Rui Xing

Hi, I am Rui Xing(邢瑞 in Chinese).

Currently, I am a Ph.D. Candidate in The University of Melbourne NLP Group, happily working with Dr.Jey Han Lau and Prof. Tim Baldwin. Before this, I obtained my master's degree from Beihang University.

I have broad research interests in Natural Language Processing. Currently working on explainable fact checking, justification/explanation generation and complex reasoning via Large Language Models. I am also fond of learning different languages!

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What's fun:)

2023-12-01     Thanks everyone for attending ALTA 2023. It wouldn't have been a success without your participation!!

2023-11-16     Please consider subscribing to our ALTA Youtube & Twitter!

2023-10-24     Poster talk at 2023 CIS Doctoral Colloquium, Melbourne University.

2023-04-21     The official ALTA 2023 website is launched!

2023-02-21     I passed my confirmation, officially a PhD Candidate!

2022-11-07     Got one paper accepted to ALTA 2022!

2022-07-07     Our team participated Qiskit Hackathon Melbourne 2022!

2022-05-04     Our team completed all challenges in the 2022 Unimelb Amazing Race!

2022-02-23     Officially start my PhD journey!

2020-11-18     Got one paper accepted to BMC Bioinformatics!

2019-09-16     Got one paper accepted to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (WNUT Workshop)!

Research

Automatic Explanation Generation For Climate Science Claims
Rui Xing, Shraey Bhatia, Timothy Baldwin and Jey Han Lau
In Proceedings of The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022)

Climate change is an existential threat to humanity, the proliferation of unsubstantiated claims relating to climate science is manipulating public perception, motivating the need for fact-checking in climate science. In this work, we draw on recent work that uses retrieval-augmented generation for veracity prediction and explanation generation, in framing explanation generation as a query-focused multi-document summarization task. [paper / code]

BioRel: towards large-scale biomedical relation extraction
Rui Xing and Jie Luo
BMC Bioinformatics. 2020 Dec 16;21(Suppl 16):543.

We construct BioRel, a large-scale dataset for biomedical relation extraction problem, by using Unified Medical Language System as knowledge base and Medline as corpus. [paper / data]

Distant Supervised Relation Extraction with Separate Head-Tail CNN
Rui Xing and Jie Luo
Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (EMNLP 2019 W-NUT)

Distant supervised relation extraction is an efficient and effective strategy to find relations between entities in texts. However, it inevitably suffers from mislabeling problem and the noisy data will hinder the performance. In this paper, we propose the Separate Head-Tail Convolution Neural Network (SHTCNN), a novel neural relation extraction framework to alleviate this issue. [paper / code]

Selected Honors

2022: Melbourne Plus digital credential for community engagement, University of Melbourne
2022: ALTA Student Travelling Scholarship, Australasian Language Technology Association
2020: Excellent Graduate Student, Beihang University
2017, 2018: First-Class Scholarship for Postgraduate Student, Beihang University
2016: Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application
2015, 2016: National Scholarship, Ministry of Education in China

Teaching

Tutor

2023 Semester 1: Natural Language Processing COMP90042 (University of Melbourne)
2023 Semester 1: Statistical Machine Learning COMP90051 (University of Melbourne)
2022 Semester 2: Statistical Machine Learning COMP90051 (University of Melbourne)
2022 Semester 1: Natural Language Processing COMP90042 (University of Melbourne)
2019 Semester 1: Cloud Computing Spring Course (Beihang University)
2018 Summer Semester: Software Engineering (Beihang University & Microsoft Research Asia)

Service

2023: technology chair, ALTA 2023 Workshop
2023: reviewer, ACL 2023 Student Research Workshop, IJCNLP-AACL 2023 Student Research Workshop
2023-present: ALTA student representative
2022-present: student organizer, University of Melbourne NLP Reading Group
2022, 2023: coordinator, Master of Computer Science Research Project Presentation (University of Melbourne)

Miscellaneous

Volunteer
Voluntary work provides me with a lot of valuable fun experiences. Here are some selected fun events I enjoyed.
Hobbies
I like swimming and table tennis. I also go hiking and cycling from time to time.
I am fond of various kinds of games and Pokemon is my favourite.

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