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Wuhan, China

I am an Associate Professor at Central China Normal University. With the university, I am affiliated with the School of Computer Science, the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Learning, and National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center for Network Media.

Previously, I was a Lecturer/Researcher at Utrecht University in the Natural Language Processing Group. I obtained my PhD at Utrecht University supervised by Prof. Kees van Deemter and Dr. Chenghua Lin. I received a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (MSc); and a Bachelor degree in e-Commerce Engineering with Law from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (B.B.A) and Queen Mary University of London (B.Eng). I have interned at Samsung AI Lab (2021), Microsoft Research Asia (2019), and Samsung Research Center Beijing (2016-2017).

Research

My primary research interest lies within Natural Language Generation, particularly the theoretical aspects, e.g., Referring Expression Generation, Quantified Expression Generation and so on. I am also broadly interested in other language generation related tasks, including Dialogue Systems, Surface Realisation, Data-to-Text Generation and Style Transfer.

Academic Services

  • Program Committee: ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AACL, CCL, INLG, EACL, NLPCC, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, DialDoc, MM-NLG
  • Area Chair: INLG (2019), EACL (2022)
  • Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, Neurocomputing, Computer Speech and Language, Natural Language Engineering, Knowledge based Systems, Information Fusion, Cognitive Computation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Lingua, IEEE Transactions on Big Data