I am a PhD student from the School of Computer and Information Technology at Shanxi University, co-supervised by Prof. Ru Li and Prof. Hu Zhang.

My research interests focus on natural language processing, explainable question answering, and logical reasoning. I have published academic papers in international conferences and journals such as ACL, Information Sciences, Information Processing and Management, COLING, Semantic Web, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, and Big Data. I have been granted one Chinese invention patent.

Additionally, I participated in several explainable question answering competition and received several awards, including the 3rd national prize in CAIL 2020, the 2nd national prize in CAIL 2021, the 2nd national prize in CMRC 2022, and the 1st place in the Baidu Reading Comprehension Interpretability Evaluation Leaderboard (both Chinese and English).

🔥 News

2024.12: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Information Sciences.
2024.11: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by COLING 2025.
2024.09: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Information Processing and Management.
2024.05: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACL 2024.
2022.10: 🎉🎉 Achieved second place at the 5th Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension.
2022.04: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Journal of Chinese Information Processing.
2021.12: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Semantic Web 2022.
2021.12: 🎉🎉 Achieved second place in the CAIL2021 Reading Comprehension Challenge.
2020.12: 🎉🎉 Achieved third place in the CAIL2020 Reading Comprehension Challenge.

📝 Publications

Weakly-supervised explainable question answering via question aware contrastive learning and adaptive gate mechanism. Information Sciences, 2025.
Yue Fan, Hu zhang, Ru Li, YuJie Wang, Guangjun Zhang, Hongye Tan, Jiye Liang.
FRVA: Fact-Retrieval and Verification Augmented Entailment Tree Generation for Explainable Question Answering. ACL 2024.
Yue Fan, Hu zhang, Ru Li, YuJie Wang, Hongye Tan, Jiye Liang.
Enhancing Event Causality Identification with LLM Knowledge and Concept-Level Event Relations. COLING 2025.
Ya Su, Hu Zhang, Guangjun Zhang, Yujie Wang, Yue Fan, Ru Li, Yuanlong Wang.
Multi-granularity contrastive zero-shot learning model based on attribute decomposition. Information Processing and Management, 2024.
Yuanlong Wang, Jing Wang, Yue Fan, Qinghua Chai, Hu Zhang, Xiaoli Li, Ru Li.
Network representation learning method embedding linear and nonlinear network structures. Semantic Web, 2022.
Hu Zhang, Jingjing Zhou, Ru Li, Yue Fan.

🏅 Honors and Awards

2025.06, The First Class Award Scholarship of the Graduate School, Shanxi University, in 2025.
2025.04, Outstanding Graduate Student, Shanxi University, in 2025.
2024.06, The First Class Award Scholarship of the Graduate School, Shanxi University, in 2024.
2023.06, The Second Class Award Scholarship of the Graduate School, Shanxi University, in 2023.
2022.10, The 5th Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (CMRC2022) 2nd Prize, 2022.
Yue Fan, Hu Zhang, Ru Li.
2022.06, The First Class Award Scholarship of the Graduate School, Shanxi University, in 2022.
2021.12, Challenge of AI in Law (CAIL 2021) Reading Comprehension Track 2nd Prize, 2021.
Yue Fan, Yujie Wang, Guangjun Zhang, Hu Zhang
2021.06, The Second Class Award Scholarship of the Graduate School, Shanxi University, in 2021.
2020.12, Challenge of AI in Law (CAIL 2020) Reading Comprehension Track 3nd Prize, 2020.
Yujie Wang, Guangjun Zhang, Yue Fan, Zhen Zhang, Jiayu Guo, Hu Zhang

💬 Invited Talks

2024.08, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, Poster.
2022.10, We shared our tutorial as runners-up at the CCL 2022 conference. | [Tutorial]

🎓 Educations

2022.09 - now, School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University. Ph.D. Student.
2020.09 - 2022.06, School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University. Master Student.

🏭 Internships