{"id":755,"date":"2015-11-02T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=755"},"modified":"2015-11-02T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T04:26:09","slug":"liang-huang-receives-yahoo-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2015\/11\/02\/liang-huang-receives-yahoo-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Liang Huang Receives Yahoo Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2015\/11\/huang-liang-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-756\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2015\/11\/huang-liang-lg-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Liang Huang\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2015\/11\/huang-liang-lg-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2015\/11\/huang-liang-lg-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2015\/11\/huang-liang-lg.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Liang Huang, assistant professor of computer science at Oregon State University, received the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.yahoo.com\/news\/faculty-research-and-engagement-program-2015-recipients-selected\/\">2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award<\/a>. Yahoo gave 24 faculty awards worldwide in 2015 to \u201cproduce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest.\u201d It is the first time an Oregon State faculty member has received this award.<\/p>\n<p>The award was granted for Huang\u2019s proposal on \u201cFast Semantic Parsing with Applications in Question Answering,&#8221; based on preliminary work by his Ph.D. student Kai Zhao. Yahoo and many other internet companies are interested in furthering research in the field of semantic parsing to improve their search results.<\/p>\n<p>Semantic parsing is the process of mapping a natural-language sentence into a formal representation of its meaning, and has applications in understanding natural questions, especially resolving ambiguity.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the query, \u201cHow can I book Paris Hilton?\u201d could be about either the hotel or the person, while \u201cHow to upgrade to El Capitan?\u201d is definitely about OS X rather than Yosemite. A more complicated query such as \u201cflights leaving after 5 from New York City to Tokyo with a layover of 1 to 3 hours\u201d can be turned into an SQL-like query to be executed on a database or knowledge base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liang Huang, assistant professor of computer science at Oregon State University, received the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award. Yahoo gave 24 faculty awards worldwide in 2015 to \u201cproduce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest.\u201d It is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027],"tags":[1231,312557,155,101813,312556],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-computer-science","tag-liang-huang","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-yahoo-faculty-research-and-engagement-program-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}