Title/Position
Lecturer

Degree
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2006

xiaoyan(@cs.princeton.edu) (609) 258-7844 104 221 Nassau Street

Homepage
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~xiaoyan

Short Bio

Lecturer Xiaoyan Li earned her doctorate in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2006. Her main responsibility at Princeton is teaching, and she also supervises students on their junior independent work each semester. Her research interests include question answering, information retrieval, data mining and other applications of machine learning techniques.

Selected Publications

“Robust Relevance-Based Language Models.” Li, X. In the Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT 2006), November 29-December 1, 2006, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. pp. 341-348.
“Sentence Level Information Patterns for Novelty Detection.” Li, X. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 2007.
“Syntactic Features in Question Answering.” Li, X. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, July 28 - August 1, 2003, pp.455-456.