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Welcome to HKU NLP group! We are a group of researchers working on natural language processing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong.

Group members in Hong Kong as of December 2, 2021 @ Victoria Peak

The current focus of the NLP group in HKU includes:
• Pretraining algorithms, including novel objectives, neural network architectures and distillation methods;
• Semantic parsing, natural language interfaces, human-computer interaction (HCI);
• Dialog systems, long text generation and automatic evaluation;
• Machine Translation, especially in the settings of simultaneous and multimodal MT.

Please fill in this form if you are interested in joining us!

People

Best Photo	Known As	Research Interests	Favourite Quote	Programming Language
	Chang Ma, Ph.D. student	representation learning, latent variable models, computational biology	Research is formalized curiosity.	Python
	Yiheng Xu, Ph.D. student	natural language processing, multimodal pretraining	Rise above. Focus on science.	Python
	Tianbao Xie, Ph.D. student	dialog systems, spoken language understanding, pre-trained models, semantic parsing	Although with repeated experience of setbacks, I have encountered many difficulties and overcome many difficulties, which make me gradually believe that everything will get better if I insist on it again. However, sometimes I am still moved by these sudden luck and objectively reflect on everything I need to reach this step. Every now and then, I appreciate life, appreciate for its small blessings.	Python
	Lin Zheng, Ph.D. student	natural language processing, structured prediction, latent variable models	I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. - Claude Shannon	Python
	Qintong Li, Ph.D. student	machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge reasoning	To make each day count.	Python
	Jiahui Gao, Ph.D. student collaborator	natural language processing, cross-modal(vision-language) learning	Be curious. Take risks.	Python, R
	Qi Liu, Assistant Professor	language models, dialogue, graph neural networks, blockchain	The best way to predict the future is to create it.	Python, Java, LaTeX
	Tao Yu, Assistant Professor	semantic parsing, dialog systems, natural language interfaces, HCI	This guy is too lazy to leave a word so far.	Python, LaTeX, SQL
	Lingpeng Kong, Assistant Professor	representation learning, structured prediction	Take pains. Be perfect. - William Shakespeare	Python, C++, LaTeX