Nianwen Xue

Nianwen Xue is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and Language & Linguistics Program at Brandeis University, leading the Chinese Language Processing Group. He holds affiliations with the Michtom School of Computer Science, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, and serves on editorial boards of Computational Linguistics and Lingua Sinica. His research focuses on computational linguistics, machine learning, and cross-linguistic meaning representations. He previously held roles at the University of Colorado and University of Pennsylvania.

Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Delaware, M.A. and B.A. in Linguistics from Nankai University. Research projects include the Chinese Treebank, OntoNotes, and initiatives funded by NSF, DARPA, and IARPA. Teaching includes courses on Natural Language Systems and Computational Corpus Linguistics. He has organized major NLP conferences like CoNLL Shared Tasks and DMR workshops.

Research interests emphasize semantic parsing, discourse analysis, and computational social science, with over 100 publications in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, and Computational Linguistics. His work bridges theoretical linguistics and applied NLP, advancing cross-lingual resources and formal meaning representations.