I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. My research interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction. |
News
05/16/2016 | Nominated the Best Student Paper Award at Flaris29 | |
03/04/2016 | Awarded the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for academic year 2016-2017 | |
09/20/2015 | Traveled to EMNLP 2015. | |
03/18/2015 | Our paper "Enhancing Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions with Mobile Interfaces and Summarization" is accepted at NAACL-HLT-DEMOS 2015. | |
02/02/2015 | Our paper "CourseMIRROR: Enhancing Large Classroom Instructor-Student Interactions via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing" is accepted at CHI 2015 Works-in-Progress. | |
06/06/2013 | Traveled to NAACL 2013. | |
05/06/2013 | NLU (Natural Language Understanding) Research Intern @ Bosch Research and Technology Center, supervised by Lin Zhao. | |
01/12/2012 | CS2002 Project Advised by Diane Litman on ITSPOKE and Jingtao Wang on CWM project |
Publications
2017
- Xiangmin Fan, Wencan Luo, Jingtao Wang, Mastery Learning of Second Language through Asynchronous Modeling of Native Speakers in a Collaborative Mobile Game, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, 2017, May. (to appear)
- Xiangmin Fan, Wencan Luo, Muhsin Menekse, Diane Litman, Jingtao Wang, Scaling Reflection Prompts in Large Classrooms via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing, in Proceedings of 22nd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017), Limassol, Cyprus, 2017, March.
2016
- Wencan Luo, Fei Liu, and Diane Litman, An Improved Phrase-based Approach to Annotating and Summarizing Student Course Responses, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016) , Osaka, Japan, 2016, Dec.
- Wencan Luo and Fan Yang, An Empirical Study of Automatic Chinese Word Segmentation for Spoken Language Understanding and Named Entity Recognition, in Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2016), San Diego, CA, 2016, June.
- Wencan Luo, Fei Liu, Zitao Liu and Diane Litman, Automatic Summarization of Student Course Feedback, in Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2016), San Diego, CA, 2016, June.
- Wencan Luo and Diane Litman, Determining the Quality of a Student Reflective Response, in Proceedings 29th International FLAIRS Conference, Key Largo, FL, 2016, May. (Best Student Paper Award Nominee)
2015
- Wencan Luo and Diane Litman, Summarizing Student Responses to Reflection Prompts, in Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015, September. (data used in the paper)
- Wencan Luo, Xiangmin Fan, Muhsin Menekse, Jingtao Wang, and Diane Litman. Enhancing Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions with Mobile Interfaces and Summarization, in Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2015), Demo, pp. 16-20, Denver, Colorado, 2015, June.
- Xiangmin Fan, Wencan Luo, Muhsin Menekse, Diane Litman, Jingtao Wang. CourseMIRROR: Enhancing Large Classroom Instructor-Student Interactions via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing, Works-In-Progress of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), pp. 1473-1478, Seoul, Korea, April.
2014
- Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Wencan Luo, Lars Wesemann. Multilingual Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data, in Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Demos & Posters.
- Zhongguo Yuan, Wencan Luo, Feng Tian, Badminton training analysis system based on physiological computing, Computer Engineering and Applications 2014, Issue 12, pp. 59-65
2013
- Wencan Luo, Joel Chan and Diane Litman. Reducing Annotation Effort on Unbalanced Corpus based on Cost Matrix, in Proceedings of the 2013 NAACL HLT Student Research Workshop (NAACL-SRW 2013), Atlanta, GA, June.
2011
- Fei Lv, Feng Tian, Yingying Jiang, Xiang Cao, Wencan Luo, Guang Li, Xiaolong Zhang, Guozhong Dai, Hongan Wang. ShadowStory: Creative and Collaborative Digital Storytelling Inspired by Cultural Heritage, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Pages: 1919-1928.
2010
- Feng Tian, Fei Lv, Jingtao Wang, Hongan Wang, Wencan Luo, Matthew Kam, Vidya Setlur, Guozhong Dai, John Canny. 2010. Let's play Chinese characters: mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Pages: 1603-1612.
- Feng Tian, Wencan Luo, Jing Dai, Yongmin Cheng, Hongan Wang, Guozhong Dai. Leveraging Psychophysical Data in Monitoring and Analyzing the States of Badminton Players, CHI 2010 Workshop on Brain, Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction
- Fei Lv, Wencan Luo, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang, Guozhong Dai. 2010. UEMM: A New Method for the Evaluation of Reality Based Interaction, in Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Harmonlous Human Machine Environment (HHME 2010).
Contact Information
Wencan Luo |