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2024
- May 16. Two papers got accepted to ACL 2024: one main and one findings.
- Apr 15. Started my first teaching: Web Programming
- Mar 13. I gave a talk at the Correct Reasoning in Data-driven Artificial Intelligence workshop: How to Teach Language Models to Reason.
- Feb 29. I defended my PhD thesis and officially obtained the degree.
- Jan 31. Our survey paper got accepted to ACM Computing Surveys: A Survey on Automatic Generation of Figurative Language: From Rule-based Systems to Large Language Models.
2023
- Dec 01. My PhD thesis has been approved by the assessment committee. At the same time, I started as a postdoc working on a 2-year Humane AI Project.
- Nov 01. I joined a Machine Translation project as a short-term Research Assistant, working with dr. Antonio Toral and dr. Rik van Noord.
- Oct 16. I officially submitted my PhD thesis 'Neural Text Rewriting: Style Transfer, Figurative Language, and Beyond'.
- Sep 22. I attended the CLIN 2023 and presented our work: Giving Dutch Some Style: Data and Models for Text Formality Transfer in Dutch
(Antwerp, Belgium; [slides]).
- Jul 09. I attended the ACL 2023 and presented our papers (Toronto, Canada).
- Jun 22. I gave a talk on 'Figurative Language Generation' at the NLG in the Lowlands workshop (Utrecht,
[slides]).
- May 02. Three papers (two long and one short) got accepted to ACL 2023 (Findings).
2022
- Oct 14. I presented our COLING paper.
- Aug 16. One paper got accepted to COLING 2022: Multi-Figurative Language
Generation.
- May 23. I attended the ACL 2022 and presented one main conference paper and one
workshop paper (Dublin, Ireland).
- May 09. I gave an invited talk at the NLP Seminar at Dublin City University (online):
''Text Style Transfer: Tasks and Evaluation''.
- Mar 30. One paper accepted to HumEval Workshop: Human Judgement as a Compass to
Navigate Automatic Metrics for Formality Transfer.
- Feb 24. One paper got accepted to ACL 2022: Multilingual Pre-training with
Language and Task Adaptation for Multilingual Text Style Transfer.
2021
- Nov 08. I presented our paper in EMNLP 2021: Generic
resources are what you need: Style transfer tasks without task-specific parallel training
data.
- Aug 26. One paper got accepted at EMNLP 2021: Generic resources are what you
need: Style transfer tasks without task-specific parallel training data.
- Aug 03. I presented our paper in ACL 2021: Thank you BART!
Rewarding Pre-Trained Models Improves Formality Style Transfer.
- Jun 16. I attended the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS
2021).
- May 30. One paper accepted at the Workshop on Generation Evaluation and Metrics
of ACL 2021: Human Perception in Natural Language Generation.
- May 06. One paper accepted at ACL 2021: Thank you BART! Rewarding
Pre-Trained Models Improves Formality Style Transfer.
2020
- Nov 17. One paper accepted at the Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation of
INLG 2020: On the interaction of automatic evaluation and task framing in headline style transfer.
- Nov 16. I participated in the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2020).
- Jul 05. I participated in the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020).
- Mar 01. I have transferred to the University of Groningen to continue my PhD
project.
- Jan 30. I participated in CLIN 30: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
(Utrecht, the Netherlands).
2019
- Dec 09. I took two days of the SIKS Course: "Foundations of Data Science; Data
Mining" (Utrecht, the Netherlands).
- Sep 23. I joined Web Information Systems group (TU Delft) to start my PhD
journey.
- Jun 25. I obtained my master degree from China Academy of
Engineering Physics and won the outstanding student scholarship (top 5%).
- May 30. I have been awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship, which will sponsor my
PhD project at Delft University of Technology starting in September 2019 (4-year).
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