I am a second-year PhD student supervised by Dr. Philip S. Yu at University of Illinois Chicago. I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science at Emory University supervised by Dr. Arnold Dorian and Dr. Imon Banerjee in 2021, and my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at Shandong University in 2019.

My research interests are broadly in Natural Language Processing and Data Mining. My current research focus is out-of-distribution detection and evaluation in NLP.

Latest News

[Sep 2023] Two of my papers are accepted at AACL.

[May 2023] My personal website is launched!

Publications

Yibo Wang, Wenting Zhao, Yao Wan, Zhongfen Deng, Philip S. Yu. “Named Entity Recognition via Machine Reading Comprehension: A Multi-Task Learning Approach” In Findings of The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Wenting Zhao, Ye Liu, Yao Wan, Yibo Wang, Zhongfen Deng, Philip S. Yu. “Localize, Retrieve and Fuse: A Generalized Framework for Free-Form Question Answering over Tables” In Findings of The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Yibo Wang, Yanbing Xue, Bo Liu, Musen Wen, Wenting Zhao, Stephen Guo, Philip S. Yu. “Click-Conversion Multi-Task Model with Position Bias Mitigation for Sponsored Search in eCommerce” In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval link

Yibo Wang, Congying Xia, Guan Wang, and Philip S. Yu. “Continuous Prompt Tuning Based Textual Entailment Model for E-commerce Entity Typing.” In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 1383-1388. IEEE, 2022. link, arxiv version

Yibo Wang, Amara Tariq, Fiza Khan, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Hari Trivedi, and Imon Banerjee. “Query bot for retrieving patients’ clinical history: A COVID-19 use-case.” Journal of biomedical informatics 123 (2021): 103918. link

Services

PC/Reviewer: COLING’22, EMNLP’22, AAAI’22, ACL’23, EMNLP’23