Ning Bian 边宁

I am a Ph.D. Candidate (from 2021.09) at the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the Supervision of Professor Xianpei Han, Professor Le Sun, and Professor Ben He. I received my Master degree in the Chinese Information Processing Laboratory at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in June 2021.

Contact: bianning21@mails.ucas.ac.cn

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Research Interests
  • Human-AI Interaction
    • How do language models influence human cognition?
    • How can we build safer and more beneficial AI systems for humans?
  • Natural Language Processing
    • Machine Reading Comprehension
    • Commonsense Question Answering
Publications
2024
Influence of External Information on Large Language Models Mirrors Social Cognitive Patterns
Ning Bian, Hongyu Lin, Peilin Liu, Yaojie Lu, Chunkang Zhang, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Paper / Preprint
Rule or Story, Which is a Better Commonsense Expression for Talking with Large Language Models?
Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Ben He, Le Sun
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)
Paper / Preprint
ChatGPT is a Knowledgeable but Inexperienced Solver: An Investigation of Commonsense Problem in Large Language Models
Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Ben He
The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Paper / Preprint
Unsupervised MRC for Building Question Answering System for Museums (Chinese title: 面向文博领域的无监督阅读理解问答系统)
Ning Bian, Longlong Ma, Xinhua Qin, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun
To be published at Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese)
2023
Contrastive Distant Supervision for Debiased and Denoised Machine Reading Comprehension
Ning Bian, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Paper
2022
Automatic Question Answering System for History Subject of National College Entrance Examination (Chinese title: 面向高考历史科目试题的自动答题系统)
Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun
Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese)
Paper
2021
Bridging the Gap between Language Model and Reading Comprehension: Unsupervised MRC via Self-Supervision
Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Bo Chen, Hongyu Lin, Ben He, Le Sun
arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08582 (2021)
Preprint
Benchmarking Knowledge-Enhanced Commonsense Question Answering via Knowledge-to-Text Transformation
Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Bo Chen, Le Sun
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)
Paper / Preprint
Education
2021-Present Ph.D. in Computer Science (Candidate)
School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018-2021 Master of Engineering in Computer Science
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014-2018 Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology