Runqi Yang (杨润琦)

Biography

I'm a NLP engineer @Alibaba. I received my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2019 and B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2016, both from Nanjing University.

Publications

• (ACL19) Simple and Effective Text Matching with Richer Alignment Features (1st author, pdf | github)
• (AAAI18) Multi-Entity Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Context, Entity and Aspect Memory (2nd author, link | pdf | code and data)

Contributions to Open Source Projects

• my repository, implementation of DrQA (300+ stars, on DWANBench leaderboard)
• pytorch/pytorch: bug reporting #1687 #3789
• pytorch/fairseq: pull request #134
• facebookresearch/ParlAI: pull request #176
• AIChallenger/AI_Challenger: pull request #16#19#25
• my GithubGist

Articles and Talks

• 2018, Introduction to Text Generation (slides)
• 2017, interview with Zhihu machine learning team, Machine Learning Theory and Practice (in Chinese) (link)
• 2017, Introduction to Machine Reading Comprehension (slides)
• 2017, interview with iFLYTEK Research, Attention-over-Attention: A Way Towards Machine Reading Comprehension (in Chinese) (link)
• 2016, Pracical Advice on Machine Learning Projects (slides)

Miscellaneous

• My name pronounces as "Ren-Chee" (sounding like "rent" and "cheese" without "t" and "se")
• I love guitar, musical, drama and paiting. I had been a concert guitarist, a school drama actor, a school musical vice director and capable of music production.
  Here're some of my previous artworks (if you're interested)

  
  Facade Reprise (Electronic Cover) as producer and mixer.
  In His Eyes as recorder and mixer.
  After Rain (雨后) as songwriter, singer and guitarist.
  Some of my paintings (I'm just a beginner!)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• Nowadays when I'm not at work, I usually hang out with friends or take a long walk alone. I enjoy being alone and connected both!

(Last updated: 2019/07)