Xinliang (Frederick) Zhang

Office number: 3921

Bob and Betty Beyster Building,

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Hi there, I am Xinliang (Frederick) Zhang. I am from Hangzhou. My Chinese name is 张心亮. Usually, I go by Frederick.

I am a 2nd-year CSE Ph.D. candidate at University of Michigan (UM). My advisor is Dr. Lu Wang and I am a member of LAUNCH Group. I am also affiliated with Michigan AI Lab. I also collaborate with Dr. Nick Beauchamp.

I received my B.S. degrees from the Ohio State University (OSU) in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) and Math (Minor). I also obtianed my B.Eng. degree from Sichuan University (SCU) in Industrial Engineering (IE). I was fortunate to have Dr. Huan Sun as my advisor at OSU and proud of being part of SunLab. I was also privileged to work closely with Dr. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe.

My reserch interests lie in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning (ML) and Computational Social Science (CSS). Particularly, I have been leading projects on Narrative Understanding, Information Extraction, Stance Detection, Pretraining Language Models, Natural Language Inference, Information Retrieval, and Question Answering & Generation. I am also interested in NLP applications for Media Bias Analysis and Healthcare (Clinical NLP).
I was awarded Outstanding Reviewer at NAACL 2022. My work received Best Paper Award at BIBM 2021.

You may reach out to me at xlfzhang@umich.edu.

news (news archive)

Feb 3, 2023	I have passed my Prelim and been advanced to candidacy.
Oct 6, 2022	Attend Text As Data (TADA) 2022 @NYC. I present our paper SEESAW (A Graph-Augmented Generative Entity-to-Entity Stance Detection Framework) at the oral session! Thanks for the Travel Grant to support my travel!
Oct 6, 2022	Our paper Generative Entity-to-Entity Stance Detection with Knowledge Graph Augmentation got accepted to EMNLP 2022! Thanks to my advisor and collaborator. Paper, codes and dataset will be available soon.
Oct 6, 2022	Our paper Late Fusion with Triplet Margin Objective for Multimodal Ideology Prediction and Analysis got accepted to EMNLP 2022! Congratulations to my mentee, collaborator and advisor. Paper, codes and dataset will be available soon.
Sep 19, 2022	Start serving as AI Tea Coordinator at Michigan AI Lab.
Sep 9, 2022	Our POLITICS demo is available online now! Feel free to apply our demo to measure the ideology or the stance of your text.
Jul 10, 2022	Attend NAACL 2022 @Seattle, my first in-person conference experience. We present our paper POLITICS at the poster session! Feel free to use our tool.
Jul 8, 2022	Awarded Outstanding Reviewer at NAACL 2022!
Apr 7, 2022	Our paper POLITICS: Pretraining with Same-story Article Comparison for Ideology Prediction and Stance Detection got accepted to Findings of NAACL 2022! Thanks to my advisor and collaborators. Paper and codes are available online, and data is available upon request. POLITICS is downloadable from Huggingface.
Dec 10, 2021	Our paper CliniQG4QA: Generating Diverse Questions for Domain Adaptation of Clinical Question Answering has won the Best Paper Award at IEEE BIBM 2021. Fun fact: it’s my first-ever NLP research project!
Oct 23, 2021	Our paper CliniQG4QA: Generating Diverse Questions for Domain Adaptation of Clinical Question Answering got accepted to IEEE BIBM 2021! Thanks to my advisor and collaborators. Paper and dataset are available online. Codes will be available soon.
Sep 5, 2021	Arrive at Ann Arbor. Start my Ph.D. journey at University of Michigan.
Aug 25, 2021	Our paper COUGH: A Challenge Dataset and Models for COVID-19 FAQ Retrieval got accepted to EMNLP 2021! Thanks to my advisor and collaborators. Paper and dataset are available online.
Apr 15, 2021	Delighted to join LAUNCH Group and work with Dr. Lu Wang to continue my study in NLP.
Mar 25, 2021	Awarded Undergraduate Research Award (Liu Scholarship) by CSE Department at OSU! (video)
Mar 24, 2021	Awarded Outstanding University Graduate of Sichuan Province by Education Department of Sichuan Province!
Mar 10, 2021	Our paper Identifying Inherent Disagreement in Natural Language Inference got accepted to NAACL 2021! Thanks to my mentor. Paper and codes are available online.
Dec 30, 2020	Reported by OSU CSE department for receiving CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
Dec 15, 2020	Awarded Honorable Mention of Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2021 by Computing Research Association (CRA)!
Jul 5, 2020	Virtually attend ACL 2020, my first conference experience.