Yanyan Lan Ph.D.

Main Research Fields

Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, AI for Science

Selected Publications

1. Jianing Li&, Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng. On the Relation between Quality-Diversity Evaluation and Distribution-Fitting Goal in Text Generation, ICML2020.

2. Yimeng Chen&, Yanyan Lan*, Ruibin Xiong, Liang Pang, Zhiming Ma and Xueqi Cheng. Evaluating Natural Language Generation via Unbalanced Optimal Transport, IJCAI2020.

3. Hainan Zhang&, Yanyan Lan*, Liang Pang, Hongshen Chen, Zhuoye Ding, and Dawei Yin. Modeling Topical Relevance for Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation, IJCAI2020.

4. Jianing Li&, Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu and Xueqi Cheng. Differentiated Distribution Recovery for Neural Text Generation, AAAI2019.

5. Liang Pang&, Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Lixin Su and Xueqi Cheng. HAS-QA: Hierarchical Answer Spans Model for Open-domain Question Answering, AAAI2019.

6. Hainan Zhang&, Yanyan Lan*, Liang Pang, Jiafeng Guo and Xueqi Cheng，ReCoSa: Detecting the Relevant Contexts with Self-Attention for Multi-turn Dialogue Generation, ACL2019.

7. Liang Pang&, Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Shengxian Wan, and Xueqi Cheng, Text Matching as Image Recognition, AAAI2016.

8. Yadong Zhu&, Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng, Learning for Search Result Diversification, SIGIR2014.

9. Yanyan Lan*, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng, Tie-Yan Liu. Statistical Consistency of Ranking Methods in A Rank-Differentiable Probability Space, NIPS2012.

10. Shuzi Niu&, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan*, and Xueqi Cheng, Top-k Learning to Rank: Labeling, Ranking, and Evaluation, SIGIR2012.

11. Transductive Learning for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer, EMNLP2021.

12. Adaptive Information Seeking for Open-Domain Question Answering, EMNLP2021. HotPotQA Winner

13. Match-Ignition: Plugging PageRank into Transformer for Long-form Text Matching, CIKM2021.