Houquan Zhou

Hi, my name is Houquan Zhou (周厚全). I am a second-year PhD student at HLT@SUDA, co-advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li and Prof. Min Zhang.

My main research interest focuses on text error correction (including spelling correction, grammatical error correction, etc.) and the evaluation and application of large language models. Before that, I worked on constituency parsing, dependency parsing, and part-of-speech tagging.

Publications:

[Semantic Scholar] [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [ACL Anthology]

(* denotes equal contributions)

• A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models

  Houquan Zhou, Zhenghua Li, Bo Zhang, Chen Li, Shaopeng Lai, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Min Zhang
  EMNLP 2024

  

• Improving Seq2Seq Grammatical Error Correction via Decoding Interventions

  Houquan Zhou, Yumeng Liu, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Bo Zhang, Chen Li, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang
  EMNLP (Findings) 2023

  

• CCL23-Eval Task 7 Track 1 System Report: Suda &Alibaba Team Text Error Correction System

  Haochen Jiang, Yumeng Liu, Houquan Zhou, Ziheng Qiao, Bo Zhang, Chen Li, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang
  CCL 2023

  

• Bridging Pre-trained Language Models and Hand-crafted Features for Unsupervised POS Tagging

  Houquan Zhou*, Yang Li*, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang
  ACL (Findings) 2022

  

• An In-depth Study on Internal Structure of Chinese Words

  Chen Gong, Saihao Huang, Houquan Zhou, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang, Zhefeng Wang, Baoxing Huai, Nicholas Jing Yuan
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021

  

• A Coarse-to-Fine Labeling Framework for Joint Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Constituent Parsing

  Yang Hou, Houquan Zhou, Zhenghua Li, Yu Zhang, Min Zhang, Zhefeng Wang, Baoxing Huai, Nicholas Jing Yuan
  CoNLL 2021

  

• Fast and Accurate Neural CRF Constituency Parsing

  Yu Zhang*, Houquan Zhou*, Zhenghua Li
  IJCAI 2020

  

• Is POS Tagging Necessary or Even Helpful for Neural Dependency Parsing?

  Houquan Zhou*, Yu Zhang*, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang
  NLPCC 2020 (Best Paper Award)

  

Preprints

• How Well Do Large Language Models Understand Syntax? An Evaluation by Asking Natural Language Questions

  Houquan Zhou, Yang Hou, Zhenghua Li, Xuebin Wang, Zhefeng Wang, Xinyu Duan, Min Zhang
  arXiv 2023

  

Competition

• 🏆 First prize in the CCL 2023 Task 7: Chinese Learner Text Correction (Track 1)

  2023.08

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science and Technology at China University of Mining and Technology, 2015 - 2019

Experience

• PhD student at Soochow University, co-advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li and Prof. Min Zhang

  2021 - present

• M.S. student at Soochow University, advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li

  2019 - 2021