Yu Wu

Beijing China wumark At 126 Dot Com

Hi! I am Yu Wu (吴俣). I obtained my B.S. and Ph.D. degree at Beihang University. During my Ph.D. career, I was supervised by Professor Ming Zhou and Zhoujun Li in a joint program of Beihang University and Microsoft Research Asia. From July 2013 to May 2019, I was a full time intern of Microsoft Research Asia. I joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in June 2019 as an Associate Researcher.

I have adequent experiences in building open domain chatbot. During my five-years internship in MSRA, I developed several key algorithms for Chatbot, some of which are published in top tier conferences and transfer to XiaoIce. You can find more details on my Google Scholar or on my Curriculum vitae. I also enjoy innovation projects, and I participated in the music creation project (incl. lyrics generation, melody composition and background accompanying).

Research interests

  • Chatbot
  • Text Generation
  • Spoken Language Processing

Publications

  • Bridging the Gap between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning for End-to-End Speech Translation
     Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Zhenglu Yang, Ming Zhou
    34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 20)

  • A Dataset for Low-Resource Stylized Sequence-to-Sequence Generation
     Yu Wu, Yunli Wang, Shujie Liu
    34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 20)

  • A Robust Transformer based Text-to-Speech Model
     Naihan Li, Yanqing Liu, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Sheng Zhao, Ming Liu and Ming Zhou
    34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 20)

  • Unsupervised Context Rewriting for Open Domain Conversation
     Kun Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu and Jingsong Yu
    2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 19)

  • Explicit Cross-lingual Pre-training for Unsupervised Machine Translation
     Shuo Ren, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Ming Zhou and Shuai Ma
    2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 19)

  • An Empirical Study of Harnessing Pre-Trained Neural Networks with Rules for Formality Style Transfer
     Yunli Wang, Yu Wu, Lili Mou, Zhoujun Li, Wenhan Chao
    2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 19)

  • A Sequential Matching Framework for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Can Xu, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li
    Computational Linguistics Mar. 2019

  • Dictionary-Guided Editing Networks for Paraphrase Generation
     Shaohan Huang, Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
    33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 19)

  • Response Generation by Context-aware Prototype Editing
     Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Shaohan Huang, Yunli Wang, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li
    33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 19)

  • Keyphrase Generation with Correlation Constraints
     Jun Chen, Yu Wu, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhao Yan and Zhoujun Li
    2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 18)

  • Response Selection with Topic Clues for Retrieval-based Chatbots
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu,Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    NeuroComputing Nov. 2018

  • Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    56th Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL 18)

  • Dynamic vocabulary for Response Generation
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 18)

  • Knowledge Enhanced Hybrid Neural Network for Text Matching
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 18)

  • Hierarchical Recurrent Attention Network for Response Generation
     Chen Xing, Wei Wu, Yu Wu, Jie Liu, Yalou Huang, Ming Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma
    31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 18)

  • Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li
    55th Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL 17)

  • Topic Aware Neural Response Generation
     Chen Xing, Wei Wu, Yu Wu, Jie Liu, Yalou Huang, Ming Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma
    30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 17)

  • Improving Recommendation of Tail Tags for Questions in Community Question Answering
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 16)

  • Detecting Context Dependent Messages in a Conversational Environment
     Chaozhuo Li, Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 16)

  • Mining Query Subtopics from Questions in Community Question Answering
     Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou
    29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 15)

Experience

Intern

Microsoft Research Asia

I collaborated with Wei Wu, Furu Wei and Shujie Liu on several key products of Micorosoft, such as: XiaoIce, Musely and so on.

July 2013 - June 2019

Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

I study hard core problems of chatbots and speech language processing, such as multi-turn response generation, dialog model pre-training, end-to-end ASR, and TTS.

July 2019 - Present

Education

Beihang University

Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology
School of Advanced Engineering
Sept 2010 - June 2014

Beihang University

Ph.D. of Computer Software and Theory
School of Computer Science and Technology
Sept 2014 - June 2019

Awards & Certifications

  • Microsoft Fellowship 2017
  • AdeptMind Fellowship 2017
  • National Ph.D. Scholarship 2015,2018
  • Second place for answer selection task of SemEval 2017
  • Second place for retrieval based Chatbot of NTCIR 13