Welcome to Lemao’s Homepage

I am currently a principal researcher at Tencent, working on large language models, natural language processing, machine translation and their related topics. I can be reached through NAME at gmail dot com (NAME=lemaoliu).

More about me

I am from Yugan in Jiangxi Provice, which is a small yet beautiful county near Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. I earned my Ph.D. degree at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in Oct. 2013, under the instructions of Prof. Tiejun Zhao at HIT and Dr. Taro Watanabe at NICT. After that, I was a postdoc researcher at the City University of New York, working with Prof. Liang Huang; and then I was a researcher at NICT Japan between Sept. 2014 and March 2017.

News

• 10/2023: Eight Papers accepted by EMNLP 2023.
• 09/2023: Three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
• 05/2023: Six papers accepted by ACL 2023.
• 10/2022: Four papers accepted by EMNLP 2022.
• 06/2022: Area Chair at EMNLP 2022.
• 04/2022: Area Chair at NLPCC 2022.
• 03/2022: Tutorials accepted by IJCAI 2022 and SIGIR 2022.
• 02/2022: Five papers accepted by ACL 2022 and one paper by NAACL 2022.
• 11/2021: Four papers accepted by EMNLP 2021.
• 07/2021: Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2021.
• 05/2021: Seven papers accepted by ACL 2021.
• 07/2020: Best Demo Award at CCL 2020.
• 04/2020: Two papers accepted by ACL 2020.
• 02/2020: One paper accepted by JAIR.

Professional Activities

• Area Chair (or SPC, AE): IJCAI 2021, EMNLP 2022, ARR.
• Session Chairs: IJCAI 2019, ACL 2021.
• Publication Chair: Findings of EMNLP 2020.
• Standing Reviewers: Computational Linguistics, Transaction of ACL.

Selected Publications

For full publication list, please check publication page, where related resources (data and codes) are available for some papers.

• Lingfeng Shen, Lemao Liu, Haiyun Jiang and Shuming Shi. On the Evaluation Metrics for Paraphrase Generation. Proceedings of EMNLP 2022. [code]

• Deng Cai, Yan Wang, Huayang Li, Wai Lam and Lemao Liu. Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory. Proceedings of ACL 2021. (Outstanding Paper Award) [code]

• Jierui Li, Lemao Liu, Huayang Li, Guanlin Li, Guoping Huang and Shuming Shi. Evaluating Explanation Methods for Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2020.

• Xintong Li, Guanlin Li, Lemao Liu, Max Meng and Shuming Shi. On the Word Alignment from Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2019.

• Lemao Liu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention. In Proceedings of COLING 2016. [paper]

• Lemao Liu, Liang Huang. Search-aware Tuning for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2014. [paper]

• Lemao Liu, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Tiejun Zhao. Additive Neural Networks for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2013. [paper]

• Lemao Liu, Hailong Cao, Taro Watanabe, Tiejun Zhao, Mo Yu, Conghui Zhu. Locally Training the Log-linear Model for SMT. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2012. [paper]

Collaborators

Interns/Students

It is my pleasure and great honor to work with the following excellent students.

Current Interns/Students

• Xueliang Zhao (Tencent Rhino-Bird Scholar, master student at Peking, 08/2021 - )
• Hongkun Hao (Undergraduate at Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., 12/2021)
• Wei Shao (CityU of HK, 12/2021 - )

Past Interns/Students

• Yubin Ruan (M.S. at HIT, 06/2021 - 02/2022, 1 NAACL)
• Jiahao Xu (Phd student at NTU, 08/2021 - 02/2022, 1 NAACL)
• Yanling Xiao (Co-advised with Guoping, master student at Nanjing Univ., 07/2020 - 02/2022, 1 ACL)
• Yibin Liu (engineering intern, master student at Peking Shenzhen, 11/2020 - 02/2022, 1 EMNLP)
• Qiuxiang He (Co-advised with Guoping, Southwest Univ., 07/2020 - 12/2021, 1 ACL)
• Jiannan Xiang (master student at USTC, 05/2020 - 2021/09, now master at CMU 3 ACL)
• Zexin Lu (Tencent Rhino-Bird Scholar, phd student at Poly HK, 05/2021 - 12/2021, 1 ACL)
• Guanlin Li (phd student at HIT, 12/2017 - 2021/02, 2 ACL + 1 EMNLP + 1 NAACL + 2 TASLP)
• Zhangming Chan (Tencent Rhino-Bird Scholar, master from Peking Univ., 05/2020 - 2021/01, 1 ACL)
• Jing Qian (phd student at UCSB, 06/2020 - 09/2020, 1 EMNLP)
• Honglin Han (engineering intern, undergraduate student at HIT, 04/2020 - 09/2020)
• Jierui Li (undergraduate student at UESTC, now phd student at UT Austin, 11/2019 - 06/2020, 1 ACL)
• Runze Nie (engineering intern, graduate student at Univ. Melbourne, 12/2019 - 03/2020)
• Tianxiang Zhao (Co-advised with Guoping, graduate student at USTC, 01/2019 - 06/2019; now phd student at PSU, 1 AAAI)
• Qian Wang (Co-advised with Guoping, master student at IA CAS, 07/2018 - 12/2019, 1 AACL)
• Xintong Li (phd student at CUHK, 07/2017 - 05/2019; now senior researcher at Baidu Sunnyvale, 2 ACL + 2 NAACL + 1 TASLP)
• Mengzhou Xia (Co-advised with Guoping, undergraduate student at Fudan, 04/2018 - 08/2018; now phd student at Princeton, 1 AAAI)
• Huayang Li (Co-adivsed with Guoping, undergraduate student at Central China Normal Univ., 07/2017 - 05/2018; now master at NAIST, 1 TASLP)
• Yu Liu (phd student at HIT, 04/2018 - 11/2018)
• Lianhui Qin (graduate student at SHJT, 07/2017 - 09/2017; now phd student at UW, 1 ACL)
• Kehai Chen (phd student at HIT, 10/2017 - 03/2017; now Ass. Prof. at HIT, 2 EMNLP + 1 AAAI + 2 TASLP)
• Chunpeng Ma (phd student at HIT, 10/2015 - 03/2016; Now researcher at Fujitsu., 1 AAAI)

Visitors

• Conghui Zhu (Tencent Rhino-Bird Visiting Prof. from HIT, 06/2019 - 01/2020)

Colleagues

• Eiichiro Sumita, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Akihiro Tamura, Atsushi Fujita, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Guoping Huang, Shuming Shi etc.