Hui Liu (刘晖) Email: huiliulayne@gmail.com

Hi! My name is Hui Liu. I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Search. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University. Prior to that, I received my B.S. from the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University in 2018.

• 2023.09 - present: Amazon Search
  Applied Scientist II

• 2022.09 - 2022.12: Amazon Search Mission Understanding Team
  Applied Scientist Intern

• 2020.07 - 2020.11: Amazon Search Query Understanding Team
  Applied Scientist Intern

• 2018.01 - 2018.05: Lenovo AI Lab, Beijing
  Research Intern

1. Knowledge-Selective Pretraining for Attribute Value Extraction
   Hui Liu, Qingyu Yin, Zhengyang Wang, Chenwei Zhang, Haoming Jiang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Chao Zhang, Bing Yin, William Yang Wang, Xiaodan Zhu
   Findings of EMNLP 2023, long paper
[paper]

2. Interpretable Low-Resource Legal Decision Making
   Rohan Bhambhoria, Hui Liu, Samuel Dahan, Xiaodan Zhu
   AAAI 2022 AI for Social Impact Track, full paper
[paper]

3. Unsupervised Conversation Disentanglement through Co-Training
   Hui Liu, Zhan Shi, Xiaodan Zhu
   EMNLP 2021 main conference, long paper
[paper] [code]

4. Retrieval, Analogy, and Composition: A framework for Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning
   Zhan Shi, Hui Liu, Martin Renqiang Min, Christopher Malon, Li Erran Li and Xiaodan Zhu
   Findings of EMNLP 2021, long paper
[paper] [code]

5. Descriptive Image Captioning with Salient Retrieval Priors
   Zhan Shi, Hui Liu, Xiaodan Zhu
   Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021, full paper
[paper]

6. Enhancing Descriptive Image Captioning with Natural Language Inference
   Zhan Shi, Hui Liu, Xiaodan Zhu
   ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference, short paper
[paper] [code]

7. Partner Matters! An Empirical Study on Fusing Personas for Personalized Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots
   Jia-Chen Gu, Hui Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu
   SIGIR 2021, full paper
[paper] [code]

8. Improving Pretrained Models for Zero-shot Multi-label Text Classification through Reinforced Label Hierarchy Reasoning
   Hui Liu, Danqing Zhang, Bing Yin, Xiaodan Zhu
   NAACL-HLT 2021, long paper
[paper] [code]

9. Have You Made A Decision? Where? A Pilot Study on Interpretability of Polarity Analysis Based on Advising Problem
   Tianda Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Hui Liu, Quan Liu, Zhen-hua Ling, Zhiming Su, Xiaodan Zhu
   ICASSP 2021, full paper
[paper] [code]

10. End-to-End Transition-Based Online Dialogue Disentanglement
    Hui Liu, Zhan Shi, Jia-Chen Gu, Quan Liu, Si Wei, Xiaodan Zhu
    IJCAI 2020, full paper
[paper] [code]

11. Towards Explainable NLP: A Generative Explanation Framework for Text Classification
    Hui Liu, Qingyu Yin, William Yang Wang
    ACL 2019, long paper
[paper] [code]

12. QuoteRec: Toward Quote Recommendation for Writing
    Jiwei Tan, Xiaojun Wan, Hui Liu, Jianguo Xiao
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2018
[paper]

• Program Committee:
  2024: AAAI, ICLR, NAACL, ICML, COLM
  2023: AAAI, EACL, ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS
  2022: AAAI, ACL, ICLR, NAACL, NeurIPS, EMNLP
  2021: EMNLP
• I am also an active reviewer for ACL Rolling Review.

• My name is Hui, a Mandarin Chinese syllable. You may pronounce it as "/ˈhuːei/".
• I was born in Ji'an, China, a city which has nurtured many notable people from the ancient.
• I love photography, especially on landscape and night sky. You may see some of the photos I took from instagram. Feel free to drop me a message through instagram!

Last updated: 12/2023