Yang Zhao

Yang Zhao

Associate Professor at Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences

Natural Language Processing Group, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Biography

赵阳,中国科学院自动化研究所副研究员、硕士生导师,主要从事自然语言处理、机器翻译和知识图谱等相关研究和系统开发工作。在国际权威学术期刊(ACM/IEEE TASLP、ACM TALLIP、AI等)和一流学术会议(AAAI、IJCAI、ACL、EMNLP、COLING等)上发表论文三十余篇,获得第十九届全国机器翻译大会CCMT 2023最佳论文,出版译著一部《神经机器翻译》。目前担任国际学术期刊 ACM TALLIP 副主编(Associate Editor),并多次在ACL、COLING、EMNLP、IJCAI等国际权威学术会议担任程序委员会委员等职务,担任中文信息学会开源情报分析专委会委员,中文信息学会青年工作委员会委员,中文信息学会机器翻译专委会委员,担任CCMT 2023 前沿趋势论坛主席和COLING 2020 出版主席。作为负责人和技术骨干承担多个国家自然基金项目、国家重点研发计划子课题和特定领域应用项目等。

兴趣爱好
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
  • Knowledge Graph
教育经历
  • PhD in Pattern Recognition, 2015-2019

    Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • MEng in Automatics, 2012-2015

    Beijing Jiaotong University

  • BSc in Automatics, 2008-2012

    Beijing Jiaotong University

News

I have one paper accepted by ICASSP 2024.

I have three papers accepted by EMNLP findings 2023.

Our paper win the Best paper award of CCMT 2023.

I have one paper accepted by ACL 2023.

Publications

–2024

Cong Ma, Yaping Zhan, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong. 2023. Vector Quantization Knowledge Transfer For End-to-end text image machine translation. Accepted by 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024).

–2023

Journal

Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong. 2023. Transformer: A General Framework from Machine Translation to Others. Machine Intelligence Research 20, 514–538 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-022-1393-5.

Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Junnan Zhu, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong. 2023. Zero-shot language extension for dialogue state tracking via pre-trained models and multi-auxiliary-tasks fine-tuning. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 259, 2023, 110015.

Cong Ma, Xu Han, Linghui Wu, Yaping Zhang, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong. 2023. Modal Contrastive Learning based End-to-End Text Image Machine Translation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3324540.

Conference

Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong. 2023. CCIM: Cross-modal Cross-lingual Interactive Image Translation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (EMNLP Findings 2023), pages 4959–4965.

Zixuan Ren, Yang Zhao, and Chengqing Zong. 2023. Towards Informative Open-ended Text Generation with Dynamic Knowledge Triples. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (EMNLP Findings 2023), pages 3189–3203.

Zhiyang Zhang, Yaping Zhang, Yupu Liang, Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong. 2023. LayoutDIT: Layout-Aware End-to-End Document Image Translation with Multi-Step Conductive Decoder. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (EMNLP Findings 2023), pages 10043–10053.

Rongchuan Tang, Yang Zhao, Chengqing Zong, and Yu Zhou. 2023. Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion with Language-Sensitive Multi-Graph Attention. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), pages 10508–10519.

Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong (2023). E2TIMT: Efficient and Effective Modal Adapter for Text Image Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023).

Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong (2023). Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation For Text Image Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023).

Zhiyang Zhang, Yaping Zhang, Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou. A Novel Dataset and Benchmark Analysis on Document Image Translation. : In Proceedings of the 19th China Conference on Machine Translation (CCMT 2023) (Best paper award).

–2022

Yang Zhao, Junnan Zhu, Lu Xiang, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Feifei Zhai, Chengqing Zong. 2022. Life-long Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Knowledge Distillation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02800.

Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Xu Han, Linghui Wu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou. 2022. Improving End-to-End Text Image Translation From the Auxiliary Text Translation Task. In Proceedings of the 26TH International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).

