Research Interests

• Main Topics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Textual Inference
  • Event Evolutionary Graph
• Thesis
  • Research on methodology of market trends prediction based on social media, PhD Thesis，2016.6 [PDF] [PPT]
  • Research on Sentence Level Chinese Event Extraction, Graduate Thesis，2011.7 [PDF] [PPT]

Selected Publications

• Li Du, Xiao Ding, Kai Xiong, Ting Liu, Bing Qin. e-CARE: a New Dataset for Exploring Explainable Causal Reasoning. In Proc. ACL 2022. (Long Paper, Main Conference).
• Li Du, Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu, Bing Qin. A Graph Enhanced BERT Model for Event Prediction. In Proc. ACL 2022. (Long Paper, Findings).
• Bibo Cai, Xiao Ding, Bowen Chen, Li Du, Ting Liu. Mitigating Reporting Bias for Semi-supervised Temporal Commonsense Inference with Probabilistic Soft Logic. In Proc. AAAI 2022. (Long Paper, Main Conference).
• Li Du, Xiao Ding, Kai Xiong, Ting Liu, Bing Qin. ExCAR: Event Graph Knowledge Enhanced Explainable Causal Reasoning. In Proc. ACL 2021. (Long Paper, Main Conference). [PDF]
• Li Du, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Bing Qin. Learning Event Graph Knowledge for Abductive Reasoning. In Proc. ACL 2021. (Long Paper, Main Conference). [PDF]
• Jihao Shi, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Bing Qin. Neural Natural Logic Inference for Interpretable Question Answering. In Proc. EMNLP 2021. (Long Paper, Main Conference). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Jihao Shi, Junwen Duan, Bing Qin, Ting Liu. Quantifying the effects of long-term news on stock markets on the basis of the multikernel Hawkes process. In Proc. Science China Information Sciences 64 (9), 1-13. (SCI Index, IF=4.38). [PDF]
• Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu. TransBERT: A Three-Stage Pre-training Technology for Story-Ending Prediction. In Proc. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2021, 20(1): 1-20. (SCI Index, IF=1.42). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Dingkui Hao, Yuewei Zhang, Kuo Liao, Zhongyang Li, Bing Qin, Ting Liu. HIT-SCIR at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Training Pre-trained Language Model with Pseudo-labeling Data for Counterfactuals Detection. In Proc. SemEval 2020. We won the first place (1st) in Subtask 1 of Task 5.
• Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Edward Hu, Benjamin Van Durme. Guided Generation of Cause and Effect. In Proc. IJCAI 2020 (Long Paper, accept rate = 12.6%). [PDF]
• Junwen Duan, Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu. TEND: A Target-dependent Representation Learning Framework for News Document. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 2019. [PDF]
• Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu. Story Ending Prediction by Transferable BERT. In Proc. IJCAI 2019 (Long Paper, accept rate = 17.8%). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Kuo Liao, Ting Liu, Zhongyang Li, Junwen Duan. Event Representation Learning Enhanced with External Commonsense Knowledge. In Proc. EMNLP 2019 (Long Paper, accept rate = 23.8%). [PDF][DATA&CODE]
• Li Du, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Zhongyang Li. Modeling Event Background for If-Then Commonsense Reasoning Using Contextaware Variational Autoencoder. In Proc. EMNLP 2019 (Long Paper, accept rate = 23.8%). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu, Qiankun Shi. Domain Adaptation via Tree Kernel Based Maximum Mean Discrepancy for User Consumption Intention Identification. In Proc. IJCAI 2018 (Long Paper, accept rate = 20%). [PDF] [DATA&CODE]
• Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu. Constructing Narrative Event Evolutionary Graph for Script Event Prediction. In Proc. IJCAI 2018 (Long Paper, accept rate = 20%). [PDF] [DATA&CODE]
• Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu. Generating Reasonable and Diversified Story Ending Using Sequence to Sequence Model with Adversarial Training. In Proc. COLING 2018 (Long Paper, accept rate = 37.4%). [PDF]
• Junwen Duan, Yue Zhang, Xiao Ding, Ching-Yun Chang, Ting Liu. Learning Target Dependent Representations of Financial News Documents. In Proc. COLING 2018 (Long Paper, accept rate = 37.4%). [PDF]
• Junwen Duan, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu. Learning Sentence Representations over Tree Structures for Target-dependent Classification. In Proc. NAACL 2018 (Long Paper, accept rate = 32%). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu, Junwen Duan. Knowledge-Driven Event Embedding for Stock Prediction. In Proc. COLING 2016 (Long Paper, accept rate = 32%). [PDF]
• Ting Liu, Xiao Ding, Yiheng Chen, Hanchen Chen, Maosheng Guo. Predicting Movie Box-Office Revenues by Exploiting Large-Scale Social Media Content. Multimedia Tools and Applications. (SCI Index, Impact Factor: 1.346, Corresponding Author). 2016. [PDF] [Demo]
• Xiao Ding, Bing Qin, Ting Liu. BUEES: a Bottom-Up Event Extraction System. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. (SCI Index, Impact Factor: 0.415). 2015. [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu, Junwen Duan. Deep Learning for Event-Driven Stock Prediction. In Proc. IJCAI 2015 (Long Paper, accept rate = 28%). [PDF] [Slides] [Poster]
• Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Junwen Duan, Jianyun Nie. Mining User Consumption Intention from Social Media via Domain Adaptive Convolutional Neural Network. In Proc. AAAI 2015 (long paper, accept rate = 26.67%). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Yue Zhang, Ting Liu, Junwen Duan. Using Structured Events to Predict Stock Price Movement: An Empirical Investigation. In Proc. EMNLP 2014 (Long Paper, accept rate = 28%). [PDF] [DATA]
• Xiao Ding, Zhicheng Dou, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ji-Rong Wen. Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating Structured Annotation of Queries. In Proc. EMNLP 2013 (Long Paper, accept rate = 27%). [PDF]
• Xiao Ding, Bing Qin, Ting Liu. Building Chinese Event Type Paradigm Based on Trigger Clustering. In Proc. IJCNLP 2013 (Long Paper, accept rate = 23.4%). [PDF] [Demo]

Invited Talks

• Survey on Frontier Research of Social Media Processing [Slides] 2019 Chinese Computational Linguistics (CCL) Conference
• Construction of Event Evolutionary Graph and Its Application [Slides] 2019 SMP Social Computing Forum
• Reinforcement Learning Based Stock Market Prediction. [Slides] 2018 SMP Intelligent Finance Forum
• Social Media based Consumption Intention Mining. [Slides] 2016 SMP Social Computing Forum

Academic Services

• Journal Reviewer：CL, TKDE, TOIS, TNNLS, TIST，IPM, KBS，Big Data Research，Science China
• Conference Reviewer：ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, EMNLP

Hobbies and Interests

• Badminton, Swimming, Volleyball, Football

Contact Information

• E-mail1: xding at ir dot hit dot edu dot cn
• Address: P.O.Box 321 Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001