Mike Zhang
PhD Fellow in Natural Language Processing @ IT University of Copenhagen
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Hello there! My name is Mike Zhang. I'm a second-year PhD Student at the IT University of Copenhagen under supervision of Prof. Barbara Plank. We are part of the NLPnorth research unit. My main focus is on Information Extraction from job postings. I'm particularly interested in the shift of necessary occupational skills in the labor market over time. My other interests include tricks and approaches to get more labeled training data and/or exploit models for tasks with limited data — this includes Active Learning, Weak Supervision, and (more recently) Transfer Learning.
News
- 27/08/2021: Our work on Active Learning is accepted to EMNLP 2021.
- 02/06/2021: Accepted to LxMLS 2021.
- 02/06/2021: Presented [3] at NoDaLiDa 2021 [video].
- 22/03/2021: First paper accepted at NoDaLiDa 2021 [3]!
- 15/09/2020: Started in Barbara Plank's NLP lab as a PhD Student, part of NLPnorth.
- 02/08/2019: Presented [2] at WMT in Florence during ACL2019.
Publications
2021
[4] Mike Zhang and Barbara Plank. 2021. Cartography Active Learning. To appear in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021.
[3] Kristian Nørgaard Jensen, Mike Zhang and Barbara Plank. 2021. De-identification of Privacy-related Entities in Job Postings. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. [Paper] [Slides] [Video]
2019
[2] Mike Zhang and Antonio Toral. 2019. The Effect of Translationese in Machine Translation Test Sets. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 1: Research Papers). [Paper] [Slides]
[1] Mike Zhang, Roy David, Leon Graumans and Gerben Timmerman. 2019. Grunn2019 at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Shared Task on Multilingual Detection of Hate. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. [Paper]
Teaching
IT University of Copenhagen
Fall 2021
PhD Course, Communicating State-of-the-art NLP Research to a Broader Audience (Co-Organizer)
Spring 2021
BSSEYEP1KU, Introduction to NLP and Deep Learning (TA)
University of Groningen
Fall 2020
SOMINDW07, Machine Learning (TA)
Fall 2019
SOMINDW07, Machine Learning (TA)
LIX016M05, Learning from Data (TA)
Spring 2019
LIX017B05, Social Media (TA)
Resume
Academic Background
Current
PhD Natural Language Processing, IT University of Copenhagen
2020
MA Information Science, University of Groningen
2018
BSc Information Science, University of Groningen
Other (Professional) Experiences
04/2019 - 12/2020
Teaching Assistant, University of Groningen
08/2019 - 08/2020
Data Engineer, Dataprovider.com
Full resume can be found here.
Services
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Contact
You can reach me at mikz(at)itu(dot)dk or message me on any other platform here.