NUS (2021 - 2023)

Position

Research Fellow (09/2021 - 03/2023), National University of Singapore (NUS). Supervised by Haizhou Li (IEEE Fellow).

Research & Projects

Summary

After completing my studies at the University of Southern California (USC), I have joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Postdoctoral Researcher. This transition marks my first time living and working in Singapore, providing a fresh perspective to my academic career. Building upon my foundation in representation learning, my current research focuses on advancing dialogue-based technologies, with a specific emphasis on dialogue summarization and embedding evaluation methods.

Publications

• Zero-Shot Relation Classification Through Inference on Category Attributes (IEEE TNNLS 2024)
• Relational Sentence Embedding for Flexible Semantic Matching (RepL4NLP 2023)
• Speech-Aware Multi-Domain Dialogue State Generation with ASR Error Correction Modules (DSTC 2023)
• Enhancing Black-Box Few-Shot Text Classification with Prompt-Based Data Augmentation (arXiv 2023)
• Just Rank: Rethinking Evaluation with Word and Sentence Similarities (ACL 2022)
• Analyzing and Evaluating Faithfulness in Dialogue Summarization (EMNLP 2022)
• Generate, Discriminate and Contrast: A Semi-Supervised Sentence Representation Learning Framework (EMNLP 2022)
• A Focused Study on Sequence Length for Dialogue Summarization (arXiv 2022)

Academic Services

• Reviewer: IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACL ARR, NAACL, EMNLP, ICME
• Reviewer: Nature (Human Behavior) 2022
• Session Chair: IJCNN 2021
• Organizational Volunteer: IALP 2022
• Organizational Volunteer: CLSW 2023

Students

• Yan Xiao, Ph.D., Donghua University, China
  2023-02 - 2024-02
  Topic: Relation extraction from text
  Publication: IEEE TNNLS