Hou Pong Chan, Ken Visiting Lecturer (Macao Fellow) Room 4008, E11 Faculty of Science and Technology University of Macau Avenida da Universidade, Taipa Macau SAR, China Email: kenchanhp at gmail dot com

Biography

I am a visiting lecturer (Macao Fellow) at Department of Computer and Information Science in the University of Macau. My research interest includes text summarization, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning.

I received my Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, supervised by Prof. Irwin King. In spring 2019, I worked with Prof. Lu Wang at Northeastern University as a visiting PhD student.

News

Publications [Google Scholar]

• Controllable Summarization with Constrained Markov Decision Process
  Hou Pong Chan, Lu Wang, and Irwin King.
  To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021.
  
• A Condense-then-Select Strategy for Text Summarization
  Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King.
  To appear in Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2021.
  
• A Unified Dual-view Model for Review Summarization and Sentiment Classification with Inconsistency Loss
  Hou Pong Chan*, Wang Chen*, and Irwin King. * indicates equal contributions
  Proceedings of the 43th Conference of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2020.
  

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• Exclusive Hierarchical Decoding for Deep Keyphrase Generation
  Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 58th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
  

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• Neural Keyphrase Generation via Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Rewards
  Hou Pong Chan, Wang Chen, Lu Wang, and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.
  

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• 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 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.
  

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• 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.
  

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• 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.
  

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Reviewer, EMNLP, 2020

The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2018

The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2017

Innovation and Technology Project Competition Merit Award, HKEIA, 2014

Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2014

Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2013

Professional Activities

SPC Member: IJCAI 2021

Conference Reviewer: EMNLP 2021, ACL 2021, NAACL 2021, AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2020, ACL 2020, AAAI 2020, EMNLP 2019, AAAI 2019

Journal Reviewer: TKDE, JDSA

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