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Xiao Guo

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Xiao Guo, PhD Research Student

Xiao joined IRAC on 1st October, 2007. His proposed research topic is about analyzing natural languages by using fuzzy logic. This research is also mainly related to knowledge representation, machine learning and cognitive psychology. The aim of this subject is to develop the capability for natural language learning by computers and to improve direct interaction between human and computer in fluent natural language. Xiao tends to agree with the theory of evolution of natural language. He thinks that it should go beyond Chomsky’s linguistic theories if we want computers to really understand natural language. Besides the research subject, Xiao is also interested in model theory, data mining and computational complexity theory.

Before joining IRAC, Xiao obtained his MSc in Advanced Methods in Computer Science at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in November, 2006. The title of the final project was “The Investigation on Complexities of Data Mining Algorithms”. Before that, he obtained a BEng in Computer Science and Techniques at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in July, 2005. At UESTC, he was awarded the “Scholarship for Annual Excellent Students” from 2002 to 2005 (Third class in 2002 and 2004, First class in 2003 and 2005).

During his spare time, Xiao likes playing football, swimming, and reading history and philosophy works.

Membership
  • ACM
Publications
  • "Words clustering for Human Robot Interaction", In Proc. IEEE ITIP, 2010. (In Press)
  • "Lexicon-Meaning Bipartite Networks", In Proc. CSEE, 2010.
  • "Lexical Vagueness Minimization", In Proc. IEEE 3rd ICACTE. 2010.
  • "Lexical Vagueness Modeling and Minimization Using SFOM and Signalling Games," in Proc. of HAM EPSRC, Springer: London, 2010(in Press)
  • "Handling Lexical Uncertainties: A Survey", (submitted to Computational Linguistics)
  • "Conditional Mutual Information Based Selectional Preference and Word Sense Disambiguation", in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Dalian, China, 2009, pp. 214 ¨C 219.
  • "Handling Uncertainty in Natural Language for Service Robots", in Proc. of HAM EPSRC UK, Staffordshire, U.K., 2009.
  • "Handling Lexical Vagueness: A Survey", in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Automation and Computing, London, U.K., 2008.

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