Feiyu Xu

Dr. Feiyu Xu is Senior Researcher and Project Leader in the Language Technology Lab of DFKI. She also is co-founder and managing director of Yocoy Technologies GmbH , a 2007 spin-off from DFKI. Yocoy is developing next generation mobile language and travel guides such as yochina and i-You. Since 2004, Dr. Xu is vice-director of the Joint Research Laboratory for Language Technology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Saarland University. She studied technical translation at Tongji University in Shanghai with a waiver of the national admission exam in year 1987, a high honor for outstanding students. She then studied computational linguistics at Saarland University from 1992 to 1998 and graduated by receiving a Diplom (MSc) with distinction for a thesis on "Semantic Underspecification and Ellipsis Resolution". She joined DFKI in 1998. In 2007 she obtained her PhD in the area of information extraction for a thesis on "Boostrapping Relation Extraction from Semantic Seeds". S