Dr Xingyi Song

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Computational Media Analysis, Natural Language Processing

Member of the Natural Language Processing research group

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Dr Xingyi Song
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
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Dr Xingyi Song, a Lecturer in Computational Media Analysis at the Department of Computer Science, University of 91Ö±²¥. He is a member of the Natural Language Processing group and GATE team ()

Previously he worked as a machine translation specialist at Iconic Translation Machine (2015-2016) and Research Associate for several EU funded projects such as Kconnect, Knowmak and Risis2 (from 2016-2021)) at the University of 91Ö±²¥. 

He completed his MSc and PhD in Natural Language Processing group at the University of 91Ö±²¥. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, sentiment analysis and Bio-medical text processing. 

Publications

Journal articles

  • Razuvayevskaya O, Wu B, Leite JA, Heppell F, Srba I, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) . PLoS ONE, 19(5). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Examining Temporalities on Stance Detection Towards COVID-19 Vaccination. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings, 6732-6738. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings, 12074-12086. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2024) Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings, 6739-6751. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Dong C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Large Language Models Offer an Alternative to the Traditional Approach of Topic Modelling. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings, 10160-10171. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Yu X, Wang Y, Xu X, Song X & Maynard D (2023) . Information Sciences, 647, 119446-119446. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li Y, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) . International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 648-657. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu B, Li Y, Mu Y, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Grimshaw C, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) VaxxHesitancy: A Dataset for Studying Hesitancy Towards COVID-19 Vaccination on Twitter.. CoRR, abs/2301.06660. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh I, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) Finding Already Debunked Narratives via Multistage Retrieval: Enabling Cross-Lingual, Cross-Dataset and Zero-Shot Learning.. CoRR, abs/2308.05680. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang Z & Song X (2023) . SN Computer Science, 4(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chilman N, Song X, Roberts A, Tolani E, Stewart R, Chui Z, Birnie K, Harber-Aschan L, Gazard B, Chandran D , Sanyal J et al (2021) . BMJ Open, 11(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maynard D, Lepori B, Petrak J, Song X & Laredo P (2020) . Scientometrics. RIS download Bibtex download
  • He L, Gilbert M & Song X (2019) . Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jackson R, Kartoglu I, Stringer C, Gorrell G, Roberts A, Song X, Wu H, Agrawal A, Lui K, Groza T , Lewsley D et al (2018) . BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jackson R, Kartoglu IE, Agrawal A, Lui K, Wu H, Groza T, Roberts A, Gorrell G, Song X, Lewsley D , Northwood D et al (2017) . RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Grimshaw C, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X () . Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17, 1052-1062. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Yu X, Wang Y, Xu X, Song X & Maynard D () . SSRN Electronic Journal. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Petrak J, Jiang Y, Singh I, Maynard D & Bontcheva K () . PLOS ONE, 16(2), e0247086-e0247086. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Barrón-Cedeño A, Alam F, Chakraborty T, Elsayed T, Nakov P, PrzybyÅ‚a P, Struß JM, Haouari F, Hasanain M, Ruggeri F , Song X et al (2024) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 449-458). Springer Nature Switzerland RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barrón-Cedeño A, Alam F, Struß JM, Nakov P, Chakraborty T, Elsayed T, PrzybyÅ‚a P, Caselli T, Da San Martino G, Haouari F , Hasanain M et al (2024) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 28-52). Springer Nature Switzerland RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Hughes A & Song X (2024) Identifying and Aligning Medical Claims Made on Social Media with Medical Evidence. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp 8580-8593) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science.. LREC/COLING (pp 12074-12086) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Dong C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Large Language Models Offer an Alternative to the Traditional Approach of Topic Modelling.. LREC/COLING (pp 10160-10171) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2024) Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets.. LREC/COLING (pp 6739-6751) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) Examining Temporalities on Stance Detection towards COVID-19 Vaccination.. LREC/COLING (pp 6732-6738) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Grimshaw C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) . Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), June 2024 - June 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • PrzybyÅ‚a P, Wu B, Shvets A, Mu Y, Sheang KC, Song X & Saggion H (2024) Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab Task 6 on Robustness of Credibility Assessment with Adversarial Examples (InCrediblAE). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3740 (pp 321-338) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yang X, Mu Y, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) . Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (pp 1004-1010), November 2024 - November 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Song X & Aletras N (2024) . Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 12477-12492), November 2024 - November 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilby D, Karmakharm T, Roberts I, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) GATE Teamware 2: An open-source tool for collaborative document classification annotation. EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations (pp 145-151) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu B, Razuvayevskaya O, Heppell F, Leite JA, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) . Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liang T, Mu Y, Kim S, Kuate DLK, Lang J, Vos R & Song X (2023) . International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP (pp 666-672) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Singh I, Aker A & Bontcheva K (2023) . International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP (pp 556-567) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jiang Y, Heppell F, Singh I, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Accurate COVID-19 Information versus Misinformation.. CoRR, Vol. abs/2304.04811 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li Y, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) Classifying COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives.. RANLP (pp 648-657) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu B, Li Y, Mu Y, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) Don't waste a single annotation: improving single-label classifiers through soft labels.. EMNLP (Findings) (pp 5347-5355) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh I, Bontcheva K, Song X & Scarton C (2022) (pp 128-143) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh I, Bontcheva K, Song X & Scarton C (2022) Comparative Analysis of Engagement, Themes, and Causality of Ukraine-Related Debunks and Disinformation.. SocInfo, Vol. 13618 (pp 128-143) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Wang Y, Maynard D & Song X (2020) . Proceedings of 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Vol. 325 (pp 2054-2061). Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 29 August 2020 - 2 September 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Downs J, Velupillai S, Holden R, Kikoler M, Bontcheva K, Dutta R & Roberts A (2020) Using deep neural networks with intra- And inter-sentence context to classify suicidal behaviour. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings (pp 1303-1310) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gao J, Han S, Song X & Ciravegna F (2020) RP-DNN: A tweet level propagation context based deep neural networks for early rumor detection in social media. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings (pp 6094-6105) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Petrak J, Song X, Bontcheva K & Maynard D (2019) . Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, June 2019 - June 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Petrak J, Song X, Bontcheva K & Maynard D (2019) Team Bertha von Suttner at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection using ELMo Sentence Representation Convolutional Network. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 6 June 2019 - 7 June 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Petrak J & Roberts A (2018) . Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 900-904). Brussels, Belgium, 31 October 2018 - 4 November 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Petrak J & Roberts A (2018) A Deep Neural Network Sentence Level Classification Method with Context Information. 2018 CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (EMNLP 2018) (pp 900-904) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Song X, Harrison J, Quegan S & Maynard D (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism, September 2017 - September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blain F, Song X & Specia L (2016) 91Ö±²¥ Systems for the English-Romanian WMT Translation Task. Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Specia L & Cohn T (2014) Data selection for discriminative training in statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2014 (pp 45-52) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Cohn T & Specia L (2013) BLEU deconstructed: Designing a Better MT Evaluation Metric. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X & Cohn T (2011) Regression and Ranking based Optimisation for Sentence Level Machine Translation Evaluation. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Edinburgh, UK RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

