Pai Liu

Research Assistant

School of Engineering
Westlake University
Zhejiang, China, 310013

Email: liupai@westlakeu.edu.cn

Biography

I am a research assistant of Text Intelligence Lab, Westlake University with Yue Zhang. I finished my B.E. at Northeastern University. I spent great time working remotely with professor Rada Mihalcea at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

My research interests lie at Faithfulness in Natural Language Generation, Human-AI Controllable Text Generation, Open Information Extraction and Knowledgable QA/Dialogue. I plan to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the U.S., and am currently searching for advisors and programs.

News

[08/2022] One paper was accepted by TMLR.
[09/2022] One paper was released to Arxiv.
[05/2021] One paper was accepted by SemEval (2021).
[04/2021] One paper was accepted by ACL-2021.
[05/2020] One paper was accepted by SemEval (2020).
[12/2019] I got the National Scholarship Award (Undergraduate Student) from Northeastern University.
[12/2018] I got the National Scholarship Award (Undergraduate Student) from Northeastern University.

Education

WestlakeNLP Lab, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Jul, 2020 - Jun, 2021

Visiting Student
Supervisor: Yue Zhang
Dept. of Software Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang

Aug, 2017 - Jun, 2021

Undergraduate student

Experience

WestlakeNLP Lab, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Aug, 2021 - Present

Research Assistant
Advisor: Yue Zhang
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US

Jun, 2022 - Dec, 2022

Research Intern
Advisor: Rada Mihalcea
New York University, US

May, 2022 - Jun, 2022

Research Intern
Advisor: Duygu Ataman

Publications [Google Scholar] [Semantic Scholar]

* indicates equal contribution.

2022

Haitao Lin, Lirong Wu, Guojiang Zhao, Pai Liu, Stan Z Li. Exploring Generative Neural Temporal Point Process Transactions on Machine Learning Research(TMLR) [pdf][github].
Pai Liu*, Wenyang Gao*, Wenjie Dong*, Songfang Huang, Yue Zhang. Guibing Guo. Open information extraction 2007 - 2022 Arxiv Preprint [pdf].
2021
Cunxiang Wang*, Pai Liu*, Yue Zhang. Can Generative Pre-trained Language Models Serve asKnowledge Bases for Closed-book QA? The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) [pdf][github].
Zhixiang Chen*, Yikun Lei*, Pai Liu*, Guibing Guo. NEUer at SemEval-2021 Task 4: Complete Summary Representation by Filling Answers into Question for Matching Reading Comprehension International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2021 [pdf][checkpoint].
2020
Pai Liu. QiaoNing at SemEval-2020 Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation system based on ensemble of language model International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020 [pdf][github].

Professional Activities

Conference Reviews:
ARR, EMNLP, TKDE, SemEval, ZUSC

Interests and Achievements

President of Street Dance Club at Westlake University (over 2,00 members)

2021 - Present
Champion of the 0-74kg class powerlifting at Westlake University

2020
Vice President of Street Dance Club at Northeastern University (over 2,00 members)

2019
Champion of badminton singles in software college at Northeastern University

2017, 2018, 2019