Erdong (Roger) Chen

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab

32 Vassar Street, 32-G369

Cambridge, MA 02139

e d c @ c sail . mit . edu (remove all spaces)

Short Bio...

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, advised by Regina Barzilay.

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Research Interests

• Machine Learning

• Algorithms and Complexity
• Natural Language Processing

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Recent Papers

• Erdong Chen, Discourse Models for Collaboratively Edited Corpora, Science Master thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• Erdong Chen, Benjamin Snyder, and Regina Barzilay, Incremental Text Structuring with Online Hierarchical Ranking, to appear in Joint Meeting of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning(EMNLP-CoNLL) 2007. [code & data]

Past Papers

• Erdong Chen, Linji Yang, and Hao Yuan, Longest Increasing Subsequences in Windows based on Canonical Antichain Partition, to appear in Theoretical Computer Science 2007 (TCS) (Special issue on the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation). [ DOILINK, DRAFT ]

• Erdong Chen, Linji Yang, and Hao Yuan, Improved Algorithms for 2-Interval Pattern Problem, to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2007 (Special issue on the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation). [ DOI LINK, DRAFT ]

• Shenghua Bao, Lei Zhang, Erdong Chen, Min Long, Rui Li, and Yong Yu. LSM: Language Sense Model for Information Retrieval, to appear in the Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management(WAIM) 2006 [ps] [pdf] [abstract]

• Erdong Chen, Hao Yuan, and Linji Yang, Longest Increasing Subsequences in Windows based on Canonical Antichain Partition, the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) 2005. Best Student Paper Award (Invited to special issue of Theoretical Computer Science) [ps] [abstract] [slides]

• Hao Yuan, Linji Yang, and Erdong Chen. Improved Algorithms for 2-Interval Pattern Problem, the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) 2005. Best Student Paper Award Candidate (Invited to special issue of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization) [ps] [abstract] [slides]

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Education

• Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT, Sept. 2006 - Present
• B.Eng., Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sept. 2002 - June. 2006.
• Exchange Student, B.S., Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Sept. 2004 - Jan. 2005.

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Erdong Chen

Last modified: Saturday, September 06, 2008