Zheng Zhao I am a fourth year PhD student with UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP at the University of Edinburgh, working with Shay Cohen and Bonnie Webber. I am affiliated with ILCC in the School of Informatics. I am also a member of the Cohort and EdinburghNLP group. My research topic is on analyzing and interpreting neural networks for NLP. I am also interested in summarization, discourse, and their related topics. [Google Scholar] [Semantic Scholar] [GitHub] [E-mail: zheng.zhao@ed.ac.uk]

Experience

University of Edinburgh	2020 - present	PhD student
	2019 - 2020	Masters by Research, with Distinction
	2015 - 2019	BEng Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, 1st class
Amazon Alexa AI	2023	Applied Scientist Intern
Goldman Sachs	2018	Summer Analyst

Publications

• Enhancing Contextual Understanding in Large Language Models through Contrastive Decoding
  Zheng Zhao, Emilio Monti, Jens Lehmann, and Haytham Assem
  NAACL, 2024
  
  
• Are Large Language Models Temporally Grounded?
  Yifu Qiu, Zheng Zhao, Yftah Ziser, Anna Korhonen, Edoardo Ponti, and Shay Cohen
  NAACL, 2024
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• CivilSum: A Dataset for Abstractive Summarization of Court Decisions
  Manuj Malik*, Zheng Zhao*, Marcio Fonseca*, Shrisha Rao, and Shay Cohen
  SIGIR, 2024
  
  
• A Joint Matrix Factorization Analysis of Multilingual Representations
  Zheng Zhao, Yftah Ziser, Bonnie Webber, and Shay Cohen
  Findings of EMNLP, 2023
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• PMIndiaSum: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Headline Summarization for Languages in India
  Ashok Urlana*, Pinzhen Chen*, Zheng Zhao, Shay Cohen, Manish Shrivastava, and Barry Haddow
  Findings of EMNLP, 2023
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• Understanding Domain Learning in Language Models Through Subpopulation Analysis
  Zheng Zhao, Yftah Ziser, and Shay Cohen
  BlackboxNLP, 2022
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• To Adapt or to Fine-tune: A Case Study on Abstractive Summarization
  Zheng Zhao and Pinzhen Chen
  Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL), 2022
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• Edinburgh at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Jointly Fishing for Word Embeddings and Definitions
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2022
  Honourable Mention for Best System Paper [Link]
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• A Unified Model for Reverse Dictionary and Definition Modelling
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  AACL-IJCNLP, 2022
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• Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits
  Zheng Zhao and Bonnie Webber
  Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI), 2021
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• Extending Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition to the PDTB-3
  Li Liang, Zheng Zhao, and Bonnie Webber
  Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI), 2020
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• Reducing Quantity Hallucinations in Abstractive Summarization
  Zheng Zhao, Shay Cohen, and Bonnie Webber
  Findings of EMNLP, 2020
  [PDF] [Code/Data] [Poster]
  
  

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2024.