Dec 2024: Released OmniSearch: A Self-Adaptive Planning Agent For Multimodal RAG for VQA.
Dec 2024: Paper 'Let LLMs Take on the Latest Challenges! A Chinese Dynamic Question Answering Benchmark' accepted to COLING 2025.
Jul 2024: Paper 'Improving Retrieval Augmented Open-Domain Question-Answering with Vectorized Contexts' accepted to ACL-Findings 2024.
Apr 2024: Published the Chinese NLP introductory book 'Hands-On Natural Language Processing'.
Dec 2023: Received Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Nomination from CIPS (Chinese Information Processing Society of China).
Jun 2023: Awarded ShanghaiTech University President’s Award (Top 2 out of 717 graduate students).
Oct 2022: Paper 'Named Entity and Relation Extraction with Multi-Modal Retrieval' accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2022.
Jul 2022: Paper 'A Knowledge-based System for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition' won Best System Paper Award at SemEval 2022 (Top 0.45%, 1/221).
Apr 2022: Paper 'ITA: Image-Text Alignments for Multi-Modal Named Entity Recognition' accepted to NAACL 2022 main conference.
Feb 2022: Won 10 out of 13 tracks in the SemEval-2022 Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition shared task.
May 2021: Three papers accepted to ACL 2021 main conference on embedding concatenation, structural knowledge distillation, and external context retrieval for NER.
Sep 2020: Three papers accepted to EMNLP 2020 main conference, Findings of EMNLP 2020, and AACL 2020.
Apr 2020: Paper 'Structure-Level Knowledge Distillation For Multilingual Sequence Labeling' accepted to ACL 2020.
2020: Received Alibaba Group's 'Excellent Intern' award (Top 12 interns company-wide).