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Miao Li (/ˈmja.o/ /liː/) |
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. — Victor Hugo
Brief Bio
Miao is currently a PhD candidate at School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne (UoM), advised equally by Prof. Eduard Hovy (UoM and CMU) and Dr. Jey Han Lau (UoM) within Natural Language Processing Group. He has been doing visiting research under the supervision of Prof. Mirella Lapata at ILCC, The University of Edinburgh since March 2024. His PhD journey at UoM started in December 2020. Before PhD, after obtaining a B.E. from Northeastern University in 2017, he studied as an exam-exempted master’s student at State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, China and completed his M.Sc. in July 2020 from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research Interests
Throughout the years of pursuing the PhD degree, Miao’s primary area of interest revolves around multi-document language processing. While automated multi-document summarization has achieved significant progress and large language models have demonstrated the capability to generate plausible summaries, the effectiveness of consolidating information from multiple documents remains uncertain and largely unexplored. Miao’s PhD research aims to investigate multi-document summarization from the perspective of information consolidation and make it less opaque and more grounded. In the long term, Miao’s research goal is to explore the potential for machines to achieve superhuman-level consolidation and reasoning over multiple sources with gigantic and complex information in the format of texts, tables, charts, images or other multimedia elements, and realize human-like communication conveying information based on devised consequences from them.
Selected Publications
- Miao Li, Jey Han Lau, and Eduard Hovy. Exploring Multi-Document Information Consolidation for Scientific Sentiment Summarization. Preprint, 2024. PDF
- Miao Li, Ming-Bin Chen, Bo Tang, Shengbin Hou, Pengyu Wang, Haiying Deng, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong, Keming Mao, Peng Cheng, and Yi Luo. NewsBench: Systematic Evaluation of LLMs for Writing Proficiency and Safety Adherence in Chinese Journalistic Editorial Applications. Preprint, 2024. PDF
- Miao Li, Eduard Hovy, and Jey Han Lau. Summarizing Multiple Documents with Conversational Structure for Meta-review Generation. Findings of EMNLP, 2023. PDF
- Zhuohan Xie, Miao Li, Trevor Cohn, and Jey Han Lau. DeltaScore: Fine-grained Story Evaluation with Perturbations. Findings of EMNLP, 2023. PDF
- Miao Li, Jianzhong Qi, and Jey Han Lau. Compressed Heterogeneous Graph for Abstractive Multi-document Summarization. Oral. AAAI 2023. PDF
- Mengxue Zhao, Yang Yang, Miao Li, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Pengjie Ren, Maarten de Rijke and Zhaochun Ren. Personalized Abstractive Opinion Tagging. Oral. SIGIR 2022. PDF
- Rui Zhang, Bayu Distiawan Trisedy, Miao Li, Yong Jiang, Jianzhong Qi. A Benchmark and Comprehensive Survey on Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment via Representation Learning. VLDB Journal 2022. PDF
- Hongyin Tang, Miao Li, Beihong Jin. A Topic Augmented Text Generation Model: Joint Learning of Semantics and Structural Features. Oral. EMNLP 2019. PDF / Appendix
- Miao Li, Hongyin Tang, Beihong Jin, Chengqing Zong. A New Effective Neural Variational Model with Mixture-of-Gaussians Prior for Text Clustering. Oral. ICTAI 2019. PDF
- Miao Li, Hongyin Tang, Beihong Jin. Clustering Large-Scale Origin-Destination Pairs: A Case Study for Public Transit in Beijing. Oral. UIC 2018. PDF
- Software copyright of an Android application designed for healthcare purposes (No. 2016SR133938). Granted by Chinese National Copyright Administration. June 2016.
Honors and Awards
- AAAI-23 Student Scholarship, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, January 2023
- Google Conference Scholarship, Google Inc., January 2023
- Excellent Student Cadre, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 2019
- National Scholarship for Graduates, Education Ministry of China, November 2018
- The First Prize Scholarship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, October 2018
- Excellent Student Cadre, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 2018
- Outstanding Graduate, Northeastern University, June 2017
- Outstanding graduate thesis Award, Northeastern University, July 2017
- The First Prize Scholarship, Northeastern University, September 2016
- National Scholarship for Undergraduates, Education Ministry of China, October 2016
- The First Prize Scholarship, Northeastern University, September 2015
- National Scholarship for Undergraduates, Education Ministry of China, October 2015
- Excellent Student Cadre, Northeastern University, October 2015
Professional Services
- Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (2021 - Present)
- Member of reviewer committees: NLPCC 2022-2023, EACL 2023, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023
- Subreviewer for WSDM 2022, SIGIR 2022, SIGKDD 2022, and CIKM 2022