About me
I’m a research scientist at IBM Research. I’m also an adjunct senior lecturer and co-supervisor at UKP Lab-TU Darmstadt. My primary research interest lies in the area of natural language processing (NLP), with a particular focus on language understanding in the discourse level, computational argumentation, and scholarly document processing. For more details, see my publications.
I am a member of the standing review committee of TACL. I also serve as a standing reviewer of Computational Linguistics (CL) journal. I have co-organized the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining, the Second/Third/Fourth Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP 2021, SustailNLP2022, SustailNLP2023), the First Workshop on Argumentation Knowledge Graphs, and the First Quantitative Summarization – Key Point Analysis Shared Task.
News
09/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at NAACL 2024.
09/2023 I will serve as an area chair at LREC-COLING 2024.
07/2023 I will give an invited talk “Bridging Resolution: A Journey Towards Modelling Referential Discourse Entities” at CODI 2023.
06/2023 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2023.
05/2023 I will serve as an area chair at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, INLG 2023 and SIGDIAL 2023.
05/2023 Four long papers accepted at ACL2023 Main Conference. Kudos to my students and collaborators!
04/2023 I visited UKP Lab and had great discussions with the brilliant students from the lab.
01/2023 I gave a short talk at IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop.
12/2022 I will serve as an area chair at ACL 2023.
10/2022 I gave a talk at Dagstuhl Seminar - Towards a Unified Model of Scholarly Argumentation.
10/2022 One paper accepted at EMNLP 2022!
09/2022 I gave an invited talk at Dublin City University NLP Seminar.
09/2022 The paper “GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code” got accepted to EMNLP 2022 demo track! Our document2slides dataset is integrated into GEMv2 and can be easily accessed at: GEM-SciDuet.
08/2022 One paper accepted at COLING 2022!
05/2022 I will give a lecture on anaphora and coreference resolution at LT Bridge Summer School.
04/2022 I will serve as a senior area chair at EMNLP 2022.
04/2022 One paper accepted at the first workshop on Learning with Natural Language Supervision (co-located with ACL 2022).
03/2022 I will serve as a meta-reviewer at SIGDIAL 2022.
02/2022 Happy moment of being an advisor: Three papers accepted at ACL 2022 Main Conference!
01/2022 I will serve as an area chair for INLG 2022.
09/2021 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021. Kudos to my great colleagues!
08/2021 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2021 Finding.
08/2021 I will serve as a meta-reviewer at AAAI 2022.
07/2021 Happy to join the career panel discussion at the HITS online Alumini meeting!
05/2021 Two papers accepted at ACL 2021 and its Findings. Kudos to my collaborators and interns!
04/2021 My colleagues and I are organizing a shared task on argument summarization (Quantitative Summarization – Key Point Analysis) at the ArgMining 2021 workshop (co-located with EMNLP 2021). Please consider participating!
03/2021 On March 17th, Project Debater published a paper at Nature which describes the whole system: “An autonomous debating system”. Proud to be part of the team!
03/2021 The proud moment of being an advisor: Two papers accepted at NAACL 2021!
02/2021 I was invited to participate in a panel discussion about “Medical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Future: What Should We Know?” at MMII Annual Conference 2021.
01/2021 Together with my colleagues, I have a paper “TDMSci: A Specialized Corpus for Scientific Literature Entity Tagging of Tasks Datasets and Metrics” accepted at EACL 2021.
01/2021 I will serve as a standing reviewer of Computational Linguistics (CL) journal.