Scholarship and Biography

Nianwen Xue is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Language & Linguistics Program at Brandeis University. His research interests include developing linguistic corpora annotated with syntactic, semantic, and discourse structures, as well as machine learning approaches to syntactic, semantic and discourse parsing. He was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), and he also serves on the editorial boards of Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE).

His current research interests include developing cross-linguistic meaning representations, machine learning (deep learning and reinforcement learning), computational social science (fact-checking machine-generated content, media framing).

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Organizational Affiliations

Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Brandeis University

Chair, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

On the editorial board of Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE), Springer (United States, New York)

On the editorial board of Lingua Sinica, Walter de Gruyter (Germany, Berlin)

Past Affiliations

Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Association for Computing Machinery (United States, New York) - ACM

Education

University of Delaware
Ph.D.
Nankai University (南开大学)
M.A.
Nankai University (南开大学)
B.A.