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

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 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%.

[November 11, 2022] Congratulations to Dongding Lin, Jian Wang and Ruifeng Yuan. Their work on Improving Conversational Recommender Systems by Collaborative Augmentation and Preserve Context Information through Interpretability for Extract-Generate Long-Input Summarization Framework was accepted into AAAI2022.

[October 6, 2022] Yi Cheng, Ruifeng Yuan and Jiashuo Wang have their papers, Few-shot Query-Focused Summarization with Prefix-Merging, CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph Generation and Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning, accepted into EMNLP2022. Congratulations!

[April 21, 2022] Congratulations to Feiteng Mu, Yi Cheng and Wenge Liu. Their work on causality reasoning enhanced text generation and interpretable medical diagnosis were accepted into IJCAI2022.

[February 10, 2022] Congratulations to Yongqi Li. His work on Conversational Question Answering over Text, Tables, and Images was accepted by ACL2022.

[June 10, 2021] Jian Wang and Dongding Lin 2021 won the third prizes (fourth place) in 语言与智能技术竞赛: 多技能对话任务. ^D6C23482280EC1B1989C1C67D673F1E973631F4199DA4E979D^pimgpsh_thumbnail_win_distr