Chen ZHANG (张晨)
Email: zhangch [AT] pku [DOT] edu [DOT] cn

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, advised by Prof. Yansong Feng and Prof. Dongyan Zhao. I received my B.Sc. degree from School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University in 2021. My research interests are complex reasoning with LLMs and cross-lingual NLP for low-resource languages.

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  News
  • [MAR 2024] Check out our new work on adapting LLMs to unseen languages through prompting. [arxiv]
  • [NOV 2023] We release MC^2, the largest corpus of minority langugaes in China. [github] [arxiv]
  • [MAY 2023] Our papers on multi-answer question answering and causal reasoning are accepted by ACL 2023.
  • [APR 2023] Check out our new project Lawyer LLaMA! We adapted LLaMA to the legal domain. [github] [arxiv]
  • [JAN 2023] Our papers on cross-lingual question answering and hybrid fact checking are accepted by EACL 2023.
  Preprints
      (* Equal Contribution)

Teaching Large Language Models an Unseen Language on the Fly
2024
Chen Zhang, Xiao Liu, Jiuheng Lin, Yansong Feng
[arxiv] [github]

MC^2: A Multilingual Corpus of Minority Languages in China
2023
Chen Zhang*, Mingxu Tao*, Quzhe Huang*, Jiuheng Lin*, Zhibin Chen, Yansong Feng
[arxiv] [github]

Lawyer LLaMA Technical Report
2023
Quzhe Huang*, Mingxu Tao*, Zhenwei An*, Chen Zhang*, Cong Jiang, Zhibin Chen, Zirui Wu, Yansong Feng
[arxiv] [github]

  Publications

Relation-Aware Question Answering for Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
Haowei Du, Quzhe Huang, Chen Li, Chen Zhang, Yang Li, Dongyan Zhao
[paper]

How Many Answers Should I Give? An Empirical Study of Multi-Answer Reading Comprehension
ACL 2023 (Findings)
Chen Zhang, Jiuheng Lin, Xiao Liu, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [github]

The Magic of IF: Investigating Causal Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models of Code
ACL 2023 (Findings)
Xiao Liu, Da Yin, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [github]

Cross-Lingual Question Answering over Knowledge Base as Reading Comprehension
EACL 2023 (Findings)
Chen Zhang, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Xingyu Shen, Haowei Du, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [github]

UnifEE: Unified Evidence Extraction for Fact Verification
EACL 2023
Nan Hu, Zirui Wu, Yuxuan Lai, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng
[paper] [github]

Knowledge-Enhanced Iterative Instruction Generation and Reasoning for Knowledge Base Question Answering
NLPCC 2022
Haowei Du, Quzhe Huang, Chen Zhang, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [preprint]

Extract, Integrate, Compete: Towards Verification Style Reading Comprehension
EMNLP 2021 (Findings)
Chen Zhang, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [github]

A review of deep learning in question answering over knowledge bases
AI Open 2021, Volume 2
Chen Zhang, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao
[paper]

Why Machine Reading Comprehension Models Learn Shortcuts?
ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Findings)
Yuxuan Lai, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng, Quzhe Huang, Dongyan Zhao
[paper] [github]

  Talks
  • Long Documents Meet LLMs, December 2023, Sichuan University & Chinese Information Processing Society of China, with Quzhe Huang and Mingxu Tao. [slides]
  Teaching & Services
   Teaching Assistant
  • Foundations of Natural Language Processing, Peking University, Spring 2024
  • Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing, Peking University, Spring 2022
  • Data Structures and Algorithms, Peking University, Fall 2020 & Spring 2021
   Program Committee
  • ACL Rolling Review, Reviewer, Since November 2021
  • ACL, Reviewer, 2023
  • EMNLP, Reviewer, 2022-2023
  • COLING, Reviewer, 2022
   Volunteer
  • EMNLP 2021, Remote Volunteer
  Honors & Awards
  • Outstanding Graduates of Beijing Ordinary Colleges and Universities, 2021
  • Excellent Graduate, Peking University, 2021
  • Best Project, Google ML Winter Camp, 2020 [link]
  • Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM), 2019
  • Merit Student, Peking University, 2018 & 2019
  • Founder Scholarship, 2018 & 2019
  Contact

Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University
No. 128 Zhongguancun North Street
Haidian District, Beijing, 100871
zhangch [at] pku.edu.cn


  Miscellaneous
  • My name written in Chinese characters is 张晨. 晨 means morning in Chinese.
  • My mother tongue is Jinsha Dialect (金沙话), a transitional dialect between Mandarin and Wu Chinese.
  • Besides Chinese and English, I can speak Japanese (intermediate), Spanish (basic) and German (basic).

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