I am an incoming PhD candidate at UWaterloo, supervised by Freda Shi. I am currently pursuing a double major (English Linguistics & Computer Science) in Zhejiang University and expect to gain my B.A. in June, 2024.

My undergraduate supervisor in School of International Studies is Bin Shao. I also work as an intern at WestlakeNLP with Prof. Yue Zhang (2021. June - now). Previously, I have been visiting StatNLP with Prof. Wei Lu (2023.June - 2023. Oct).

I am recently reading and chatting to find future directions or topics to work on. Generally speaking, my interests are related to the following questions:

• Whether the model’s proficiency (in contrast to N. Chomsky’s capacity) / grammatical correctness / logic reasoning ability, cohesion and coherence / writing style / etc. differ across languages? How to design methods to generalize the proficiencies to minor languages? What about achieving this on smaller models?
• Can syntax parsing or formal semantics serve as tools for detecting more demands or phenomenon within the NLP fields?

Besides, my undergraduate research covers English lexicon etymology dataset building, logic-reasoning with LLMs, and long-document information retrieval with LLMs. I may not continue on these specific topics in the future, but I also welcome discussions about them.

🔥 News

• 2024.04:  🎉🎉 I will be an incoming Ph.D. candidate to university of Waterloo, co-supervised by Freda Shi and Olga Veksler.
• 2024.01:  📣📣 I am looking for a PhD position in 24fall. :D

📝 Publications

Preprint

NovelQA: A Benchmark for Long-Range Novel Question Answering

Cunxiang Wang*, Ruoxi Ning*, Boqi Pan, Tonghui Wu, Qipeng Guo, Cheng Deng, Guangsheng Bao, Qian Wang, Yue Zhang.

NovelQA Online Testbench We welcome submissions to run test on our benchmark!

• Under Review A Quantitative Study of Register Differentiation and Change in Contemporary English: Latinate/Germanic Ratio as a Parameter. Ruoxi Ning, Fanke Zeng, Bin Shao.

• Preprint GLoRE: Evaluating Logical Reasoning of Large Language Models. Hanmeng Liu, Zhiyang Teng, Ruoxi Ning, Jian Liu, Qiji Zhou, Yue Zhang.

• ACL 2022 Findings Challenges to open-domain constituency parsing. Sen Yang, Leyang Cui, Ruoxi Ning, Di Wu, Yue Zhang.

📖 Educations

• 2019.09 - 2024.06 (now), Zhejiang University. I am currently pursuing a double major (English Linguistics & Computer Science). A double major means that excepting dissertation in BSCS, I am completing other core courses required by a CS double degree, e.g. OS, TCS. Besides, though the CS double-X does not require any AI courses, I still finished many of them e.g., ML, NLP, DS.

• 2016.09 - 2019.06, Jinan Foreign Language School: I was an English-language-guaranteed student from JFLS (exempting Chinese Gaokao). My continuous interest in STEM subjects and my previous experience in winning a 1st Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP2015, junior group) have driven me to explore and take a double major in Computer Science, which further nurtured my passion for Natual Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL).

💬 Invited Talks

• 2022.10, I gave a presentation on Philosophy of Linguistics at WestlakeNLP. Many thanks to Naihao Deng for arranging this meeting!

🎹 Interesting Things!

• I have a blog 🏛️ Mini Babel Library written mostly in Chinese Mandarin. I believe that taking notes is a good way forcing one to digest the knowledge duing learning and reinforce the understanding. Welcome to explore my notes in CS, AI, linguistics, and life skills here!