2026 Nanyun Peng: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7558	7339	3285	3160	349	8371

Overview

Nanyun Peng is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research work primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focused emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. Within this broad domain, they have contributed substantially to subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Molecular Biology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Text Readability and Simplification
Artificial Intelligence in Games
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Nanyun Peng has an extensive publication record with a notable presence in several venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Some of their recent papers include:

An Empirical Study of Training End-to-End Vision-and-Language Transformers (2022) - 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
DEGREE: A Data-Efficient Generation-Based Event Extraction Model (2022) - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
GATE: Graph Attention Transformer Encoder for Cross-lingual Relation and Event Extraction (2021) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Pre-training with Fusion in the Backbone (2022) - arXiv (Cornell University)
On the Safety of Conversational Models: Taxonomy, Dataset, and Benchmark (2022) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022

Frequent collaborators contributing to Nanyun Peng's research output include:

Kai-Wei Chang
Zi-Yi Dou
I-Hung Hsu
Kuan-Hao Huang
Prem Natarajan

Best Publications

Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction with Graph LSTMs

Nanyun Peng;Hoifung Poon;Chris Quirk;Kristina Toutanova

545
Citations
An Empirical Study of Training End-to-End Vision-and-Language Transformers

Unknown

528
Citations
Style Transfer in Text: Exploration and Evaluation

Zhenxin Fu;Xiaoye Tan;Nanyun Peng;Dongyan Zhao

494
Citations
The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generation

Emily Sheng;Kai-Wei Chang;Premkumar Natarajan;Nanyun Peng

420
Citations
Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Jointly Trained Embeddings

Nanyun Peng;Mark Dredze

410
Citations
Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling

Lili Yao;Nanyun Peng;Ralph M. Weischedel;Kevin Knight

342
Citations
Improving Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Word Segmentation Representation Learning

Nanyun Peng;Mark Dredze

252
Citations
Generalized Decoding for Pixel, Image, and Language

Unknown

236
Citations
DEGREE: A Data-Efficient Generation-Based Event Extraction Model

Unknown

195
Citations
Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing.

Xuezhe Ma;Zecong Hu;Jingzhou Liu;Nanyun Peng

172
Citations
On Difficulties of Cross-Lingual Transfer with Order Differences: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing

Wasi Uddin Ahmad;Zhisong Zhang;Xuezhe Ma;Eduard H. Hovy

145
Citations
Multi-task Domain Adaptation for Sequence Tagging

Nanyun Peng;Mark Dredze

144
Citations
Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Pre-training with Fusion in the Backbone

Unknown

142
Citations
Towards Controllable Story Generation

Nanyun Peng;Marjan Ghazvininejad;Jonathan May;Kevin Knight

134
Citations
Joint Event and Temporal Relation Extraction with Shared Representations and Structured Prediction

Rujun Han;Qiang Ning;Nanyun Peng

121
Citations
Societal Biases in Language Generation: Progress and Challenges

Emily Sheng;Kai-Wei Chang;Prem Natarajan;Nanyun Peng

119
Citations
Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant;Tuhin Chakrabarty;Ralph M. Weischedel;Nanyun Peng

107
Citations
Towards Controllable Biases in Language Generation

Emily Sheng;Kai-Wei Chang;Premkumar Natarajan;Nanyun Peng

102
Citations
Better Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems with Contextualized Embeddings

Sarik Ghazarian;Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei;Aram Galstyan;Nanyun Peng

90
Citations
TORQUE: A Reading Comprehension Dataset of Temporal Ordering Questions

Qiang Ning;Hao Wu;Rujun Han;Nanyun Peng

82
Citations
Modeling Word Forms Using Latent Underlying Morphs and Phonology

Ryan Cotterell;Nanyun Peng;Jason Eisner

78
Citations
STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation

Nader Akoury;Shufan Wang;Josh Whiting;Stephen Hood

71
Citations
Connecting the Dots: A Knowledgeable Path Generator for Commonsense Question Answering.

Peifeng Wang;Nanyun Peng;Filip Ilievski;Pedro A. Szekely

68
Citations
Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit

Yiming Wang;Sanjeev Khudanpur;Tongfei Chen;Hainan Xu

61
Citations
Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction with Graph LSTMs

Nanyun Peng;Hoifung Poon;Chris Quirk;Kristina Toutanova

43
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai-Wei Chang University of California, Los Angeles

Aram Galstyan University of Southern California

Ralph Weischedel University of Southern California

Mark Dredze Johns Hopkins University

Dongyan Zhao Peking University

Rui Yan Renmin University of China

Prem Natarajan Capital One (United States)

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California

Ryan Cotterell ETH Zurich

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