Dr. Xinya Du

Assistant Professor

Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cornell University, 2021
• B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016

Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning

Major Honors and Awards:

• Spotlight Rising Star in Data Science (NLP track), University of Chicago, 2020
• Outstanding Graduate of SJTU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016

Representative Publications:

• Dynamic Global Memory for Document-level Argument Extraction, Xinya Du, Sha Li, and Heng Ji, In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
• GRIT: Generative Role-filler Transformers for Document-level Event Entity Extraction, Xinya Du, Alexander M. Rush, and Claire Cardie, In Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021
• Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions, Xinya Du and Claire Cardie, In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
• Be Consistent! Improving Procedural Text Comprehension using Label Consistency, Xinya Du, Bhavana Dalvi, Niket Tandon, Antoine Bosselut, Wen-tau Yih, Peter Clark, Claire Cardie, In Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019.
• Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension, Xinya Du, Junru Shao and Claire Cardie, In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.