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 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 continue my research on discourse!
* 📜3: This paper is an extension of a project I co-advised with Prof Min (unfortunately or fortunately I have to do the corpus study, experimentations and write the paper by myself since the student has graduated).

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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 Monza ‘24, Monte Carlo ‘24, Red Bull Ring ‘22, Albert Park ‘22, Bahrain ‘22, Monza ‘19, and Spa ‘19.

Recent readings

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My Google Calendar is here. Carpe Diem!

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