Bio
I am now a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Waterloo,
working with Prof. Jimmy Lin.
Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant Professor (Assistant Researcher) at Nanjing University.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from
The Ohio State University, working with Prof. Alan Ritter (now in Georgia Tech).
I obtained my MS degree from Carnegie Mellon University and my BS degree from Nanjing University.
I conduct research in computational linguistics. I am interested in topics related to social media analysis and computational social science.
Recently I also work on applications applied to market research.
Representative Publications
- Categorical Syllogisms Revisited: A Review of the Logical Reasoning Abilities of LLMs
for Analyzing Categorical Syllogisms
Shi Zong, Jimmy Lin
EMNLP AI4Science Workshop 2024
- Reflections on the Coding Ability of LLMs for Analyzing Market Research Surveys
Shi Zong, Santosh Kolagati, Amit Chaudhary, Josh Seltzer, Jimmy Lin
SIGIR 2024 (Industry Track)
- SmartProbe: A Virtual Moderator for Market Research Surveys
Josh Seltzer, Jiahua Pan, Kathy Cheng, Yuxiao Sun, Santosh Kolagati, Jimmy Lin, Shi Zong
arXiv:2305.08271
-
Which Model Shall I Choose? Cost/Quality Trade-offs for Text Classification Tasks
Shi Zong, Josh Seltzer, Jiahua Pan, Kathy Cheng, Jimmy Lin
arXiv:2301.07006
- Extracting a Knowledge Base of COVID-19 Events from Social Media
Shi Zong, Ashutosh Baheti, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter
COLING 2022
[code]
- Flipping the Script: Inverse Information Seeking Dialogues for Market Research
Josh Seltzer, Kathy Cheng, Shi Zong, Jimmy Lin
SIGIR 2022 (Industry Track)
- Measuring Forecasting Skill from Text
Shi Zong, Alan Ritter, Eduard Hovy
ACL 2020
[code]
[talk]
- Analyzing the Perceived Severity of Cybersecurity Threats Reported on Social Media
Shi Zong, Alan Ritter, Graham Mueller, Evan Wright
NAACL 2019
[poster]
[demo]
[code]
[covered by WIRED]
- Get to the Bottom: Causal Analysis for User Modeling
Shi Zong, Branislav Kveton, Shlomo Berkovsky, Azin Ashkan, Zheng Wen
UMAP 2017
[Best Paper Candidate]
[poster] [slides]
- Cascading Bandits for Large-Scale Recommendation Problems
Shi Zong, Hao Ni, Kenny Sung, Nan Rosemary Ke, Zheng Wen, Branislav Kveton
UAI 2016
[poster]
Teaching
- CS 116 Introduction to Computer Science 2 (Spring 2023, University of Waterloo)
- Graduate-level Natural Language Processing (Fall 2021, Nanjing University, with Prof. Jiajun Chen, Prof. Xinyu Dai)
Industry Experiences
Research Intern at Adobe Research
May 2016 - August 2016
Mentor: Dr. Branislav Kveton,
Dr. Zheng Wen
Professional Services
Program committee / Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, ACL (2020-2021), EMNLP (2019-2022), NAACL (2021), EACL (2021), CoNLL (2018-2020), ICML (2020), NeurIPS(2021), ICLR (2021), AAAI (2019-2020), W-NUT (2019-2021)
Misc
I listen to classical music regularly. My favorite composer is
J. S. Bach.