Yang Deng (邓扬)

Aligning Large Language Models for Faithful Integrity against Opposing Arguments
Yong Zhao^, Yang Deng, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
AAAI 2025

Tutorial Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
Yifei Yuan, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Yang Deng, Mohammad Aliannejadi
WWW 2025 (Tutorial)

Don't Just Say "I Don't Know"! Self-aligning Large Language Models for Responding to Unknown Questions with Explanations
Yang Deng*, Yong Zhao*^, Moxin Li, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2024
[arxiv] [repo]

Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers
Shuaiyi Li^, Yang Deng, Deng Cai, Hongyuan Lu, Liang Chen, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2024

Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering
Yifei Yuan, Yang Deng, Anders Søgaard, Mohammad Aliannejadi
EMNLP 2024

Strength Lies in Differences! Improving Strategy Planning for Non-collaborative Dialogues via Diversified User Simulation
Tong Zhang^, Chen Huang^, Yang Deng, Hongru Liang, Jia Liu, Zujie Wen, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2024

Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation
Zhonghua Zheng, Lizi Liao, Yang Deng, Ee-Peng Lim, Minlie Huang, Liqiang Nie
EMNLP 2024

Ask-before-Plan: Proactive Language Agents for Real-World Planning
Xuan Zhang^, Yang Deng, Zifeng Ren, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)

Experience as Source for Anticipation and Planning: Experiential Policy Learning for Target-driven Recommendation Dialogues
Huy Quang Dao, Yang Deng, Khanh-Huyen Bui, Dung D. Le, Lizi Liao
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)

Selective Annotation via Data Allocation: These Data Should Be Triaged to Experts for Annotation Rather Than the Model
Chen Huang^, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv, Ido Dagan
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)

Beyond Persuasion: Towards Conversational Recommender System with Credible Explanations
Peixin Qin^, Chen Huang^, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)

On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
Yang Deng*, Xuan Zhang*^, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL 2024
[arxiv] [repo]

Chain-of-Exemplar: Enhancing Distractor Generation for Multimodal Educational Question Generation
Haohao Luo^, Yang Deng, Ying Shen, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL 2024

CLAMBER: A Benchmark of Identifying and Clarifying Ambiguous Information Needs in Large Language Models
Tong Zhang^, Peixin Qin^, Yang Deng, Chen Huang, Wenqiang Lei, Junhong Liu, Dingnan Jin, Hongru Liang, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL 2024

WatME: Towards Lossless Watermarking Through Lexical Redundancy
Liang Chen^, Yatao Bian, Yang Deng, Deng Cai, Shuaiyi Li, Peilin Zhao, Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2024

Self-chats from Large Language Models Make Small ChatPal Better
Zhonghua Zheng, Lizi Liao, Yang Deng, Libo Qin, Liqiang Nie
ACL 2024

Style: Improving Domain Transferability of Asking Clarification Questions in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
Yue Chen^, Chen Huang^, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Dingnan Jin, Jia Liu, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL 2024 (Findings)

Tutorial Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval
An Zhang, Yang Deng, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR 2024 (Tutorial)
[website]

Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Zhonghua Zheng, Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR 2024 (Perspectives Paper)

Broadening the View: Demonstration-augmented Prompt Learning for Conversational Recommendation
Hui Dao, Yang Deng, Dung Le, Lizi Liao
SIGIR 2024

Tutorial Large Language Model Powered Agents in the Web
Yang Deng, An Zhang, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW 2024 (Tutorial)
[website]

Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
ICLR 2024
[paper] [repo]

Survey A Comprehensive Survey on Relation Extraction: Recent Advances and New Frontiers
Xiaoyan Zhao^, Yang Deng, Min Yang, Lingzhi Wang, Rui Zhang, Hong Cheng, Wei Lam, Ying Shen, Ruifeng Xu
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Prompting and Evaluating Large Language Models for Proactive Dialogues: Clarification, Target-guided, and Non-collaboration
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Liang Chen, Hongru Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
[paper] [repo]

Beyond Factuality: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Large Language Models as Knowledge Generators
Liang Chen^, Yang Deng, Yatao Bian, Zeyu Qin, Bingzhe Wu, Tat-Seng Chua, Kam-Fai Wong
EMNLP 2023

DepWiGNN: A Depth-wise Graph Neural Network for Multi-hop Spatial Reasoning in Text
Shuaiyi Li^, Yang Deng, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Large Language Models as Source Planner for Personalized Knowledge-grounded Dialogues
Hongru Wang^, Minda Hu, Yang Deng, Rui Wang, Fei Mi, Weichao Wang, Yasheng Wang, Wai Chung Kwan, Irwin King, Kam-Fai Wong
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Unifying Text, Tables, and Images for Multimodal Question Answering
Haohao Luo^, Ying Shen, Yang Deng
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Cue-CoT: Chain-of-thought Prompting for Responding to In-depth Dialogue Questions with LLMs
Hongru Wang^, Rui Wang, Fei Mi, Yang Deng, Zezhong Wang, Bin Liang, Ruifeng Xu, Kam-Fai Wong
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Attack Prompt Generation for Red Teaming and Defending Large Language Models
Boyi Deng, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yang Deng, Qifan Wang, Xiangnan He
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Tutorial Rethinking Conversational Agents in the Era of LLMs: Proactivity, Non-collaborativity, and Beyond
Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR-AP 2023 (Tutorial)
[abstract][slides]

