He Zhou

He Zhou

PhD in Computational Linguistics

Publications

Language Resources

  • Xibe Universal Dependency Treebank–XDT
  • Release since UD Version 2.9
  • The first release contains 810 trees, 15,282 tokens

  • Github

  • A Xibe-Chinese Novel Parallel Corpus in progress

  • A Chinese Noun-Noun Compound Dataset with Semantic Relation Annotation in progress

Journal

  • He Zhou, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler. Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing for a Language with a Unique Script. In: Natural Language Processing with a special issue for NLP for Low-Resource Languages, vol. 31(2), 2025. pp. 277-305.

  • He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Trey Jagiella. Tone 4 Sandhi in Heze Chinese. In: IULC Working Papers, vol.24, no.1, 2024.

  • Hongzheng Li, He Zhou, Yaohong Jin. A Method for Identifying v+n Compound Nouns in Patent Machine Translation. In: Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 513-517. paper

Conference

  • He Zhou, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu. Branching Out: Exploration of Chinese Dependency Parsing with Fine-tuned Large Language Models. In: The 15th International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), September 8-10 2025. Varna, Bulgaria. (Paper+Oral Presentation)

  • Qun Zhao, He Zhou, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang. Development of a CFL Learning System Based on Prompt Engineering and Fine-tuning for LLMs: A Focus on Grammatical Error Correction. In: 第八届汉语中介语语料库建设与应用国际学术研讨会. July 4-7. Urumqi, Xinjiang.

  • Feier Gao, Chun-Hau Ngai, He Zhou. Spatially Upward and Emotionally Uncertain: A Pilot Study on Mental Representations of Lexicon Tones. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, August 2025, San Francisco, USA. (CCF-B)

  • Feier Gao, Chun Hau Ngai, He Zhou. The Iconic and Metaphorical Representations of Lexical Tones: Evidence from Hong Kong Cantonese. In: The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, TAI 2025. May 16-18, 2025. Herrsching, Germany.

  • 周贺. 基于通用依存句法的锡伯语句法树库构建研究. 中国计算语言学大会, CCL 2024.

  • 周贺. 锡伯语动词形态自动分析研究. 第十届全国少数民族自然语言处理青年论坛, MNLP 2024.

  • He Zhou, Yu-yin Hsu, and Emmanuele Chersoni. Evaluating Chinese Noun Compound Interpretation in Natural Language Inference. In: Chinese Lexical Semantics: 25th Workshop, CLSW 2024, Xiamen, China. (Oral Presentation)

  • He Zhou, Sandra Kübler (2021). Delexicalized Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing for Xibe. In: Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. pp 1626-1635.

  • Hai Hu, He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, Yina Ma, Yanting Li, Yixin Nie, Kyle Richardson (2021). Investigating Transfer Learning in Multilingual Pre-trained Language Models through Chinese Natural Language Inference. In: Findings of ACL. paper (CCF-A)

  • He Zhou, Juyeon Chung, Sandra Kübler, Francis Tyers. Universal Dependency Treebank for Xibe. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020). PP 205-215. paper

  • Hu, Hai, Yanting Li, Yina Patterson, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, He Zhou, Sandra Kübler, and Chien-Jer Charles Lin (2020). “Building a Literary Treebank for Translation Studies in Chinese”. In: Proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT). pp. 18-31. paper

  • Xu, Liang, Hai Hu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Chenjie Cao, Yudong Li, Yechen Xu, Kai Sun, Dian Yu, Cong Yu, Yin Tian, Qianqian Dong, Weitang Liu, Bo Shi, Yiming Cui, Junyi Li, Jun Zeng, Rongzhao Wang, Weijian Xie, Yanting Li, Yina Patterson, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, He Zhou, Shaoweihua Liu, Zhe Zhao, Qipeng Zhao, Cong Yue, Xinrui Zhang, Zhengliang Yang, Kyle Richardson, and Zhenzhong Lan (2020). CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). pp. 4762–4772. paper

  • Hai Hu, Wen Li, He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, Liang Zou. Ensemble Methods to Distinguish Mainland and Taiwan Chinese. In: Proceedings of VarDial, 2019. pp 165-171. paper

  • He Zhou, Yun Zhu, Yaohong Jin. Identification of v+n Compound Nouns in Chinese-English Machine Translation based on Rules in Patent Texts. In: Proceedings of IEEE CCIS 2012. pp 1485-1490. paper

Poster

  • He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Tray Jagiella. Tone 4 Sandhi in Heze Chinese. In: the 24th Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonolgy Conference

Talks

  • Investigating the Representation of Semantic Relations of Chinese Noun-Noun Compound in Transformer-based Language Models. In: The 34th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing, September 5-7, 2025. Kobe, Japan.
  • Delexicalized Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing for Xibe, at the Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC). Apr 2021, Kentucky, USA. (Virtual)