I am now in my second year of Phd. in data science and analysis (DSA) at HKUST, advised by Jia li and Yangqiu Song. I got my master’s degree from Peking University, majored in computer science, supervised by Yuexian Zou, and got my bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. I was employed as a research intern by Alibaba Damo Academy, Microsoft research and Tencent AI Lab, worked closely with Daxin Jiang, Linjun Shou, Yan Wang. I am looking for corporation, please feel free to contact me if you have interestes.

Research

My research interests focus on nlp, including question answering, cross-lingual understanding, dialog generation and multi-modal fusion.
Indeed, my works now are focusing on large language models and cross-lingual language understanding. I also have some experiences in designing or pre-trainig large language models, including chinese, English and multi-lingual. I am familiar with speech and audio processing (a little, LOL)

News

• Three papers accepted by EMNLP 2023.
• Severed as a reviewer at T-PAMI
• Two papers accepted by ACL 2023.
• Two Chinese QA benchmarks are released: Penguin and Orca.
• Servered as PC member of ACL 2023.
• Harry-Potter-Dialogue-Dataset is open-sourced [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
• Invited Talk at Shanghai University Of Engineering Science and Donghua University (10/2022)
• Excellent Graduation Thesis of Peking University
• Outstanding Graduates of Peking University
• Outstanding Graduates of Beijing

Publications

(*=equal contribution)

• What would Harry say? Building Dialogue Agents for Characters in a Story. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
  Nuo Chen, Yan Wang, Haiyun Jiang, Deng Cai, Yuhan Li, Ziyang Chen, Jia Li.
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
• Orca: A Few-shot Benchmark for Chinese Conversational Machine Reading Comprehension. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
  Nuo Chen, Hongguang Li, Junqing He, Yinan Bao, Xinshi Lin, Qi Yang, Jianfeng Liu, Ruyi Gan, Jiaxing Zhang, Baoyuan Wang, Jia Li.
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023 (findings)) .
• Natural Response Generation for Chinese Reading Comprehension. [PDF], [Code], [Dataset]
  Nuo Chen, Hongguang Li, Yinan Bao, Baoyuan Wang, Jia Li.
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023 (findings)) .
• Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation [PDF][Code]
  Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Cao Bowen, Daxin Jiang, Li Jia.
  Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).
• Structural Contrastive Pretraining for Cross-Lingual Comprehension
  Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Song Tengtao, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang, Li Jia.
  Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023 (findings)).
• FiTs: Fine-grained Two-stage Training for Knowledge Base Question Answering [PDF][Code]
  Qichen YE, Bowen Cao, Nuo Chen, Weiyuan Xu, Yuexian Zou.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
• Human Mobility Modeling During the COVID-19 Pandemic via Deep Graph Diffusion Infomax
  Yang Liu, Yu Rong, Zhuoning Guo, Nuo Chen, Tingyang Xu, Fugee Tsung, Jia Li.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
• A Transformer-based Threshold-Free Framework for Multi-Intent NLU (Oral）
  Lisong Chen, Nuo Chen, Yuexian Zou.
  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (COLING 2022).
• Automatic Prosody Annotation with Pre-Trained Text-Speech Model [Code][Demo]
  Ziqian Dai, Jianwei Yu, Yan Wang, Nuo Chen, Yanyao Bian, Guangzhi Li, Deng Cai, Dong Yu
  Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2022).
• Bridging the gap between language models and multilingual sequence labeling (Oral） [PDF] [Code]
  Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang.
  Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022).
• End-to-end Spoken Conversational Question Answering: Task, Dataset and Model [PDF] [Dataset]
  Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, shen Ge, Yuexian Zou.
  Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022 (findings)).
• From Good to Best: Two-Stage Training for Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF] [Poster]
  Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Daxin Jiang.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022).
• Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for End-to-end Spoken Question Answering [PDF]
  Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021 (findings)).
• Text Anchor Based Metric Learning for Small-footprint Keyword Spotting
  Li Wang, Rongzhi Gu, Nuo Chen, Yuexian Zou.
  Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
• Contextualized Attention-based Knowledge Transfer for Spoken Conversational Question Answering [PDF]
  Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
  Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
• Self-supervised Dialogue Learning for Spoken Conversational Question Answering [PDF]
  Nuo Chen, Chenyu You,Yuexian Zou.
  Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021).
• Multi-Modal Residual Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Question Answering. ([PDF]) 
  Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
• Knowledge Distillation for improved accuracy in Spoken Question Answering. [PDF] 
  Chenyu You*, Nuo Chen*, Yuexian Zou.
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021)
• Adaptive Bi-directional Attention: Exploring Multi-Granularity Representations for Machine Reading Comprehension. [PDF] 
  Nuo Chen, Fenglin Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yuexian Zou.
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021)

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Honors and Awards

• Excellent Graduation Thesis of Peking University
• Outstanding Graduates of Peking University
• Outstanding Graduates of Beijing
• AAAI-2022 Scholarship
• KDD Cup 2020 Challenges for Modern E-Commerce Platform: Debiasing Top 4%
• Peking University Tiehan Scholarship
• Merit student of Peking University

Activity and Service

• Invited Talk at Shanghai University Of Engineering Science
• Reviewer for ACMMM, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI and T-PAMI.

Contact

• Email: chennuo26[at]gmail.com & nchen022[at]connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn