Yisong Miao’s Academic Homepage
About
Aloha 👋 You have reached my academic homepage.
I am a fourth year PhD student at WING-SoC-NUS. I study natural language processing with Prof Min-Yen Kan.
Physical Yisong: AS6 Building, meet me in the lab :P
Digital Yisong: [Google Scholar] [LinkedIn] [GitHub] [Twitter] [Skype]
Email Yisong: [yisong domain-of comp.nus.edu.sg]; [miaoyisong domain-of gmail.com].
Research
Overview
I ❤️ 🆑.
I study how language models interpret meanings, relationships, and structures in linguistic elements like discourse and emojis. My work involves developing new datasets, evaluation methods, and inference algorithms to advance understanding.
Papers
I only list my 🔝 3️⃣ 📜 here (Complete list is also available):
[📜1] A new paper about discourse semantics.
[📜2] Yisong Miao , Hongfu Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Nancy F. Chen, Min-Yen Kan (2024) Discursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models’ Understanding of Discourse Relations. ACL 2024.
[PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [The Dataset / Official Implementation] ⭐️ Area Chair Award ⭐️
[📜3] Zi Yun Yang, Ziqing Zhang, Yisong Miao (2024). The ELCo Dataset: Bridging Emoji and Lexical Composition.* LREC-COLING 2024. [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [The Dataset / Official Implementation]
* 📜1: Ongoing research.
* 📜2: I am honored and incredibly grateful to be recognized by our small yet wonderful community. 🙇♂️ I am motivated to discover more knowledge about discourse in/for LLMs!
* 📜3: Co-advised with Prof Min. He was omitted from the author list for his general chairing’s COI at LREC-COLING. I re-wrote the paper with new formalizations and experiments after advisee’s graduation.
More information
Favorites
My favorite singer is Khalil Fong. His 2011 album 15 is my favorite.
My favorite composer is Frédéric Chopin. I especially enjoy his Piano Concerto No. 1 and his Nocturne No. 8 In D Flat, Op. 27 No. 2.
My favorite driver is Charles Leclerc. He won in Austin ‘24, Monza ‘24, Monte Carlo ‘24, Red Bull Ring ‘22, Albert Park ‘22, Bahrain ‘22, Monza ‘19, and Spa ‘19.
Recent readings
(by recency)
- Logics in Conversation by Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
My Google Calendar is here. Carpe Diem!