Yi Zhang
Yi Zhang
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Intelligent Information Systems
Obere Kirchgasse 2 / Steinberggasse 12/14
8400 Winterthur
Network
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Projects
- DataGEMS - Data Discovery Platform with Generalized Exploratory, Management, and Search Capabilities (Horizon Europe) / Team member / ongoing
- Digital Health Zurich: a practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation / Team member / ongoing
- Reliable Multi-lingual and Cross-lingual Open Data Exploration in Natural Language / Team member / completed
- INODE4StatBot.swiss – Application of new algorithms for automatic natural language translation into database query language SQL (NL-to-SQL) / Team member / completed
- INODE – Intelligent Open Data Exploration (EU Horizon 2020) / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Difrancesco, S., Bauert, M. M., Lehmann, C., Häsler, S., Zhang, Y., Hirsch, S., Ackermann, P., Stockinger, K., Reif, M., Mathieu, S., Götz, A., Wicki, A., Krauthammer, M., & Witt, C. M. (2025). Collaborative design and development of a patient-centered digital health app for supportive cancer care : participatory study. JMIR Human Factors, 12(e73829). https://doi.org/10.2196/73829
- Zhang, Y., Deriu, J. M., Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, G., Kosten, C., Koutrika, G., & Stockinger, K. (2024). ScienceBenchmark : a complex real-world benchmark for evaluating natural language to SQL systems. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 17(4), 685–698. https://doi.org/10.14778/3636218.3636225
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Nooralahzadeh, F., Zhang, Y., Fürst, J., & Stockinger, K. (2025). Multi-modal data exploration via language agents [Conference paper]. In K. Inui, S. Sakti, H. Wang, D. F. Wong, P. Bhattacharyya, B. Banerjee, A. Ekbal, T. Chakraborty, & D. P. Singh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 795–813). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-ijcnlp.47
- Fürst, J., Kosten, C., Nooralahzadeh, F., Zhang, Y., & Stockinger, K. (2025). Evaluating the data model robustness of Text-to-SQL systems based on real user queries [Conference paper]. Proceedings of EDBT 2025, 158–170. https://doi.org/10.48786/edbt.2025.13
- Sivasubramaniam, S., Osei-Akoto, C., Zhang, Y., Stockinger, K., & Fürst, J. (2024, December 12). SM3-Text-to-Query : synthetic multi-model medical text-to-query benchmark. 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, 10-15 December 2024. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32078
- Nooralahzadeh, F., Zhang, Y., Smith, E., Maennel, S., Matthey-Doret, C., Raphaël, d. F., & Stockinger, K. (2024). StatBot.Swiss : bilingual open data exploration in natural language [Conference paper]. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 5486–5507. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.326