Yifan Wang
About Me
Hi! I'm Yifan Wang, a first year PhD student as a member of RTG: Neuroexplicit models of language, vision and action project at Saarland University. Currently I'm co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg and Prof. Dr. Isabel Valera. Prior to this, I obtained my Master degree in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University and Bachelor degree in Germanistics at Shanghai Jiaotong University. I have also spent an exchange semester at Heidelberg Univeristy in 2018/19.
My currrent research interests mainly involve identifying and correcting undesired behaviors in NLP systems. For example, I have been working on mitigating gender biases in pre-trained language models and identifying inconsistency in summarization systems. I'm also discovering new research directions that I find interesting and meaningful for AI development.
In my free time, I enjoy walking around in the city. As probably the worst cook in Germany, I'm always willing to join a food adventure (check out some failed fried eggs here).
For further information, welcome to have a look at my CV.
Publication
- Dongqi Pu, Yifan Wang, Vera Demberg. Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long Document Abstractive Summarization. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). [paper]
Work Experience
- 2022.11-2023.8: Research Assistant, Saarland University
- Worked with Dongqi Pu on incorporating discourse structure to automatic summarization, faithfulness evaluation and relevant domains.
- Duties mainly include literature search, implementation of benchmarks and evaluation and analyses of model performance.
Research Projects
- Unsupervised Cantonese-Mandarin Machine Translation.[Code][Report], 2022.4-2022.10
- Leveraging Explanations for Improving In-Context Learning in Commonsense Reasoning Tasks.[Report], 2022.11-2023.4
- End-to-end Continuous Sign Language Recognition with Visual Alignment Constraint.[Code], 2022.4-2022.10
Contact
- Phone: (+49) 15227932317
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