主观性文本标注语料库构建. 全国第四届信息检索与内容安全会议论文集（上卷）. 北京, 2008年11月. 75-81.
■ Hang Yin and Tianfang Yao. Explicit Topic Identification and Analysis for Chinese Opinioned Sentences. In Proc of the 8th International Workshop for Autonomous System – Self-Organization, Management, and Control. Shanghai, China. Oct. 6, 2008. pp 177-183.
■ Xiaokai Zhang and Tianfang Yao. A Study of Network Informal Language using Minimal Supervision Approach. In Proc of the 8th International Workshop for Autonomous System – Self-Organization, Management, and Control. Shanghai, China. Oct. 6, 2008. Springer. pp 169-175.
■ 黄高辉，姚天昉，刘全升. 汉语意见型主观性语句类型分析. 第四届全国学生计算语言学会议论文集. 山西，2008年7月. 208-214.
■ 刘全升，姚天昉，黄高辉，刘军，宋鸿彦. 汉语意见型主观性文本类型体系的研究. 第四届全国学生计算语言学会议论文集. 山西，2008年7月. 215-221.
■ 方习文，姚天昉. 汉语极性词词典的设计和实现. 第一届全国知网研讨会（NHW2008）论文集. 北京，2008年5月. 38-46.
■ 姚天昉，程希文，徐飞玉，汉思?乌思克尔特，王睿. 文本意见挖掘综述. 中文信息学报. 第22卷第三期. 2008年 5月. 71-80.
■ Tianfang Yao, Decheng Lou, Xiwen Fang. Polarity Distinction for Chinese Sentiment Words. In (Eds.): Recent Advance of Chinese Computing Technologies. Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society, Singapore. March, 2008. pp 118-121.
■ 姚天昉，彭思崴. 汉语主客观文本分类特征的研究. 计算机科学，第34卷第12期专刊. 2007年 12月. 176-178.
■ 姚天昉，彭思崴. 汉语主客观文本分类方法的研究. 第三届全国信息检索与内容安全学术会议论文集，苏州，2007年11月. 117-123.
■ 姚天昉，娄德成. 汉语情感词语义倾向判别的研究. 2007中文信息处理国际会议（ICCC2007）论文集，武汉，2007年10月. 221-225.
■ 姚天昉，娄德成. 汉语语句主题语义倾向分析方法的研究. 中文信息学报, 第21卷第五期. 2007年 9月. 73-79.
■ Linlin Li, Tianfang Yao. Kernel-based Sentiment Classification for Chinese Sentence. In Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Language Processing and Web Information Technology, Luoyang , China . Aug. 22-24, 2007. 27-32.
■ 姚天昉，娄德成. 汉语语句主题语义倾向分析方法的研究. 全国第九届计算语言学联合学术会议（JSCL-2007）论文集，大连，2007年8月. 582-587.
■ 娄德成，姚天昉. 汉语句子语义极性分析和观点抽取方法的研究. 计算机应用. 第26卷, 第11期. 2006年11月. 2622-2625.
■ 姚天昉，聂青阳，李建超，李林琳，娄德成，陈珂，付宇. 一个用于汉语汽车评论的意见挖掘系统. 见：曹右琦，孙茂松主编，中文信息处理前沿进展-中国中文信息学会二十五周年学术会议论文集. 清华大学出版社，北京，2006年11月. 260-281.

Information Extraction and Information Retrieval
■ Tianfang Yao and Jianchao Li. A Token-based Online Web-Snippet Clustering Approach based on Directed Probability Graph. Journal of Computational Information Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009. pp 1235-1244.
■ Tianfang Yao and Jianchao Li. A Token-based Online Web-Snippet Clustering Approach based on Directed Probability Graph. Proc. of NCIRCS’2008(The 2nd Vol.). Beijing, Nov. 2008. pp 194-204.
■ Jian Zhang and Tianfang Yao. A Study of the Identification of Authorship for Chinese Texts. In Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Taibei, Taiwan. June 17-20, 2008. pp 263-264.
■ Tianfang Yao and Hans Uszkoreit. Building a Lexical Sports Ontology for Chinese IE Using Reusable Strategy. In the Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD\07)