Mike Zhang

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Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300,

Copenhagen, Denmark

Hello there! My name is Mike Zhang. I’m a third-year PhD Student at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) under supervision of Prof. Barbara Plank and dr. Rob van der Goot. I am part of the NLPnorth research unit at the IT University of Copenhagen and also affiliated with the MaiNLP Lab at CIS (Center for Information and Language Processing) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

My main focus is working on automated high-quality Information Extraction from unstructured text with real-life use cases that have societal impact. In my case, I am working on Skill Extraction for Job Market Understanding, where I’m aiming to get a bigger picture of the labour market to aid in, e.g., re-skilling the workforce. My other interests include Active Learning, Domain Adaptation, Retrieval Augmentation.

News

Jun 27, 2023 I’ll be visiting the EPFL NLP Group in Fall 2023.
Jun 23, 2023 I wrapped up my research stay at WING.
May 1, 2023 One paper accepted at ACL2023!

Selected Publications

  1. ACL 2023
    ESCOXLM-R: Multilingual Taxonomy-driven Pre-training for the Job Market Domain
    Mike Zhang, Rob van der Goot, and Barbara Plank
    In Proceedings of the The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
  2. NAACL 2022
    SkillSpan: Hard and Soft Skill Extraction from English Job Postings
    Mike Zhang*, Kristian Jensen*, Sif Sonniks, and Barbara Plank
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022
  3. EMNLP 2021
    Cartography Active Learning
    Mike Zhang, and Barbara Plank
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021