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Education, research interests, and publications.
General Information
| Name | Xiao Zhang (章潇) |
| Position | PhD candidate, Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen |
| xiao_is_npc@outlook.com | |
| Website | 1npc.github.io |
| Google Scholar | UNuhtPgAAAAJ |
Education
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2022 – now PhD, Computational Linguistics
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands - Supervised by Johan Bos and Gosse Bouma.
- Computational semantics, neural semantic parsing, and the evaluation of knowledge and reasoning in large language models.
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2020 – 2022 MSc, Computer Science
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands - Supervised by Suzan Verberne, at the intersection of natural language processing and information retrieval.
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2016 – 2020 BEng, Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Research Interests
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Computational semantics
- Formal meaning representations, in particular Discourse Representation Structures
- Neural semantic parsing and meaning-to-text generation
- Semantic generalisation across unseen concepts, linguistic phenomena, languages, and modalities
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Knowledge and reasoning in language models
- Benchmarking systematic knowledge coverage and compositional reasoning
- Symbolic ontologies and retrieval augmentation
- Reasoning consistency and evidence-driven agent behaviour
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Game AI and AI characters
- Character dialogue with persistent memory and stable personality
- Grounding agent behaviour in explicit world state
- Controllability and long-horizon behavioural consistency in production settings
Publications
- Peer-reviewed work appears at ACL (Findings), AACL-IJCNLP, ACM Multimedia, IWCS, IJCNN, and in the journals Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, and Journal of Web Semantics. A full, up-to-date list is on the publications page.
Talks and Presentations
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Jul 2026 San Diego, USA
ACL 2026 (Findings)
- Poster — KnowledgeBerg: Evaluating Systematic Knowledge Coverage and Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models
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Jun 2026 Utrecht, NL
Invited talks
- Utrecht University (Jun 2026), Leiden University, Nanjing University, among others.
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Jun 2026 Maastricht, NL
20th IJCNN
- Poster — When More Retrieval Hurts: Retrieval-Augmented Code Review Generation
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Oct 2025 Dublin, IE
33rd ACM Multimedia
- Oral — Multi-Modal Semantic Parsing for the Interpretation of Tombstone Inscriptions
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Sep 2025 Düsseldorf, DE
16th IWCS
- Oral — Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Parsing: Improving Generalization with Lexical Knowledge
- Oral — Is neural semantic parsing good at ellipsis resolution, or isn't it?
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Jul 2025 Vienna, AT
ACL 2025
- Poster — Neural Semantic Parsing with Extremely Rich Symbolic Meaning Representations (Computational Linguistics journal track)
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May 2024 Turin, IT
5th DMR @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Oral — Gaining More Insight into Neural Semantic Parsing with Challenging Benchmarks
Teaching
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2025 – 2026 Guest lectures
University of Groningen
Academic Service
- Reviewer — ACL Rolling Review (multiple cycles), ACM Multimedia 2025, IEEE WCCI 2025, IWCS 2025, among others