Yuan He (In Chinese: 何源)
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
Hi! I am Yuan He, a PhD candidate in Computer Science, supervised by Professor Ian Horrocks, Professor Bernardo Cuenca Grau, and Dr. Jiaoyan Chen at the University of Oxford. My research primarily focuses on the areas of Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, and Knowledge Engineering, with a particular interest in integrating language models with structured and logical data such as ontologies and knowledge graphs.
I am also the main contributor of several packages and resources, notably: DeepOnto, OAEI Bio-ML, and HierarchyTransformers.
Events (recent)
{Mar 2024} Paper accepted in Semantic Web journal.
{Feb 2024} Paper accepted in ESWC-2024.
{Oct 2023} Won the Best Resource Paper Runner-Up in CIKM-2023. [certificate]
{Sep 2023} One poster paper accepted in ISWC-2023.
{Aug 2023} Two papers accepted in CIKM-2023.
{Aug 2023} Joined the Program Committee of AAAI-2024.
{Jun 2023} Joined the Program Committee of CIKM-2023.
{May 2023} Paper accepted in Findings of ACL-2023.
{Mar 2023} Paper accepted in WWW journal.
Events (past)
{Jan 2023} Teaching KRR classes.
{Jan 2023} Rebuild DeepOnto.
{Oct 2022} Nominated as Best Resource Paper candidate in ISWC-2022. [nomination]
{Oct 2022} Organising the Bio-ML track of OAEI. [track]
{Sep 2022} Paper accepted in DL4KG@ISWC-2022 workshop.
{Aug 2022} Joined the Program Committee of AAAI-2023.
{Jul 2022} Joined the Program Committee of ISWC-2022.
{Jul 2022} Paper accepted in ISWC-2022. [arxiv]
{Jul 2022} Won the Best Research Report Award in ISWS-2022. [certificate]
{Jul 2022} Attending International Semantic Web Summer School (ISWS-2022). [website]
{Feb 2022} Presenting the paper accepted in AAAI-2022. [slides][video]
{Jan 2022} Teaching classes for the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR) course at Oxford.
{Dec 2021} Started to develop DeepOnto. [repository]
{Dec 2021} Paper accepted in AAAI-2022. [arxiv]
{Dec 2021} Passed the Transfer of Status (for Oxford PhD).
{Oct 2021} Presentation for the paper accepted in OM@ISWC-2021 workshop. [slides]
{Aug 2021} Paper accepted in OM@ISWC-2021 workshop.
{Jan 2021} Started the project: Oxford-SRUK Ontology Alignment.
{Dec 2020} Presentation for the paper accepted in AACL-2020. [slides][video]
{Nov 2020} Teaching Support for MAT Marking at Oxford.
Education
DPhil in Computer Science - University of Oxford - [Fully funded]
{Sep 2016 - Jul 2020}
BSc (Hons) AI and Maths - University of Edinburgh - [Ranked top]
Publications
Preprint
Yuan He, Zhangdie Yuan, Jiaoyan Chen, Ian Horrocks. Language Models as Hierarchy Encoders. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11374 (2024). [preprint]
Conference Paper
Hang Dong, Jiaoyan Chen, Yuan He, Yongsheng Gao, and Ian Horrocks. A Language Model based Framework for New Concept Placement in Ontologies. In: The 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (2024). [arxiv]
Hang Dong, Jiaoyan Chen, Yuan He, and Ian Horrocks. Ontology Enrichment from Texts: A Biomedical Dataset for Concept Discovery and Placement. In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2023). [preprint] [paper - Best Resource Paper Runner-Up]
Yuan He and Shay B. Cohen. English-to-Chinese Transliteration with Phonetic Auxiliary Task. In: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-2020). [paper]
Journal Paper
Yuan He, Jiaoyan Chen, Hang Dong, Ian Horrocks, Carlo Allocca, Taehun Kim, Brahmananda Sapkota. DeepOnto: A Package for Ontology Engineering with Deep Learning. In: Semantic Web (2024). [preprint]
Geyang Song, Yuan He, Brian Sheil, and James Morris. Ground settlement prediction for open caisson shafts in sand using a neural network constrained by empiricism. In: Computers and Geotechnics (2024).
Workshop Paper
OAEI Organisers. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2022-2023. In: The International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM@ISWC). [paper 2022][paper 2023]
Ryan Brate, Minh-Hoang Dang, Fabian Hoppe, Yuan He, Albert Meroño Peñuela, and Vijay Sadashivaiah. Improving Language Model Predictions via Prompts Enriched with Knowledge Graphs. In: Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG@ISWC-2022). [paper]
Yuan He, Jiaoyan Chen, Denvar Antonyrajah, and Ian Horrocks. Biomedical Ontology Alignment with BERT. In: The 16th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM@ISWC-2021). [paper]
Professional Services
Program Committee Member
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
Conference Reviewer
ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD-2022)
Journal Reviewer
Journal of Bioinformatics.
Journal of Biomedical Semantics.
Journal of Web Semantics .
Semantic Web Journal.
Organiser
OAEI Bio-ML Track (collocated at ISWC)
Selected Awards
Best Resource Paper Runner-Up at the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2023). [certificate]
Best Resource Paper Candidate at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2022). [nomination]
Best Research Report Award from ISWS-2022. [certificate]
PhD Scholarship from Samsung Research UK (SRUK). [fully funded]
Received The 2020 Joint Class Prize (Ranked Top 1) for the degree of BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. [certificate]
Amateur Works
[Art] I am an amateur music composer, singer, pianist and novel/poetry/prose writer (specific to Chinese literature).
Please check the post here to view the links to my work if you are interested to know me beyond the academic scope.
[Sport] I joined the university badminton squad (OuBaC) at Oxford.