Liangming Pan

Ph.D. Student

National University of Singapore

Biography

Liangming Pan (潘亮铭) is a third year Computer Science Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore, jointly advised by Prof. Min-Yen Kan and Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. Prior to joining NUS, he received a Master degree from School of Computer Science at Tsinghua University in June, 2017, working with Prof. Juanzi Li and Prof. Jie Tang. He obtained the Bachelor degree in Beihang University (2010 - 2014).

His board research interests include knowledge base, natural language processing, and data mining. To be specific, his research topics include neural question generation, text style transfer, and zero/few-shot image recognition.

He is now joining the UC Santa Barbara Natural Language Processing Group as a visiting Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. William Wang.

Interests

Text Generation
Knowledge Graph
Multi-media Learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2018

National University of Singapore
MEng in Computer Science, 2014

Tsinghua University
BSc in Software Engineering, 2010

Beihang University

News

One paper accepted by EMNLP 2020!

EMNLP 2020 Sep 2020

Our paper “Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structure for Entity Alignment” was accepted by EMNLP 2020 (long paper, acceptance rate: 22.4%). The paper and codes will be released soon.

Research Achievement Reward

National University of Singapore Sep 2020

I am glad to receive the Research Achievement Reward of 2019/2020 Semester 1 from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

Invited talk at Fudan University

Fudan University Aug 2020

I was invited to give a talk at the Department of Computer Science, Fudan University with the topic “Question Generation with Deep Reasoning”.

One paper accepted by ACM MM 2020!

ACM MM 2020 Jul 2020

Our paper “Multi-modal Cooking Workflow Construction for Food Recipes” was accepted by ACM MM 2020 (acceptance rate: 27.8%) as oral presentation.

Joining the UC Santa Barbara NLP Group!

UCSB NLP Group Jul 2020

From August 2020 to July 2021, I am joining the UC Santa Barbara Natural Language Processing Group as a visiting Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. William Wang.

Two paper accepted by ACL 2020!

ACL 2020 Apr 2020

Two of our papers, “Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions” and “Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication between Experts and Laymenwas”, were accepted by ACL 2020 (acceptance rate: 25.2%).

One paper accepted by CVPR 2020!

CVPR 2020 Feb 2020

Our paper “Hyperbolic Visual Embedding Learning for Zero-Shot Recognition” was accepted by CVPR 2020 (acceptance rate: 22%).

Paper list on neural question generation on Github.

Github Dec 2019

We created a paper list on Github to summarize the recent research on neural question generation. [Github link]

One paper accepted by AAAI 2020!

AAAI 2020 Nov 2019

Our paper “Zero-shot Ingredient Recognition by Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Network” was accepted by AAAI 2020 (acceptance rate: 20.6%). [paper link]