Scholar
Yue Zhang
Google Scholar ID: 6hA7WmUAAAAJ
Westlake University
Citations & Impact
Citations
24,884
H-index
78
i10-index
261
Publications
20
Co-authors
133
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Awards: IALP (2017), COLING (2018); Honorable Mention, SemEval (2020)
- Shortlisted for Best Demonstration (ACL 2018) and Best Paper (ACL 2023)
- PC Co-Chair of EMNLP (2022) and CCL (2020)
- Author of textbook 'Natural Language Processing - A Machine Learning Perspective' (Cambridge University Press)
- Developed and delivered multiple online NLP courses on Zhihu, Bilibili, and YouTube
Background
- Tenured Full Professor at Westlake University
- Research interests include natural language processing and its underlying machine learning algorithms
- Recently focuses on the differences between neural language models and human cognition, especially regarding statistics vs. causal reasoning
- Works on analyzing these differences, building technical solutions to bridge the gap, and leveraging the divergence for AI-generated text detection
- Also works on fundamental NLP tasks such as syntactic parsing, semantic parsing, information extraction, and machine translation
- Interested in using AI to automate scientific research
- Serves on editorial boards of multiple journals including Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
