12-2022: Received the grant for the project titled, Research on Chinese-Oriented Low-Resource Machine Translation Technologies, jointly funded by FDCT and NSFC.
11-2022: Received The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award, Macao Science and Technology Award 2022.
11-2022: Received the grant for the project titled, Modularized Semantic Neural Machine Translation: Fundamentals & Application, jointly funded by FDCT and MOST.
07-2022: Appointed as the Interim Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Macau.
06-2022: Received the 2021/2022 Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff, presented by the University of Macau Development Foundation (UMDF) of the University of Macau (UM).
01-2022: The paper Multi-View Self-Attention Networks was accepted by the Knowledge-Based Systems. Congratulations to Mingzhou Xu and all co-authors.
01-2022: Ranked 1st for Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Chinese-English/Czech-English/German-English/Japanese-English Translation Systems, and 2nd for Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Hausa-English and Icelandic-English Translation Systems, at the Sixth Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2021). Congratulations to Yu Wan and all team members.
11-2021: Invited keynote speaker to give a talk, Difficulty-Aware NMT Model Training & Evaluation Methods, at the 2021 International Conference on Big Data and Machine Intelligence: Models, Algorithms and Applications (ICBM).
10-2021: Give a talk, A Cognitive Perspective for Understanding NMT Training and Evaluation, at the Alibaba Apsara Conference 2021.
07-2021: One paper accepted to the NeurIPs 2021 Track Datasets and Benchmarks. Congratulations to Runzhe Zhan, and all co-authors. Check out the paper on Variance-Aware Machine Translation Test Sets.
07-2021: Give a talk, Probing the Learning of an NMT Model and Its Training Strategy (in Chinese), at the NiuTrans Forum: The First Online Machine Translation Forum.
05-2021: Congratulations to Xuebo Liu for successfully defending his Ph.D.!
04-2021: A paper accepted to IJCAI 2021. Congratulations to Xiaodong Zeng, and all co-authors. Check out the paper on User Retention: A Causal Approach with Triple Task Modeling.
11-2019: A paper accepted to AAAI 2020. Congratulations to Baosong Yang, and all co-authors. Check out the paper on Context-Aware Self-Attention Networks.
02-2019: A paper accepted to NAACL 2019. Congratulations to Baosong Yang, and all co-authors. Check out the paper on Convolutional Self-Attention Networks.