Greetings

I'm a PhD student at the University of Groningen. I am a member of the Computational Linguistics Group, supervised by Arianna Bisazza, Tessa Verhoef and Gertjan van Noord.

My main research focuses on multi-agent emergent communication. Specifically, I want to develop methods to simulate the emergence and cultural evolution of linguistic structure through neural network agent-based computational modeling, and explore more realistic settings of language learning and communication in simulation frameworks. I am also interested in speech synthesis technology and modeling speech communication.

I was born in Shanxi, China. I obtained my master degree in Language Intelligence and Technology at Beijing Language and Culture University and my bachelor degree in English (Linguistics) at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Current Research Interest

• Language universals (e.g., word order preferences)
• Emergent communication & reinforcement learning
• Neural network-based simulation of language evolution

Updates

• [24/07/24]: I gave a presentation "Neural-agent Language Learning and Communication: Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization" at CogSci 2024.
• [02/08/23]: I gave a presentation "NeLLCom: A New Framework for Studying the Emergence of Language Universals with Neural Agents" at ESSLLI 2023 workshop.
• [01/11/22]: I joined the Computational Linguistics Group to start my PhD journey.
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