Dr. Jing Li is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) since 2019. She is a member of Data Science and AI Lab (DaSAIL) of Department of Computing and the COMP representative for Doctor of Applied Language Sciences Programme (DALS). Before joining PolyU, she worked in the Natural Language Processing Center, Tencent AI Lab as a senior researcher from 2017 to 2019. Jing obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 under supervision of Professor Kam-Fai Wong. Before that, she received her B.S. degree from Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University in 2013. Jing has broad research interests on natural language processing, social computing, and machine learning. Particularly, she works on novel algorithms for topic modeling, information extraction, discourse analysis, and their applications on social interaction understanding. To know more about my research team, feel free to visit PolyU SMART Group.

• Topic Modeling
• Information Extraction
• Discourse Analysis
• Natural Language Processing for Social Media

As PI:

• Jan 2022 - Dec 2024: Social-Transformers: A Deep Pre-training Framework for Social Media Language Understanding. RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) as PI.
• July 2021 - June 2022: Development of a 3-hour Online Programme on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. PolyU Internal Fund under Freshman Seminar for the Online Teaching Development and Educational Research Grant as PI with Co-PI Dr. Richard Lui.
• Jan 2022 - Dec 2022: Pre-training Methods for Short Texts. CCF-Baidu Open Fund as PI.
• Jan 2021 - Dec 2021: Comment-Aware Weakly-Supervised Classification for Social Media Texts. CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Young Faculty Open Research Fund as PI.
• Jan 2021 - Dec 2023: Characterize, Detect, and Neutralize: Context-Aware Computational Methods for Media Bias on Social Platforms. NSFC (Young Scientists Fund) as PI.
• Oct 2019 - Sep 2022: Discourse Parsing for Online Conversations. PolyU Internal Fund as PI.
  
  As Co-PI or Co-I:
• July 2021 - June 2022: VLG and AIR Group: DoctorBot in Action: Medical Diagnosis, Training and Ward Companion. PolyU Internal Fund as Co-I with PI Prof. Maggie Wenjie Li and Co-Is Dr. Yan Liu and Dr. Xiaoming Wu.
• Sep 2021 - Aug 2023: Artificial Intelligence and Applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Business. PolyU Internal Fund under Project of Strategic Importance as Co-I with PI Prof. Qiang Wu and Co-Is Prof. Cheng-Shing Cheng, Prof. Chu-Ren Huang, Prof. Kuo-Chiang Wei, Dr. Qi Zhu, Dr. Jingran Zhao, Dr. Yi Ou, and Dr. Cindy Ngai.
• Dec 2020 - Dec 2021: Checking Privacy Compliance of Mobile Apps via Synthesizing NLP and Program Analysis. Collaboration Project with Huawei as Co-I with PI Dr. Daniel Xiapu Luo and Co-I Dr. Lei Xue.
• June 2020 - Sep 2021: Vision, Language and Graphics (VLG) Group: An AI Driven Platform for Smart Living. PolyU Internal Fund as Co-PI with Rep. Co-PI Prof. Jane You and Co-PI Prof. Maggie Wenjie Li.
  

• Yuji Zhang, Yubo Zhang, Chunpu Xu, Jing Li, Ziyan Jiang, and Baolin Peng
  #HowYouTagTweets: Learning User Hashtagging Preferences via Personalized Topic Attention
  EMNLP 2021. [Code and Data]


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lingzhi Wang, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Modeling Global and Local Interactions for Online Conversation Recommendation
  ACM TOIS 2021.


• Rong Xiang, Jing Li, Mingyu Wan, Jinghang Gu, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Chu-Ren Huang
  Affective Awareness in Neural Sentiment Analysis
  KBS Journal Volume 226 (2021).


• Zexin Lu, Keyang Ding, Yuji Zhang, Jing Li, Baolin Peng, and Lemao Liu
  Engage the Public: Poll Question Generation for Social Media Posts
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021. [Code and Data]


• Lu Ji, Zhongyu Wei, Jing Li, Qi Zhang, and Xuanjing Huang.
  Discrete Argument Representation Learning for Interactive Argument Pair Identification
  NAACL 2021.


• Lei Chen, Zhongyu Wei, Jing Li, Baohua Zhou, Qi Zhang, and Xuanjing Huang.
  Modeling Evolution of Message Interaction for Rumor Resolution [Code]
  COLING 2020.


• Keyang Ding, Jing Li, and Yuji Zhang.
  Hashtags, Emotions, and Comments: A Large-Scale Dataset to Understand Find-Grained Social Emotions to Online Topics [Data]
  EMNLP 2020 (short paper).


• Lingzhi Wang, Jing Li, Xingshan Zeng, Haisong Zhang, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Continuity of Topic, Interaction, and Query: Learning to Quote in Online Conversations
  EMNLP 2020.


