I am a third-year PhD student at Rutgers University. I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof. Karl Stratos. I received M.S. in CS from Rutgers in Spring 2021. Prior to RU, I graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Applied Physics. My research broadly lies in Natural Language Processing. Currently, my research tends towards Knowledge-intensive Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Coreference Resolution, but I remain open to exploring other facets within the NLP landscape.
Publications
Seq2seq is All You Need for Coreference Resolution
Wenzheng Zhang, Sam Wiseman, Karl Stratos. EMNLP 2023. [code]
Improving Multitask Retrieval by Promoting Task Specialization
Wenzheng Zhang, Chenyan Xiong, Karl Stratos, Arnold Overwijk. TACL 2023. [code]
EntQA: Entity Linking as Question Answering
Wenzheng Zhang, Wenyue Hua, Karl Stratos. ICLR 2022 Spotlight . [code]
Understanding Hard Negatives in Noise Contrastive Estimation
Wenzheng Zhang, Karl Stratos. NAACL 2021. [code]
Academic Internships
Microsoft Research
worked with Prof. Chenyan Xiong and Arnold Overwijk, Jun 2022 – Sep 2022