CV

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Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), The University of Melbourne, 2022 (expected)
• B.Eng. Information Security, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018
  • GPA: 3.8/4.0, Ranking: 1/72

Professional Experience

• Research Fellow in Bias in NLP, University of Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Jun,2022-Present
  • Detailed achievements:
    • Created and prepared a multi-source legal dataset with a focus on the US supreme court
    • Investigated conversational behaviors in the courtroom; One related paper is under review
• Tutor at School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne (VIC, Australia), 2020, Semester 1
  • Course: Natural Language Processing COMP90042
• Research Assistant at InplusLab, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), Apr, 2017-Jun, 2018
  • Detailed Achievements:
    • Utilized NLP methods for news detection task, predicting if it is written by machine
    • Implemented HTCondor distributed framework to support high throughput computing
    • Jiajing Wu, Biaoyan Fang, Junyuan Fang, Xi Chen and Chi K. Tse. “Sequential topology recovery of complex power systems based on reinforcement learning”, In journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 535, 2019 [Paper Link]
  • Supervisor: Prof. Zibin Zheng and A/Prof. Jiajing Wu

Awards and Additional Certificates

• 2022: 1st Place, ALTA Shared Task 2022
• 2021: 2nd Place, ALTA Shared Task 2021
• 2018-2022: Melbourne Research Scholarship
• 2017: 1st Class Scholarship (Top 5% at school)
• 2017: 1st Prize, The 26th Software Design Competition, GuangDong
• 2016: 1st Class Scholarship (Top 5% at school)
• 2016: National Scholarship (Top 1% nationwide)
• 2015: Panasonic Donation Scholarship (Top 1% at school)

Skills

• Primary language: Python

Publications

What does it take to bake a cake? The RecipeRef corpus and anaphora resolution in procedural text

Biaoyan Fang, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2022) What does it take to bake a cake? The RecipeRef corpus and anaphora resolution in procedural text. In Findings of ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland.

The ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zenan Zhai, Zubair Afzal, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2022) The ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents. In Proceedings of the 44rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), Stavanger, Norway.

Context-Aware Sentence Classification in Evidence-Based Medicine

Biaoyan Fang* and Fajri Koto* (2022) Context-Aware Sentence Classification in Evidence-Based Medicine. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2022 (ALTA 2022), Adelaide, Australia.

ChEMU-Ref: A Corpus for Modeling Anaphora Resolution in the Chemical Domain

Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Saber A Akhondi, Jiayuan He, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2021) ChEMU-Ref: A Corpus for Modeling Anaphora Resolution in the Chemical Domain. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2021), virtual conference, pp. 1362–1375.

Brief Description of COVID-SEE: The Scientific Evidence Explorer for COVID-19 Related Research

Karin Verspoor, Simon Šuster, Yulia Otmakhova, Shevon Mendis, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin, Antonio Jimeno-Yepes and David Martinez (2021) Brief Description of COVID-SEE: The Scientific Evidence Explorer for COVID-19 Related Research. In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), virtual conference

ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents

Jiayuan He, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2021) ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents. In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), virtual conference

ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods Are Effective for Information Extraction From Chemical Patents

Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2021) ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods Are Effective for Information Extraction From Chemical Patents. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 6

Handling Variance of Pretrained Language Models in Grading Evidence in the Medical Literature

Fajri Koto* and Biaoyan Fang* (2021) Handling Variance of Pretrained Language Models in Grading Evidence in the Medical Literature. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2021 (ALTA 2021), virtual.

Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents

Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor (2020) Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. In Proceedings of CLEF 2020: 237—254.

ChEMU: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Zenan Zhai, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Saber A. Akhondi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2020) ChEMU: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. In Proceedings of the 42rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal.

Datasets

RecipeRef Corpus for Modeling Anaphora Resolution from the Procedural Text of Recipes

Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Saber A. Akhondi, Camilo Thorne, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor (2022) RecipeRef Corpus for Modeling Anaphora Resolution from the Procedural Text of Recipes. Mendeley Data

ChEMU-Ref dataset for Modeling Anaphora Resolution in the Chemical Domain

Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Colleen Yeow Hui Shiuan, Sacha Novakovic, Ralph Hössel, Saber A. Akhondi, Jiayuan He, Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor (2021) ChEMU-Ref dataset for Modeling Anaphora Resolution in the Chemical Domain. Mendeley Data