Lei Sha (沙磊)

Ph.D Student, ICL@PKU
Resume

I work on question answering related techniques, including event extraction, textual inference, answer selection and answer generation.

I am very lucky to be co-advised by Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang and Sujian Li.
I will attend Apple Inc. (Beijing) as NLP research Scientist in August, 2018.

  • Emailshalei[AT]pku.edu.cn
  • OfficeScience Building No.1, 1448N
Education

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Institute of Computational Linguistics2013 - Present

Peking University

Advised by Zhifang Sui. PhD intro. during interview

Bachelor of Computer Science2009 - 2013

Beijing University of Technology

Experimental Class, advised by Zongli Jiang.

Senior High School2006 - 2009

The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University

Experimental Science Class, advised by Zhaoqian Sun.

Junior High School2003 - 2006

The 161 Middle School

Experimental Mathematic Class, advised by Xiuli Han.

AWARDS & HONORS

Excellent Graduate2018

Award for Scientific Research2017

Lee-Wai Wing Scholarship2017

Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation 2016

May 4th Scholarship 2016

Merit Student 2016

“Stars of Tomorrow” in MSRA 2015

Peking University PhD Fellowship2015

The 3rd Prize in the ACM contest of Peking University2014

Outstanding Graduate2013

The first Prize in the 3rd "Lanqiao Cup" National Software Professional Design and Business Competition2012

Beichuan Scholarship (one out of two in my grade)2011

National Scholarship(The only one in my grade)2011

The National 2nd Prize in the China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling2011

The 2nd prize in Chinese Mathematical Contest (Beijing division)2010

Experience

INTERNSHIPS

Research & Engineering InternJul 2017 -

Microsoft Research Asia

System Group, advised by Lintao Zhang.

Research & Engineering InternFeb 2017 - May 2017

Sinovation Ventures

Artificial Intelligence Group, advised by Da-Wei Zhong.

Research InternNov 2014 - Jun 2015

Microsoft Research Asia

Knowledge Computing Group, advised by Chin-Yew Lin.

SERVICES

Reviewer2017

ACL 2017, IJCNLP 2017

Reviewer2018

ACL 2018, Coling 2018, EMNLP 2018

Co-Supervised Students

Feng Qian, undergraduate (with publication in EMNLP'2017)Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

Chengyue Gong, undergraduateJun 2017 - Aug 2017

Teaching Assistant

TA of Introduction to Computer ScienceSeq 2015 - Feb 2016

TA of JAVA ProgrammingFeb 2015 - Jun 2015

TA of C/C++ Programming and AlgorithmSeq 2014 - Feb 2015

TA of Introduction to Computer ScienceSeq 2014 - Feb 2015

TA of Introduction to Computer ScienceSeq 2013 - Feb 2014

Publications
  1. Order-Planning Neural Text Generation from Structured Data
    Lei Sha, Lili Mou, Tianyu Liu, Pascal Poupart, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  2. A Multi-View Fusion Neural Network for Answer Selection
    Lei Sha, Xiaodong Zhang, Feng Qian, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF]
  3. Jointly Extracting Event Triggers and Arguments by Dependency-Bridge RNN and Tensor-Based Argument Interaction
    Lei Sha, Feng Qian, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [AAAIPDF] [PDF]
  4. Will Repeated Reading Benefit Natural Language Understanding?
    Lei Sha and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of NLPCC 2017 Conference, 2017. (NLPCC 2017).
    [PDF]
  5. Reading and Thinking: Re-read LSTM Unit for Textual Entailment Recognition
    Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui and Sujian Li
    In Proceedings of Coling 2016 Conference, 2016. (Coling 2016).
    [PDF]
  6. Capturing Argument Relationship for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
    Lei Sha, Tingsong Jiang, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 Conference, 2016. (EMNLP 2016).
    [PDF]
  7. RBPB: Regularization-Based Pattern Balancing Method for Event Extraction
    Lei Sha, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of ACL 2016 Conference, 2016. (ACL 2016).
    [PDF]
  8. Joint Learning Templates and Slots for Event Schema Induction
    Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of NAACL 2016 Conference, 2016. (NAACL 2016).
    [arxiv(including supplement material)][PDF]
  9. Recognizing Textual Entailment Using Probabilistic Inference
    Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Tingsong Jiang, Baobao Chang, and Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2015 Conference, 2015. (EMNLP 2015).
    [PDF]
  10. Table-to-text Generation by Structure-aware Seq2seq learning
    Tianyu Liu, Kexiang Wang, Lei Sha, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF]
  11. Topic Medical Concept Embedding: Multi-Sense Representation Learning For Medical Concept
    Feng Qian, Chengyue Gong, Luchen Liu, Lei Sha, Ming Zhang
    In Proceedings of BIBM 2017 conference, 2017. (BIBM 2017).
  12. Syntax Aware LSTM Model for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
    Feng Qian, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Lu-chen Liu, Ming Zhang
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2017 Workshop, 2017. (EMNLP 2017 (workshop)). [PDF]
  13. A Progressive Learning Approach to Chinese SRL Using Heterogeneous Data
    Qiaolin Xia, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of ACL 2017 Conference, 2017. (ACL 2017). [PDF]
  14. Attentive Interactive Neural Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering
    Xiaodong Zhang, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2017 Conference, 2017. (AAAI 2017). [PDF]
  15. Encoding Temporal Information for Time-Aware Link Prediction
    Tingsong Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Tao Ge, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 Conference, 2016. (EMNLP 2016). [PDF]
  16. Towards Time-Aware Knowledge Graph Completion
    Tingsong Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Tao Ge, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of Coling 2016 Conference, 2016. (Coling 2016). [PDF]
  17. Multi-label Text Categorization with Joint Learning Predictions-as-Features Method
    Li Li, Houfeng Wang, Lei Sha, Xu Sun, Baobao Chang, Shi Zhao.
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2015 Conference, 2015. (EMNLP 2015). [PDF]
  18. Event Schema Induction Based on Relational Co-occurrence over Multiple Documents
    Tingsong Jiang, Lei Sha and Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, 2014. (NLPCC 2014).