About me

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at CUHK Text Mining Group. My advisor is Prof. Wai Lam. Prior to joining in CUHK, I obtained my B.Eng. degree from School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University in 2016. It’s my honor having worked with Prof. Yanghui Rao from SYSU, Dr. Chin-Yew Lin & Dr. Jing Liu from Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Lidong Bing from Alibaba Damo Academy and Dr. Piji Li & Dr. Bei Shi from Tencent AI Lab.

You can contact me via email.

Research interests

• Natural language text generation
• Deep learning and its application on natural language processing

Education

• 2016-present, Ph.D. student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Advisor: Prof. Wai Lam
• 2012-2016, B.Eng., Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Data and Computer Science

Experiences

• Jan 2018-Apr 2018, Research Intern, NLP Center@Tencent AI Lab. Mentor: Dr. Lidong Bing and Dr. Piji Li.
• Jul 2015-Jun 2016, Research intern, Knowledge Computing Group@Microsoft Research Asia. Mentor: Dr. Chin-Yew Lin and Dr. Jing Liu
• Sep 2014-July 2015, Research assistant, SentiNet Group, Sun Yat-Sen University. Supervisor: Prof. Rao Yanghui

Publications & Manuscripts [Google Scholar]

• Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li and Wai Lam. A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction. In AAAI 2019 (Full paper, poster). [arxiv][code][slides]
• Zheng Li, Ying Wei, Yu Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xin Li and Qiang Yang. Exploiting Coarse-to-Fine Task Transfer for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification. In AAAI 2019 (Full paper, oral). [arxiv][data]
• Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Bei Shi. Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification. In ACL 2018 (Full paper, oral). [pdf][arxiv][dataset][code][slides][bibtex]
• Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam, Zhimou Yang. Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation. In IJCAI 2018 (Full paper, oral). [pdf][arxiv][dataset][code][slides][bibtex]
• Xin Li, Wai Lam. Deep Multi-task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction. In EMNLP 2017 (Short paper, oral). [pdf][slides][bibtex]
• Xin Li, Haoran Xie, Yanghui Rao, Xuebo Liu, Tak-Lam Wong, Fu Lee Wang. Social Emotion Classification Based on Noise Aware Training. To appear in Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (DKE Journal).
• Xuebo Liu, Shuang Ye, Xin Li, Yonghao Luo and Yanghui Rao. ZhihuRank: A Topic-Sensitive Expert Finding Algorithm in Community Question Answering Websites. In ICWL 2015 (_The 14th International Conference on Web-based Learning). [pdf] [slides]

Honors & Awards

• Jun 2016, Outstanding Graduates Awards, Sun Yat-Sen University.
• May 2016, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis award, Sun Yat-Sen University.

Professional Activities

• Reviewer (or PC Member): EMNLP 2018, AAAI 2019
• Secondary Reviewer: CIKM 2017-2018, WSDM 2018, WWW 2018-2019, KDD 2018, NAACL 2018, ICDM 2018

Some Useful Notes & Links

• Introduction to Neural Word Embeddings. [pdf]
• Tutorial for Statistical Machine Translation.
• Tutorial for Neural Machine Translation.

Social

• CSDN (One of the largest Chinese technical community)
• Zhihu (A Chinese CQA website)

Hobbies

• Playing basketball
• Swimming
• Hiking