Slang Generation as Categorization

EDUCATION University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Sep 2018 Present • Ph.D. in Computer Science GPA: 4.0/4.0 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Aug 2016 – May 2018 • M.S. in Computer Science – Specialization in Machine Learning GPA: 4.0/4.0 • Selected Coursework: Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Computer Vision, High Performance Computer Architecture University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Sep 2012 – Jun 2016 • B.S. in Computer Science with Economics Minor GPA: 93.38% • Graduated with Distinction – Dean’s Honours List • Selected Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Image Processing, Computational Audio, Graphics, Network, Security, Architecture, Database, Data Structure and Algorithms, Probability & Statistics PUBLICATIONS 2. Slang Detection and Identification • Zhengqi Pei, Zhewei Sun, Yang Xu • In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. CoNLL 2019.

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