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== Selected publications ==
== Selected publications ==

* R. Song, Q. Guo, R. Zhang, G. Xin, J. Wen, Y. Yu, H.W. Hon, "Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance", Information Processing & Management, Volume 47, Issue 1, Elsevier, January 2011, page 37–52.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance - ScienceDirect|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457310000191|journal=Information Processing & Management|date=January 2011 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=37–52 |doi=10.1016/j.ipm.2010.02.005 |last1=Song |first1=Ruihua |last2=Guo |first2=Qingwei |last3=Zhang |first3=Ruochi |last4=Xin |first4=Guomao |last5=Wen |first5=Ji-Rong |last6=Yu |first6=Yong |last7=Hon |first7=Hsiao-Wuen |s2cid=10041641 }}</ref>
* R. Song, Q. Guo, R. Zhang, G. Xin, J. Wen, Y. Yu, H.W. Hon, "Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance", Information Processing & Management, Volume 47, Issue 1, Elsevier, January 2011, page 37–52.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance - ScienceDirect|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457310000191|journal=Information Processing & Management|date=January 2011 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=37–52 |doi=10.1016/j.ipm.2010.02.005 |last1=Song |first1=Ruihua |last2=Guo |first2=Qingwei |last3=Zhang |first3=Ruochi |last4=Xin |first4=Guomao |last5=Wen |first5=Ji-Rong |last6=Yu |first6=Yong |last7=Hon |first7=Hsiao-Wuen |s2cid=10041641 }}</ref>
* R. Song, Z. Luo, J. Nie, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon, "Identification of ambiguous queries in web search", International Journal on Information Processing and Management, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2009, page 216–229.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Identification of ambiguous queries in web search - ScienceDirect|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457308000903|journal=Information Processing & Management|date=March 2009 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=216–229 |doi=10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.005 |last1=Song |first1=Ruihua |last2=Luo |first2=Zhenxiao |last3=Nie |first3=Jian-Yun |last4=Yu |first4=Yong |last5=Hon |first5=Hsiao-Wuen }}</ref>
* R. Song, Z. Luo, J. Nie, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon, "Identification of ambiguous queries in web search", International Journal on Information Processing and Management, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2009, page 216–229.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Identification of ambiguous queries in web search - ScienceDirect|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457308000903|journal=Information Processing & Management|date=March 2009 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=216–229 |doi=10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.005 |last1=Song |first1=Ruihua |last2=Luo |first2=Zhenxiao |last3=Nie |first3=Jian-Yun |last4=Yu |first4=Yong |last5=Hon |first5=Hsiao-Wuen }}</ref>
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* He is an [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] fellow<ref>{{Cite web|title=IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing|url=https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/home.html|website=IEEE website}}</ref> and Microsoft Distinguished Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Microsoft Distinguished Scientists - Stories|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2010/03/11/microsoft-distinguished-scientists/|website=Microsoft|date=11 March 2010 }}</ref>
* He is an [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] fellow<ref>{{Cite web|title=IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing|url=https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/home.html|website=IEEE website}}</ref> and Microsoft Distinguished Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Microsoft Distinguished Scientists - Stories|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2010/03/11/microsoft-distinguished-scientists/|website=Microsoft|date=11 March 2010 }}</ref>
* He was granted the Great Wall Friendship Award by the Beijing Municipal Government<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hsiao-Wuen Hon Granted the Great Wall Friendship Award - Microsoft Research|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/articles/hon-granted-great-wall-friendship-award/|website=Microsoft Research|date=19 November 2017 }}</ref>
* He was granted the Great Wall Friendship Award by the Beijing Municipal Government<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hsiao-Wuen Hon Granted the Great Wall Friendship Award - Microsoft Research|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/articles/hon-granted-great-wall-friendship-award/|website=Microsoft Research|date=19 November 2017 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Zhang Hongjiang]]
* [[Qiang Yang]]
* [[Hui Xiong]]
* [[Yong Rui]]
* [[Harry Shum]]
* [[Ya-Qin Zhang]]
* [[Xing Xie]]


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 05:52, 17 June 2024

Hsiao-Wuen Hon
BornMay 31, 1963 (1963-05-31) (age 61)
Alma materNational Taiwan University
Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorRaj Reddy

Hsiao-Wuen Hon (Chinese: 洪小文; born: May 31, 1963) is a Taiwanese-US researcher in speech technology, and coauthor of the book Spoken Language Processing.[1] He is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and Chairman of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific R&D Group.[2][3]

Life

Hon is a U.S. citizen born in Taiwan. Hon represented Taiwan in the International Mathematics Olympiad in high school.[citation needed] He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1985. In 1986, he entered Carnegie Mellon University to study under professor Raj Reddy, and later received a PhD in computer science.[4]

Career

After earning his PhD in 1992, Hon joined Apple, where he led research and development for the company's Chinese Dictation Kit. In 1995, he joined Microsoft as a senior researcher in their SAPI and speech engine technologies.

Hon was involved in the creation of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, the firm's first R&D operation in China.[5] He was transferred to Microsoft's Seattle headquarters in 1998, promoted to Microsoft Voice Products Chief Technology Architect, then returned to Beijing in 2004 as Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon founded and managed Microsoft Search Technology Center from 2005 to 2007 and led development of Microsoft's Bing search product in Asia-Pacific. He was named managing director in 2007.[6] In 2014, Hon was appointed Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group and in October 2015, he became Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation.[7]

Hon has served on the Ambarella board of directors since 2017.[8] He is a faculty member of the Schwarzman Scholars program[9] and an adjunct professor with the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.[10]

Selected publications

  • R. Song, Q. Guo, R. Zhang, G. Xin, J. Wen, Y. Yu, H.W. Hon, "Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance", Information Processing & Management, Volume 47, Issue 1, Elsevier, January 2011, page 37–52.[11]
  • R. Song, Z. Luo, J. Nie, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon, "Identification of ambiguous queries in web search", International Journal on Information Processing and Management, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2009, page 216–229.[12]
  • B Erol, J Luo, S.F. Chang, M Etoh, H.W. Hon, Q. Lin, V. Setlur, "Mobile Media Search: Has Media Search Finally Found its Perfect Platform?", in ACM Multimedia 2009, Oct. 19–23, 2009.[13]
  • J Cohen, M Etoh, H.W. Hon, J Luo, J. Schalkwyk, "Mobile Multimedia Search", in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 19–24, 2009.
  • Y. Cao, C.Y. Lin, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon. "Recommending Questions Using the MDL-based Tree Cut Model", in Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China, April 21–25, 2008.[14]
  • R. Song, M. J. Taylor, J. Wen, H.W. Hon, and Y. Yu. "Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective", Book chapter in book: Advances in Information Retrieval by Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, page 346–357.[15]
  • W. Gao, C. Niu, J.Y. Nie, M. Zhou, J. Hu, K-F Wong, H.W. Hon "Cross-Lingual Query Suggestion Using Query Logs of Different Languages", 30th annual international ACM SIGIR-2007 conference, Amsterdam, Holland.[16]
  • R. Song, Z. Luo, J.R. Wen, Y. Yu, H.W. Hon, "Identifying ambiguous queries in web search", Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.[17]
  • Y. Cao, J. Xu, T.Y. Liu, H. Li, Y. Huang, H.W. Hon, "Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval", 29th annual international ACM SIGIR-2006 conference, Seattle, WA.[18]

Awards and honors

  • He is an IEEE fellow[19] and Microsoft Distinguished Scientist[20]
  • He was granted the Great Wall Friendship Award by the Beijing Municipal Government[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Huang, Acero & Hon, Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development | Pearson". Pearson.
  2. ^ "Hsiao-Wuen Hon at Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. ^ "Lidong Zhou Appointed as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia". Microsoft Research. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  4. ^ "Hsiao-Wuen Hon at Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research.
  5. ^ "Celebrating 20 years of MSR in Asia with Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon - Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. 7 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Keeping innovation alive at Microsoft". ZDNet.
  7. ^ "Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group Leadership team". Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors". Ambarella.
  9. ^ "Schwarzman Scholars » Hsiao-Wuen Hon". SCHWARZMAN SCHOLARS.
  10. ^ "Prof. HON, Hsiao Wuen 洪 小 文 教授 - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK". The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  11. ^ Song, Ruihua; Guo, Qingwei; Zhang, Ruochi; Xin, Guomao; Wen, Ji-Rong; Yu, Yong; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (January 2011). "Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance - ScienceDirect". Information Processing & Management. 47 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2010.02.005. S2CID 10041641.
  12. ^ Song, Ruihua; Luo, Zhenxiao; Nie, Jian-Yun; Yu, Yong; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (March 2009). "Identification of ambiguous queries in web search - ScienceDirect". Information Processing & Management. 45 (2): 216–229. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.005.
  13. ^ Erol, Berna; Luo, Jiebo; Chang, Shih-Fu; Etoh, Minoru; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen; Lin, Qian; Setlur, Vidya (19 October 2009). "Mobile media search: Has media search finally found its perfect platform? Part II". Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia. pp. 911–912. doi:10.1145/1631272.1631447. ISBN 9781605586083. S2CID 12179117. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  14. ^ Cao, Yunbo; Duan, Huizhong; Lin, Chin-Yew; Yu, Yong; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (2008). "Recommending questions using the MDL-based tree cut model". Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web. pp. 81–90. doi:10.1145/1367497.1367509. ISBN 9781605580852. S2CID 1933128. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  15. ^ Song, Ruihua; Taylor, Michael J.; Wen, Ji-Rong; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen; Yu, Yong (2008). "Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective". Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4956. pp. 346–357. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_32. ISBN 978-3-540-78645-0. S2CID 45746181.
  16. ^ Gao, Wei; Niu, Cheng; Nie, Jian-Yun; Zhou, Ming; Hu, Jian; Wong, Kam-Fai; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (2007). "Cross-lingual query suggestion using query logs of different languages". Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. pp. 463–470. doi:10.1145/1277741.1277821. ISBN 9781595935977. S2CID 692190. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  17. ^ Song, Ruihua; Luo, Zhenxiao; Wen, Ji-Rong; Yu, Yong; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (2007). "Identifying ambiguous queries in web search". Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web. pp. 1169–1170. doi:10.1145/1242572.1242749. ISBN 9781595936547. S2CID 9797193. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  18. ^ Cao, Yunbo; Xu, Jun; Liu, Tie-Yan; Li, Hang; Huang, Yalou; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen (2006). "Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval". Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. pp. 186–193. doi:10.1145/1148170.1148205. ISBN 1595933697. S2CID 15513083. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  19. ^ "IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing". IEEE website.
  20. ^ "Microsoft Distinguished Scientists - Stories". Microsoft. 11 March 2010.
  21. ^ "Hsiao-Wuen Hon Granted the Great Wall Friendship Award - Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. 19 November 2017.
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