Bin Liang (梁 斌)

Bin Liang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interest: natural language processing, multimodal learning

Lab: MOE Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies

School: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

E-mail: bin.liang@cuhk.edu.hk

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Biography

Bin Liang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. Kam-Fai WONG. He received a Ph.D. at Human Language Technology Lab, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) under the supervision of Prof. Ruifeng Xu. He is currently working with Prof. Yulan He, Prof. Min Yang, Prof. Erik Cambria, and Prof. Lin Gui. He has published more than 20 papers in the areas of natural language understanding, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, and multimodal sentiment analysis with top conferences and journals such as ACL, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, ACM MM, ACM TOIS, IEEE TAC, etc.

Research Interest

• Textual sentiment analysis
• Multimodal sentiment analysis
• Zero-/few-shot sentiment analysis
• Stance detection
• Fake news detection
• Argument mining

News

• Oct. 2022   Five papers are accepted to EMNLP 2022 (3 main & 2 findings).   [link]
• Apr. 2022   One paper is accepted to ACM TOIS.   [link]
• Apr. 2022   Two papers are accepted to SIGIR 2022.   [link]
• Feb. 2022   Two papers are accepted to ACL 2022 Main Conference.   [link]
• Jan. 2022   One paper is accepted to TheWebConf 2022 (WWW 2022).   [link]
• Dec. 2021   Bin Liang won the Frontrunner 5000 top articles in outstanding S&T journals of China.
• Oct. 2021   Bin Liang won the national scholarship for doctoral students.   [link]
• Aug. 2021   Two papers are accepted to EMNLP 2021 Main Conference.   [link]
• Aug. 2021   One paper is accepted to CIKM 2021.   [link]
• Jul. 2021   One paper is accepted to ACM MM (oral 9.2%).   [link]
• Apr. 2021   One paper is accepted to Knowledge-based Systems (KBS).   [link]
• Apr. 2021   One paper is accepted to SIGIR 2021.   [link]
• Feb. 2021   One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC).   [link]
• Jan. 2021   One paper is accepted to TheWebConf 2021 (WWW 2021).   [link]
• Oct. 2020   One paper is accepted to COLING 2020.   [link]
• Jul. 2020   One paper is accepted to NLPCC 2020.   [link]
• Jul. 2020   One paper is accepted to CIKM 2020.   [link]
• May. 2019   One paper is accepted to ACL 2019.   [link]

Selected Publications

	Few-Shot Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis via Meta-Learning Bin Liang, Xiang Li, Lin Gui, Yonghao Fu, Yulan He, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). [Paper] [BibTex]
	JointCL: A Joint Contrastive Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Stance Detection Bin Liang, Qinglin Zhu, Xiang Li, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection via Cross-Modal Graph Convolutional Network Bin Liang, Chenwei Lou, Xiang Li, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Wenjie Pei, Ruifeng Xu The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Zero-Shot Stance Detection via Contrastive Learning Bin Liang, Zixiao Chen, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu The Web Conference 2022 (WWW 2022). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Beta Distribution Guided Aspect-aware Graph for Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis with Affective Knowledge Bin Liang, Hang Su, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Qin Zhao, Xiaoqi Yu, Ruifeng Xu The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Enhancing Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Supervised Contrastive Learning Bin Liang, Wangda Luo, Xiang Li, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Xiaoqi Yu, Ruifeng Xu The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection with Interactive In-Modal and Cross-Modal Graphs Bin Liang, Chenwei Lou, Xiang Li, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2021). [Paper] [BibTex]
	Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Affective Knowledge Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks Bin Liang, Hang Su, Lin Gui, Erik Cambria, Ruifeng Xu Knowledge-based Systems (KBS) 2021. [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Affective Dependency Graph for Sarcasm Detection Chenwei Lou*, Bin Liang* (equal contribution), Lin Gui, Yulan He, Yixue Dang, Ruifeng Xu The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Embedding Refinement Framework for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Bin Liang, Rongdi Yin, Jiachen Du, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC) 2021. [Paper] [BibTex]
	Target-Adaptive Graph for Cross-Target Stance Detection Bin Liang, Yonghao Fu, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Jiachen Du, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu The Web Conference 2021 (WWW 2021). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Jointly Learning Aspect-Focused and Inter-Aspect Relations with Graph Convolutional Networks for Aspect Sentiment Analysis Bin Liang, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]
	Aspect-invariant Sentiment Features Learning: Adversarial Multi-task Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Bin Liang, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Jiachen Du, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). [Paper] [BibTex]
	Context-aware Embedding for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Bin Liang, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu, Binyang Li, Hejiao Huang The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019). [Paper] [Code] [BibTex]

Academic Services

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
• The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
• The Web Conference (WWW)
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC)
• Knowledge-based Systems (KBS)

Awards

• Outstanding PhD Thesis Award of Shenzhen Association for Artificial Intelligence (title: Research on Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis and Stance Detection in Social Media), 2023
• Outstanding PhD Thesis Award of Harbin Institute of Technology (title: Research on Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis and Stance Detection in Social Media), 2022
• First-class Award of the Demo Competition of ICDIS 2022 (Team leader)
• Best Paper Award of CCL 2022 (The first author)
• First Prize of Weichang Qian Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award, 2022 (7th participator)
• Second-class Award of the 7th National Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation of CAAI, 2022 (Team leader)
• Excellent Science & Technology Academic Paper for the 2022 Shenzhen 2nd Excellent Science & Technology Academic Paper (The first author)
• Frontrunner 5000 top articles in outstanding S&T journals of China, 2020 (The first author)
• National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2021
• First Prize of the Fifth National Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation of CAAI, 2019
• Outstanding Graduate Award of Soochow University, 2018
• Outstanding Student Paper Award of Soochow University, 2018
• National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, 2017
• First Prize of BDCI Competition, 2016 (1st participator)
• Second Prize of BDCI Competition, 2015 (1st participator)

Collaborators

Yulan He,   Min Yang,   Erik Cambria,   Lin Gui,   Binyang Li,   Hejiao Huang