• Yue Wang, Jing Li, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King.
  Cross-Media Keyphrase Prediction: A Unified Framework with Multi-Modality Multi-Head Attention and Image Wordings [Code and Data]
  EMNLP 2020.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Zhiming Mao, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Dynamic Online Conversation Recommendation [Code and Data]
  ACL 2020.


• Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li, Yulan He, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King.
  What Changed Your Mind: The Roles of Dynamic Topics and Discourse in Argumentation Process [Code and Data]
  WWW 2020.


• Ming Liao, Jing Li, Haisong Zhang, Lingzhi Wang, Xixin Wu, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Coupling Global and Local Context for Unsupervised Aspect Extraction
  EMNLP 2019.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Neural Conversation Recommendation with Online Interaction Modeling [Code and Data]
  EMNLP 2019


• Yue Wang, Jing Li, Hou Pong Chan, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
  Topic-Aware Neural Keyphrase Generation for Social Media Language [Code and Data]
  ACL 2019.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Joint Effects of Context and User History for Predicting Online Conversation Re-entries [Code and Data]
  ACL 2019.


• Yue Wang, Jing Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
  Microblog Hashtag Generation via Encoding Conversation Contexts
  NAACL 2019.


• Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li, Yulan He, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King
  What You Say and How You Say it: Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse in Microblog Conversations [Code and Data]
  TACL 2019 (presented in ACL 2019).


• Jing Li, Yan Song, Zhongyu Wei, and Kam-Fai Wong
  A Joint Model of Conversational Discourse and Latent Topics on Microblogs
  CL 2018. (Volume 44, Issue 4)


• Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li, Yan Song, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King
  Topic Memory Networks for Short Text Classification [Code]
  EMNLP 2018.


• Dingmin Wang, Yan Song, Jing Li, Jialong Han, and Haisong Zhang
  A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Generation for Chinese Spelling Check [Code and Data]
  EMNLP 2018.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Nicholas Beauchamp, Sarah Schugars, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Microblog Conversation Recommendation via Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse [Data]
  NAACL 2018.


• Yingyi Zhang, Jing Li, Yan Song, and Chengzhi Zhang
  Encoding Conversation Context for Neural Keyphrase Extraction from Microblog Posts [Data]
  NAACL 2018.


• Jing Li
  Microblog Summarization Using Conversation Structures
  PhD thesis. 2017


• Jing Li, Ming Liao, Wei Gao, Yulan He, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Topic Extraction from Microblog Posts Using Conversation Structures [Data] [Code]
  ACL 2016.


• Jing Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, Baolin Peng, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Using Content-level Structures for Summarizing Microblog Repost Trees [Data]
  EMNLP 2015.

Research Experience

• Visiting PhD at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Jan - Apr, 2016, Supervisor: Prof. Yulan He (Now in University of Warwick.)
• Visiting Scientist at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Feb - May, 2017, Host: Prof. Lu Wang (Now in University of Michigan.)

Organization Committee Member:

• Sponsorship co-chair for ACL 2021 with Zhongyu Wei, Rachada Kongkrachantra, and Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn.
• Publicity co-chair for NLPCC 2021 with Ruifeng Xu and Wei Jia.
• Publication (Findings) co-chair for EMNLP 2020 with Fei Liu, Philippe Muller, Yang Gao, Veronika Laippala, and Lemao Liu.
• Tutorial co-chair for ICONIP 2020 with Zenglin Xu.

Programme Committee Member (including area chairs and senior members):

• 2022: ACL (area chair), ICASSP (meta reviewer), and AAAI.
• 2021: ACL (area chair for NLP Applications), IJCAI (senior member), CCL (area chair for summarization and generation), AAAI, EACL, and NAACL
• 2020: AAAI, ACL, and ICONIP (senior member)
• 2019: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and AAAI
• 2018: ACL and EMNLP (Best reviewer award in EMNLP 2018)
• 2017: EACL and EMNLP
• 2016: EMNLP
• 2015: EMNLP

Reviewer

• TACL: July 2021 - June 2023.
• ACL Rolling Review (as a reviewer and action edtior).

