Bio

I am a 3-rd year PhD candidate in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Suma Bhat. Prior to UIUC, I received my bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Research Interest

My interests lie broadly in the areas of natural language processing and machine learning, especially the processing of low-resource languages including non-compositional languages and medical languages. I have been working on data augmentation methods and data efficient methods for text generation, paraphrasing generation and text classification related to non-compositional languages and medical languages.

Selected Publications

Non-compositional Expression Generation Based on Curriculum Learning and Continual Learning
Jianing Zhou, Ziheng Zeng, Suma Bhat
Proc. The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2023) Findings

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IEKG: A Commonsense Knowledge Graph for Idiomatic Expressions
Ziheng Zeng*, Kellen Tan Cheng*, Jianing Zhou, Srihari Venkat Nanniyur, Suma Bhat
Proc. The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2023)

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CLCL: Non-compositional Expression Detection with Contrastive Learning and Curriculum Learning
Jianing Zhou, Ziheng Zeng, Suma Bhat
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2023), 2023, Oral

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Automatic Patient Note Assessment without Strong Supervision
Jianing Zhou, Vyom Thakkar, Rachel Yudkowsky, Suma Bhat, William F. Bond
The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'22), LOUHI, 2022

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Idiomatic Expression Paraphrasing without Strong Supervision
Jianing Zhou, Ziheng Zeng, Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022

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Paraphrase Generation: the State of the Art
Jianing Zhou, Suma Bhat
The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'21)

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PIE: Parallel Idiomatic Expression Corpus for Idiomatic Sentence Generation and Paraphrasing
Jianing Zhou, Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat
The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), MWE Workshop, 2021

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Modeling Consistency of Learning Patterns in Online Courses
Jianing Zhou, Suma Bhat
The 11th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK), 2021

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From Solving a Problem Boldly to Cutting the Gordian Knot: Idiomatic Text Generation
Jianing Zhou, Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat
Arxiv

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Multiple Character Embeddings for Chinese Word Segmentation
Jingkang Wang*, Jianing Zhou*, Gongshen Liu
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), SRW Workshop, 2019

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