2008年2月26日，在计算机学院新技术楼618室，研究室刘桃博士生顺利通过博士预答辩！其答辩论文题目为《领域术语自动抽取技术的研究》，刘桃博士生于2002年9月加入研究室开始自然语言处理方面的相关研究，并于同年申请到硕博连读。
刘桃博士生在攻读博士期间的主要研究方向为：领域知识库构建、术语抽取及其在文本分类中的应用。
在攻读博士期间，刘桃博士生在《电子学报》等国内外领先刊物上发表了多篇优秀文章。
实验室全体成员祝贺刘桃博士生顺利通过博士预答辩！

附主要文章列表：

1. Tao Liu, Bing-Quan Liu, Xiao-Long Wang, Ming-Hui Li, The Effectiveness Study of Local Maximum Feature for Chinese Unknown Word Identification, Journal of Chinese Language and Computing , Vol.17 No.1, pp.15-26, 2007.

2. Tao Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Bingquan Liu, YuanChao_Liu, Ming-Hui Li, Extracting domain-specific terms from unlabeled web documents by bootstrapping and term classifiers, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Canada, 2007. (Accepted)

3. 刘 桃,刘秉权,徐志明,王晓龙, 领域术语自动抽取及其在文本分类中的应用, 电子学报, Vol.35 No.2, pp.328-332, 2007.

4. Tao Liu, Xiao-long Wang, Zhi-ming Xu, Qiang Wang, Domain-Specific Term Extraction and Its Application in Text Classification, Proceedings of 8th Joint Conference on Information Science (JCIS2005), Salt Lake City Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2005, pp:1481~1484. (support materials)

5. Tao Liu, Zhi-ming Xu, Guan Yi, Ming-hui Li, A Fast Statistical Method for Chinese Unknown Word Detection, International Conference on Multilingual Information Processing (ICMIP'05), Harbin, China, Aug. 2005, pp:12-15.

6. Chengjie Sun, Yi Guan, Xiaolong Wang, Tao Liu, InsunTourQA: A Restricted-Domain Question Answering system, Journal of Computational Information Systems, 2007.

7. Yongdong Xu, Xiaolong Wang, Tao Liu, Zhi-ming Xu, Multi-document Summarization Based on Rhetorical Structure: Sentence

Extraction and Evaluation, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Canada, 2007.