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PENG XU
		Graduate Student Center for speech and language processing Johns Hopkins University Lab: 320 Barton Hall 3400 North Charles St Baltimore,MD,21218 Email: xp@jhu.edu Phone: 410-516-5409 Fax: 410-516-5050
Biosketch:
I am here to find out why I am here.
I have graduated!!! Now I work in Google as a research scientist.
My thesis is "Random Forests and the Data Sparseness Problem in Language Modeling"
Source code used in the thesis and example data can be downloaded.
Resume:
ps , pdf
Research Interest:
Everything :) (To tell the truth, everything related to statistical learning.)
Publications:
Journals:
	Yet to come...
Conference Proceedings:
	P. Xu, and F. Jelinek, "Using Random Forests in the Structured Language Model," In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17 (NIPS 2004), Vancouver, Canada, December, 2004. (ORAL PRESENTATION)
	P. Xu, and F. Jelinek, "Random Forests in Language Modeling," In Proceedings of EMNLP'2004, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2004. (HONORABLE MENTION for BEST PAPER AWARD)
	W. Byrne, S. Khudanpur, W. Kim, S. Kumar, P. Pecina, P. Virga, P. Xu, and D. Yarowsky. "The Johns Hopkins University 2003 Chinese-English Machine Translation System," In Machine Translation Summit IX. The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2003.
	P. Xu, A. Emami and F. Jelinek, "Training Connectionist Models for the Structured Language Model," In Proceedings of EMNLP'2003, Sapporo, Japan, July, 2003. (BEST PAPER AWARD)
	A. Emami, P. Xu and F. Jelinek, "Using a Connectionist Model in a Syntactical Based Language Modeling," In Proceedings of ICASSP'2003, Hong Kong, China, April, 2003
	P. Xu, C. Chelba and F. Jelinek, "A Study on Richer Syntactic Dependencies for Structured Language Modeling," In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 191-198, Philadelphia, PA, July, 2002.
	G. Zweig, J. Bilmes, T. Richardson, K. Filali, K. Livescu, P. Xu, K. Jackson, Y. Brandman, E. Sandness, E. Holtz, J. Torres, B. Byrne, "Structurally Discriminative Graphical Models for Automatic Speech Recognition: Results from the 2001 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop," ICASSP'2002, Orlando, Florida, May, 2002.
	Ciprian Chelba and Peng Xu, "Richer syntactic dependencies for structured language modeling," In Proceedings for the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Madonna di Campiglio, Trento-Italy, December, 2001.
	J. Liang, P. Xu, and T. D. Tran, "A robust DCT-based low frequency watermarking scheme," 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, vol. I, pp.TA5 1-6, Princeton, NJ, March 2000.
	Chao Huang, Peng Xu, Xin Zhang, Shubin Zhao, Taiyi Huang, Bo Xu, "LODESTAR: A Mandrin Spoken Dialogue System for Travel Information Retrieval,"i In Proceedings of Eurospeech'99, vol. 3, pp. 1159-1162, Budapest, Hungary, September, 1999.
Technical Report:
	Yet to come...

The Center for Language and Speech Processing The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street, Barton Hall Baltimore, MD 21218
	Telephone: (410) 516-4237		Fax: (410) 516-5050		E-mail: xp@clsp.jhu.edu