Maggie, Wenjie Li

Professor, Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

PQ707, Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Telephone: (852) 2766 7297

FAX: (852) 2774 0842

Electronic Mail: cswjli at comp dot polyu dot edu dot hk

Welcome to our new page at GitHub !

Research Group

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Program

Hong Kong Scholars Program

Postdoctoral Fellows and RAs Wanted: Highly motivated, energetic and enthusiastic persons are always welcome to work with us on the topics of natural language understanding and generation, machine conversation, summarization and question answering, etc.

Latest News:

Research Position Opening: I am looking for postdocs, research associates/assistants for the projects, Emotion-Driven Conversation, Goal-Driven Conversational Recommendation, Multi-Modal Conversational Question Answering, and Causality Mining and Reasoning in NLP, etc. Good project-relevant background knowledge and deep learning programming ability are expected. A strong publication record is preferred.

[October 26, 2024] Yongqi Li received IPM Best PhD Paper 2023: Honorable Mentions. Great job!

[September 20, 2024] Congratulations to Hanlin Wang, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjun Hou and Feiteng Mu! Their papers were accepted into Findings at EMNLP2024.

[July 20, 2024] I am so happy to know that Dongding Lin's submission, entitled SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation, to MM2024 has been accepted. This is the first time we submitted to MM, marking a successful move towards multimodal modeling.

[May 16, 2024, 2024] I am extremely proud of my students' achievements. We have successfully had four papers accepted into the main conference and an additional six papers accepted into Findings at ACL2024. Congratulations to Feiteng Mu, Yongqi Li, Jian Wang, Shichao Sun, Jiashuo Wang, Kaishuai Xu, and Heming Xia. Check their papers at GitHub.

[October 7, 2023] Congratulations to Yongqi Li and Yi Cheng for their hard work and the papers accepted into AAAI2024.

[October 7, 2023] We have 4 papers accepted into EMNLP2023. Congratulations to Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang, Wenjun Hou and Shichao Sun.

[September 22, 2023] Congratulations to our lovely girl, Jiashuo Wang. It is really good for her to have a paper, Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences via a Bayesian Approach, accepted into NeurIPS2023.

[May 2, 2023] Congratulations to all the students who contributed. 3 papers were accepted by ACL2023 main conference (Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval, ORGAN: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning, and Enhancing Event Causality Identification with Counterfactual Reasoning), and 3 papers were accepted by ACL Findings (Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Dialogue Generation, Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling, and Separating Context and Pattern: Learning Disentangled Sentence Representations for Low-Data Extractive Summarization). The acceptance rate is approaching to 100%.