Biography

Haichao Zhu is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Harbin Institue of Technology. He is working on Natural Language Processing under the direction of Prof. Bing Qin. He was an intern in Natural Language Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia, exploring Natural Language Understanding (Machine Comprehension and Text Summarization), mentored by Dr. Furu Wei and Dr. Li Dong. His research interests are Machine Comprehension, Question Generation, Knowledge Distillation and Text Summarization

Haichao published several research papers in top NLP/AI conferences, including ACL, EMNLP and AAAI, and served as a reviewer in the program committees of ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, AAAI and IJCAI.

Research Interests

Natural Langugage Processing, Machine Reading Comprehension, Open-Domain Question Answering, Question Generation, Multimodality and Knowledge Distillation.

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Conference

  1. Less Is More: Domain Adaptation with Lottery Ticket for Reading Comprehension
    Haichao Zhu, Zekun Wang, Heng Zhang, Ming Liu, Sendong Zhao, Bing Qin
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings), Long paper, 2021.
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  2. Learning to Ask Unanswerable Questions for Machine Reading Comprehension
    Haichao Zhu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Wenhui Wang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Long Paper, 2019.
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  3. Hierarchical Attention Flow for Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension
    Haichao Zhu, Furu Wei, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Full paper, 2018.
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Jounal
  1. Transforming Wikipedia into Augmented Data for Query-Focused Summarization
    Haichao Zhu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2022.
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