Zhongyang Li

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I am now a visiting PhD student in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) lab, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Maryland, USA,
working with Professor Benjamin Van Durme. My program is from 2018.10 to 2019.12.

Education

• PhD student in Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval at Harbin Institute of Technology
  (HIT-SCIR, China) since 2016.09, supervised by Prof. Ting Liu and Dr. Xiao Ding.
• PhD, Computer Science, JHU, 2018.10~now.
• PhD, Computer Science and Technology, HIT, 2016.08~2020.07.
• MS, Computer Science and Technology, HIT, 2015.08~2016.07.
• BS, Computer Science and Technology, HIT, 2011.08~2015.07.
• Please contact me via zyli (at) ir.hit.edu.cn
• My Github, Linkedin, and Blog
  

News

• Our paper Guided Generation of Cause and Effect has been accpted by IJCAI 2020.
  

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing, Event Evolutionary Graph, Information Extraction, and Network Representation Learning

Publications

• Guided Generation of Cause and Effect
  The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI 2020, full paper, Acceptance Rate 592/4717 = 12.6%)
  Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, J. Edward Hu, Benjamin Van Durme

• Learning to Rank for Plausible Plausibility paper ppt poster data&code
  The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL 2019, short paper, Acceptance Rate X/Y = ?, Review Overall Scores: 3.5, 3.5, 2.5)
  Zhongyang Li, Tongfei Chen, and Benjamin Van Durme

• Story Ending Prediction by Transferable BERT paper ppt poster data&code
  The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI 2019, full paper, Acceptance Rate 850/4752 = 17.8%, Review Overall Scores: 7,9,7,7)
  Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, and Ting Liu

• Constructing Narrative Event Evolutionary Graph for Script Event Prediction paper ppt poster data&code
  The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI 2018, full paper, Acceptance Rate 710/3470 = 20.5%, Review Overall Scores: 8,7,7,6)
  Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, and Ting Liu

• Modeling Event Background for If-Then Commonsense Reasoning Using Context-aware Variational Auto-encoder
  (EMNLP 2019, full paper, Acceptance Rate 684/2877 = 23.8%)
  Li Du, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu, Zhongyang Li

• Event Representation Learning Enhanced with External Commonsense Knowledge
  (EMNLP 2019, full paper, Acceptance Rate 684/2877 = 23.8%)
  Xiao Ding, Kuo Liao, Ting Liu, Junwen Duan, Zhongyang Li

• Generating Reasonable and Diversified Story Ending Using Sequence to Sequence Model with Adversarial Training paper
  The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, (Coling 2018, full paper, Acceptance Rate 332/888 = 37.4%, Review Overall Scores: 4,5,3)
  Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, and Ting Liu

• EEG: Knowledge Base for Event Evolutionary Principles and Patterns pdf
  Proceeding of The 6th National Conference on Social Media Processing, (SMP 2017, full paper, Accepted)
  Zhongyang Li, Sendong Zhao, Xiao Ding, and Ting Liu

• The Presentation Given by Yann LeCun On the Opening Ceremony of IJCAI 2018 We Need A World Model web pdf
  The Communications of China Computer Federation, Volume 8, 2018
  Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding and Ting Liu

Articles and Talks

• The Presentation given by Yann LeCun in the Opening of IJCAI 2018: We Need a World Model in Chinese pdf
  This is our thoughts and understanding about Yann LeCun’s presentation.

• Narrative Event Evolutionary Graph and Scaled Graph Neural Network Based Script Event Prediction Model pdf
  This is a Chinese article which introduced our IJCAI 2018 work. Online Version
  Zhongyang Li

• From Knowledge Graph To Event Evolutionary Graph pdf
  This is the talk given by Prof. Ting Liu at CNCC 2017, in Fuzhou, China. This presentation was mainly made by me.
  Online Report by Leifeng

• Event Evolutionary Graph: Event Evolutionary Principles and Patterns pdf
  This is a Chinese article which first introduced the concept of Event Evolutionary Graph. Online Version
  Zhongyang Li, Sendong Zhao, Xiao Ding

Intern Experience

• Full-time Research Intern, HTC, 2015.06-2015.10 Mentor: Xin Zhao
  
• Full-time Research Intern, Baidu, 2014.06-2014.10 Mentor: Yanjun Ma

Academic Activities

• July 28 - August 2, 2019, ACL'19, Florence, Italy
• August 10-16 2019, IJCAI'19, Macao, China: Oral and Poster
• August 20-26 2018, Coling'18, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Poster
• August 2-4 2018, SMP'18, Harbin, China: Oral [to appear]
• July 13-19 2018, IJCAI'18, Stockholm, Sweden: Oral and Poster
• June 9-10 2018, AIS'18, Beijing, China, Oral and Poster
• September 11-13 2017, SMP'17, Beijing, China: Oral
• November 14-17 2016, CCIR'16, Guangzhou, China: Oral

Projects and Online Demos

• Financial Event Evolutionary Graph Demo@HIT-SCIR
• Causal Generation Demo@HIT-SCIR
• DCC@BLCU-CNLR
• Movie Box Prediction System@HIT-SCIR

Skills

• Python, Shell, C++, Django
• PyTorch, Tensorflow
• Spark, Hadoop
• Neo4j, Mysql, MongoDB, Hbase
• Latex, TexMacs
• Linux, Vim, Sublime Text
• Swimming, Singing, Cycling, Photography

Awards

• 中电莱斯PhD Scholarship, 2019,12
• Baidu Scholarship, Top 20, 2019.12
• National PhD Scholarship from HIT, 2018.11
• Best Report Candidate in SMP 2018, 2018.08
• State Scholarship from China Scholarship Council, 2018.06
• Special Scholarship for Outstanding Postgraduate Students from HIT, 2015.10
• National Endeavor Scholarship from HIT, 2013
• First Prize of Heilongjiang Provincial ACM ICPC Contest, 2013
• First Prize of Northeast Regional ACM ICPC Contest, 2013

Friends

• Jiang Guo (MIT)
• Xiao Ding (HIT-SCIR)
• Yijia Liu (HIT-SCIR)
• Xiaocheng Feng (HIT-SCIR)
• Sendong Zhao (HIT-SCIR)