  • Gao J, Han S & Song X . RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Mu Y, Jin M, Song X & Aletras N (2024) Enhancing Data Quality through Simple De-duplication: Navigating Responsible Computational Social Science Research, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Bai P, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Dong C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu B, Li Y, Mu Y, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Korda A, Heide M, Nag A, Trulley V-N, Rogg H-V, Avram M, Eickhoff S, Jauch-Chara K, Wehkamp K, Song X , Martinetz T et al (2023) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Song X, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Razuvayevskaya O, Wu B, Leite JA, Heppell F, Srba I, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Robinson A, Thorne W, Wu BP, Pandor A, Essat M, Stevenson M & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh I, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Wu BP, Thorne W, Robinson A, Aletras N, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jiang Y, Heppell F, Singh I, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu B, Razuvayevskaya O, Heppell F, Leite JA, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mu Y, Jin M, Grimshaw C, Scarton C, Bontcheva K & Song X (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh I, Bontcheva K, Song X & Scarton C (2022) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li Y, Scarton C, Song X & Bontcheva K (2022) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Singh I, Aker A & Bontcheva K (2022) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Song X, Scarton C, Aker A & Bontcheva K (2021) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gorrell G, Song X & Roberts A (2018) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Petrak J & Roberts A (2018) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

ASIMOV: AI-as-a-service, Innovate UK, 01/2024 - 03/2025, £142,691, as PI.