Personal Information
Senior Researcher Tencent WeChat AI - Pattern Recognition Center E-mail: fandongmeng [at] tencent [dot] com
My research focuses on deep learning for natural language processing, machine translation, dialogue system, etc.
Publications
2019
- Yijin Liu, Fandong Meng, Jinchao Zhang, Jinan Xu, Yufeng Chen and Jie Zhou. GCDT: A Global Context Enhanced Deep Transition Architecture for Sequence Labeling. To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2019, Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2. [arxiv] [code]
- Zekang Li, Cheng Niu, Fandong Meng, Yang Feng, Qian Li and Jie Zhou. Incremental Transformer with Deliberation Decoder for Document Grounded Conversations. To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2019, Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2.
- Wen Zhang, Yang Feng, Fandong Meng, Di You and Qun Liu. Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation. To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2019, Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2. [arxiv]
- Chenze Shao, Yang Feng, Jinchao Zhang, Fandong Meng, Xilin Chen and Jie Zhou. Retrieving Sequential Information for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation. To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2019, Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2. [arxiv]
- Fandong Meng and Jinchao Zhang. DTMT: A Novel Deep Transition Architecture for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of AAAI 2019, Hawaii, USA, January. [paper] [arxiv] [code]
2018
- Fandong Meng, Zhaopeng Tu, Yong Cheng, Haiyang Wu, Junjie Zhai, Yuekui Yang, and Di Wang. Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July. [paper]
- Yong Cheng, Zhaopeng Tu, Fandong Meng, Junjie Zhai, and Yang Liu. Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July. [paper]
- Baosong Yang, Zhaopeng Tu, Derek F. Wong, Fandong Meng, Lidia S. Chao and Tong Zhang. Modeling Localness for Self-Attention Networks. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, October.
2016
- Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, and Qun Liu. Interactive Attention for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, Japan, December. [paper] [arxiv]
- Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Zhaopeng Tu, Hang Li, and Qun Liu. A Deep Memory-based Architecture for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning. In Proceedings of ICLR-Workshop 2016, Canada, May. [paper] [arxiv]
- Deyi Xiong, Fandong Meng, and Qun Liu. Topic-based Term Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Artificial Intelligence, 232:54-75, March 1, 2016. [paper]
- Yaohua Tang, Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, Philip L. H. Yu. Neural Machine Translation with External Phrase Memory. In CoRR abs/1606.01792.(2016) [paper]
- Jinchao Zhang, Fandong Meng, Mingxuan Wang, Daqi Zheng, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu. Is Local Window Essential for Neural Network Based Chinese Word Segmentation? In CCL 2016, 450-457. [paper]
- Qingsong Ma, Fandong Meng, Daqi Zheng, Mingxuan Wang, Yvette Graham, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu. MaxSD: A Neural Machine Translation Evaluation Metric Optimized by Maximizing Similarity Distance. In NLPCC/ICCPOL 2016, 153-161. [paper]
2011~2015
- Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Mingxuan Wang, Hang Li, Wenbin Jiang, and Qun Liu. Encoding Source Language with Convolutional Neural Network for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2015, Beijing, China, July. [paper] [arxiv]
- Fandong Meng, Deyi Xiong, Wenbin Jiang, and Qun Liu. Modeling Term Translation for Document-informed Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar, October. [paper]
- Hongshen Chen, Jun Xie, Fandong Meng, Wenbin Jiang, and Qun Liu. A Dependency Edge-based Transfer Model for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland, August. [paper]
- Fandong Meng, Jun Xie, Linfeng Song, Yajuan lv and Qun Liu. Translation with Source Constituency and Dependency Trees. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2013, Seattle, Washington, USA, October. [paper]
- Fandong Meng, Wenbin Jiang, Hao Xiong and Qun Liu. Discriminative Boosting from Dictionary and Raw Text -- A Novel Approach to Build A Chinese Word Segmenter. In Proceedings of COLING 2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, December. [paper]
- Fandong Meng, Jin'an Xu, Wenbin Jiang and Qun Liu. A Method of Merging Corpora in Different Annotation Standards: An Application on Statistics Chinese Lexical Analysis. In Journal of Chinese Information Processing 26(2):3-7.(Chinese, recommended from CNCCL 2011) [paper]
- Fandong Meng, Hao Xiong and Qun Liu. ICT: A Translation based Method for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of SemEval 2012, Canada. [paper]
- Wenbin Jiang, Fandong Meng, Qun Liu and Yajuan Lv. Iterative Annotation Transformation with Predict-Self Reestimation for Chinese Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2012, Jeju, Korea, July. [paper]
- Hao Xiong, Linfeng Song, Fandong Meng, Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Yajuan Lv. ETS: An Error Tolerable System for Coreference Resolution. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2011, America. [paper]
- Hao Xiong, Linfeng Song, Fandong Meng, Yajuan Lv and Qun Liu. The ICT's Patent MT System Description for NTCIR-9. In Proceedings of NTCIR9 2011, Tokyo, Japan. [paper]
Professional Services
- ACL: Reviewer (2019, 2018, 2017, 2014)
- EMNLP: Reviewer (2018)
- NAACL: Reviewer (2018, 2016)
- IJCAI: Reviewer (2019)
- COLING: Reviewer (2018)
Honours
- Director Scholarship for Graduate Student, 2015
- UCAS Outstanding Student Award, 2013 and 2014
- Outstanding Winner (world 1/14) of COMAP's Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM), 2010
- First Prize Winner of National Mathematic Contest In Modeling, 2009