CHEN, Benfeng  

About Me (My Resume)

I am now a PhD student in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Sicence and Technology (HKUST). Research area is Natrual Language Processing (NLP). I received my B.Eng degree in Electronic Engineering & Information Science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 2003. While being a undergraduate student at USTC, I was a research assistant in iFlyTEK Research Center and worked on Text-To-Speech(TTS) system from 2000 - 2003.

I have great interests in software development. I enjoy programming very much and love exploring new technologies. My favorite programming languages and tools are C/C++/C#/Perl/Python and Microsoft Visual Studio/Emacs.

Professional Awards

• Microsoft Top MVP Contributor (in 2004)
• Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) on Visual C# (in 2003), Visual C++ (in 2004).

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Cross-lingual Semantic Understanding, Machine Translation(MT), Question Answering, Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR).
• Speech Processing: Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech(Speech Synthesis),Speech Translation.
• Machine Learning: Maximum Entropy, Hidden Markov Model(HMM).
• Programming Languages*: Compiling techniques, Code optimization.
• Security*: Cryptography, network security, reverse engineering.

Ongoing Research Projects

• The BiFrameNet Project, aiming to automatically construct a bilingual frame-semantic database.

• The Maximum Entropy based Chinese Parser, aiming to build a fast and high-accuracy Chinese parser, which would be open source and free. (coming soon)

Publications

• Semantic Understanding

  • Pascale Fung and Benfeng Chen. "BiFrameNet: Bilingual Frame Semantics Resource Construction by Cross-lingual Induction". In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland: August, 2004.   (pdf)

  • Benfeng Chen and Pascale Fung. "Automatic Construction of an English-Chinese Bilingual FrameNet". In Proceedings of Human Language Technology conference 2004 (HLT/NAACL-04). Boston, Mass: May 2004.   (pdf)

• Chinese Parsing

  • Pascale Fung, Grace Ngai, Yongsheng Yang and Benfeng Chen, 2004. "A Maximum-Entropy Chinese Parser Augmented by Transformation-Based Learning". To appear in ACM Transaction on Asian Language Processing. (pdf)

• Text-To-Speech

  • Guoping Hu,Benfeng Chen, Ming Fan, Ren-Hua Wang. (2003). "The Contribution of Mutual Information in the Intonational Phrase Prediction In Chinese Text".In Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE 2003).. Beijing: Oct 2003. (pdf)

  • Benfeng Chen, Guoping Hu, Renhua Wang. (2002). "Large Lexicon Construction for TTS System". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium On Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-02). Taipei, Taiwan: Aug 2002. (pdf)

  • Guoping Hu,Benfeng Chen, Renhua Wang.(2002). "Developing Chinese TAK for Computer Directly". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium On Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-02). Taipei, Taiwan, Aug 2002. (pdf)

• Programming languages

  • Benfeng Chen, Hailiang Yu, Xingrong Shi. "Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Scripting Language - SharpScript". Journal of Computer Engineering. January, 2004. (Chinese)

  • Benfeng Chen, XingRong Shi. "Introduction to a novel Object-Oriented Scripting language for Web Browser". In Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Programming Language Development. YangZhou, China: March, 2003. (Chinese)

• Software Development (list)

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