I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). I am advised by Prof. Barbara Di Eugenio and am affiliated with the NLP Laboratory. My research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Intelligent Tutoring System(ITS), Information Extraction. I am currently working on natural language understanding in multi-modal dialogs.
Education
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. ongoing.
M.A., Computational Linguistics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 2007.
B.A., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 2004.
Publications
Journal Articles
Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Christopher Brown, Stellan Ohlsson, David Cosejo and Lin Chen. Supporting Computer Science curriculum: Exploring and learning linked lists with iList. IEEE Transactionson Learning Technologies, Special Issue on Real-World Applications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 2009.
Ang Sun, Minghu Jiang, Yifan He, Lin Chen and Baozong Yuan. Chinese question answering based on syntax analysis and answer classification. Acta Electronica Sinica 36(5). 2008
Proceedings
Lin Chen, Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Stellan Ohlsson and David Cosejo. Exploring Effective Dialogue Act Sequences in One-on-one Computer Science Tutoring Dialogues. In BEA6, The 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 2011.
Lin Chen, Anruo Wang and Barbara Di Eugenio. Improving Pronominal and Deictic Co-Reference Resolution with Multi-Modal Features. In SIGDIAL 2011, The 12th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 2011.
Barbara Di Eugenio, Milos Zefran, Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Mark Foreman, Lin Chen, Simone Franzini, Shankaranand Jagadeesan, Maria Javaid and Kai Ma. Towards effective communication with robotic assistants for the elderly: Integrating speech, vision and haptics. Dialog with Robots, AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium, Arlington, VA, USA. November 2010.
Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. A Maximum Entropy approach to disambiguating VerbNet classes. 2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs, “The Identification and Representation of Verb Features”.Pisa, Italy. November 2010.
Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. A Lucene and Maximum Entropy model based hedge detection system. CoNLL 2010 : Shared Task, Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Uppsala, Sweden. July 2010.
Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Christopher Brown and Lin Chen. Generating proactive feedback to help students stay on track. ITS 2010, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2010.
Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Christopher Brown, Lin Chen and David Cosejo. I learn from you, you learn from me: How to make iList learn from students. AIED 2009, The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK. July 2009.
Lin Chen, Minghu Jiang and Guoying Huang, Hybrid pronominal anaphora resolution system for mandarin, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B, Vol. 14 (S2), Complex Systems and Applications-Modeling, Control and Simulations, pp.696-700, 2007.
PanPan Liao, Ying Liu and Lin Chen. Hybrid Chinese text chunking. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. Waikoloa, Hawaii. September 2006.
Book Chapters
Qiushi Technology. Generic Modules and Essential Examples for Database System Development with Visual Foxpro. ISBN: 7115143307. Post and Telecom Press, China. June 2006.
Wei Gao and Lin Chen. Introduction to Visual FoxPro 9.0. ISBN: 730210719X. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, China. May 2005.
Lin Chen, Yanhua Chen and Min Wei. Database System Development in Practice with Visual FoxPro. ISBN:712100576X. Publishing House of Electronics Industry, Beijing, China. January 2005.
Qiushi Technology. Information Management System Development in Practice with Visual FoxPro. ISBN:7115131937. Post and Telecom Press, Beijing, China. April 2005.
Qiushi Technology. Database System Development Technique and Engineering in Practice with Visual FoxPro6.0. ISBN: 7115119546. Post and Telecom Press, Beijing, China. January 2004.
Song Luo and Lin Chen. Navigation for Enterprise Office System Development with Visual FoxPro. ISBN:711511353X. Post and Telecom Press, Beijing, China. June 2003.
Thesises
Research on Pronominal Anaphora Resolution based on Feature Extraction and Machine Learning, M.A. Thesis, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 2007.
Collocation Search and Analysis System for Mandarin. B.A. Thesis, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.2004.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant for Natural Language Processing and Programming Language Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Spring 2011.
Teaching Assistant for Object-Oriented Languages and Environments, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Spring 2010.
Teaching Assistant for Computer Literacy and Software Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.Spring 2008.
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Computing and Web and Multimedia Programming, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Fall 2007.
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Linguistics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Spring 2005.
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2010.
Academic Excellence Scholarship of Guanghua, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 2005.
Academic Excellence Scholarship of Guanghua, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 2003.
Professional Activities
Reviewer for Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2011.
Reviewer for Journal of Engineering and Computer Innovations, 2010.
Reviewer for Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009.