Ruihong Huang - Assistant Professor in Texas A&M University

Ruihong Huang

Assistant Professor
Natural Language Processing Group

Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112. USA.

office: 402B HRBB
phone: 979-862-2908
email: huangrh@cse.tamu.edu .

[Publications] [Teaching] [Students] [Services]

I received my Ph.D. in School of Computing, University of Utah in July 2014
and completed a postdoc in the NLP group, Stanford University before
I joined Texas A&M University in September 2015.

I am looking for passionate PhD students to work with me.
If you are interested, please apply to our graduate program,
also feel free to drop me an email.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, especially Event Detection and Extraction

Machine Learning, especially Weakly Supervised (Bootstrapping, Co-training) and Semi-supervised methods

Semantics, Discourse, Text understanding

Educational, Biomedical and Social Science Applications of NLP

Teaching

(Spring 2017) NLP Foundation and Techniques

Publications

"Distinguishing Past, Ongoing and Future Events: the EventStatus Corpus".
Ruihong Huang, Ignacio Cases, Dan Jurafsky, Cleo Condoravdi, Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-16).
The EventStatus Corpus

"Extracting Subevents via an Effective Two-phase Approach".
Allison Badgett, Ruihong Huang.
in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-16).

"Learning Event Expressions via Bilingual Structure Projection".
Fangyuan Li, Ruihong Huang, Deyi Xiong.
in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-16).

"CaseSummarizer: A System for Automated Summarization of Legal Texts".
Seth Polsley, Pooja Jhunjhunwala, Ruihong Huang.
in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-16)(demo session).

"Towards Accurate Event Detection in Social Media: A Weakly Supervised Approach for Learning Implicit Event Indicators".
Ajit Jain, Girish Kasiviswanathan, Ruihong Huang.
in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, co-located with (COLING-16).

"IMPROVING INFORMATION EXTRACTION BY DISCOURSE-GUIDED AND MULTIFACETED EVENT RECOGNITION".
Ruihong Huang.
Dissertation 2014.

"Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-13).

"Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation".
Ellen Riloff, Ashequl Qadir, Prafulla Surve, Lalindra De Silva, Nathan Gilbert, Ruihong Huang.
in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-13).

"Classifying Message Board Posts with an Extracted Lexicon of Patient Attributes".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-13) (Short Papers).

"Modeling Textual Cohesion for Event Extraction".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of the 26th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12).

"Bootstrapped Training of Event Extraction Classifiers".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12).

"Peeling Back the Layers: Detecting Event Role Fillers in Secondary Contexts".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-11).

"Inducing Domain-specific Semantic Class Taggers from (Almost) Nothing".
Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
in Proceedings of The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10).
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"Study of Kernel-based Methods for Chinese Relation Extraction".
Ruihong Huang and Le Sun and Yuanyong Feng.
in Proceedings of the 4th Asia information retrieval conference on Information retrieval technology(AIRS'08).

Students

PhDs

Wenlin Yao (2015-)
Prafulla Choubey (2016-)
Zeyu Dai (2016-)
Ajit Jain (co-advising, with Dr. Andruid Kerne)

Masters

Undergrads

Services

Organizing the workshop of Women in NLP, collocated with ACL 2017.
Area Chair (Information Extraction) for EMNLP 2016.
Program Committee ACL (2012, 2014-2017), NAACL (2015-2016), EMNLP (2015-2016).
Program Committee COLING (2016), EACL (2017), AAAI (2015, 2017), IJCAI (2016)
Reviewer for the Journal of Computational linguistics.