Algorithm Expert,
Language Technology Lab,
Alibaba DAMO Academy
About Me
I recently join Alibaba DAMO Academy as a Research Engineer and I am with Multilingual NLP team.
You can contact me via email.
Research Interests
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Understanding
- Neural Text Generation
- Cross-lingual and Multi-lingual NLP
Education
Experiences
- Jul 2020-Feb 2021, Research Intern, Speech and Semantics Group@Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab. Mentor: Dr. Yi Liao.
- 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
Manuscripts & Publications [Google Scholar]
- Unsupervised Cross-lingual Adaptation for Sequence Tagging and Beyond.
Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang, Zheng Li, Wai Lam.
arXiv:2010.12405.
- Enhancing Dialogue Generation via Multi-Level Contrastive Learning.
Xin Li, Piji Li, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu and Wai Lam.
arXiv:2009.09147.
- Pyramid Mask Text Detector.
Jingchao Liu, Xuebo Liu, Jie Sheng, Ding Liang, Xin Li, Qingjie Liu.
arXiv:1903.11800.
[code]
- Relevance-Promoting Language Model for Short-Text Conversation.
Xin Li, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu and Wai Lam.
In AAAI 2020 (Full paper, poster).
[poster]
- Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang and Wai Lam.
In EMNLP 2019 Workshop W-NUT.
[code][bibtex]
- Transferable End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Selective Adversarial Learning.
Zheng Li, Xin Li, Ying Wei, Lidong Bing, Yu Zhang, and Qiang Yang.
In EMNLP 2019 (Full Paper, oral).
[code][bibtex]
- A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction.
Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li and Wai Lam.
In AAAI 2019 (Full paper, poster).
[code][slides][bibtex]
- Exploiting Coarse-to-Fine Task Transfer for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification.
Zheng Li, Ying Wei, Yu Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xin Li and Qiang Yang.
In AAAI 2019 (Full paper, oral).
[data][bibtex]
- Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification.
Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Bei Shi.
In ACL 2018 (Full paper, oral).
[code][dataset][slides][bibtex][code from ABSA_pytorch (recommended)]
- Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation.
Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam, Zhimou Yang.
In IJCAI 2018 (Full paper, oral).
[code][dataset][slides][bibtex]
- Deep Multi-task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction.
Xin Li, Wai Lam.
In EMNLP 2017 (Short paper, oral).
[slides][bibtex]
- Social Emotion Classification Based on Noise Aware Training.
Xin Li, Haoran Xie, Yanghui Rao, Xuebo Liu, Tak-Lam Wong, Fu Lee Wang.
In Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (DKE Journal).
- ZhihuRank: A Topic-Sensitive Expert Finding Algorithm in Community Question Answering Websites.
Xuebo Liu, Shuang Ye, Xin Li, Yonghao Luo and Yanghui Rao.
In ICWL 2015 (The 14th International Conference on Web-based Learning).
[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): ACL 2020-2021, EMNLP 2018-2020, NAACL 2021, AAAI 2019-2020, ACM TKDD, ACM TALLIP, Neurocomputing
- Secondary Reviewer: CIKM 2017-2019, WSDM 2018-2019, WWW 2018-2019, KDD 2018, NAACL 2018-2019, SIGIR 2019
Some Useful Notes & Links
Social
Hobbies
- Playing basketball
- Swimming
- Hiking