
Yang Liu
I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft working on Natural Language Processing.
I received my PhD degree from University of Edinburgh in 2020, under supvervision of Prof. Mirella Lapata.
My main research interest is Text Summarization, Text Generation and Structure Learning.
Check out my Google Scholar, Linkedin, or email me.
News:
2022.03: Two papers accepted by ACL 2022 and its findings.
2022.01: Giva a talk on Dialogue Summarization at Amazon. slides
2021.12.01: DialogLM is accepted by AAAI 2022.
2021.08.26: Paper accepted by EMNLP 2021 findings.
2021.05.17: Three papers accepted by ACL 2021 findings.
2021.03.11: Two Long papers and one short paper accepted by NAACL 2021.
2021.01.15: Our RE-T5 model achieved the first place in CommonGen competition.
2020.10.14: Achieved the first place in FEVER competition.
Publications:
- Training Data is More Valuable than You Think: A Simple and Effective Method by Retrieving from Training Data
- AdaPrompt: Adaptive Model Training for Prompt-based NLP
- Unsupervised Summarization with Customized Granularities
- DialogLM: Pre-trained Model for Long Dialogue Understanding and Summarization
- Want To Reduce Labeling Cost? GPT-3 Can Help
- Retrieval Enhanced Model for Commonsense Generation
- DialogSum: A Real-Life Scenario Dialogue Summarization Dataset
- MediaSum: A Large-scale Media Interview Dataset for Dialogue Summarization
- Noisy Self-Knowledge Distillation for Text Summarization
. - QMSum: A New Benchmark for Query-based Multi-domain Meeting Summarization
- Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders
Professional Services:
- Action Editor:
ACL Rolling Review - Area Chair:
NAACL 2021 - Conference Program Committee Member:
ACL 2016-2021, EMNLP 2017-2021, NAACL 2017-2020
Internship Experience:
- (Intern at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2017 Summer) Structured Alignment
Mentor: Matt Gardner - (Intern at MSRA, 2014 - 2015) Chatbot
Mentor: Furu Wei - (Intern at Baidu, 2014 Summer) Sentence Compression Module for Baidu News
Mentor: Yajuan Lv and Xinyan Xiao
Education:
- Sept. 2016 - 2020
PhD, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, University of Edinburgh
Supervisor: Prof. Mirella Lapata - Sept. 2013 - Aug. 2016
MSc, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University
Supervisor: Prof. Sujian Li - Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2013
BE, School of Computer Science, Tianjin University