Jing Li 李菁 Senior Researcher Natural Language Processing (NLP) Center Tencent AI Lab Address 109, Floor 8, Netac Building No. 10, Gaoxin South 6th Road Nanshan District, Shenzhen, P. R. China Email ameliajli@tencent.com

Jing Li is a senior researcher in NLP center, Tencent AI Lab. She has broad research interests on natural language processing and social computing. Particularly, she works on topic modeling, information extraction, discourse analysis, and NLP for social media. She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in July, 2017. Her PhD supervisor is Professor Kam-Fai Wong. Before going to CUHK, She received her B.S. degree from Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University in July, 2013.

Research Topics

• Topic Modeling
• Information Extraction
• Discourse Analysis
• Natural Language Processing for Social Media

• Yue Wang, Jing Li*, Hou Pong Chan, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
  Topic-Aware Neural Keyphrase Generation for Social Media Language [Code and Data]
  ACL 2019.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li*, Lu Wang, and Kam-Fai Wong.
  Joint Effects of Context and User History for Predicting Online Conversation Re-entries [Code and Data]
  ACL 2019.


• Yue Wang, Jing Li*, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
  Microblog Hashtag Generation via Encoding Conversation Contexts
  NAACL 2019.


• Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li*, Yulan He, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King
  What You Say and How You Say it: Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse in Microblog Conversations [Code and Data]
  TACL 2019.


• Jing Li*, Yan Song, Zhongyu Wei, and Kam-Fai Wong
  A Joint Model of Conversational Discourse and Latent Topics on Microblogs
  CL 2018. (Volume 44, Issue 4)


• Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li*, Yan Song, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King
  Topic Memory Networks for Short Text Classification [Code]
  EMNLP 2018.


• Dingmin Wang, Yan Song, Jing Li, Jialong Han, and Haisong Zhang
  A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Generation for Chinese Spelling Check [Code and Data]
  EMNLP 2018.


• Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Nicholas Beauchamp, Sarah Schugars, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Microblog Conversation Recommendation via Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse [Data]
  NAACL 2018.


• Yingyi Zhang, Jing Li, Yan Song, and Chengzhi Zhang
  Encoding Conversation Context for Neural Keyphrase Extraction from Microblog Posts [Data]
  NAACL 2018.


• Jing Li
  Microblog Summarization Using Conversation Structures
  PhD thesis. 2017


• Jing Li, Ming Liao, Wei Gao, Yulan He, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Topic Extraction from Microblog Posts Using Conversation Structures [Data] [Code]
  ACL 2016.


• Jing Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyu Wei, Baolin Peng, and Kam-Fai Wong
  Using Content-level Structures for Summarizing Microblog Repost Trees [Data]
  EMNLP 2015.

* indicates corresponding authors.

• Visiting PhD at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Jan - Apr, 2016, Supervisor: Prof. Yulan He (Now in University of Warwick)
• Visiting Scientist at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Feb - May, 2017, Host: Prof. Lu Wang

• 2019: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and AAAI
• 2018: ACL and EMNLP (Best reviewer award in EMNLP 2018)
• 2017: EACL and EMNLP
• 2016: EMNLP
• 2015: EMNLP

• Yingyi Zhang, PhD student from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Oct, 2017 - May, 2018. Focusing on keyphrase extraction: NAACL 2018.
• Jichuan Zeng, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dec, 2017 - present. Focusing on topic modeling: EMNLP 2018 and TACL 2019.
• Yue Wang, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. May, 2018 - present. Focusing on keyphrase generation: NAACL 2019 and ACL 2019.
• Ming Liao, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Oct, 2018 - present. Focusing on sentiment analysis.
• Lu Ji, Master student from Fudan University. Apr, 2019 - present. Focusing on representation learning from arguments.
• Xiaoxue Liu, Master student from Nanjing University. May - Sep, 2018. Focusing on event detection.

Xingshan Zeng, PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Focusing on conversation recommendation: NAACL 2018 and ACL 2019.