About Me
I am a full professor at School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University. I received my Ph.D degree at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Chengqing Zong. My research fields include Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Affective Computing, and Large Language Models.
Currently, I am interested in the following topics: sentiment analysis and opinion mining, information extraction and knowledge graph, human-machine interaction and dialogue system, social media analysis, multimodal machine learning, commonsense knowledge reasoning, large language model, financial NLP, etc.
Selected Publication
- Xiangqing Shen, Siwei Wu, and Rui Xia*. Dense-ATOMIC: Towards Densely-connected ATOMIC with High Knowledge Coverage and Massive Multi-hop Paths. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023. (Outstanding Paper Award)
- Rui Xia and Zixiang Ding. Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction: A New Task to Emotion Analysis in Texts. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. (Outstanding Paper Award)
- Hongjie Cai, Yaofeng Tu, Xiangsheng Zhou, Jianfei Yu, and Rui Xia*. Aspect-Category based Sentiment Analysis with Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network. The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020. (Best Paper Candidate)
- Rui Xia, Feng Xu, Chengqing Zong, Qianmu Li, Yong Qi and Tao Li. Dual Sentiment Analysis: Considering Two Sides of One Review. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2015.
- Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong, and Shoushan Li. Ensemble of Feature Sets and Classification Algorithms for Sentiment Classification. Information Sciences, 2011.
Professional Service
- Program Co-Chair: CCAC2025
- Demo Co-Chair: ACL2021
- Area Chair/Co-Chair: ACL2026, NLPCC2022, EMNLP2021, EMNLP2020, COLING2020, EMNLP2019, NLPCC2016
- Tutorial Co-Chair: NLPCC2020
- Senior Program Committee Member: AAAI2022, IJCAI2021, IJCAI2020, AAAI2019, IJCAI2018
- Program Committee Member: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, IJCAI, AAAI, NLPCC, CCL, etc.
- Editorial Board Member: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2024-)
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TAFFC, IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACM TOIT, ACM TKDD, ACM TIST, ACM TALIP, DAMI, IPM, IEEE IS, IEEE CIM, LREV, KBS, Neurocomputing, Cognitive Computation, JCST, SCIENCE CHINA, Chinese Journal of Computers, ACTA Automatic Sinica, etc.
Teaching
- Machine Learning for undergraduate students
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods for graduate students
Students
I can recruit 2 Chinese Ph.D. candidate and 3~4 Chinese master candidates every year. I welcome students with strong mathematics/English foundation and good programming skills to contact me. I do NOT recruit foreign master students, but I do recruit foreign Ph.D candidates who have had at least one English publication in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science.
- 2023 Zilu Dong (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2023 Yurun Song (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2022 Qiming Xie (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2022 Yaochen Zhu (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2022 Zinong Yang (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2022 Wenjie Zheng (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2020 Xiangqing Shen (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2019 Fanfan Wang (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2017 Hongjie Cai (Ph.D. Candidate)
- 2016 Zixiang Ding (Ph.D.), 10JPKA (Hangzhou)
- 2024 Runda Guan (Master Candidate)
- 2024 Rong Huang (Master Candidate)
- 2024 Yangyang Li (Master Candidate)
- 2024 Yang Shen (Master Candidate)
- 2023 Yi Feng (Master Candidate)
- 2023 Wenjing Gui (Master Candidate)
- 2023 Yuhang Wu (Master Candidate)
- 2023 Yichen Yang (Master Candidate)
- 2022 Ziyan Li (Master Candidate)
- 2022 Heqing Ma (Master Candidate)
- 2021 Ke Li (Master Candidate)
- 2021 Nan Song (Master Candidate)
- 2021 Zengzhi Wang (Master Candidate)
- 2021 Siwei Wu (Master Candidate)
- 2020 Jiaming An (Master Candidate)
- 2020 Junjie Li (Master Candidate)
- 2020 Yan Ling (Master Candidate)
- 2020 Shijie Liu (Master Candidate)
- 2020 Debing Xiao (Master Candidate)
- 2019 Hao Chen (Master), NetEase (Hangzhou)
- 2019 Qinghe Li (Master), ByteDance (Shanghai)
- 2019 Zhaoyu Li (Master)
- 2019 Ziheng Liu (Master), ByteDance (Beijing)
- 2018 Kai Chen (Master), Baidu (Shanghai)
- 2018 Chenggong Gong (Master), 10JPKA (Hangzhou)
- 2018 Xiao Jin (Master), Jiangsu Bank (Nanjing)
- 2018 Chenglu Li (Master)
- 2017 Kaizhou Xuan (Master), CMB Network (Hangzhou)
- 2017 Mengran Zhang (Master), Didi (Beijing)
- 2016 Huihui He (Master), Baidu (Shanghai)
- 2015 Shenghuan He (Master), Xiaomi (Beijing)
- 2015 Yinbo Li (Master), ZTE (Shanghai)
- 2015 Leyi Wang (Master), Baidu (Beijing)
- 2015 Shiliang Zheng (Master), Alibaba (Hangzhou)
- 2014 Jie Jiang (Master), Meituan (Shanghai) -> Baidu (Shanghai)
- 2014 Zhenchun Pan (Master), Huawei (Nanjing)
- 2014 Tong Yin (Master), Huawei (Nanjing)
- 2013 Chao Liu (Master), Eastern Theater PLA (Fuzhou)
- 2013 Ke Wang (Master), Huawei (Nanjing)
- 2012 Cheng Wang (Master), Baidu (Shanghai)
- 2012 Jianfei Yu (Master), SMU (Ph.D) -> NJUST
- 2011 Tao Wang (Master), Meituan (Beijing) -> Alibaba (Hangzhou)
