I am a Research Scientist at Facebook. I am working at the Messenger Ranking Team to improve user engagement on Messenger.
I obtained my Master's and Ph.D. degrees in 2017 and 2019 respectively from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. During my Ph.D., I was affiliated with the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab which is a part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). I was fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Philip Resnik and Prof. Jordan Boyd-Graber. I worked on topic models, Bayesian methods, computational linguistics, and computational social science.
I earned my Bachelor's degree in 2013 from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. In Summer 2012, I was an undergraduate visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Recent Activities
A Multilingual Topic Model for Learning Weighted Topic Links Across Corpora with Low Comparability
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019, Hong Kong SAR, China
[PDF] [Supplement] [Video] [Slides] [Code] [Bibtex]
@inproceedings{Yang:Boyd-Graber:Resnik-2019, Title = {A Multilingual Topic Model for Learning Weighted Topic Links Across Incomparable Corpora}, Author = {Weiwei Yang and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik}, Booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, Year = {2019}, Location = {Hong Kong, China}, }
Adapting Topic Models using Lexical Associations with Tree Priors
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
[PDF] [Poster] [Code] [Bibtex]
@inproceedings{Yang:Boyd-Graber:Resnik-2017, Title = {Adapting Topic Models using Lexical Associations with Tree Priors}, Author = {Weiwei Yang and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik}, Booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, Year = {2017}, Location = {Copenhagen, Denmark}, }
Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: The Case of Ferguson
Lingzi Hong, Weiwei Yang, Philip Resnik, and Vanessa Frias-Martinez
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA
[PDF] [Code] [Bibtex]
@inproceedings{Hong:Yang:Resnik:Frias-Martinez-2016, Title = {Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: The Case of Ferguson}, Author = {Lingzi Hong and Weiwei Yang and Philip Resnik and Vanessa Frias-Martinez}, Booktitle = {International Conference on Social Informatics}, Year = {2016}, Location = {Bellevue, WA, USA}, }
A Discriminative Topic Model using Document Network Structure
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016, Berlin, Germany
[PDF] [Supplement] [Slides] [Code] [Bibtex]
@inproceedings{Yang:Boyd-Graber:Resnik-2016, Title = {A Discriminative Topic Model using Document Network Structure}, Author = {Weiwei Yang and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik}, Booktitle = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, Year = {2016}, Location = {Berlin, Germany}, }
Birds of a Feather Linked Together: A Discriminative Topic Model using Link-based Priors
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
[PDF] [Supplement] [Poster] [Code] [Bibtex]
@inproceedings{Yang:Boyd-Graber:Resnik-2015, Title = {Birds of a Feather Linked Together: A Discriminative Topic Model using Link-based Priors}, Author = {Weiwei Yang and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik}, Booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, Pages = {261--266}, Year = {2015}, Location = {Lisbon, Portugal}, }
Fall 2014 |
CMSC701 Computational Genomics by Prof. Mihai Pop |
CMSC723 Computational Linguistics I by Prof. Hal Daumé III | |
CMSC798E Graduate Seminar in Computer Science by Prof. Jeff Foster | |
Spring 2015 |
CMSC734 Information Visualization by Prof. Ben Shneiderman |
CMSC773 Computational Linguistics II by Prof. Philip Resnik | |
CMSC798F How to Conduct Great Research by Prof. Ben Shneiderman | |
Fall 2015 |
CMSC714 High Performance Computing Systems by Prof. Jeffrey Hollingsworth |
CMSC733 Computer Processing of Pictorial Information by Prof. John Yiannis Aloimonos | |
LING848 Seminar in Computational Linguistics by Prof. Philip Resnik | |
Spring 2016 |
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Spring 2017 |
CMSC828F Computational Psycholinguistics by Prof. Naomi Feldman |