Schuetze NLP Lab, Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS),
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU Munich),
Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

Email: lastname@cis.lmu.de

About Me

  • Hi, I am Ercong, a third-year PhD student at Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), LMU Munich.
  • I am supervised by PD. Dr. Helmut Schmid. I am also part of the Schütze Lab led by Prof. Hinrich Schütze, and an affiliated doctoral researcher of Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML).
  • I obtained my M.Sc. degree in computational linguistics and informatics (computer science) at LMU Munich. Prior to LMU, I was an undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), majoring in German Studies and minoring in Finance. During my bachelor study, I spent one exchange semester at University of Heidelberg in Comparative German Studies.

Research Interest

I have a broad research interest in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially in multilingual NLP, efficient methods for NLP, and human-inspired NLP.

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in topics related to NLP and LLM, including multilinguality, interpretability, retrieval-augmented methods, human-inspired NLP, and their intersections with digital humanities and social sciences or domain-specific applications.

Selected Publications

  • Ercong Nie*, Sheng Liang*, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze. Cross-Lingual Retrieval Augmented Prompt for Low-Resource Languages. In ACL Findings 2023. [Paper], [Code]
  • Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schuetze. Unleashing the Multilingual Encoder Potential: Boosting Zero-Shot Performance via Probability Calibration. In EMNLP Findings 2023. [Paper], [Code]
  • Bolei Ma*, Ercong Nie*, Shuzhou Yuan, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, Hinrich Schuetze. ToPro: Token-Level Prompt Decomposition for Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling Tasks. In EACL 2024. [Paper], [Code]
  • Yongkang Liu*, Ercong Nie*, Shi Feng, Zheng Hua, Zifeng Ding, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze. A Unified Data Augmentation Framework for Low-Resource Multi-domain Dialogue Generation. In ECML-PKDD 2024. [Paper]
  • Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Michael Färber, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schuetze. GNNavi: Navigating the Information Flow in Large Language Models by Graph Neural Network. In ACL Findings 2024. [Paper], [Code]
  • Linyang He, Peili Chen, Ercong Nie, Yuanning Li, Jonathan R. Brennan. Decoding Probing: Revealing Internal Linguistic Structures in Neural Language Models Using Minimal Pairs. In LREC-COLING 2024. [Paper]

(* denotes equal contribution)
See more in my publications.

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer
Journal Reviewer
Community Members
  • Committe member of NICE, an NLP Academic Exchange Platform.
  • Member of AI Grid, a community connecting young scientists AI funded by the German Ferderal Ministry of Education and Research.
  • Junior member of Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), one of six German national AI Competence Centers.



Credits: This page was originally created by Peiqin Lin and has been adopted and modified by me.