About me
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at CUHK Text Mining Group. My advisor is Prof. Lam Wai. Prior to that, I obtained my B.Eng. degree from School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University in 2016, where I worked closely with Prof. Rao Yanghui and began my research career of natural language processing. I also worked with Dr. Bing Lidong at Tencent AI Lab on natural language generation (NLG). You can contact me via email.
Research interests
- Natural language text generation
- Deep learning and its application on natural language processing
Education
Experiences
- Jan 2018-present, Research Intern, NLP Center@Tencent AI Lab. Mentor: Dr. Bing Lidong.
- Jul 2015-Jun 2016, Research intern, Knowledge Computing Group@Microsoft Research Asia. Mentor: Dr. Lin Chin-Yew and Dr. Liu Jing
- Sep 2014-July 2015, Research assistant, SentiNet Group, Sun Yat-Sen University. Supervisor: Prof. Rao Yanghui
Publications & Manuscripts
- Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Bei Shi. Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification. To appear in Proceedings of 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018, Oral). [arxiv][dataset]
- Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam, Zhimou Yang. Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation. To appear in Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018). [arxiv][dataset]
- Xin Li, Wai Lam. Deep Multi-task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark (EMNLP 2017, Oral). [pdf][slides]
- 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).
- Huijun Chen(#), Xin Li(#), Yanghui Rao. Sentiment Strength Prediction Using Auxiliary Features. 26th Internation World Wide Web Conference, Perth, Western Australia (WWW 2017 Companion, Oral). [pdf] [slides] [code] (# denotes equal contribution)
- Xin Li, Yanghui Rao, Yanjia Chen, Xuebo Liu and Huan Huang. Social Emotion Classification via Reader Perspective Weighted Model. 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phoenix, USA (AAAI 2016, Student Abstract). [pdf] [poster] [full version]
- Xin Li, Haoran Xie, Yanghui Rao, Yanjia Chen, Xuebo Liu, Huan Huang, Fu Lee Wang. Weighted multi-label classification model for sentiment analysis of online news. The 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2016, Oral). [pdf] [code] [slides]
- Xuebo Liu, Shuang Ye, Xin Li, Yonghao Luo and Yanghui Rao. ZhihuRank: A Topic-Sensitive Expert Finding Algorithm in Community Question Answering Websites. The 14th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2015, Oral). [pdf] [slides]
Honors & Awards
- Jun 2016, Outstanding Graduates Awards, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Jun 2016, Excellence Award of Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program, Microsoft Research Asia
- May 2016, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis award, Sun Yat-Sen University. [pdf (in Chinese)]
- Sept 2015, Second-class Merit Scholarship, Sun Yat-Sen University (rank 14/258)
- Apr 2015, Best Paper Award (DASFAA Workshops 2015)
Professional Activities
- Secondary Reviewer: CIKM 2017, WSDM 2018, WWW 2018, KDD 2018, NAACL 2018
Teaching
- TA: SEEM-3550: Fundamentals in Information Systems, 2017 Spring
- TA: SEEM-4630: E-Commerce Data Mining, 2016 Fall
- TA: MIE-151: Software Design II, 2015 Spring
- TA: MIE-121: Design of Digital System, 2014 Fall
- TA: MIE-111: Discrete Mathematics, 2014 Spring
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Social
Hobbies
- Playing basketball
- Swimming
- Hiking