Wei Shi received his Ph.D. Magna Cum Laude in December 2020 and joined DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group as a Senior Algorithm Engineer in 2021. He was a Ph.D. candidate and junior researcher working on Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg at The Department of Language Science and Technology and Collaborative Research Center SFB-1102 of Saarland University in Germany.
Research Interests
Large Language Models, Multimodal AI, Discourse Relation Parsing, Sentiment Analysis, Text Generation, Relation Extraction, Deep Learning, Natural Language Understanding
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Hongwei Hao and Prof. Dr. Bo Xu
B.Eng. in Automation
Wuhan University, Hubei, China
Publications
Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain
ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
DISRPT@NAACL 2019
Learning to Explicitate Connectives with Seq2Seq Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
IWCS 2019
Using Explicit Discourse Relation Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
IJCNLP 2017
Attention-based Bidirectional Long Short-term Memory Networks for Relation Classification
ACL 2016
Professional Activities
PC member of IEEE TCSS, CoNLL 2018-2019, NAACL-HLT 2019, ACL 2019-2020, AACL-IJCNLP 2020