Qun Liu (刘群), Professor, Dr.
Affiliation
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
Position
Chief Scientist of Speech and Language Computing
Work Experience
- 2018/07-present: Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Chief Scientist of Speech and Language Computing
- 2012/07-2018/06: Dublin City University, Full Professor
- 2015-2018/06: Irish ADAPT Centre, Theme Leader (NLP & MT)
- 2012/07-2014: Irish CNGL Centre, Theme Leader (NLP & MT)
- 2015/06/30-2015/07/23: IIS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, visiting scholar
- 1992/07-2018/06: Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (part time from 2012/07), Researcher, Professor (from 2005)
- 2007/01/01-2007/03/01: New York University, visiting scholar
- 2005/04/01-2005/04/30: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, visiting scholar
- 2004/01/26-2004/02/25: NICT, Japan, visiting scholar
- 2003/11-2018/06: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) (part time from 2012/07), Professor (from 2005)
Education
- 1999/09-2004/05: Ph.D. of Computer Science, Institute of Computational Linguistics , Peking University
- 1989/09-1992/07: M.Sc. of Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1984/09-1989/07: B.Sc. of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics
- Natural Language Processing
Research Topics
My research work focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, its theory, technology and application, including:
- Morphological Analysis
- Parsing
- Semantic Processing
- Language Modeling
- Machine Translation
- Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction
- Large Scale Linguistic Resource Construction
- Evaluation Technologies for NLP & MT
- Chinese Language Processing
- Cross-Language/Cross-Standard/Cross-Domain Adaption for NLP
- Dialog and Question Answering
- Language Generation
- Neural Symbolic Computing
Publications
Please visit the following websites for my publication list and citations at:
Codes
Please visit my GitHub
Talk slides
- 2023/02/16 ChatGPT技术分析 (Video)
- an invited talk at 黄大年茶思屋 Chaspark Forum, online
- 2022/12/11 Rethinking Neural Symbolic Computing 神经符号计算的再思考
- an invited talk at 全国少数民族自然语言处理青年论坛, online
- 2022/11/27 Integration of Rules into Neural Networks 规则知识与神经网络的融合
- an invited talk at GAITC 2022 NLP Forum, online
- 2022/08/21 User Intent Modeling in Dialog Systems 规则知识与神经网络的融合
- an invited talk at CCF Inspiring New Ideas on Dialog Technologies, online
- 2022/08/10 Extreme Exploitation of Language Resources for Language Transfer and Pre-training in NMT
- an invited talk at Chinese Conference of Machine Tanslation (CCMT2022), online
- 2022/07/20 Large-scale Pre-trained Language Models - Opportunities and Challenges
- an invited talk to University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
- 2022/06/02 TGEA Datasets and Benchmark Tasks
- an invited talk at 2022 BAAI Conference - NLP Forum, online
- 2021/11/28 神经自然语言处理方法中的子词切分方法综述
- an invited talk at 第18届全国少数民族语言信息处理学术研讨会, online
- 2021/10/13 关于预训练大模型发展前景的一些思考和探讨
- an invited talk at全国人工智能大会自然语言处理论坛, Chendu, China
- 2021/09/18 Solving Math Word Problems with Pre-trained Language Models
- an invited talk at 世界计算大会, Changsha, China
- 2021/07/30 Efficient NLP Modeling and Training_ Advances in Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
- an invited talk at 机器之心ACL论文线下分享会, Beijing, China
- 2021/06/06 多语言预训练语言模型:技术与应用
- an invited talk at 多语种智能信息处理高峰论坛(IMLIP2021), online
- 2021/06/02 SparTerm Learning Term-based Sparse Representation
- an invited talk at 北京智源大会IR论坛(BAAI2021 IR Forum), online
- 2021/05/15 Benchmarking the Ability of Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning for Pretrained Language Models
- an invited talk at Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop(CLSW2021), online
- 2020/10/31 预训练语言模型研究进展和趋势展望
- an invited talk at 全国计算语言学大会(CCL2020), online
- 2020/06/18 Research and Practice of Simultaneous Speech Translation in Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
- an invited talk at AutoSimTrans Workshop, attached with ACL 2020, online
- 2019/11/03 Document-level Machine Translation: the Current State and the Challenges
- an invited talk at DiscoMT 2019 Workshop, attached with EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China
- 2019/10/31 预训练语言模型的研究与应用
- at 北京智源大会NLP论坛, Beijing, China
- 2019/08/24 基于深度学习的自然语言处理:边界在哪里?
