Hou Pong Chan, Ken
Research Scientist
Language Technology Lab
Singapore R&D Center
DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group
Email: kenchanhp at gmail dot com
Biography
I am a research scientist at the Language Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy.
Prior to that, I was a visiting postdoc researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
was a visiting lecturer (Macao Fellow) at the University of Macau.
I received my Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, supervised by Prof. Irwin King .
My research focuses on improving the factuality and controllability of natural language generation.
News
[10/2023] Two papers accepted by EMNLP 2023.
[5/2023] Four papers accepted by ACL 2023 (including findings).
[1/2023] One paper accepted by WWW 2023.
[11/2022] One paper accepted by AAAI 2023.
Preprints
Do LVLMs Understand Charts? Analyzing and Correcting Factual Errors in Chart Captioning
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Mingyang Zhou, Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung, Zhenhailong Wang, Lingyu Zhang, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji.
AMERICANO: Argument Generation with Discourse-driven Decomposition and Agent Interaction
Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan , Yu Yin.
ManiTweet: A New Benchmark for
Identifying Manipulation of News on Social Media
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Hou Pong Chan , Kathleen McKeown, Heng Ji.
Meta-review Generation with
Checklist-guided Iterative Introspection
Qi Zeng, Mankeerat Sidhu, Hou Pong Chan , Lu Wang, Heng Ji
Publications (* indicates equal contribution) [Google Scholar ]
2023
Can LMs Generalize to Future Data?
An Empirical Analysis on Text Summarization
Chi Seng Cheang, Hou Pong Chan , Derek F Wong, Xuebo Liu, Zhaocong Li, Yanming Sun, Shudong Liu,
Lidia S Chao
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP ), 2023.
Decoding the Silent Majority: Inducing Belief Augmented Social Graph with Large Language Model for
Response Forecasting
Chenkai Sun, Jinning Li, Yi Fung, Hou Pong Chan , Tarek Abdelzaher, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP ), 2023.
Zero-shot Faithful Factual Error
Correction
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Hou Pong Chan , Heng Ji
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL ), 2023.
Measuring the Effect of Influential
Messages on Varying Personas
Chenkai Sun, Jinning Li, Hou Pong Chan , ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL ), short paper, 2023.
Multimedia Generative Script Learning for
Task Planning
Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Hou Pong Chan , Lifu Huang, Julia Hockenmaier, Girish Chowdhary, Heng Ji
Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL
Findings ), 2023.
Interpretable Automatic Fine-grained
Inconsistency Detection in Text Summarization
Hou Pong Chan , Qi Zeng, Heng Ji.
Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL
Findings ), short paper, 2023.
PDSum: Prototype-driven Continuous
Summarization of Evolving Multi-document Sets Stream
Susik Yoon, Hou Pong Chan , Jiawei Han.
Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW ), 2023.
SumREN: Summarizing Reported Speech about
Events in News
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Heba Elfardy, Hou Pong Chan , Kevin Small, Heng Ji.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ), 2023.
2022
A Multi-Task Training Approach for Coherent
Text Generation from Cognitive Perspective
Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan , Lifu Huang.
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP ), short paper, 2022.
PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in
Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generation
Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu, and Lifu Huang.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL ), 2022.
Controllable Dialogue Generation with
Disentangled Multi-grained Style Specification and Attribute Consistency Reward
Zhe Hu, Zhiwei Cao, Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Jinsong Su, and Hua Wu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP ),
2022.
Grounding Commands for Autonomous Vehicles
via Layer Fusion with Region-specific Dynamic Layer Attention
Hou Pong Chan* , Mingxi Guo*, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ),
2022.
[code ]
2021
2020
Before 2020
Neural Keyphrase Generation via Reinforcement
Learning with Adaptive Rewards
Hou Pong Chan , Wang Chen, Lu Wang, and Irwin King.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL ), 2019.
[code ]
Topic-Aware Neural Keyphrase
Generation for Social Media Language
Yue Wang, Jing Li, Hou Pong Chan , Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL ), 2019.
[code ]
An Integrated Approach for Keyphrase
Generation via Exploring the Power of Retrieval and Extraction
Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan , Piji Li, Lidong Bing, and Irwin King.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL ), 2019.
[code ]
Thread Popularity Prediction and
Tracking with
a Permutation-invariant Model
Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP ), 2018.
Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Peer Assessment in MOOCs
Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Digital Learning
Track (WWW ), 2017.
Trust-aware peer assessment
using multi-armed bandit algorithms
Hou Pong Chan , Tong Zhao, and Irwin King.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. (WWW ), 2016.
Workshop on Web Science and Technology for Education.
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer, ACL, 2021
Outstanding Reviewer, EMNLP, 2020
The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2018
The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2017
Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2014
Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2013
Professional Activities
Local Co-chair: MT Summit 2023
Session Chair: ICONIP 2020 Tutorial Session
SPC Member: IJCAI 2021
Conference Reviewer: EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, IROS 2023, AAAI 2023, EMNLP 2022, ACL 2022, AAAI 2022,
EMNLP 2021, ACL 2021, NAACL 2021, AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2020, ACL 2020, AAAI 2020, EMNLP 2019, AAAI 2019
Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE, IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACM TALLIP, KBS Journal
Teaching Assistant
2018
Spring
CSCI2100A Data Structures
2017
Fall
CSCI2100 Data Structures
2017
Spring
CSCI3180 Principles of Programming Languages
2016
Spring
CSCI2100A Data Structures
2015
Fall
ENGG2120 Introduction to Digital and Microprocessor Systems