I am Yan Meng, a Ph.D. student at the Language Technology Lab, University of Amsterdam, supervised by Professor Christof Monz.
Before that, I achieved my Master degree in National University of Singapore, supervised by Professor Min-Yen Kan.
My research interest is in Multilingual Machine Translation, Cross-lingual Transfer Learning, and Large Language Models. This is my CV.
News
- May, 2024: Our paper is accepted by findings in ACL 2024 🇹🇭
- Jan, 2024: Our paper is accepted by main conference in EACL 2024 (oral pre) 🇲🇹
- Sep, 2023: Our paper is accepted by main conference in AACL 2023 (oral pre) 🇮🇩
- July, 2023: Glad to join The 13th Lisbon Machine Learning School 🇵🇹
- May, 2023: Our paper is accepted by main conference in ACL 2023 🇨🇦
- Oct, 2022: I start my Ph.D. in University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱
- Aug, 2022: I graduate from National University of Singapore 🇸🇬
Publication
- Di Wu, Shaomu Tan, Yan Meng, David Stap, Christof Monz. How Far Can 100 Samples Go? Unlocking Overall Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation via Tiny Multi-Parallel Data [paper] (ACL 2024, Full Paper)
- Yan Meng, Christof Monz. Disentangling the Roles of Target-side Transfer and Regularization in Multilingual Machine Translation. [paper, blog] (EACL 2024, Oral Presentation, Full Paper).
- Baohao Liao, Yan Meng, Christof Monz. Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning without Introducing Latency [paper, blog] (ACL 2023, Full Paper).
- Yan Meng*, Liangming Pan*, Yixin Cao, Min-Yen Kan. FollowupQG: Towards Information-Seeking Followup Question Generation. [paper, blog] (IJCNLP-AACL 2023, Oral Presentation, Full Paper)
Education
- Ph.D in Natural Language Processing, University of Amsterdam, Oct 2022 – Present
- Master in Artificial Intelligence, National University of Singapore, Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
- Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Leeds, Sep 2017 – Jun 2021
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing in UvA, MSc in AI, 2023 Fall
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