My name is Taihua Shao. I am a second-year PhD student at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, with a major on Information System.
During the master’s period, my research topic mainly focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR). I have conducted research on question-answering (QA), or more specifically, answer selection in QA. My recent research interest involves Job-Resume Matching.
- EDUCATION
1. National University of Defense Technology
Changsha, China, Mar. 2020 – Present
- Doctor of Engineering
- Major: Management Science and Engineering
- Institution: College of Systems Engineering
2. National University of Defense Technology
Changsha, China, Sep. 2017 – Dec. 2019
- Master of Engineering
- Major: Management Science and Engineering
- Institution: College of Systems Engineering
- Postgraduate Dissertation: Self-attention Mechanism Based Answer Selection in Question Answering System
3. National University of Defense Technology
Changsha, China, Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2017
- Bachelor of Engineering
- Major: Information System Engineering
- Institution: College of Systems Engineering
- Undergraduate Dissertation: Research on Query Auto-completion Based on Word2Vec Semantic Similarity
- EXPERIENCE
1. SIGIR 2019
Paris, France, Jul. 2019
- First author
- Co-author with Prof. Maarten de Rijke and Assoc Prof. Fei Cai
2. University of Dundee
Dundee, UK, Feb. 2016 - Jul. 2016
- International Exchange Student
- Funded by the Outstanding Undergraduate International Exchange Program of China Scholarship Council
3. Qian Xuesen Class of Innovation and Development
Changsha, China, Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2017
- Selected Top Student
- Strictly selected from all fresh students of NUDT in 2013 (30/1000)
- PUBLICATIONS
A full list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar homepage here.
- Taihua Shao, Fei Cai, Wanyu Chen, Honghui Chen: Self-supervised Clarification Question Generation for Ambiguous Multi-turn Conversation[J]. Information Sciences (2021)
- Taihua Shao, Honghui Chen, Zhen Shu, Xiang Lv , Fei Cai, Wei-Ming Zhang. Mission Intelligent Parsing for Unmanned Combat Command and Control[J]. Journal of Command and Control (2021)
- Long Xu, Taihua Shao*, Honghui Chen, Prediction of Batting Lattice Parameters Based on Monte Carlo Simulation [J]. Fire Control & Command Control (2021)
- Taihua Shao, Fei Cai, Honghui Chen, Maarten de Rijke: Length-adaptive Neural Network for Answer Selection[C]. SIGIR 2019
- Taihua Shao, Yupu Guo, Honghui Chen, et al. Transformer-Based Neural Network for Answer Selection in Question Answering[J]. IEEE Access (2019)
- Taihua Shao, Xiaoyan Kui, Pengfei Zhang, et al. Collaborative Learning for Answer Selection in Question Answering[J]. IEEE Access (2018)
- Taihua Shao, Honghui Chen, Wanyu Chen. Query Auto-Completion Based on Word2Vec Semantic Similarity[C]. CMVIT 2018
( *: Corresponding Author )
- AWARDS AND HONORS
- Outstanding Student Award in Graduate School, NUDT, 2019
- IR’19 / SIGIR Student Travel Grants with $1,000.00 offered by ACM SIGIR, 2019
- Honorable Mention Award in Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2015
- Outstanding Student Award in College of Science, NUDT, 2015
- Third Prize in The Chinese College Mathematics Competitions, 2014
- PROJECTS
1. Research on Deep Interactive Conversational Recommendation Technology, Jul. 2020 – Present
- Role: Project Leader
- Class: Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province, China
2. Research on Query Auto-completion in Information Retrieval, Nov. 2015 – Nov. 2016
- Role: Project Leader
- Class: National College Student Innovation Training Project of China
3. Research on Answer Selection in Question Answering Based on Self-attention Mechanism, Jul. 2019 – Mar. 2021
- Role: Core Project Member
- Class: Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province, China
- CORE SKILLS
- Language: English (IELTS: 7.0)
- Computer: Python, C++, MATLAB, Java, LaTeX
- Specialty: Basketball, Swimming, Sprint