CV

You can download my CV in PDF (Sep 2023 updated).

Education

B.S. in Automation, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Sept. 2014 - Jun. 2018
Ph.D Candidate in ECE Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sept. 2018 - Present

Work experience

Research Intern: Nov. 2021 - Feb. 2022
- Alexa AI, Amazon, Remote
- Knowledgeable Language Model Pre-training
Research Intern: Jul. 2016 - Aug. 2016 & Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017
- Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Developed an Android application for demonstrate the Image Captioning algorithm for online use.
- Conducted research on text skew correction with Convolutional Neural Networks. I mainly worked on building a dataset for the task, implement and compare the existing models on the text skew correction task.

Publications

2022

Retrieval-Free Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Response Generation with Adapters

Yan Xu *, Etsuko Ishii*, , Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Dan Su, Andrea Madotto, Pascale Fung

DialDoc Workshop in ACL 2022 2022

[PAPER] [CODE]

Best Student Paper

Can Question Rewriting Help Conversational Question Answering?

Etsuko Ishii*, Yan Xu *, Samuel Cahyawijaya*, Bryan Wilie

Insights Workshop in ACL 2022 2022

[PAPER] [CODE]

CAiRE in DialDoc21: Data Augmentation for Information-SeekingDialogue System

Yan Xu *, Etsuko Ishii*, Genta Indra Winata, Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Zihan Liu, Peng Xu and Pascale Fung

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational QA in conjuction with ACL 2021

[PAPER] [CODE]

Third Place in the Shared Task

2020

CrossNER: Evaluating Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

Zihan Liu, Yan Xu , Tiezheng Yu, Wenliang Dai, Ziwei Ji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto, Pascale Fung

AAAI-2021 2020

[PAPER] [CODE]

Multi-hop Question Generation with Graph Convolutional Network

Dan Su, Yan Xu , Wenliang Dai, Ziwei Ji, Tiezheng Yu, Pascale Fung

Findings of EMNLP-2020 2020

[PAPER] [CODE]

CAiRE-COVID: A Question Answering and Query-focused Multi-Document Summarization System for COVID-19 Scholarly Information Management

Dan Su, Yan Xu ,Tiezheng Yu,Farhad Bin Siddique,Elham J. Barezi,Pascale Fung

NLP-COVID Workshop in EMNLP-2020 2020

[PAPER] [CODE]

Learning Knowledge Bases with Parameters for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Andrea Madotto, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Indra Winata, Yan Xu , Zihan Liu, Zhaojiang Lin, Pascale Fung

Findings of EMNLP-2020 2020

[PAPER] [CODE]

2019

Generalizing Question Answering System with Pre-trained Language Model Fine-tuning

Dan Su*, Yan Xu *, Genta Indra Winata, Peng Xu, Hyeondey Kim, Zihan Liu and Pascale Fung

EMNLP 2019

[PAPER] [CODE]

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue Systems with Transferable Latent Variables

Zihan Liu, Jamin Shin, Yan Xu , Genta Indra Winata, Peng Xu, Andrea Madotto and Pascale Fung

EMNLP 2019

[PAPER] [CODE]

Incorporating Word and Subword Units in Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Language Model Rescoring

Zihan Liu*, Yan Xu *, Genta Indra Winata, Pascale Fung

Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT-2019) in conjunction with ACL 2019

[PAPER]

Learning to Learn Sales Prediction with Social Media Sentiment

Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Genta Indra Winata, Zihan Liu, Yan Xu , Cong Gao, Pascale Fung

The First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing in conjunction with IJCAI 2019

[PAPER] [SLIDES]

CAiRE_HKUST at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Hierarchical Attention for Dialogue Emotion Classification

Genta Indra Winata, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Jamin Shin, Yan Xu , Peng Xu, Pascale Fung

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation in conjuction with NAACL 2019

[PAPER] [CODE]

Top 4 out of 160 teams

Awards

Best Student Paper in DialDoc Workshop, ACL 2022
Third Place in DialDoc21 Shared Task, ACL 2021
Winner of Task 10 in Kaggle CORD-19 Challenge, Kaggle Competition
Fourth Place in MRQA-2019 Shared Task, EMNLP 2019
First Place in Chatbot Millionare Challenge, HKSTP 2019
Top Four out of 160 teams in SemEval-2019 Task 3, NAACL 2019
National Scholarship (Top 2%), 2014 - 2016

Skills

Language: Chinese (Mother Tongue) • English (Full-Proficiency) • Cantonese (Basic)

Service and leadership

Reviewer: ACL 2021, EMNLP 2021, NLPCC 2021, Rep4NLP 2022, ACL ARR 2021 October - 2022 March