Tianyu Yang
Doctoral Researcher
Research Interest
Tianyu’s current research focuses on the development of multi-modal document processing system for intelligent and automatic data ingestion. Besides, he is also interested in the general generative model and reinforcement learning.
His primary research interest can be summarized as:
- Natural Language Processing
- Reinforcement Learning
- Variational Inference
- Multi-modal Large Language Models
- Information Extraction
SHORT CV
12/2024 – Present
Ph.D Student
University of Göttingen, Germany
08/2022 – 07/2024
Doctoral Researcher
Technichal University of Darmstadt, Germany
09/2019 – 06/2022
M.Sc. Computer Science
Civil Aviation University of China, China
09/2015 – 07/2019
B.Sc. Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering
Civil Aviation University of China, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Robust Utility-Preserving Text Anonymization Based on Large Language Models
Yang, Tianyu, Xiaodan Zhu, and Iryna Gurevych.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11770 (2024).
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Dior-CVAE: Pre-trained Language Models and Diffusion Priors for Variational Dialog Generation
Tianyu Yang, Thy Thy Tran, and Iryna Gurevych
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 4718–4735, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HTKG: Deep keyphrase generation with neural hierarchical topic guidance
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tao Jiang, Tianyu Yang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang.
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1044-1054. 2022.
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Hyperbolic deep keyphrase generation
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tianyu Yang, Tao Jiang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang
In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 521-536. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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Boosting KG-to-Text Generation via Multi-granularity Graph Representations
Yang, Tianyu, Yuxiang Zhang, and Tao Jiang
In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2022.
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Order-guided deep neural network for emotion-cause pair prediction
Fan, Wei, Yuexuan Zhu, Ziyun Wei, Tianyu Yang, W. H. Ip, and Yuxiang Zhang
Applied Soft Computing 112 (2021): 107818.
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NEWS
Call for Research Internships at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo—Japan's premiere research institute for computer science—invites master's and Ph.D. students from computer science-related programs at the University of Göttingen to apply for paid research internships. Key Facts Projects: Apply for up to [...]
Research stays of students and researchers at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo
On April 15, 2024, Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Planas gave a talk on opportunities for fully funded research stays at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, for master's students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers in Computer Science, Data [...]
GippLab-supported business start-up project tegami.ai secures funding
We are excited to announce that the business start-up project tegami.ai, which our group hosts and supports, has secured funding for one year by receiving an Exist Business Start-up Grant. The founding team consists of Fei Wu, Tomáš Horych, Christoph [...]
Interview of André Greiner-Petter about his research stays in Tokyo
In the latest issue of campusinform, our group member André Greiner-Petter reports on his research stays in Tokyo, experiences in Japan, and the DAAD scholarship programs he benefitted from and recommends to others. Visit this page to learn more about [...]
Bela serves as a DFG-nominated member of the Digitality in Science Initiative of the Alliance of Science Organizations
At the invitation of the DFG, Bela Gipp will participate in the Alliance focus area ‘Digitality in Science’ from 2024 onwards. The objectives are described here: Digital tools and their development, including artificial intelligence and machine learning Digital science depends [...]
Collaborative AI project with our industry partner eschbach wins Best of Industry Award
The Smart Search functionality our group helped to devise and integrate into the flagship product of our longstanding industry partner eschbach won the Best of Industry Award 2023 in the Artificial Intelligence category. Smart Search is integrated into Shiftconnector—eschbach's enterprise [...]
ACL 2023 – Neural Machine Translation for Mathematical Formulae
Authors: Felix Petersen, Moritz Schubotz, Andre Greiner-Petter, Bela Gipp Contact: Links: Paper The paper received the best video award: https://youtu.be/2JQSgrrltRM?si=f4gjVUvoIhNhj4Z1 Keywords: formula translation, equations, special functions, mathematical language processing, content language, presentation language, latex, semantic latex, mathematica
Faktor Magazine podcast interviews Bela Gipp
The podcast of Faktor Magazine released an episode with Bela Gipp discussing the opportunities and threats of AI, specifically of AI-generated text, in the context of academic research and education. In the interview, Bela touches on some of his current research [...]