- at 第四届语言与智能高峰论坛, Beijing, China
- 2018/03/21 What has Deep Learning brought to Natural Language Processing?
- at Deep Learning Meetup Accenture The Dock, Dublin, Ireland
- 2018/01/29 Neural Machine Translation
- at DeepHack.Babel, MIPT, Moscow, Rassia (online)
- 2017/10/11 Research and Applications of Machine Translation: Personal Experience
- at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2016/10/28 Dependency-Based Statistical Machine Translation
- a tutorial at AMTA 2016, Austin, TX, USA
- 2016/09/25 The Oppotunities of Deep Learning in NLP
- at ADAPT Industry Showcase, Dublin, Ireland
- 2016/05/18 Recent Progress in Syntax-based Machine Translation
- at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- 2016/05/18 A Novel Approach to Dropped Pronoun Translation
- at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- 2015/07/14 Syntax in Statistical Machine Translation
- at IIS Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2014/08/28 Adaptation for Natural Language Processing
- at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
- 2013/04/10 Context-Aware Rule-Selection for SMT
- at University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
- 2012/11/5-6 Context-Aware Rule-Selection for SMT
- at City University of New York (CUNY) and IBM Watson Research Center, New York
- 2012/11/1 Maximum Rank Correlation Training for SMT
- at MONOMT Workshop, attached with AMTA2012, San Diego
Supervision
Professional Services
- Journel/Associate Editor:
- Computational Linguistics (Editorial Board Member, 2017-2019)
- Machine Translation (2011/12-2021/12)
- ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP) (2010/6-2011/12)
- Journal of Chinese Information Processing (2006-present)
- Journal/Reviewer:
- Computational Linguistics (CL)
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
- ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (TALIP)
- Machine Translation
- Neural Computing
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
- Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (T-ASL)
- Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- Computer Speech & Language (CSL)
- Journal of Chinese Information Processing (中文信息学报)
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology (计算机学报)
- Journal of Computer Research and Development (计算机研究与发展)
- ACTA Automata Sinica (自动化学报)
- Conference or Workshop/Organization:
- 2022 AutoSimTrans Workshop (Co-organizer)
- 2022 ICML (Meta-reviewer)
- 2022 KDD (SPC)
- 2022 ARR (Area Chair)
- 2021 ARR (Area Chair)
- 2021 EMNLP (Area Chair)
- 2021 IJCAI (Area Chair)
- 2021 ICML (Area Chair)
- 2021 ACL-IJCNLP (Senior Area Chair)
- 2021 ICLR (Area Chair)
- 2021 NeurIPS ENLSP Workshop (Co-organizer)
- 2021 第六届语言与智能高峰论坛 Language and Intelligence Summit (Co-chair)
- 2021 AutoSimTrans Workshop (Co-organizer)
- 2020 NeurIPS (Area Chair)
- 2020 AAAI (SPC)
- 2020 ICLR (Area Chair)
- 2020 ACL (MT Area Co-chair)
- 2020 EMNLP (Demonstration Co-chair)
- 2020 AACL-IJCNLP (Publicity co-chair)
- 2020 CNCC Forum on 预训练语言模型:还能走多远? (Chair)
- 2019 CNCC Forum on 自然语言对话:技术挑战和应用前景 (Chair)
- 2019 IWDP 国际篇章处理研讨会 (Co-organizer)
- 2019 NLPCC (Conference Co-chair)
- 2018 EMNLP (MT area co-chair)
- 2018 IWDP 国际篇章处理研讨会 (Co-organizer)
- 2018 MLP-MomenT Workshop (Co-chair)