Tutorial Goal Awareness for Conversational AI: Proactivity, Non-collaborativity, and Beyond
Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL 2023 (Tutorial)
[abstract][slides]

Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, Wai Lam
ACL 2023
[paper] [repo]

Survey Product Question Answering in E-Commerce: A Survey
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam
ACL 2023
[paper]

PeerDA: Data Augmentation via Modeling Peer Relation for Span Identification Tasks
Weiwen Xu, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
ACL 2023

Towards Robust Personalized Dialogue Generation via Order-Insensitive Representation Regularization
Liang Chen^, Hongru Wang^, Yang Deng, Wai-Chung Kwan, Zezhong Wang, Kam-Fai Wong
ACL 2023 (Findings)

Survey A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects
Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua
IJCAI 2023 (Survey)
[paper] [repo]

Learning to Ask Clarification Questions with Spatial Reasoning
Yang Deng, Shuaiyi Li, Wai Lam
SIGIR 2023 (Short)
[paper] [repo]

A Unified Framework for Contextual and Factoid Question Generation
Chenhe Dong^, Ying Shen, Shiyang Lin, Zhenzhou Lin, Yang Deng
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE)

A Unified Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-goal Conversational Recommender Systems
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Weiwen Xu, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua, Wai Lam
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)
[paper] [repo]

User Satisfaction Estimation with Sequential Dialogue Act Modeling in Goal-oriented Conversational Systems
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Helen Meng
WWW 2022
[paper] [repo]

PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance
Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP 2022
[paper] [repo]

ConReader: Exploring Implicit Relations in Contracts for Contract Clause Extraction
Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenlong Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2022

Leveraging Long Short-Term User Preference in Conversational Recommendation Via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE)

Survey A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges
Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE)

Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Fei Sun, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam
SIGIR 2021
[paper] [repo]

Towards Personalized Answer Generation in E-Commerce via Multi-Perspective Preference Modeling
Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)
[paper] [repo]

Contextualized Knowledge-aware Attentive Neural Network: Enhancing Answer Selection with Knowledge
Yang Deng, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Wai Lam, Ying Shen
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)

Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
ACL 2021 (Short)

Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation
Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2021

Exploiting Reasoning Chains for Multi-hop Science Question Answering
Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Huihui Zhang, Deng Cai, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2021 (Findings)

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Question Answering Forums
Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2021 (Findings)

Factual Consistency Evaluation for Text Summarization via Counterfactual Estimation
Yuexiang Xie, Fei Sun, Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding
EMNLP 2021 (Findings)

Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2020
[paper] [repo]

AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering
Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2020

Opinion-aware Answer Generation for Review-driven Question Answering in E-Commerce
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam
EMNLP 2020
[paper] [repo]

Joint Learning of Answer Selection and Answer Summary Generation in Community Question Answering
Yang Deng, Wai Lam, Yuexiang Xie, Daoyuan Chen Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Ying Shen
AAAI 2020
[paper] [repo]

Bridging Hierarchical and Sequential Context Modeling for Question-driven Extractive Answer Summarization
Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Wai Lam and Ying Shen
SIGIR 2020 (Short)
[paper] [repo]

Answer Ranking for Product-Related Questions via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling
Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam
SIGIR 2020

Review-guided Helpful Answer Identification in E-commerce
Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Yang Deng, Jing Ma
WWW 2020 (Short)

Multi-Task Learning with Multi-View Attention for Answer Selection and Knowledge Base Question Answering
Yang Deng, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li, Nan Du, Min Yang, Wei Fan, Kai Lei, Ying Shen
AAAI 2019

MedTruth: A Semi-supervised Approach to Discovering Knowledge Condition Information from Multi-Source Medical Data
Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Ying Shen, Nan Du, Wei Fan, Min Yang, Kai Lei
CIKM 2019

Knowledge as A Bridge: Improving Cross-domain Answer Selection with External Knowledge
Yang Deng, Ying Shen, Min Yang, Yaliang Li, Nan Du, Wei Fan, Kai Lei
COLING 2018

Knowledge-aware Attention based Neural Network for Ranking Question Answering Pairs
Ying Shen, Yang Deng, Min Yang, Yaliang Li, Nan Du, Wei Fan, Kai Lei
SIGIR 2018 (Short)