Biography

Zenan Xu, advised by Prof. Qinliang Su and Xiaojun Quan, is a second year PhD candidate in computer science at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). He received the bachelor's degree of computer science in 2017 from SYSU. Then he took the national graduate entrance examination, ranked first with full marks in advanced mathematics, and studied at SYSU again. Under the guidance of Prof. Yanghui Rao for two years, he obtained a master's degree in 2019. In the first year of his PhD candidate, he took his intership in Microsoft Research Asia and the corresponding supervisors are Duyu Tang, Linjun Shou, and Ming Gong.

Research interests:

Zenan Xu mainly interests in Natural language processing (NLP) (particularly in Pre-trained Model) and Graphs mining (especially in Dynamic/Static Attributed Graph Embedding). He also focuses on applying the graph technology to help advance NLP.

News

• Jun. 01, 2021

  The camera-ready version of our new paper, Syntax-Enhanced Pre-trained Model, accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021, is now available. Check it out!

Publications

1. Syntax-Enhanced Pre-trained Model.
   Zenan Xu, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Qinliang Su, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Wanjun Zhong, Xiaojun Quan, Daxin Jiang, and Nan Duan. ACL-IJCNLP 2021 [pdf] [code]
2. Embedding Dynamic Attributed Networks by Modeling the Evolution Processes.
   Zenan Xu, Zijing Ou, Qinliang Su, Jianxing Yu, Xiaojun Quan, and Zhenkun Lin. COLING 2020 [pdf]
3. Neural Deepfake Detection with Factual Structure of Text.
   Wanjun Zhong, Duyu Tang, Zenan Xu, Ruize Wang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang and Jian Yin. EMNLP 2020 [pdf]
4. Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking.
   Wanjun Zhong, Jingjing Xu, Duyu Tang, Zenan Xu, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang and Jian Yin. ACL 2020 [pdf]
5. A Deep Neural Information Fusion Architecture for Textual Network Embeddings.
   Zenan Xu, Qinliang Su, Xiaojun Quan, and Weijia Zhang. EMNLP 2019 [pdf]
6. Sentiment Classification via Supplementary Information Modeling.
   Zenan Xu, Yetao Fu, Xingming Chen, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie, Fu Lee Wang, and Yang Peng. APWeb-WAIM 2018
7. Sentiment Classification of Short Text using Sentimental Context.
   Wenjie Zheng, Zenan Xu, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie, Fu Lee Wang, and Reggie Kwan. BESC 2017

Research Experience

Microsoft Research Asia (2020.03 - 2021.01)

• Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group, Beijing City, China
• Research on Pre-trained Model
• Supervisors: Duyu Tang, Linjun Shou, and Ming Gong.

Sun Yat-sen University (2013.09 - present)

• PhD candidate (2019.09 - present), School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Research on Graphs Mining
• Advisor: Prof. Qinliang Su and Xiaojun Quan


• M.E. (2017.09 - 2019.07), School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Research on Sentiment Classification
• Advisor: Prof. Yanghui Rao