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Current: Software Engineer Google LLC Previous: PhD Student Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab Jack Baskin School Of Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz Email: zhu (at) soe.ucsc.edu CV: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~zhu/zhichaohu-cv.pdf

About Chao

Hi! My name is Zhichao Hu, people call me Chao. I'm currently a software engineer in Google.

I recieved my PhD from UCSC under Prof. Marilyn Walker in the area of Natural Language Processing. My research topic was linguistic and gestural adaptation. My interests also include event relation extraction, natural language generation with respect to personality, sentiment analysis and data mining in social media.

Publications

• Zhichao Hu, Jean E. Fox Tree and Marilyn A. Walker. "Modeling Linguistic and Personality Adaptation for Natural Language Generation," Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018.
• Zhichao Hu and Marilyn A. Walker. "Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films," Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2017. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu and Marilyn A. Walker. "Measuring Personality Adaptation in Task-Oriented Dialogs," WiNLP (Women and Underrepresented Minorities in NLP) Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi and Marilyn A. Walker. "Inference of Fine-Grained Event Causality from Blogs and Films," Workshop on Events and Stories in the News, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017. [pdf]
• Marta Recasens, Zhichao Hu, and Olivia Rhinehart. "Sense Anaphoric Pronouns: Am I One?," Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2016. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu, Michelle Dick, Chung-Ning Chang, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree, and Marilyn Walker. "A Corpus of Gesture-Annotated Dialogues for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation from Personal Narratives," to appear in Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree. "Storytelling Agents with Personality and Adaptivity," Intelligent Virtual Agents: 15th International Conference, IVA 2015, Delft, Netherlands, August 26-28, 2015. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu, Gabrielle Halberg, Carolynn R. Jimenez and Marilyn A. Walker. "Entrainment in Pedestrian Direction Giving: How many kinds of entrainment?" Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS'14), Napa, CA, USA, Jan. 2014. [pdf]
• Marilyn A. Walker, Jennifer Sawyer, Carolynn Jimenez, Elena Rishes, Grace I. Lin, Zhichao Hu, Jane Pinckard and Noah Wardip-Fruin. "Using Expressive Language Generation to Increase Authorial Leverage," The Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT) Workshop, Boston, MA, USA, Oct. 2013. [pdf]
• Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Larissa Munishkina, Reid Swanson and Marilyn A. Walker. "Unsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes," Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '13), Seattle, WA, USA, Oct. 2013. [pdf]

Education:

• Ph.D. , Computer Science, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA (09/2011 - 06/2018)
• B.S., Computer Science (major), College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Jilin, China, (09/2007 - 07/2011)
• B.A., Japanese (minor), College of Foreign Languages, Jilin University, Jilin, China, (09/2008 - 07/2010)