Yunshi Lan (兰韵诗)
School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University (ECNU)
Address: 3663 North ZhongshanRd, Putuo District, Shanghai, China
Office: Room 203, Geography Building
Email: yslan [at] dase.ecnu.edu.cn

About Me ([GitHub] [Google Scholar]

I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Data Science & Engineering, East China Normal University (ECNU). Before that, I was a research scientist at LARC, Singapore Management University (SMU). I obtained my Ph.D degree from School of Computing & Information System, Singapore Management University. I was trained (by my amazing supervisor Prof. Jing Jiang and secondary supervisor Prof. Feida Zhu) to be a NLP researcher. I received my Bachelor degree from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University (SWU).

Research Interest

My recent research interest mainly includes knowledge bases, question answering, information extraction, text generation and deeep learning.
I am looking for self-motivated students with strong programming skill to work with me. Please read this FAQ before emailing me!

News

  • 2023-08: One paper about Chinese Grammar Error Correction dataset was accepted by ACM CIKM 2023.
    2023-07: One paper about Knowledge Base Visual Question Answering was accepted by ACM MM 2023.
    2023-06: Rank First in the evaluation of NLPCC2023 Shared Task 8: Chinese Spelling Check.
    2023-05: Three papers about question answering, math word problem solving were accepted by ACL 2023.
    2023-04: One paper about federal learning was accepted by CVPR 2023.

Research Highlights ([Full List])

(* indicates equal contribution, # indicates corresponding author)

Question Answering

Improving Zero-shot Visual Question Answering via Large Language Models with Reasoning Question Prompts
Yunshi Lan, Alex Xiang Li, Xin Liu, Yang Li, Wei Qin, Weining Qian
ACM MM, 2023
Coming soon
Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering: A Survey
Yunshi Lan, Gaole He*, Jinhao Jiang, Jing Jiang, Wayne Xin Zhao and Ji-Rong Wen
TKDE, 2022
[Paper] [中文解读] [GitHub Page] [BibTex]
If you would like to know Knowledge Base Question Answering, please start from this survey!
Modeling Transitions of Focal Entities for Conversational knowledge Base Question Answering
Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang
ACL, 2021
[Paper] [BibTex]
We propose a method for conversational knowledge base question answering tasks with the consideration of the transition of focal entitites.
Improving Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering by Learning Intermediate Supervision Signals
Gaole He, Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen
WSDM, 2021
[Paper] [GitHub Page] [BibTex]
We propose a method for multi-hop knowledge base question answering tasks with a Teacher-student framework.
Query Graph Generation for Answering Multi-hop Complex Questions from Knowledge Bases
Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang
ACL, 2020
[Paper] [GitHub Page] [BibTex]
We propose a method for multi-hop knowledge base question answering tasks with iterative path search.

Math Word Problem Solving

MWPToolkit: An Open-Source Framework for Deep Learning-Based Math Word Problem Solvers
Yihuai Lan, Lei Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Yunshi Lan#, Bing Tian Dai, Yan Wang, Dongxiang Zhang, Ee-Peng Lim
AAAI demo, 2022
[Paper] [中文解读] [GitHub Page] [BibTex]
We develop a deep learning-based MWP toolkit, so that you can design your own MWP models effectively. Please feel free to try it out!

Educational NLP

Paper List on Educational NLP
maintained by Keren Tan
[GitHub Page]
We maintain a Github page for Educational NLP, which concludes existing studies on Educational NLP. We will keep updating it!
Towards Robust Chinese Spelling Check Systems: Multi-round Error Correction with Ensemble Enhancement
Alex Xiang Li and Hanyue Du and Yike Zhao and Yunshi Lan#
NLPCC, evaluation paper, 2023
[GitHub Page] [Leaderboard]
We rank first in NLPCC 2023 shared task Chinese Spelling Check. Please check out our open-source solution.
FlaCGEC: A Chinese Grammatical Error Correction Dataset with Fine-grained Linguistic Annotation
Hanyue Du, Yike Zhao, Qingyuan Tian, Jiani Wang, Lei Wang, Yunshi Lan#, Xuesong Lu
ACM CIKM, resource paper, 2023
Coming soon

Grants

  • Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025: Knowledge Base Question Answering System in Interactive Environments
    National Science Foundation of China, PI
  • Oct. 2022 - Sep. 2024: Knowledge Base Construction and Question Answering for an Education Intelligent Platform
    Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, PI
  • July. 2022 - Dec. 2023: Online Education Toolkit and Platform Development for International Chinese Education
    East China Normal University, PI
  • Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2023: Financial KBQA collaborating with Large Language Models
    Joint Reseach Program with Guotai Junan Securities

Teaching

  • DATA0031132019.01 Deep Learning
    for both undergraduate students and postgraduate students

Mentoring Experience

Master

  • Zeyu Sheng (ECNU -> ByteDance, Shanghai)
    Xuyao Hu (ECNU -> Xiecheng, Shanghai)