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Lin Nie

Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (7)

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Enhancing Communication Quality between Government and Citizens: The Role of AI Modification

Information Polity, 0[10.1177/15701255261427986]
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2026
Ruiyu Zhang and Lin Nie
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences
Downloads 206 (380,469)

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government–citizen interaction, AI modification, communication quality, citizen, civil servant

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Achieving Semantic Consistency: Contextualized Word Representations for Political Text Analysis

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2025
Ruiyu Zhang, Lin Nie, Ce Zhao and Qingyang Chen
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology (shenzhen) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences
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Computational Social Science, Text Analysis, Word Embeddings, BERT, Word2Vec

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Structural Equation-VAE: Disentangled Latent Representations for Tabular Data

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Aug 2025 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2025
Ruiyu Zhang, Ce Zhao, Xin Zhao, Lin Nie and Wai-Fung Lam
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Harbin Institute of Technology (shenzhen), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration
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Disentangled Representation Learning, Tabular Data, Variational Autoencoder, Structural Equation Modeling, Latent Variable Modeling

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Eco-efficiency as a Catalyst for Citizen Co-production: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 May 2025
Ruiyu Zhang, Lin Nie, Ce Zhao and Xin Zhao
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology (shenzhen) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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eco-efficiency, co-production, environmental governance, citizen engagement, BERT, causal inference

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Sustainability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Hong Kong: Drivers and the Moderating Role of Social Network

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, volume 32, issue 4, 2025[10.1002/csr.3207]
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Sep 2025
Lin Nie, Wai-Fung Lam and Ruiyu Zhang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration
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Driver, Hong Kong, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Social Network, Sustainability

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HEAS: Hierarchical Evolutionary Agent Simulation Framework for Cross-Scale Modeling and Multi-Objective Search

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2026
Ruiyu Zhang, Lin Nie and Xin Zhao
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Agent-based Modeling, Evolutionary Optimization, Hierarchical Modeling, Cross-Scale Modeling, Multi-Objective Search

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PEARL: Prototype-Enhanced Alignment for Label-Efficient Representation Learning with Deployment-Driven Insights from Digital Governance Communication Systems

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Feb 2026
Ruiyu Zhang, Lin Nie, Wai-Fung Lam, Qihao Wang and Xin Zhao
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration, Lanzhou University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Representation Geometry, Embedding Post-processing, Prototype Alignment, Label Efficiency, Retrieval, Digital Governance