Yisong Miao’s Academic Homepage
About
Aloha 👋 You have reached my academic homepage.
I am a fifth 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].
🍁🍃🌴 Summer 2025: I am excited to visit Prof. Vered Shwartz at UBC NLP and the Vector Institute for an exciting project about pragmatics.
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.
See also my homepage at our group.
Papers
I only list my 🔝 3️⃣ 📜 here (Complete list is also available):
[📜1] Discursive Circuits: How Do Language Models Understand Discourse Relations?
Yisong Miao, Min-Yen Kan
EMNLP 2025 (talk)
PDF and codebase to come.
[📜2] Discursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models’ Understanding of Discourse Relations.
Yisong Miao, Hongfu Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Nancy F. Chen, Min-Yen Kan
ACL 2024 (talk) ⭐️Senior Area Chair Award (Discourse and Pragmatics Track)⭐️
[PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Data and Code]
[📜3] The ELCo Dataset: Bridging Emoji and Lexical Composition.
Zi Yun Yang, Ziqing Zhang, Yisong Miao
LREC-COLING 2024 (poster)
[PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Data and Code]
More information
Favorites
My favorite singer is Khalil Fong. His 2011 album 15 is my favorite.
March 1, 2025: Like all of Kahlil’s listeners, I’m heartbroken to hear that he’s not with us anymore. However, his music will be forever played. 🏝️🏝️🏝️
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.
Readings
Recent readings:
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, 2017.
- Educated by Tara Westover, 2018.
- Logics in Conversation by Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, 2003.
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, 1945.
All time favorites:
- The Three-Body Problem: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, 2008.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, 1999.
- Three Hundred Song Lyrics available at Wiki, 10th to 13th centuries.
Calendar
My Google Calendar is here. Carpe Diem!