Profile of Bela Gipp and his research group
The recently released 2022 Annual Report of Göttingen University introduces Prof. Bela Gipp and his newly established Professorship for Scientific Information Analytics (GippLab) at the Institute for Computer Science and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB). In the interview, [...]
Interview with Bela Gipp: “Fehlende Offenheit ist das Problem”
Read the full article as here or in the faktor magazin.
Talk: KI — Fluch & Segen at faktor Business Lounge
Norman Meuschke gave a talk on the Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence at the 39th faktor Business Lounge. Read the report about the talk here or in the faktor magazine.
We’re Hiring Ph.D. Students and Postdocs
Current Calls Two PhD Researchers - NLP-Reasoning for Low-Resource German (all genders welcome). Apply here. Two PhD Researchers — LLM Pre-Training & RAG (all genders welcome). Apply here. One Researcher — NLP Metadata Enrichment of Museum Texts Apply here. [...]
NDR Synapsen Podcast with Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke
Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke recently appeared on the ''Synapsen'' Science Podcast by NDR Info. Alternatively, you can listen to it on the NDR website. The topic of the episode was: Keine Angst vor Künstlicher Intelligenz? The podcast [...]
Interview of Bela Gipp on the Opportunities and Risks of AI for University Teaching
The local newspaper, Göttinger Tageblatt, interviewed Bela Gipp on the opportunities and risks of AI for university teaching. Read the article here or online.
Malte Ostendorff Receives his PhD
We are delighted to announce that Malte Ostendorff has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Aspect-based Document Similarity for Literature Recommender Systems’’ on April 25th, 2023. The research objective of Malte’s thesis was to improve literature recommendation systems by proposing [...]
Invitation to Meet-up on AI in Open Science
Our group will participate in the next Open Science Meet-up on the Role of AI in Open Science organized by the State and University Library Göttingen. Everyone is cordially invited to participate in this free hybrid event (online and in-person). [...]
Dennis Trautwein receives the Applied Networking Research Prize
Our PhD candidate Dennis Trautwein has received the prestigious Applied Networking Research Prize awarded by the Internet Research Taskforce. The prize recognizes the best recent results in applied networking and interesting new research ideas with potential relevance to the Internet [...]
Talk by Dr. Saif M. Mohammad (NRC) on Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language
We are delighted to announce the talk "The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language" by Dr. Saif M. Mohammad. When & where: December 14, 15:00-16:00 (sharp), Alfred-Hessel-Saal in the SUB's historic building (Campus Map | Google Maps) About the speaker: Dr. [...]
André Greiner-Petter reports from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Our group member, Dr. André Greiner-Petter was selected to visit the prestigious annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The HLF is a weeklong conference that gives young researchers the opportunity to connect with international research pioneers and Laureates from computer science [...]
Cornelius Ihle receives two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs
Our PhD candidate, Cornelius Ihle, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs. Cornelius investigates approaches to increase user privacy in the IPFS network.
Stern magazine reports on Bela Gipp’s inventions with ”Jugend Forscht”
The German magazine, Stern, just published an article about Bela’s research projects and his inventions while participating in the ‘Jugend Forscht’ competitions as a student. The article also describes one of Bela’s earliest inventions, the “GSM Schutzengel”, with which Bela [...]
Norman Meuschke receives the Airbus Research Award Claude Dornier
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Norman Meuschke was awarded this year’s Airbus Research Award ‘Claude Dornier’ for his outstanding research achievements during his Ph.D. research. The award ceremony took place on July 14th, 2022, at the University of [...]
Our research group moves to the University of Göttingen
Bela Gipp has recently accepted a new full professorship at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Website, Wikipedia page). The new position will be at the intersection of the Department of Computer Science and the research department of the State and University Library (Website, Wikipedia [...]
Felix Hamborg defends his PhD Thesis with ‘summa cum laude’
We are delighted to announce that Felix Hamborg has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards Automated Frame Analysis: Natural Language Processing Techniques to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles” on January 31st. The research objective of this thesis was [...]
André Greiner-Petter receives his PhD
We are delighted to announce that André Greiner-Petter has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Making Presentation Math Computable’’ this January, 2022. Congratulations, André! In his thesis, André researched and developed a context-sensitive approach for translating mathematical expressions from LATEX [...]
