Yutong Shao Ph.D. Student Computer Science and Engineering Department University of California, San Diego yshao <at> eng.ucsd.edu

Introduction

I'm a Ph.D. student in the CSE department at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Ndapa Nakashole. My research areas are Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My main research focus is on natural language interfaces, i.e. to allow users to use systems via natural language instructions, so as to reduce the learning overhead or expertise requirement. I'm interested in the ways to construct and utilize structured information for natural language interfaces, including databases (DB), knowledge bases (KB), etc. I'm also interested in many highly-related tasks, including task-oriented dialogs, text-to-SQL parsing, text generation and knowledge base construction. Previously, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Peking University.

Publications

• Yutong Shao, Nikita Bhutani, Sajjadur Rahman, Estevam Hruschka
  Low-resource Entity Set Expansion: A Comprehensive Study on User-generated Text
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Findings 2022 (Internship project @ Megagon Labs)


• Yutong Shao, Ndapa Nakashole
  ChartDialogs: Plotting from Natural Language Instructions
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020


• Yutong Shao, Rico Sennrich, Bonnie Webber, Federico Fancellu
  Evaluating Machine Translation Performance on Chinese Idioms with a Blacklist Method
  The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2018

CV

Available here: CV

Links

My advisor: Prof. Ndapa Nakashole