Scholar
Shenbin Qian
Google Scholar ID: mJFaiMwAAAAJ
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Oslo
Citations & Impact
Citations
48
H-index
4
i10-index
2
Publications
16
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - ALOPE: Adaptive Layer Optimization for Translation Quality Estimation using Large Language Models, COLM 2025
- - NEAR2: A Nested Embedding Approach to Efficient Product Retrieval and Ranking, SIGIR-e-Com'25
- - Automatically Generating Chinese Homophone Words to Probe Machine Translation Estimation Systems, W-NUT 2025
- - What do Large Language Models Need for Machine Translation Evaluation?, EMNLP 2024
- - A Multi-task Learning Framework for Evaluating Machine Translation of Emotion-loaded User-generated Content, Ninth Conference
- - Awards:
- - Secured a MSCA postdoc fellowship in 2025
- - Successfully defended PhD thesis: Evaluating Machine Translation of Emotion-loaded Chinese User-generated Content
Research Experience
- - Postdoc Researcher, University of Oslo, involved in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project DSTrain, researching the evaluation and explainability of large language models
- - During PhD, mainly focused on the evaluation of machine translation for user-generated content and contributed to various machine learning projects, including machine translation evaluation, information retrieval, text-to-image generation, and video understanding
- - Started a new research project on evaluating video understanding models, funded by RNIB, in 2025
Education
- - PhD in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing, 2025, University of Surrey, UK
- - MSc in Applied Data Science and Statistics, 2022, University of Exeter, UK
- - MA in Translation and Interpreting, 2017, Xihua University, China
- - BA in English, 2014, Zhijiang College, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Background
- - Research Interests: Multilingual Evaluation, LLM Evaluation, LLM Explainability, Sentiment Analysis, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Sequence Labeling, Multimodal Generation
- - Professional Field: Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Deep Learning
- - Biography: Currently a postdoc researcher at the University of Oslo's Language Technology Group, focusing on the evaluation and explainability of large language models. Earned a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Surrey, where the main focus was on the evaluation of machine translation for user-generated content.
Miscellany
- - Personal Interests: Programming, Natural Language Processing
