Research Fields:

  • Natural Language Processing: Pretrained Models, Summarization, Generation, Dialogue Systems, Grammatical Error Correction
  • Multimodal AI: Language-Vision Pretrained Models, Visual Dialogue & Storytelling
  • Neural Symbolic Computing: Representation Learning, Reasoning
  • Trustworthy AI & NLP: Adversarial Examples, Backdoor Attack, Interpretability & Explainability, Robustness & Transferability

About Us

Basic Information

On June 1, 2021, the Natural Language Processing Laboratory (NUAA NLP LAB) of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics began preparations. The laboratory leader is Dr. Li Piji. The main research directions are natural language understanding, natural language generation, and trusted artificial intelligence (in collaboration with the Southern Airlines Intelligence and Security Laboratory).

Leader Biography

I am a professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and I lead the NUAA NLP Group. Previously, I was a senior researcher at Tencent AI Lab. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Wai Lam. Before joining CUHK, I was a full-time R&D Engineer at Baidu Inc. and Wumii Inc. I received my master and bachelor degree from School of Computer Science and Technology in Shandong University from 2005 to 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Jun Ma.

The lab continues to recruit professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and postdoctoral fellows, and also welcomes students to come here to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees.

NEWS

  • May. 2024: Two papers got accepted to ACL2024.
  • Feb. 2024: One paper got accepted to COLING2024.
  • Oct. 2023: Two papers got accepted to EMNLP2023.
  • Apr. 2023: Invited Tutorial talk about Large Language Models and ChatGPT at ShanDong Association of Artificial Intelligence (SDAAI),Jinan. [slides]
  • Feb. 2023: Three papers got accepted to ICASSP2023.
  • Feb. 2023: Invited talk about Knowledge-enhanced Dialogue Generation & ChatGPT at QingYuanTalk, online.
  • Jan. 2023: One paper got accepted to WWW2023.
  • Jan. 2023: Invited to serve as the program committee for ICML 2023.
  • Dec. 2022: Invited to serve as the Dialogue & Interactive Systems Track Area Chair for ACL 2023.
  • Dec. 2022: Invited talk about Knowledge-enhanced Dialogue Generation at Huawei, Nanjing.
  • Nov. 2022: One paper got accepted to AAAI2023.
  • Oct. 2022: Invited to serve as the Generation and Summarization track Area Chair for EACL 2023.
  • Sep. 2022: Invited talk about Text Generation and Applications at ACM Nanjing Rising Star Award Workshop.
  • Aug. 2022: Invited talk about Dialogue Generation at SMP2022-Socialbot Workshop.
  • Apr. 2022: Pro.Li was invited talk about SongNet at NLGIW2022.
  • Mar. 2022: One paper got accepted to SIGIR2022.
  • Feb. 2022: Two papers got accepted to ACL2022 Findings.
  • Dec. 2021: One paper got accepted to AAAI2022.
  • Nov. 2021: A talk about Trustworthy Natural Language Processing on the NUAA-MMU AI Workshop. [slides]
  • Jun. 2021: Pro.Li was invited to serve as the Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review (ARR).