Originally from the UK, I have been living in China for the past ten years. In 2018, I was admitted to Nanjing University where I completed my Master’s degree in Software Engineering. I am currently working on my PhD, also at Nanjing University, under the supervision of Professor Xinyu Dai.

Research Interests

My research is primarily focused on Natural Language Processing, including works on Grammatical Error Correction, Multi-label Classification, and Automated Essay Scoring.

Academic Publications and Preprints

• Ridley, R., Wu, Z., Zhang, J., Huang, S., Dai, X.
  Addressing Linguistic Bias through a Contrastive Analysis of Academic Writing in the NLP Domain
  EMNLP 2023 [paper] [talk]
• Ridley, R., He, L., Dai, X., Huang, S., Chen, J.
  Automated Cross-prompt Scoring of Essay Traits
  AAAI 2021 [paper] [talk]
• Cao, Y., He, L., Ridley, R., Dai, X.
  Integrating BERT and Score-based Feature Gates for Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis
  Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (2020) [paper]
• Wang, R., Ridley, R., Su, X., Qu, W., Dai, X.
  A novel reasoning mechanism for multi-label text classification
  Information Processing & Management [paper]
• Ridley, R., He, L., Dai, X., Huang, S., Chen, J.
  Prompt Agnostic Essay Scorer: A Domain Generalization Approach to Cross-prompt Automated Essay Scoring
  arXiv preprint arXiv: 2008.01441 [paper]

Academic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree (MSc), Software Engineering. Nanjing University (2018–2021)
• PhD, Computer Science. Nanjing University (2021–Current)

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant: Artificial Intelligence Programme Design for undergraduate students (Spring, 2022)
• Teaching Assistant: Natural Language Processing for postgraduate students (Fall, 2019)

Awards

• Nanjing University Excellent Master’s Thesis Nomination (2021)
• Chinese Government Outstanding International Student Scholarship (2019)
• Jiangsu Provincial Government Outstanding International Student Scholarship (2020)
• Nanjing Municipal Scholarship (2020)
• Nanjing Municipal Scholarship (2019)