- September 19, 2025: Three papers accepted by NeurIPS2025.
- June 20, 2025: Xin Zhang and Heming Xia received Best Presentation Awards.
- May 15, 2025: Five papers accepted into the main conference of ACL2025, and five more into Findings.
- April 5, 2025: Yongqi Li's two long papers submitted to SIGIR2025 have been accepted.
- January 23, 2025: Papers by Yongqi, Heming, and Chengyi were accepted by WWW2025 and ICLR2025 respectively.
- December 1, 2024: Ruifeng Yuan's work on 'Evolving Large Language Model Assistant with Long-Term Verbal Memory' was accepted into COLING2025.
- October 26, 2024: Yongqi Li received IPM Best PhD Paper 2023: Honorable Mentions.
- September 20, 2024: Hanlin Wang, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjun Hou, and Feiteng Mu had their papers accepted into Findings at EMNLP2024.
- July 20, 2024: Dongding Lin's submission, SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation, was accepted by MM2024.
- May 16, 2024: Four papers accepted into the main conference of ACL2024, and six more into Findings.
- October 7, 2023: Papers by Yongqi Li and Yi Cheng accepted into AAAI2024; four papers by Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang, Wenjun Hou, and Shichao Sun accepted into EMNLP2023.
- September 22, 2023: Jiashuo Wang's paper, Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences via a Bayesian Approach, was accepted into NeurIPS2023.
- May 2, 2023: Three papers accepted by the main conference of ACL2023.
Research Experience
Looking for postdocs, research associates/assistants to work on projects related to emotion-driven conversation, goal-driven conversational recommendation, multi-modal conversational question answering, and causality mining and reasoning in NLP, etc. Good project-relevant background knowledge and deep learning programming ability are expected. A strong publication record is preferred.
Background
Professor at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Research interests include natural language understanding and generation, machine conversation, summarization, and question answering, etc.