–2021

Journal

Mei Li, Lu Xiang, Xiaomian Kang, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong (2021). Medical Term and Status Generation From Chinese Clinical Dialogue With Multi-Granularity Transformer. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 3362-3374, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3122301.

Lu Xiang, Junnan Zhu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong (2021). Robust cross-lingual task-oriented dialogue. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 20, 6, Article 93 (November 2021), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3457571

Xiaomian Kang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong (2021). Enhancing Lexical Translation Consistency for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 21, 3, Article 59 (May 2022), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485469.

Conference

Hao He, Qian Wang, Zhipeng Yu, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong (2021). Synchronous interactive decoding for multilingual neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAA 2021), 35(14), 12981-12988. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i14.17535

Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Junnan Zhu, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong (2021). Zero-Shot Deployment for Cross-Lingual Dialogue System. In CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2021) . vol 13029. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88483-3_15.

–2020

Journal

Jiajun Zhang, Long Zhou, Yang Zhao, Chengqing Zong. 2020. Synchronous bidirectional inference for neural sequence generation. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 281, 2020, 103234, ISSN 0004-3702, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2020.103234.

Feng Wang, Juan Du, Yang Zhao, Tao Tang, Jianjun Shi. 2020. A deep learning based data fusion method for degradation modeling and prognostics. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 775-789, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TR.2020.3011500.

Conference

Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong. 2020. Knowledge graphs enhanced neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020). Article 559, 4039–4045.

Yang Zhao, Lu Xiang, Junnan Zhu, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong. 2020. Knowledge graph enhanced neural machine translation via multi-task learning on sub-entity granularity. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), pages 4495–4505, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.

Xiaomian Kang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong. 2020. Dynamic context selection for document-level neural machine translation via reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), pages 2242–2254, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Long Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Yang Zhao, Chengqing Zong. 2020. Non-autoregressive neural machine translation with distortion model. In CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2020). vol 12430. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60450-9_32.

Qian Wang, Yuchen Liu, Cong Ma, Yu Lu, Yining Wang, Long Zhou, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong. 2020. CASIA’s System for IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, pages 130–139, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.

–2019

Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu. 2019. Addressing the under-translation problem from the entropy perspective. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), 33(01), 451-458. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301451

–2018

Journal

Jiajun Zhang, Yang Zhao, Haoran Li, Chengqing Zong. 2018. Attention with sparsity regularization for neural machine translation and summarization. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 507-518, March 2019, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2883740.

Conference

Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Zhongjun He, Chengqing Zong, Hua Wu. 2018. Addressing troublesome words in neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), pages 391–400, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Yang Zhao, Yining Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong. 2018. Phrase table as recommendation memory for neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), AAAI Press, 4609–4615.

Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang and Chengqing Zong. 2018. Exploiting pre-ordering for neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on language resources and evaluation (lrec 2018), pages 893–899.

Yuchen Liu, Long Zhou, Yining Wang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, and Chengqing Zong. 2018. A comparable study on model averaging, ensembling and reranking in nmt. In CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2018). vol 11109. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99501-4_26.

–Before 2018

Yang Zhao, Yining Wang, Jiajun Zhang, and Chengqing Zong. 2017. Cost-aware learning rate for neural machine translation. Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data (CCL 2017), vol 10565. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69005-6_8

Yining Wang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, and Zhengshan Xue. 2017. Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), pages 384–393, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.

Yang Zhao, Tian-hua Xu, Hai-feng Wang. 2015. Text mining based fault diagnosis of vehicle on-board equipment for high speed railway. In Proceedings of the 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015).

Research Activity

Associate Editor: ACM TALLIP

Publication Co-Chairs: COLING 2020

Reviewer: ACL (2019-2021), EMNLP (2019-2022), COLING (2022), IJCAI (2020-2021), AAAI(2020-2021), NAACL(2024)

Journal Reviewer: IEEE/ACM TASLP, MIR.