Dr. Dong Zhou is currently a professor affiliated with School of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is a Ph.D./Master Student Supervisor, Young "Furong" Scholar of Hunan Province, Young Backbone Teacher of Hunan Province (the evaluation result is excellent), Xiangtan High-level talent, "Xiangjiang Scholars" Distinguished Professor (overseas Ph.D.) of Hunan University of Science and Technology, "Yunshan" Outstanding Scholar of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
He received his M.Sc. degree from the University of York, UK, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham, UK. He was a Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has published more than 120 papers in well-known international journals and conferences including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TASLP, IEEE TAI, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM TALIP and ACL, IJCAI, CIKM, EMNLP, COLING, etc.
His current research interests include:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Big Data Analysis
- Large Language Models
- Country Studies in Asia and Africa
- Asian and African Languages and Cultures
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Selected Projects
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Fairness Analysis and Bias Mitigation for Generalized Multilingual Pre-trained Models
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Personalized Deep Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Language Pairs with Unequal Resources
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Personalized Cross-Language Information Retrieval based on Multilingual User Models.
Selected Papers
Journals:
- Cross-Modal Interaction via Reinforcement Feedback for Audio-Lyrics Retrieval
Zhou, D.*, Lei, F., Li, L., Zhou, Y.*, Yang, A.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2024
- Towards Fair Decision: A Novel Representation Method for Debiasing Pre-trained Models
He, J., Lin, N., Bai, Q., Liang, H., Zhou, D.*, Yang, A.
Decision Support Systems, 2024
- Addressing class-imbalance challenges in cross-lingual aspect-based sentiment analysis: Dynamic weighted loss and anti-decoupling
Lin, N., Zeng, M., Liao, X., Liu, W., Yang, A., Zhou, D.*
Expert Systems with Applications, 2024
- Global Information Enhancement and Subgraph-Level Weakly Contrastive Learning for Lightweight Weakly Supervised Document-Level Event Extraction
Qin, G., Lin, N., Shen, M., Bai, Q., Zhou, D.*, Yang, A.
Expert Systems with Applications, 2024
- Adversarial Modality Alignment Network for Cross-Modal Molecule Retrieval
Zhao, W., Zhou, D.*, Cao, B., Zhang, K., Chen, J.
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
- Combining Multiple Semantic Features for Code Summarization Generation
Qu, W., Zhou, D.*, Zhao, W., Cao, B.
Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2023, in Chinese
- Neural Topic-Enhanced Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for CLIR
Zhou, D.*, Qu, W., Li, L., Tang, M., Yang, A.
Information Sciences, 2022
- Cross-lingual Embeddings with Auxiliary Topic Models
Zhou, D.*, Peng, X., Li, L., Han, J.
Expert Systems With Applications, 2022
- Survey of Cross-Lingual Word Embedding
Peng, X., Zhou, D.*
Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2020, in Chinese
- An Iterative Method for Personalized Results Adaptation in Cross-Language Search
Zhou, D.*, Zhao, W., Wu, X., Lawless, S., Liu, J.
Information Sciences, 2018
- Query Expansion with Enriched User Profiles for Personalized Search Utilizing Folksonomy Data
Zhou, D.*, Wu, X., Zhao, W., Lawless, S., Liu, J.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2017
Conferences:
- ADSE: Adversarial Debiasing Framework Based on Sinusoidal Embedding for Sequential Recommendation
Bai, Q., Lin, N., He, J., Chen, Z., Zhou, D.*, Yang A.*
ICWS 2024
- Enhancing Few-Shot Multi-Modal Fake News Detection through Adaptive Fusion
Ouyang, Q., Lin, N., Zhou, Y., Yang A., Zhou, D.*
APWeb-WAIM 2024
- From Bias to Fairness: The Role of Domain-Specific Knowledge and Efficient Fine-Tuning
Zheng, W., Yang A., Lin N.*, Zhou, D.*
ICIC 2024
- An Effective Deployment of Contrastive Learning in Multi-label Text Classification
Lin, N., Qin, G., Wang, J., Zhou, D.*, Yang, A.*
ACL 2023
- Simplifying Aspect-Sentiment Quadruple Prediction with Cartesian Product Operation
Wang, J., Yang A., Zhou, D.*, Lin N.*, Wang, Z., Huang W., Chen, B.
ICIC 2023
- Multimodal Encoders for Food-Oriented Cross-Modal Retrieval
Chen, Y., Zhou, D.*, Li, L., Han, J.
APWeb-WAIM 2021
- Utilizing Local Tangent Information for Word Re-embedding
Zhao, W., Zhou, D.*, Li, L., Chen, J.
ECIR 2021
- Manifold Learning-based Word Representation Refinement Incorporating Global and Local Information
Zhao, W., Zhou, D.*, Li, L., Chen, J.
COLING 2020
- Enhanced Personalized Search using Social Data
Zhou, D.*, Lawless, S., Wu, X., Zhao W., Liu, J.
EMNLP 2016
- Exploring External Knowledge Base for Personalized Search in Collaborative Tagging Systems
Zhou, D.*, Wu, X., Zhao W., Lawless, S., Liu, J.
CollaborateCom 2016
Selected Patents and Software Copyrights
↪ Invention Patents
A prior-art retrieval method based on multiple query results merging
A personalized information retrieval method based on query expansion
↪ Software Copyrights
Model classification system based on graph attention mechanism, 2023SR0932712
Recruitment and rental data analysis system based on web crawler, 2023SR0884556
Digital library operation and service management system, 2021SR1724084
Face recognition attendance management system based on the Wechat, 2021SR1213406
Microblog forum data visualization system, 2020SR0831525
Crowdsourcing bidding translation system, 2020SR0836164
Mobile search engine software, 2019SR0622631
Research laboratory background management system, 2017SR475573
Microblogging search system based on federated search idea, 2017SR373769
Digital Library retrieval and Semantic reordering system, 2016SR127576
Services
Program committee member for ACL, AAAI, ACM MM, EMNLP, ICMR, COLING, IJCNLP, NLPCC, SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR, etc.
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Information Processing and Management (IPM), Information Retrieval (IRJ), Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Information Sciences (IS), Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Aslib Journal of Information Management, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Data & Knowledge Engineering, etc.
A senior member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Chinese Computer Society (CCF), a member of Chinese Information Society of China.
A member of CCF Computer Application Committee, CCF Natural Language Processing Committee, Social media Processing Committee of Chinese Information Society of China. The academic secretary and vice president of CCF Youth Computer Science and Technology Forum (CCF YOCSEF) Changsha.
Supervision
↪ Selected Student Projects
Provincial Postgraduate Research Innovation Project, Cross-language Information Retrieval Based on Deep Learning
Provincial Postgraduate Research Innovation Project, Research on Personalized Query Expansion Based on Social Tags
Provincial Postgraduate Research Innovation Project, Research on the Reordering of Personalized Microblog Search Results
Student Scientific Research Innovation Project, Research on Personalized Related Technology of Microblog Search
↪ Selected Student Awards
Excellent Master's Degree Thesis of Hunan Province
Second Prize of the 17th China College Student Computer Design Competition
Third Prize of the First Graduate Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition of Hunan Province
First Prize of Application Development Category in the 10th Hunan University Student Computer Programming Competition
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