What's New

  • I am actively looking for research internship positions in the Summer 2025. Please reach out if you’re interested!
  • [Sep 2024] One paper on understanding humorous contradictions accepted at NeurIPS 2024 (Oral)!
  • [Sep 2024] One paper on human-centered decision making accepted at EMNLP 2024!
  • [July 2024] One paper on argument generation accepted at INLG 2024!
  • [Oct 2022] One paper accepted at EMNLP 2022 and one accepted at TASLP!
  • [Feb 2022] One paper accepted at ACL 2022!
  • [Aug 2021] One paper accepted at EMNLP 2021!
  • [Nov 2020]   Presented our work at EMNLP 2020 (virtual)
  • [Nov 2019]   Travel to Hong Kong, China - EMNLP 2019
  • [Aug 2019] Our paper "An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization" is accepted at EMNLP 2019!
  • [July 2019]   Travel to Florence, Italy - ACL 2019
  • [May 2019] Our paper "Argument Generation with Retrieval, Planning, and Realization" is accepted at ACL 2019!
  • To junior/undergraduate students: if you would like to chat about research or career plan related to NLP/AI, I'd be happy to offer some suggestions. Feel free to reach out!

  • Biography

    I received my Master Degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (in Boston). I was a member of Northeastern NLP Group and worked with Prof. Lu Wang (now at UMich). I'm also privileged to work with Prof. Lifu Huang from Virginia Tech (now at UC Davis).

    I'm generally interested in computational linguistics and natural language processing. My goal is to design methods that can understand human languages of various domains, and also generate factual and coherent outputs, with a focus on long-form discourse (e.g., argumentation, summarization). Recently I am working on improving trustworthiness and creativity of (multimodal) LLMs for various tasks. I'm open to potential collaborations and feel free to drop me an email.


    Selected Publications

    • Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions
    • Zhe Hu*, Tuo Liang*, Jing Li, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Jing Ma, Yu Yin
      [*equal contribution]
      NeurIPS 2024, Oral
      PDF Project Abstract
    • AMERICANO: Argument Generation with Discourse-driven Decomposition and Agent Interaction
    • Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Yin
      INLG 2024
      PDF Code Slides Abstract
    • MOCHA: A Multi-Task Training Approach for Coherent Text Generation from Cognitive Perspective
    • Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Lifu Huang
      EMNLP 2022, short paper
      PDF Code Poster Abstract
    • PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generation
    • Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu, Lifu Huang
      ACL 2022
      PDF Poster Slides Project Abstract
    • Controllable Dialogue Generation with Disentangled Multi-grained Style Specification and Attribute Consistency Reward
    • Zhe Hu*, Zhiwei Cao*, Hou Pong Chan, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Jinsong Su, Hua Wu
      [*equal contribution]
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) 2022
      PDF Abstract
    • Context-Aware Interaction Network for Question Matching
    • Zhe Hu, Zuohui Fu, Yu Yin, Gerard de Melo
      EMNLP 2021, short paper
      PDF Poster Slides Video Abstract
    • An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization
    • Eva Sharma*, Luyang Huang*, Zhe Hu*, Lu Wang
      [*equal contribution]
      EMNLP 2019
      Errata: Equation (9) in section 2.3 should be: \(L(S_A,S_B^+, S_B^-) = \max \{0, 1 + Coh(S_A, S_B^-) - Coh(S_A, S_B^+)\} \)
      PDF Poster Code Demo Abstract
    • Argument Generation with Retrieval, Planning, and Realization
    • Xinyu Hua, Zhe Hu, Lu Wang
      ACL 2019
      PDF Code Demo Abstract

    Education


    Teaching

    • Serve as Teaching Assistance
      • TA of COMP 5423 - Natural Language Processing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024 Fall
      • TA of COMP 1433 - Introduction to Data Analytics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024 Spring

    Services

    • Program Committee Member and Reviewer:
      • ACL ARR
      • Knowledge-Based Systems
      • 2024: COLM, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI, COLING, CoNLL, NLPCC
      • 2023: ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, CoNLL, EMNLP NewSum workshop
      • 2022: EMNLP, AAAI
      • 2021: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, AAAI
      • 2020: ACL, EMNLP
      • 2019: EMNLP NewSum workshop