Lili Mou
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Industry and Research Affiliations
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Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Industry and Research Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Lili Mou’s research interests include deep learning applied to natural language processing as well as programming language processing.
Lili Mou’s research interests include deep learning applied to natural language processing as well as programming language processing. He seeks to build an intelligent system that can understand and interact with humans via natural language, involving both text understanding and text generation. He focuses on fundamental problems in machine learning – especially deep learning – methods applied to natural language processing. Lili has published papers on the topics of the transferability of neural networks in NLP applications, on unsupervised paraphrasing by simulated annealing, and on discrete optimization for unsupervised sentence summarization with word-level extraction. His work has been successfully applied to information extraction, sentiment analysis, semantic parsing, syntactic parsing, dialogue systems, paraphrase generation, grammatical error correction and others.
Lili is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta where he also holds AltaML Professorship in Natural Language Processing. He is also a Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair of Amii. Lili received his Ph.D. from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University where he received a number of scholarship and research awards – including a Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis award. He has published more than 30 papers at top-tier conferences and journals, including AAAI, ACL, CIKM, COLING, EMNLP, ICASSP, ICML, IJCAI, INTERSPEECH, NAACL-HLT, and TACL – as well as a monograph with Springer. He has delivered talks at institutions such as Queen’s University, the University of Waterloo and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and at international venues, including the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Lili is the AltaML Professorship in Natural Language Processing at the University of Alberta.
Jul 24th 2020
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Lili Mou (Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii) & Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo) hosted a tutorial at this year’s ACL conference.
May 14th 2020
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On April 17, 2020, Dr. Lili Mou — Amii Fellow, Assistant Professor holding the AltaML Professorship in Natural Language Processing at the University of Alberta, and Canada CIFAR AI Chair — presented Search-Based Unsupervised Text Generation.
Apr 29th 2020
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Amii is proud of our researchers' work being featured at ICLR 2020, running online this year from April 26 to May 1. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of AI called representation learning, also referred to as deep learning.
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