- 2017 Multi-Lingual Processing (MLP) Workshop (Chair)
- 2015 DL4MT Winter School (Organizer)
- 2014 COLING (Tutorial Co-chair)
- 2013 ACL (Workshop Co-chair)
- 2011 IUCS (General Chair)
- 2011 MT SUMMIT (Organization Co-chair)
- 2010 EMNLP (Area Co-chair)
- 2010 COLING (Area Co-chair)
- 2010 CLP (PC co-chair)
- 2011 CWMT (Evaluation Organizer)
- 2009 CWMT (Evaluation Organizer)
- 2008 CWMT (Evaluation Organizer)
- 2007 CWMT (Evaluation Organizer)
- 2006 CWMT (Organizer)
- 2005 HTDRP Evaluation on Chinese Information Processing and Intelligent Human-machine Interface (Organizer)
- 2004 HTDRP Evaluation on Chinese Information Processing and Intelligent Human-machine Interface (Organizer)
- 2003 HTDRP Evaluation on Chinese Information Processing and Intelligent Human-machine Interface (Organizer)
- Conference or Workshop/Reviewer:
- 2022 ICLR
- 2021 AAAI, NAACL, CCMT, NLPCC, NeurIPS, WMT, CODI
- 2020 EAMT, EMNLP, CODI, COLING, NLPCC, MT Summit, CCMT, AMTA, AACL, WMT
- 2019 AAAI, NAACL, ACL, IJCAI, MTSummit, IWSLT
- 2018 AMTA, NAACL, WILDRE4, IJCAI-ECAI, ACL, COLING, EAMT, NLPCC, WMT, IALP, IWSLT
- 2017 EACL, EAMT, ACL, WMT, EMNLP, MT Summit, AICS, NLPCC, IJCNLP, IALP, IWSLT, LREC
- 2016 LREC, NLP4TM, EAMT, IEEE DSC, NAACL, HLT-IA, ACL, WMT, AICS, SLSP, AMTA, EMNLP, IALP, COLING, WAT
- 2015 ACL-IJCNLP, EAMT, EMNLP, EXPERT, IALP, IJCAI, MT Summit, NAACL-HLT, NLP4TM, NLPCC, RANLP, S2MT, WMT
- 2014 ACL, AMTA, COLING, EACL, EAMT, EMNLP, IALP, IWSLT, LREC, WMT
- 2013 ACL, EMNLP, IALP, IJCNLP, MTSummit, NAACL-HLT, PACLIC, SLSP
- 2012 ACL, AMTA, COLING, NAACL-HLT
- Organization Duties:
- ACL SIGHAN (Information Officer of China, 2011/12-2013)
- ACL (Member 2007-present)
- 中国中文信息学会 CIPSC (副理事长,2021-present; 理事,2016-2021; 常务理事,2011-2016)
- 中国中文信息学会计算语言学专委会 (委员 xxxx-present)
- 中国中文信息学会机器翻译专委会 (副主任 xxxx-yyyy,委员:yyyy-present)
- 中国计算机学会自然语言处理专委会 CCF-TCNLP (副主任,2019-present)
- 中国计算机学会术语工作委员会 (副主任 xxxx-yyyy)
- 全国科学技术名词审定委员会计算机分委员会 (副主任 xxxx-yyyy)
- 中国人工智能学会多语言信息处理专委会 CCAI-IMLIP (副主任,2021-present)
Awards
- 2021 ACL Fellow
- 2019 ACL Best Long Paper Award
- 2016 CCL NLP-NABD Best Paper Award
- 2015 国家科学技术进步二等奖
- 2015 中国电子学会科学技术一等奖
- 2014 CCL NLP-NABD Best Paper Award
- 2012 Google Research Award
- 2011 政府特殊津贴
- 2011 朱李月华优秀教师奖
- 2010 中国中文信息学会钱伟长中文信息处理科学技术奖
- 2009 北京市2009年科学技术二等奖
- 2006 COLING-ACL Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award
Email
qun(dot)liu(at)huawei(dot)com
Social Media
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https://ie.linkedin.com/pub/qun-liu/28/718/875 (LinkedIn)
Post Address
Huawei Tech. Investment Co.,Ltd
Bio-informatics Center
Hong Kong Science Park
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
Bio-informatics Center
Hong Kong Science Park
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
Links
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab: http://www.noahlab.com.hk/
ADAPT Centre: http://adaptcentre.ie
DCU: http://www.dcu.ie
DCU School of Computing: http://www.dcu.ie/computing/
CAS-ICT: http://www.ict.ac.cn
CAS-ICT NLP Group: http://nlp.ict.ac.cn
ADAPT Centre: http://adaptcentre.ie
DCU: http://www.dcu.ie
DCU School of Computing: http://www.dcu.ie/computing/
CAS-ICT: http://www.ict.ac.cn
CAS-ICT NLP Group: http://nlp.ict.ac.cn
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