Ongoing Projects

• Giving Me a Hand: Towards Emotional Support Conversation Machines, (GRF PolyU 15213323, 2024-2026)
• Follow Me: Towards Target-Guided Recommendation-oriented Conversation Machines, (GRF PolyU 15207122, 2023-2025)
• Conversational Question Answering: When Question Answering Meets Multi-Round Conversation, (GRF PolyU 15207821, 2022-2024)

Completed Projects

UGC-founded Research Projects (As PI):

• Towards Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Machines, (GRF PolyU 15207920, 2021-2023)
• Reinforced Reading, Reasoning and Writing for Question-focused Summarization, (GRF PolyU 15210919, 2020-2023)
• Towards Emotion-Enhanced Social Conversation Machines, (GRF PolyU 15204018, 2019-2021)
• Exploring Neural Network Models for Generation-based Text Summarization, (GRF PolyU 15203617, 2018-2020)
• Making Sense of Social Media Streams through Text Summarization (GRF PolyU 15209414, 2015-2017)
• Modeling Opinion Influence in Social Media Networks for Business Intelligence Applications (GRF PolyU 520212, 2013-2015)
• Building a Unified Framework and Evolutionary Models for Online Opinion Retrieval and Summarization (GRF PolyU 523008, 2009-2011)
• Query-Oriented Summarization based on Question Profile Construction and Answer Fusion (GRF PolyU 521707, 2008-2010)
• Producing Concise and Coherent Entity Description Summaries from Multiple Documents (GRF PolyU 521105, 2006-2007)
• Temporal-Oriented Chinese News Event Tracking and Summarization (GRF PolyU 518103, 2004-2006)
• Determination of Temporal Reference in Chinese News Articles (GRF PolyU 508502, 2003-2004)

Other Research Projects (As PI):

• Knowledge Fusion and Knowledge Reasoning in Human-Machine Conversation (自然语言人机交互中的知识融合及知识推理研究), (NSFC 2020, 62076212, 2021-2024)
• New Generative Summarization Models based on Deep Neural Network Learning (基于深度学习的新型生成式摘要模型研究), (NSFC 2016, 61672445, 2017-2020)
• Content-Oriented Microblog Mining Based on Speech Act Recognition (基于用户言语行为的微博内容挖掘研究), (NSFC 2012, 61272291, 2013-2016)

PolyU Internal Research Projects (As PI):

• To Trust or Not to Trust: Interaction-driven Information Credibility Modeling on Social Media Network
• Towards Automatic References Recommendation and Survey Generation: Mining the Scientific Literature (CERG Fundable, 2011-2012)
• Exploring Joint Ranking Strategies for Opinion Retrieval and Summarization (ICRG PolyU, 2009-2010)
• Exploring Optimization Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization (ICRG PolyU, 2008-2009)

Other Projects Involved (As Co-I):

• Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining
• Crowd-sourcing, Linguistic Analysis and Language Resources, CERG, 01/2012-12/2013
• Feature Space Abstraction in Video Skimming, ICRG, 10/2010-12/2011
• Automatic Feature Selection in News Video Skimming, ICRG, 10/2009-12/2010
• A Study of Domain Specific Web Mining for the Tracking of Event, ICRG, 01/2008-12/2009
• An Intelligent Risk Assessment System for International Maritime Safety and Security Law in Hong Kong and China, ICRG, 01/2006-12/2009
• Acquisition of New Domain Specific Concepts and Ontology Update, CERG 2005-2007
• Terminology Extraction with Classification Assignment, CERG 2004-2006
• 基于迁移学习自适应信息抽取技术研究，NSFC 60603093, 01/2011-12/2013
• 基于短语信息和领域概念的主题标引关键技术研究, NSFC 60603093, 01/2007-12/2009
• 面向信息抽取的汉语时间系统研究, NSFC 60573186, 01/2006-12/2008
• 因特网中文金融新闻中抽取事件及其相关时间信息的研究, NSFC 69975008, 2000-2002
• 机器翻译新方法的研究, 863 Project 2005AA114140, 2005-2006