Bofang Li 李博放 [CV] [Chinese CV] version 0.2 文字版

Education Backgrounds


09/2004-06/2007	Middle School	No.4 Middle School of Mianyang of Sichuan Province
09/2007-06/2010	High School	Mianyang Nanshan High School of Sichuan Province
09/2010-06/2014	B.S.	Renmin University of China, Majored in Computer Science	GPA: 3.40/4
10/2017-09/2018	Visiting Junior Fellow	Tokyo Institute of Technology
09/2014-present	Ph.D.	Renmin University of China, Majored in Computer Science	GPA: 3.79/4

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, especially word and text representations.


2007	National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, first prize
2008	National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, first prize
2009	National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, first prize
2008	National Olympiad in Informatics, bronze medal
2009	National Olympiad in Informatics, bronze medal (being recommended for admission to RUC)
2009	Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad, bronze medal
2010	ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, bronze medal in Fuzhou
2010	ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, bronze medal in Hangzhou
2011	Mathematical Modeling Contest for college students, second prize of Beijing
2011	The Second Class Scholarship at RUC
2013	Undergraduate Innovative Test Program
2014	Sogou-NDBC Cup on Web-based Entity Relation Extraction, ranked 3rd
2014	The First Class Scholarship at RUC
2016	China National Scholarship for Ph.D students
2017	Postgraduate Research Funding at RUC
2017	China National Scholarship for Ph.D students

11/2012-12/2012	Mind Education Corporation
Independently develop a recruit system for Mind Education Corporation Include online registration, interviewing, cultivating, testing, agreement signing and management of employees
6/2013-12/2013	Microsoft Summer Internship ((Search technology center, multi-media team)
Relational image search results visualization (Flash) Data sorting and formatting
06/2015-09/2015	Infosys (Big data team)
Haier customer analysis, including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and relation extraction

03/2017	Vecto (http://vecto.space/)	Core member
-A reproducible research framework for word, character, sentence embeddings and more! -Pre-trained embeddings, evaluation datasets, evaluation methods, embedding models
11/2011	"stat-nba" basketball database website (http://www.stat-nba.com)	Leader
Implement spider parsers to update NBA statistics of players, teams and games daily Build apache+mysql+php environment to show data above, offer data query service 80,000+ page views per day
04/2011	YOU online program auto-judging platform (http://202.112.113.190:8080) [PAPER]	Core member
-Include nearly 400 C and Java problems

Have deep understanding of algorithms and data structures
Have rich experience in Java, currently use Python (mainly for Chainer and other deep learning frameworks)

2018

Subcharacter Information in Japanese Embeddings: When Is It Worth It

Bofang Li

ACL workshop RELNLP 2018

Subword-level Composition Functions for Learning Word Embeddings [PDF]
Bofang Li, Aleksandr Drozd, Tao Liu, Xiaoyong Du
NAACL workshop SCLeM 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Attention-based Recurrent Neural Network for Sequence Labeling [PDF]
Bofang Li, Tao Liu, Zhe Zhao, Xiaoyong Du
APWeb-WAIM 2018, Macau.

2017

The (Too Many) Problems of Analogical Reasoning with Word Vectors [PDF]
Anna Rogers, Aleksandr Drozd, Bofang Li
*SEM 2017, Vancouver Canada.
Guiding the Training of Distributed Text Representation with Supervised Weighting Scheme for Sentiment Analysis [PDF]
Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Shen Li, Bofang Li, Xiaoyong Du
Data Science and Engineering
Investigating Different Context Types and Representations for Learning Word Embeddings [PDF][code]
Bofang Li, Tao Liu, Zhe Zhao, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rogers, Xiaoyong Du
EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ngram2vec: Learning Improved Word Representations from Ngram Co-occurrence Statistics [PDF]
Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Shen Li, Bofang Li, Xiaoyong Du
EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Neural Bag-of-n-grams [PDF][code]
Bofang Li, Tao Liu, Zhe Zhao, Puwei Wang, Xiaoyong Du
AAAI 2017, San Francisco, California USA.

2016

Weighted Neural Bag-of-n-grams Model: New Baselines for Text Classification [PDF]
Bofang Li, Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Puwei Wang, Xiaoyong Du
COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
Learning Document Embeddings by Predicting N-grams for Sentiment Classification of Long Movie Reviews [PDF][code]
Bofang Li, Tao Liu, Xiaoyong Du, Deyuan Zhang, Zhe Zhao
ICLR 2016 workshop, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Cluster-Driven Model for Improved Word and Text Embedding [PDF]
Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Bofang Li, Xiaoyong Du
ECAI 2016, Hague, Netherlands.
Distributed Text Representation with Weighting Scheme Guidance for Sentiment Analysis [PDF]
Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Xiaoyun Hou, Bofang Li, Xiaoyong Du
APWEB 2016, Suzhou, China.
Yoj: An online judge system designed for programming courses [PDF]
Hui Sun, Bofang Li, Min Jiao
ICCSE 2016, Vancouver, Canada.