Wanrong Zhu

Wanrong Zhu

CS Ph.D. Student

University of California, Santa Barbara


Hi, I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Natural Language Processing Group at UCSB, advised by William Wang. Before joining UCSB, I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from Peking University.


  wanrongzhu [at] cs.ucsb.edu
   Henley Hall, UCSB


Education

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Sep. 2019 - Present

  • Peking University

    B.S. in Computer Science

    Sep. 2015 - July 2019

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Language-and-Vision
  • Text Generation

Experience

  • AI2

    Research Intern, advise by Jack Hessel and Youngjae Yu

    Starting this summer!

  • Google Research

    Research Intern, advised by Bo Pang and Ashish Thapliyal

    June 2021 - Oct. 2021

  • AdsAI Team, Google

    Research Intern, advised by Pradyumna Narayana

    June 2020 - Oct. 2020

  • Language Technology Institution, Carnegie Mellon University

    Research Intern, advised by Zhiting Hu

    July 2018 - Sep. 2018

Publications

Imagination-Augmented Natural Language Understanding

The 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022)
Yujie Lu, Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
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Imagination-Augmented Natural Language Understanding

Diagnosing Vision-and-Language Navigation: What Really Matters

The 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022)
Wanrong Zhu, Yuankai Qi, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, Xin Eric Wang, Qi Wu, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
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Diagnosing Vision-and-Language Navigation: What Really Matters

Multimodal Text Style Transfer for Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation

The 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)
Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Tsu-Jui Fu, An Yan, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang
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Multimodal Text Style Transfer for Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation

Towards Understanding Sample Variance in Visually Grounded Language Generation: Evaluations and Observations

The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)
Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang
Paper Slides
Towards Understanding Sample Variance in Visually Grounded Language Generation: Evaluations and Observations

Texar: A Modularized, Versatile, and Extensible Toolkit for Text Generation

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:System Demonstrations (ACL 2019 System Demonstration)
Zhiting Hu, Haoran Shi, Bowen Tan, Wentao Wang, Zichao Yang, Tiancheng Zhao, Junxian He, Lianhui Qin, Di Wang, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, Xiaodan Liang, Wanrong Zhu, Devendra Singh Sachan, Eric P. Xing
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Texar: A Modularized, Versatile, and Extensible Toolkit for Text Generation

End-to-end Dense Video Captioning as Sequence Generation

Preprint(arXiv 2204.08121)
Wanrong Zhu, Bo Pang, Ashish V. Thapliyal, William Yang Wang, Radu Soricut
Paper
End-to-end Dense Video Captioning as Sequence Generation

ImaginE: An Imagination-Based Automatic Evaluation Metric for Natural Language Generation

Preprint(arXiv 2106.05970)
Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, An Yan, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Paper
ImaginE: An Imagination-Based Automatic Evaluation Metric for Natural Language Generation

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Preprint(arXiv 1901.00158)
Wanrong Zhu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
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