| Deyi Xiong (熊德意) |
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Professor
TJUNLP Lab
College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University
Building 55, Peiyang Park Campus, No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, China
Email: dyxiong@tju.edu.cn
TJUNLP Lab
College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University
Building 55, Peiyang Park Campus, No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, 300350, China
Email: dyxiong@tju.edu.cn
Biography
Deyi Xiong is a Professor of Computer Science at Tianjin University (TJU), Director of both the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at the College of Intelligence and Computing, TJU and the International Joint Research Center of Language Intelligence and Technology at TJU. Prior to joining TJU, he was a professor at Soochow University (2013-2018) and a research scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (2007-2013). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007.
His research focuses on natural language processing, specifically machine translation, dialogue, natural language generation and computational discourse. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, including Computational Linguistics, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TASLP, Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, IJCAI ACL, and EMNLP. He is the first author of the book "Linguistically Motivated Statistical Machine Translation: Models and Algorithms" published by Springer.
He was the program co-chair of IALP 2012 and CWMT 2017. He has also served as an area chair of conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and COLING. He was the founder and co-organizer of multiple ACL/EMNLP/NAACL-affiliated workshops such as S2MT 2015, SedMT 2016 and DiscoMT 2019. He is a member of the standing committee of reviewers of CL, action editor of both TACL and ARR, and an editorial board member of International Journal of Asian Language Processing. He was a council member of the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), Singapore and Honorary Treasurer of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). He has been a council member of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC) since 2016.
He was awarded an Excellent Young Scholar Award by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2016 and a Newton Advanced Fellowship by the Royal Society in 2018. He was the recipient of Achiever of the Year 2008, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, and Beijing Science and Technology Award 2nd Prize in 2009.
He has been active in developing a variety of resources for natural language processing. He has recently led teams to create BiPaR that is a bilingual parallel novel-style machine reading comprehension dataset developed to support multilingual and cross-lingual reading comprehension, RiSAWOZ that is to date the largest fully annotated human-to-human task-oriented dialogue dataset and TED-CDB that is the largest PDTB-style Chinese discourse corpus built on a large set of TED talks. All these resources, containing over 3M words, are publicly available.
Deyi Xiong is a Professor of Computer Science at Tianjin University (TJU), Director of both the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at the College of Intelligence and Computing, TJU and the International Joint Research Center of Language Intelligence and Technology at TJU. Prior to joining TJU, he was a professor at Soochow University (2013-2018) and a research scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (2007-2013). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007.
His research focuses on natural language processing, specifically machine translation, dialogue, natural language generation and computational discourse. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, including Computational Linguistics, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TASLP, Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, IJCAI ACL, and EMNLP. He is the first author of the book "Linguistically Motivated Statistical Machine Translation: Models and Algorithms" published by Springer.
He was the program co-chair of IALP 2012 and CWMT 2017. He has also served as an area chair of conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and COLING. He was the founder and co-organizer of multiple ACL/EMNLP/NAACL-affiliated workshops such as S2MT 2015, SedMT 2016 and DiscoMT 2019. He is a member of the standing committee of reviewers of CL, action editor of both TACL and ARR, and an editorial board member of International Journal of Asian Language Processing. He was a council member of the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), Singapore and Honorary Treasurer of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). He has been a council member of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC) since 2016.
He was awarded an Excellent Young Scholar Award by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2016 and a Newton Advanced Fellowship by the Royal Society in 2018. He was the recipient of Achiever of the Year 2008, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, and Beijing Science and Technology Award 2nd Prize in 2009.
He has been active in developing a variety of resources for natural language processing. He has recently led teams to create BiPaR that is a bilingual parallel novel-style machine reading comprehension dataset developed to support multilingual and cross-lingual reading comprehension, RiSAWOZ that is to date the largest fully annotated human-to-human task-oriented dialogue dataset and TED-CDB that is the largest PDTB-style Chinese discourse corpus built on a large set of TED talks. All these resources, containing over 3M words, are publicly available.