Houquan Zhou 周厚全

PhD Student at HLT@SUDA

I am a second-year PhD student at HLT@SUDA, co-advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li and Prof. Min Zhang.

Research Interests

Text Error Correction Spelling Correction Grammatical Error Correction Large Language Models Constituency Parsing Dependency Parsing POS Tagging
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PhD

Publications

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(* 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

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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

Paper arXiv Code Citations

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

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

Houquan Zhou*, Yang Li*, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang

ACL (Findings) 2022

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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

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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

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Fast and Accurate Neural CRF Constituency Parsing

Yu Zhang*, Houquan Zhou*, Zhenghua Li

IJCAI 2020

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

Houquan Zhou*, Yu Zhang*, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang

NLPCC 2020 Best Paper Award

arXiv Code Citations

Preprints

A Training-free LLM-based Approach to General Chinese Character Error Correction

Houquan Zhou, Bo Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Ming Yan, Min Zhang

arXiv 2025

arXiv Code

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

arXiv Code

Competitions

First Prize in the Kingsoft Office 2024 Algorithm Challenge: Chinese Text Correction Competition

2024.11

Notably, our solution achieved an F0.5 score that was 2.02 points higher than the second-place team.

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

2023.08

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Soochow University

2021 - present

Co-advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li and Prof. Min Zhang

M.S. in Computer Science

Soochow University

2019 - 2021

Advised by Prof. Zhenghua Li

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

China University of Mining and Technology

2015 - 2019

Experience

PhD Student

HLT@SUDA, Soochow University

2021 - present

Research focus: Text error correction, LLM evaluation and application

M.S. Student

Soochow University

2019 - 2021

Research focus: Constituency parsing, dependency parsing, and POS tagging

Research Focus

Research Trajectory

2019
Parsing
2021
POS Tagging
2022
Error Correction
2023
LLMs

My research journey began with fundamental NLP tasks like parsing and POS tagging, and has evolved to focus on text error correction and the evaluation of large language models.

Publication Distribution

1 paper

2019

2 papers

2020

2 papers

2021

1 paper

2022

2 papers

2023

Research Areas

Text Error Correction (4)
Parsing (3)
POS Tagging (2)
LLM Evaluation (1)