• Spring 2022: [COMP 1433] Introduction to Data Analytics.
• Spring 2021: [FH 6051] Computational Linguistics (co-teaching with Prof. Chu-Ren Huang)
• Spring 2021: [COMP 5511] Artifical Intelligence Concepts.
• Spring 2021: [COMP 1433] Introduction to Data Analytics.
• Spring 2020: [COMP 1433] Introduction to Data Analytics.
• Autumn 2019: [COMP 6701] Advanced Topics in Computer Algorithms (co-teaching with Dr. Jesper Jansson)
• Autumn 2019: [COMP 4122] Game Design and Development (co-teaching with Dr. Ping Li)

Research Students and Staffs in PolyU (we form SMART Group together!):

• Yuji Zhang, PhD student. Aug 2020-now. Focusing on social media language understanding in dynamic environments. Publication: EMNLP 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, and EMNLP 2021. Co-supervisor: Prof. Maggie Wenjie Li.
• Zexin Lu, PhD student. Oct 2019-now. Focusing on online user engagement modeling. Publication: SLT 2021 and ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Co-supervisor: Chair Prof. Qing Li.
• Chunpu Xu, PhD student. Aug 2021-now. Focusing on multimodality learning on social media. Co-supervisor: Dr. Daniel Xiapu Luo.
• Hanzhuo Tan, PhD student. To start in Jan 2022 (now a research intern at Baidu). Focusing on pre-training for social media language understanding. Co-supervisor: Chair Prof. Changwen Chen and Prof. Yuqun Zhang from SUSTech.
• Rong Xiang, Research Assistant. Sep 2021-now. Focusing on Cantonese language understanding: KBS 2021.
• Xiaoxin Lu, Master student and Project Assistant. Jan 2021-now. Focusing on doctor recommendation on medical forums.
• Jiarong Yang, Master student. Jan 2021-now. Focusing on fake news detection on social media.
• Yuxuan Zhu, Master student. Jan 2021-now. Focusing on COVID-19 event analysis on Twitter.
• Yubo Zhang, Undergraduate student. Aug 2020-now. Focusing on doctor recommendation on medical forums (under PolyU URIS project): EMNLP 2021.
• Yalu Pan, Undergraduate student. June 2021-now. Focusing on Cantonese language understanding.
• Tuohan Zhou, Undergraduate student. June 2021-now. Focusing on multimodal learning on social media.
• Zhe Wang, Undergraduate student. Aug 2020-now. Focusing on privacy document analysis.

Alumni in PolyU:

• Yibing Liu, Research Asisstant. Apr 2021 - present. Focusing on privacy document analysis. Now a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong.
• Keyang Ding, Research Assistant. Apr 2021 - present. Focusing on emotion analysis on social media. Master Thesis: Hashtags, Emotions, and Comments: A Large-Scale Dataset to Understand Fine-Grained Social Emotions to Online Topics. Publication: EMNLP 2020 and ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Now a PhD student in Harbin Institute of Technology.
• Bing Wang, Visiting PhD student from University of Oxford. Focusing on computer vision. Mar 2021 - June 2021.
• Junfeng Jiang, Master student. Oct 2019-Mar 2021. Thesis: Online Medical-consultation Recommendation System with Topic Model. Now a software engineer in Oppo.
• Hongliang Sun, Master student. Oct 2019-Mar 2021. Thesis: Domain-Specific Language Model Continue Pretraining for Chinese Weibo. Now a PhD student in Harbin Institute of Technology.
• Jiancheng Wen, Research Assistant. Aug 2020-Feb 2021. Focusing on multimodality learning.

Intern Students in Tencent:

• Yingyi Zhang, PhD student from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Oct 2017 - May 2018. Focusing on keyphrase extraction: NAACL 2018 and JASIST 2019. Now a visiting PhD in University of Pittsburgh.
• Jichuan Zeng, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dec 2017 - Aug 2019. Focusing on topic modeling: EMNLP 2018 , TACL 2019, and WWW 2020. Obtained PhD degree in 2019 and now a senior research engineer at ByteDance.
• Yue Wang, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. May 2018 - Aug 2019. Focusing on keyphrase generation: NAACL 2019, ACL 2019, and EMNLP 2020. Obtained PhD degree in 2020.
• Ming Liao, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Oct 2018 - Aug 2019. Focusing on sentiment analysis: EMNLP 2019.
• Lu Ji, Master student from Fudan University. Apr - Aug 2019. Focusing on conversation discourse analysis: NAACL 2021. Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program. Graduated in June 2020 and now in Pinduoduo as a research engineer.
• Xiaoxue Liu, Master student from Nanjing University. May - Sep 2018. Focusing on event detection. Graduated in June 2019 and now in Tencent as a research engineer.

Other Student Collaborators

• Xingshan Zeng, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Focusing on conversation recommendation: NAACL 2018, ACL 2019, EMNLP 2019, ACL 2020, and ACM TOIS. Obtained PhD degree 2020 and now in Huawei Noah's ark lab as a researcher.
• Lingzhi Wang, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Focusing on user behavior analysis in social media conversations: EMNLP 2020.
• Luyang Lin, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Focusing on media bias on social media.
• Lei Chen, master student from Fudan University. Focusing on rumor detection. COLING 2020.