Qun Liu, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Pre-trained Language Models, Chinese Language Processing

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
Large Language Models

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

2025/06/07 SCR-Bench：知识驱动的长链条常识推理数据合成与评价方法
2025/03/26 从ChatGPT到DeepSeek：人工智能大模型技术现状与展望
2025/03/26 The Interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics – a Historical Review and Prospect
2024/11/16 大语言模型评价研究进展
2024/11/02 大模型时代的神经符号计算
2024/10/25 从LLM到AGI：我们还差什么？
2024/07/28 人工智能：游走在神经和符号之间
2024/07/06 符号化知识表示的形式和性质
2024/06/30 人工智能与语言学关系的流变—人工智能视角
2024/06/20 大语言模型Tokenization技术介绍
2024/06/06 华为盘古大模型的核心技术与挑战
2024/05/10 Transformer Plus：未来AI大模型架构设想
2024/05/08 Beyond Algorithms: Navigating the Data Deluge in AI
2024/03/07 Large Language Models - Technology Status, Trends and Impacts
2024/01/20 大语言模型技术现状与发展趋势的思考
2023/11/14 Self-improvement and Self-evolving of Large Language Models
2023/08/16 融合检索和工具调用的大语言模型
2023/05/25 Large Language Models: Research and Practice
2023/03/24 大语言模型研究进展与展望
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:
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) (2020-Present)
- 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:
- 2025 NeurIPS (Area Chair)
- 2025 ICML (Area Chair)
- 2025 ARR/ACL/EMNLP (Area Chair)
- 2024 NeurIPS (Area Chair)
- 2024 ARR/ACL/EMNLP (Area Chair)
- 2024 ICML (Area Chair)
- 2023 IJCNLP-AACL (Area Chair)
- 2023 ICML (Area Chair)
- 2023 ARR/ACL/EMNLP (Area Chair)
- 2022 ICLR (Area Chair)
- 2022 NeurIPS (Area Chair)
- 2022 COLING (Area Chair)
- 2022 AutoSimTrans Workshop (Co-organizer)
- 2022 ICML (Meta-reviewer)
- 2022 KDD (SPC)
- 2022 ARR/ACL/EMNLP (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:
- 2025 MT Summit
- 2025 COLM
- 2024 ICLR
- 2024 COLM
- 2023 MT Summit
- 2022 WMT
- 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 Nomination Committee (Member,2024,2025)
- 中国计算机学会大模型论坛 CCF-FoLM (副主任,2024-present)
- 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)
- 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)

Awards

2024 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2023 2023世界互联网大会领先科技奖
2023 IAMT Honor Award
2023 高等院校科学研究优秀成果奖（科学技术）自然科学一等奖
2022 ACL Outstanding Paper Award
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

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Post Address

Huawei Tech. Investment Co.,Ltd
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

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