Qingyu Zhou

Apr 16, 2024 | thetexashorn.com | Qingyu Zhou

I have traveled to many cities in the US and abroad, and I see Austin as arguably the most ridiculous hotbed of graffiti and vandalism. Walking around and looking closely at UT and West Campus, one can find that many trash alleys, traffic signs, electric poles, public restrooms (at least the men’s), and even the window panes of commercial properties on Guadalupe Street are often covered with graffiti tags.

Oct 25, 2023 | thetexashorn.com | Qingyu Zhou

Interstate 35, spanning thousands of miles from Laredo, Texas all the way to Duluth, Minnesota, undoubtedly serves as the most crucial traffic corridor in the Austin area. Built in 1962, long before the population boom in Central Texas, the section in Austin is infamously Texas’ .

Sep 4, 2023 | thetexashorn.com | Qingyu Zhou

As an Asian, I am obligated to comment on this issue. Affirmative action in college admissions is no longer federally protected after two Supreme Court decisions in June 2023: a group named Students for Fair Admissions sued both Harvard and the University of North Carolina for violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act during the admissions process, in which they discriminated against Asian Americans. With a conservative majority, the court voted in favor of the plaintiffs.

Aug 24, 2023 | thetexashorn.com | Qingyu Zhou

Which of the following best describes your political values? 1) I support whatever is good for myself and my loved ones. 2) I support whatever is good for my country and identity group. 3) I support whatever is right, or closer to the universal truth. People can develop strong views about their identity and world politics based on what their ancestors have experienced, and this is magnified if nationalism and cultural pride come into play.

May 18, 2023 | arxiv.org | Yinghui Li |Qingyu Zhou |Yangning Li |Shirong Ma

It is intractable to evaluate the performance of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems since GEC is a highly subjective task. Designing an evaluation metric that is as objective as possible is crucial to the development of GEC task. Previous mainstream evaluation metrics, i.e., reference-based metrics, introduce bias into the multi-reference evaluation because they extract edits without considering the presence of multiple references.