Dr Cass Zhixue Zhao

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

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Dr Cass Zhixue Zhao
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Cass (Zhixue) Zhao is a lecturer in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at the ±¬ÁÏTV. Before that she was a postdoc researcher, supervised by Prof Nikos Aletras, on model interpretability, model hallucination and model compression. Back in 2020 she worked as a research assistant within the same department, working on NIHR-funded NLP projects for systematic reviews of public health research. She has served on the Programme Committee for AAAI, ACL and EMNLP. She is currently looking for highly-motivated PhD students, please contact her directly if you are interested.

Research interests
  • Model explanation
  • Model compression
  • Model bias and hallucination
  • Model reasoning
Publications

Journal articles

  • Zhao Z, Thomas J, Kell G, Stansfield C, Clowes M, Graziosi S, Brunton J, Marshall IJ & Stevenson M (2024) . JAMIA Open, 7(4).
  • Zhao Z, Zhang Z & Hopfgartner F (2022) . Online Social Networks and Media, 29, 100205-100205.

Conference proceedings

  • Zhao Z, Zhang Z & Hopfgartner F (2021) . Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

Preprints

  • Zhao Z & Aletras N (2023) Incorporating Attribution Importance for Improving Faithfulness Metrics, arXiv.
  • Zhao Z, Chrysostomou G, Bontcheva K & Aletras N (2022) , arXiv.
  • Zhao Z, Zhang Z & Hopfgartner F (2021) , arXiv.
Research group

Natural Language Processing 

Grants
  • ExU: AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread, European Media and Information Fund, 11/2023 - 04/2025, €399,926, as Co-PI

Links

Natural Language Processing research group