Zhaowei Wang

E-mail: zwanggy # cse dot ust dot hk

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Life is but about dream.

I am Zhaowei Wang (王昭为). You can also call me James. I’m a PhD student at the Department of CSE, HKUST, supervised by Prof. Yangqiu Song. I got my MPhil degree at CSE, HKUST, in August 2023. Before that, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology in June 2020.
My research interest is event understanding and reasoning in NLP. Primarily, I use cognitive approaches to build reasoning systems based on LLMs. I am fortunate to collaborate closely with Dr. Hongming Zhang at Tencent AI Lab, Seattle, and Dr. Xin Liu at Amazon Search, Palo Alto.

News

Mar 13, 2024 A paper about implementing K-Line Theory for abstraction is accepted to NAACL 2024.
Mar 13, 2024 A paper about temporal relation bias is accepted to NAACL 2024.
Jan 18, 2024 A paper about enhancing LLMs’ commonsense reasoning ability is accepted to EACL 2024.
Oct 8, 2023 Two papers about detecting hallucination and commonsense denoising were accepted to EMNLP 2023.
Oct 4, 2023 Two papers about argument mining and sign language translation were accepted to Workshops at EMNLP 2023.
Aug 3, 2023 Our system of multi-modal argument mining obtains the first place in ImageArg-Shared-Task-2023@The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining at EMNLP 2023!
May 2, 2023 One paper about commonsense causal reasoning was accepted to ACL 2023.
Oct 6, 2022 One paper about event understanding was accepted to EMNLP 2022.

Selected Publications

  1. NAACL
    AbsPyramid: Benchmarking the Abstraction Ability of Language Models with a Unified Entailment Graph
    Zhaowei Wang, Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Sehyun Choi, Xin Liu, and Yangqiu Song
    In Findings of 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  2. EMNLP
    KCTS: Knowledge-Constrained Tree Search Decoding with Token-Level Hallucination Detection
    Sehyun Choi, Tianqing Fang, Zhaowei Wang, and Yangqiu Song
    In 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  3. ACL
    COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspective
    Zhaowei Wang, Quyet V. Do, Hongming Zhang, Jiayao Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, and Simon See
    In 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (*oral)
  4. EMNLP
    SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controller
    Zhaowei Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, and Simon See
    In 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (*oral)

Education Experience

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2023.9-present

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
MPhil in Computer Science and Engineering, 2021.9-2023.8

Harbin Institute of Technology
BEng in Computer Science and Technology, 2016.9-2020.6

Selected Awards

HKUST RedBird PhD Award 2023-2024

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2023

National Scholarship 2018-2019

National Scholarship 2017-2018

Merit Student in Heilongjiang Province 2017-2018

National Scholarship 2016-2017

Service

Conference Reviewer: ACL 2023, 2024; EMNLP 2022, 2023; NAACL 2024; KDD 2023; CIKM 2023; AAAI 2024; ACL ARR 2023 (all rounds), Feb, Apr 2024; COLM 2024; EACL 2023, 2024; COLING 2022; LREC-COLING 2024; SDM 2023; AACL 2022, 2023; AKBC 2022

External Journal Reviewer: JAIR 2023 Apr