Jia Xu

• PhD (2010) RWTH-Aachen University (Computer Science)

• SES Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) Member
• Undergraduate Advisor Member
• Participation on the Election of Committee of Committee Member
• Hiring Committee Member
• Working group on improving student-faculty interaction at Stevens Member

• AAAI Program Committee
• ACL Program Committee
• EMNLP Program Committee
• IJCAI Program Committee
• NAACL Program Committee
• ICML Program Committee
• NeurIPS Program Committee
• Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Reviewer

• Program Committee members of EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI, NIPS, ICML Member
• Reviewer of IEEE Journal Member
• ACL 2019 – Program Committee of ACL Member
• Program Committee of IJCAI Member
• AAAI – Program Committee of AAAI Member
• Program committee of EMNLP Member

Book Chapter

1. Xu, J.; Gao, J.; Toutanova, K.; Ney, H. (2011). Synchronous Learning of Chinese Word Segmentation and Word Alignment. Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation.

Conference Proceeding

1. Alam, F.; Dalvi, F.; Durrani, N.; Sajjad, H.; Khan, A.; Xu, J. (2023). ConceptX: A Framework for Latent Concept Analysis. Proceedings of AAAI-23 Demonstrations Program.
2. Yu, Y.; Sajjad, H.; Xu, J. (2023). Learning Uncertainty for Unknown Domains with Zero-Target-Assumption. Proceedings of ICLR.
3. Yu, Y.; Sajjad, H.; Xu, J. (2023). Probabilistic Robustness for Data Filtering. Proceedings of EACL.
4. Khan, A. R.; Kanade, H.; Budhrani, G. A.; Jhanglani, P.; Xu, J. (2022). SIT at MixMT 2022: Fluent Translation Built on Giant Pre-trained Models. Proceedings of WMT at EMNLP.
5. Zhang, M.; Xu, J. (2022). Byte-based Multilingual NMT for Endangered Languages.
6. Yu, Y.; Khadivi, S.; Xu, J. (2022). Can Data Diversity Enhance Learning Generalization?. Proceedings of COLING.
7. Yu, Y.; Khan, A. R.; Xu, J. (2022). Measuring Robustness for NLP. Proceedings of COLING.
8. Sajjad, H.; Durrani, N.; Dalvi, F.; Alam, F.; Khan, A. R.; Xu, J. (2022). Analyzing Encoded Concepts in Transformer Language Models. Proceedings of NAACL.
9. Tang, X.; Khan, A. R.; Wang, S.; Xu, J. (2022). Learning by Interpreting. Proceedings of IJCAI.
10. Dalvi, F.; Khan, A.; Alam, F.; Durrani, N.; Xu, J.; Sajjad, H. (2022). Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT. Proceedings of ICLR.
11. Chubarian, K.; Khan, A.; Sidiropoulos, A.; Xu, J. (2021). Grouping Words with Semantic Diversity. NAACL.
12. Khan, A.; Xu, J. (2021). Interpreting Criminal Charge Prediction and Its Algorithmic Bias via Quantum-Inspired Complex Valued Networks. XAI Workshop at ICML.
13. Khan, A. R.; Xu, J.; Sun, W. (2020). Coding Textual Inputs Boosts the Accuracy of Neural Networks. Proceedings of EMNLP. Proceedings of EMNLP.
14. Lyu, W.; Huang, S.; Zhang, S.; Khan, A. R.; Sun, W.; Xu, J. (2019). CUNY-PKU Parser at SemEval-2019 Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA. Proceedins of SemEval 2019.
15. Cuong, H.; Xu, J. (2018). Assessing Quality Estimation Models for Sentence-Level Prediction. COLING.
16. Khan, A.; Panda, S.; Xu, J.; Flokas, L. (2018). Hunter NMT System for WMT'18 Biomedical Translation Task: Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation.
17. Xu; Kuang, Y.; Baijoo, S.; Lee, J.; Shahazad, U.; Lancaster, M.; Carlan, C. (2017). Hunter MT: A Course for Young Researchers in WMT'17. Conference on Machine Translation at EMNLP.
18. Lei, Z.; Ye, X.; Wang, Y.; Li, D.; Xu, J. (2017). On the Efficient Online Model Adaptation by Incremental Simplex Tableau. AAAI.
19. Papakonstantinou, P.; Xu, J.; Yang, G. (2016). On the Power and Limits of Distance-Based Learning. ICML.
20. Javadi, S.; Khadivi, S.; Shiri, M.; Xu, J. (2014). An Ant Colony Optimization Method to Detect Communities in Social Networks. ASONAM.
21. Papakonstantinou, P.; Xu, J.; Cao, Z. (2014). Bagging by Design (On the Sub-optimality of Bagging). AAAI.
22. Dong, M.; Cheng, Y.; Liu, Y.; Xu, J.; Sun, M. (2014). Query Lattice for Translation Retrieval. COLING.
23. Gan, C.; Qin, Z.; Xu, J.; Wan, T. (2013). Salient Object Detection in Image Sequences via Spatial-Temporal Cue. Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing.
24. Sun, W.; Xu, J. (2011). Enhancing Chinese Word Segmentation Using Unlabeled Data. EMNLP.
25. Xu, J.; Sun, W. (2011). Generating Virtual Parallel Corpus: A Compatibility Centric Method. Machine Translation Summit.
26. Federmann, C.; Eisele, A.; Chen, Y.; Hunsicker, S.; Xu, J.; Uszkoreit, H. (2010). Further Experiments with Shallow Hybrid MT Systems. ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation.
27. Eisele, A.; Xu (2010). Improving Machine Translation Performance Using Comparable Corpora. LREC.
28. Xu, J.; Gao, J.; Toutanova, K.; Ney, H. (2008). Bayesian Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation. COLING.
29. Deng, Y.; Xu, J.; Gao, Y. (2008). Phrase Tabel Training for Precision and Recall: What Makes a Good Phrase and a Good Phrase Pair?. ACL.
30. Xu, J.; Deng, Y.; Gao, Y.; Ney, H. (2007). Domain Dependent Machine Translation. Machine Translation Summit.
31. Vilar, D.; Xu, J.; D'Haro, L.; Ney, H. (2006). Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output. LREC.
32. Xu, J.; Zens, R.; Ney, H. (2006). Partitioning Parallel Documents Using Binary Segmentation. Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation at NAACL.
33. Xu, J.; Matusov, E.; Zens, R.; Ney, H. (2005). Integrated Chinese Word Segmentation in Statistical Machine Translation. IWSLT.
34. Zens, R.; Bender, O.; Hasan, S.; Khadivi, S.; Matusov, E.; Xu, J.; Zhang, Y.; Ney, H. (2005). The RWTH-Aachen Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation System. IWSLT.
35. Xu, J.; Zens, R.; Ney, H. (2004). Do We Need Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation?. SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing at ACL.

Journal Article

1. Khan, A.; Karim, A.; Sajjad, H.; Kamiran, F.; Xu, J. (2020). A Clustering Framework for Lexical Normalization of Roman Urdu. Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Impact factor: 1.065 in 2016). Cambridge Press.
2. Sun, T.; Wang, Y.; Li, D.; Gu, Z.. WCS: Robust Network Localization by Weighted Component Stitching. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.