Courses
USC CSCI 544: Applied Natural Language Processing (Fall 2026)
USC CSCI 444: Natural Language Processing (Spring 2026)
USC CSCI 662: Advanced Natural Language Processing (Spring 2026)
USC CSCI 566: Deep Learning and its Applications (Spring 2022)
USC CSCI 699: Representation Learning for NLP (Fall 2021)
USC CSCI 699: Representation Learning for NLP (Fall 2020)
USC CSCI 699: Advanced Topics in Representation Learning for NLP (Fall 2019)
USC CSCI 699: Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction and Reasoning (Spring 2019)
USC CSCI 699: Introduction to Information Extraction (Fall 2018)
Selected Conference Tutorials
Construction, Reasoning and Querying of Massive Knowledge Bases
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Scalable Construction and Reasoning of Massive Knowledge Bases (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Nanyun Peng, Yu Su.
The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018. Slides -
Scalable Construction and Querying of Massive Knowledge Bases (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Yu Su, Pedro Szekely, Xifeng Yan.
The Web Conference, 2018. [Website] -
Construction and Querying of Large-scale Knowledge Bases (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Yu Su, Xifeng Yan.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017. [Website]
Mining Structures of Factual Knowledge from Text
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Building Structured Databases of Factual Knowledge from Massive Text Data (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Meng Jiang, Jingbo Shang, and Jiawei Han.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2017. [Website] [Video] -
Constructing Structured Information Networks from Massive Text Corpora (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Meng Jiang, Jingbo Shang, and Jiawei Han.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017. [Website].
Segmentation and Typing for Entity Recognition
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Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing in Massive Text Data (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Ahmed El-Kishky, Heng Ji, and Jiawei Han.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2016. [Tutorial Website] -
Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing in Massive Text Corpora (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Ahmed El-Kishky, Chi Wang, and Jiawei Han.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2016.
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Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing from Massive Text Corpora: A Phrase and Network Mining Approach (Conf. Tutorial)
Xiang Ren, Ahmed El-Kishky, Chi Wang, and Jiawei Han.
ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SIGKDD), 2015.
[Slide PPT] [Slide PDF] [Video Part1] [Video Part2]
Invited Talks
- Effort-Light StructMine: Turning Massice Text Corpora into Structures