Hey! I’m Li Zhou, an NLP enthusiast and explorer🤗.

I’m currently a Postdoc research fellow at CUHK-Shenzhen, working with Prof. Haizhou Li. I received my PhD degree from UESTC in June 2024, supervised by Prof. Wenyu Chen. During my PhD journey, I visited the CoAStaL NLP group in the University of Copenhagen (2022-2023), supervised by Prof. Daniel Hershcovich and working with the rest of the team.

My research interest focuses on cultural knowledge probing and enhancing, cross-cultural and multi-lingual transfer learning, language models evaluation, relation extraction, graph meaning representation of language, and graph neural networks.

I enjoy taking on new challenges in NLP. It allows me to learn, grow, and enhance my research abilities. I also love working with different NLP researchers to spark creativity and new perspectives. If you find my research intriguing or if it fits your project’s needs, please feel free to reach out to me.

Email: lizhou21@cuhk.edu.cn

🔥 News

• [2024.10]   🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2024 main: FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture.
• [2024.08]   🌐🗺️ We are organizing the 2nd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP, which is co-located with ACL 2024.
• [2024.06]   🎓🎓 I’ve officially received my Ph.D.! I’ll start my Postdoc journey at CUHK-Shenzhen .
• [2024.05]   🎓🎓 I passed my Ph.D. defense! Thank you to everyone I encountered during my doctoral journey!
• [2024.05]   One paper was accepted by ACL 2024 Findings: Beyond Single-Event Extraction: Towards Efficient Document-Level Multi-Event Argument Extraction.
• [2024.04]   One paper that I involved was accepted by Tansactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles.
• [2024.03]   I have submitted my Phd thesis! Good luck, Li!
• [2023.12]   Our paper was accepted by ICASSP 2024: MLPs Compass: What is learned when MLPs are combined with PLMs?. See you in Seoul!
• [2023.10]   Our paper was accepted by Tansactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Cultural Adaptation of Recipes.
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🎨 Personal

🏠I grew up in Chengdu, my hometown, a city that blends modernity with traditional culture, boasting over two thousand years of history and renowned as the food capital with delicacies such as hotpot🍲, and traditional Sichuan dishes like mapo tofu🌶️. Chengdu is also home to 🐼He Hua (nicknamed Hua Hua) , captivating Chinese hearts with her mild temperament and rare inability to climb trees. I love my city, it’s also a highly inclusive city.

🧘‍♀️When I’m not in research mode, I might be picking up some oil painting skills, practicing yoga, or just chilling with friends, chatting, and snapping some photos.