Lifeng got his PhD in Machine Translation from Dublin, Ireland, thesis title “An investigation into multi-word expressions in machine translation”.

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Lifeng Got his PhD in Machine Translation from Dublin, Ireland, thesis title “An investigation into multi-word expressions in machine translation” 

He did his first postdoctoral research project at University of Manchester on NLP for digital healthcare “Integrating hospital outpatient letters into the healthcare data space”, where he helped building models and supervising students on tasks including medication extraction, relation extraction, text simplification, entity linking, de-identification, synthetic data generation, and machine translation. 

His current research is with the EU 4D Picture project, “The overall aim is to improve the cancer patient journey and ensure personal preferences are respected.” 

He was the Workshop Co-chair on Multiword Expressions (MWEs), 2023/24, a long standing workshop with ACL since 2003. He gave a tutorial presentation to the main conference of LREC (Language Resource and Evaluation), one of the largest NLP conferences, in 2022, Marseille, France, on “Meta-Evaluation of Translation Evaluation Methods: a systematic up-to-date overview | Video |”.

He holds an honorary position with University of Manchester.