I am primarily interested in natural language processing and information retrieval. Specifically, my research is driven by the theme of Human-In-The-Loop (HITL), which basically means an intelligent agent cooperating together to finish a certain task. Pursuing along this long-term goal, I have been conducting research on various aspects:
Dialogue and QA system
--Dialogue and QA systems are two classic topics for human—computer interaction.
User feedback modeling
--User is the center of HITL systems. It is therefore a core research question to study how users’ feedback to or evaluation of a system performance and automatically simulate them to facilitate intelligent agent developing.
Understanding user input signals
--To better involve a user into a system, a system needs to better understand users based on their input signals. I am interested in understanding the signals carried by both natural languages (basically on discourse and pragmatic level) and beyond languages (mostly focusing on music and emotion).
HITL applications
--I believe the rationale of HITL will bring revolutions to many traditional NLP and IR applications as it provides a channel to involve human intelligence. Now, I am trying to introduce conversational mechanism to traditional recommendation system, building a conversational recommendation system.