Yang Deng (邓扬)

Assistant Professor
Lee Kong Chian Fellow
CHAT NLP Group
School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University


[Email] [Google Scholar]


HIRING I am actively looking for highly motivated PhD students in 2027 Fall. Multiple SMU-funded visiting student positions are avaiable (standard monthly stipend of 2700 SGD). Self-funded visiting scholars (e.g., CSC Project) and remote collaborations are also welcomed. Feel free to reach out to me as [Openings].

Yang Deng, 2023

Publications

Please see my Google Scholar profiles for the full list. (* Equal Contribution, ^ Mentorship)

2026

  • Do LLMs Understand Personality? Rethinking Persona Fidelity Evaluation through Structured Behavioral Inference
    Mengfan Li^, Zesheng Wei^, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2026

  • Towards Effective Structured Context Modeling for Conversational Recommender Systems via Dual-node Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Jincheng Zhang, Chen Huang, Wenqiang Lei, See-Kiong Ng, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2026

  • InComeS: Integrating Compression and Selection Mechanisms into LLMs for Efficient Model Editing
    Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yang Deng, Chenlong Deng, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Wai Lam
    EMNLP 2026

  • CultureVidBench: Benchmarking Cultural Understanding in Text-to-Video Generation
    Xianjing Han, Yuhan Su, Yang Deng, Dong Ma, Wee Peng Tay, Bin Zhu
    EMNLP 2026

  • ProMediConv: Benchmarking Proactive Conversational Agents in Chinese Legal Dispute Mediation
    Zesheng Wei^, Mengfan Li^, Wenhao Liu, Yixin Zhang, Zilei Wang, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2026 Findings

  • Self-Evolving World Models for LLM Agent Planning
    Xuan Zhang^, Wenxuan Zhang, See-Kiong Ng, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2026 Findings

  • CC-Mediation: Evaluating Large Language Models for Cross-Cultural Conflict Mediation
    Suhyun Lee^, Wenxuan Zhang, W. Quin Yow, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2026 Findings

  • VIBE-Bench: Evaluating Personalized Large Language Models When Profiles Don't Mean Preferences
    Yiwen Jiang, Yang Deng, Stephanie Fong, Zimu Wang, Yaling Shen, Wei Feng, Hongxi Yang, Xiangyu Zhao, Zhongxing Xu, Deval Mehta, Xuelian Cheng, Zongyuan Ge
    EMNLP 2026 Findings

  • Multilingual Agent-Based World Modeling for Social Science
    Xuan Zhang^, Wenxuan Zhang, Anxu Wang, See-Kiong Ng, Yang Deng
    COLM 2026

  • Contrastive Weak-to-Strong Generalization
    Houcheng Jiang^, Junfeng Fang, Jiaxin Wu, Tianyu Zhang, Chen Gao, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Yang Deng
    ICML 2026

  • Large Language Model Agents Are Not Always Faithful Self-Evolvers
    Weixiang Zhao^, Yingshuo Wang, Yichen Zhang, Yang Deng, Yanyan Zhao, Wanxiang Che, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    ICML 2026

  • CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models
    Mengfan Li^, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026 - 🏆 Best Themed Paper Award

  • E2EDev: Benchmarking Large Language Models in End-to-End Software Development Task
    Jingyao Liu, Chen Huang, Zhizhao Guan, Wenqiang Lei, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026

  • Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Step-Level Transitions for LLM Agents
    Shuai Zhen, Yanhua Yu, Ruopei Guo, Nan Cheng, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026

  • DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents
    Yiwen Gao, Ruochen Zhao, Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang
    ACL 2026 - 🏆 SAC Highlight

  • Do LLMs Really Know What They Don't Know? Internal States Mainly Reflect Knowledge Recall Rather Than Truthfulness
    Chi Seng Cheang^, Hou Pong Chan, Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026 (Findings)

  • MHSafeEval: Role-Aware Interaction-Level Evaluation of Mental Health Safety in Large Language Models
    Suhyun Lee^, Palakorn Achananuparp, Neemesh Yadav, Ee-Peng Lim, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026 (Findings)

  • Beyond Static Personas: Situational Personality Steering for Large Language Models
    Zesheng Wei^, Mengxiang Li, Zilei Wang, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026 (Findings)

  • Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents
    Xubo Lin, Zezhi Deng, Shihao Wang, Grace Hui Yang, Yang Deng
    ACL 2026 (Findings)

  • On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents
    Weixiang Zhao^, Yichen Zhang, Yingshuo Wang, Yang Deng, Yanyan Zhao, Xuda Zhi, Yongbo Huang, Hao He, Wanxiang Che, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    ACL 2026 (Findings)

  • Bounds of Chain-of-Thought Robustness: Reasoning Steps, Embed Norms, and Beyond
    Dingzirui Wang^, Xuanliang Zhang, Keyan Xu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che, Yang Deng
    ICLR 2026

  • DualEdit: Mitigating Safety Fallback in LLM Backdoor Editing via Affirmation-Refusal Regulation
    Houcheng Jiang^, Zetong Zhao, Junfeng Fang, Haokai Ma, Ruipeng Wang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Yang Deng
    ICLR 2026

  • RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
    Jiaang Li*, Yifei Yuan*, Wenyan Li, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard, Ivan Vulić, Wenxuan Zhang, Paul Pu Liang, Yang Deng, Serge Belongie
    ICLR 2026

  • Do Retrieval Augmented Language Models Know When They Don't Know?
    Youchao Zhou^, Heyan Huang, Yicheng Liu, Rui Dai, Xinglin Wang, Xingchen Zhang, Shumin Shi, Yang Deng
    AAAI 2026

  • RecToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Theory of Mind in LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    Mengfan Li^, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng
    AAAI 2026

  • Trade-offs in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative and Adaptive Reasoning over Foundational Capabilities
    Weixiang Zhao^, Xingyu Sui, Jiahe Guo, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Yanyan Zhao, Xuda Zhi, Yongbo Huang, Hao He, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Bing Qin
    AAAI 2026

  • Towards Comprehensive Post Safety Alignment of Large Language Models via Safety Patching
    Weixiang Zhao^, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Jiahe Guo, Xingyu Sui, YanYan Zhao, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
    IJCAI 2026

  • Co-Matching: Towards Human-Machine Collaborative Legal Case Matching
    Chen Huang, Xinwei Yang, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, JianCheng Lv, Tat-Seng Chua
    ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)

  • Alleviating Contextual Misguidance: Response-Aware Prompt Compression for Long-Context Question Answering
    Haoyuan Wang, Zhen Wang, Wenmeng Zhou, Yang Deng
    IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. (TASLP)

  • ExplainHM++: Explainable Harmful Meme Detection With Retrieval-Augmented Debate Between Large Multimodal Models
    Hongzhan Lin^, Wei Gao, Jing Ma, Yang Deng, Ziyang Luo, Bo Wang, Ruichao Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE)

2025

  • From Personas to Talks: Revisiting the Impact of Personas on LLM-Synthesized Emotional Support Conversations
    Shenghan Wu^, Yimo Zhu, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2025 (Oral)

  • Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors
    Zhiyu Yang^, Shuo Wang, Yukun Yan, Yang Deng
    EMNLP 2025 (Oral)

  • AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender
    Weixiang Zhao^, Jiahe Guo, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, An Zhang, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu
    EMNLP 2025 (Oral)

  • When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
    Weixiang Zhao^, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng, Tongtong Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang, Yulin Hu, Xingyu Sui, Yanyan Zhao, Wanxiang Che, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu
    NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)

  • The Rise of Parameter Specialization for Knowledge Storage in Large Language Models
    Yihuai Hong, Yiran Zhao, Wei Tang, Yang Deng, Yu Rong, Wenxuan Zhang
    NeurIPS 2025

  • Survey Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey
    Moxin Li*, Yong Zhao*^, Wenxuan Zhang, Shuaiyi Li, Wenya Xie, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua, Yang Deng
    ACL 2025 (Oral)

  • Browsing Like Human: A Multimodal Web Agent with Experiential Fast-and-Slow Thinking
    Haohao Luo^, Jiayi Kuang, Wei Liu, Ying Shen, Jian Luan, Yang Deng
    ACL 2025

  • FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models
    Hongzhan Lin^, Yang Deng, Yuxuan Gu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jing Ma, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
    ACL 2025

  • Survey How to Enable Effective Cooperation Between Humans and NLP Models: A Survey of Principles, Formalizations, and Beyond
    Chen Huang^, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv, Tat-Seng Chua, Jimmy Huang
    ACL 2025

  • MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization
    Weixiang Zhao^, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Tongtong Wu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jiahe Guo, An Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu
    ACL 2025 (Oral & Panel - Top 0.3% of Submissions)

  • Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs
    Weixiang Zhao*^, Yulin Hu*, Yang Deng, Jiahe Guo, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han, An Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu
    ACL 2025

  • EvoWiki: Evaluating LLMs on Evolving Knowledge
    Wei Tang^, Yixin Cao, Yang Deng, Jiahao Ying, Bo Wang, Yizhe Yang, Yuyue Zhao, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Yong Liao
    ACL 2025

  • Think Both Ways: Teacher-Student Bidirectional Reasoning Enhances MCQ Generation and Distractor Quality
    Yimiao Qiu, Yang Deng, Quanming Yao, Zhimeng Zhang, Zhiang Dong, Chang Yao, Jingyuan Chen
    ACL 2025 (Findings)

  • PEARL: Towards Permutation-Resilient LLMs
    Liang Chen^, Li Shen, Yang Deng, Xiaoyan Zhao, Bin Liang, Kam-Fai Wong
    ICLR 2025

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

  • Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue
    Hao Li, Chenghao Yang, An Zhang, Yang Deng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
    NAACL 2025

  • ChatCRS: Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    Chuang Li^, Yang Deng, Hengchang Hu, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li
    NAACL 2025 (Findings)

  • Tutorial Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access
    Yang Deng, Moxin Li, Liang Pang, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam
    SIGIR 2025 (Tutorial)

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

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

  • Survey Proactive Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Advancements and Opportunities
    Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Wenqiang Lei, Grace Hui Yang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua
    ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)

  • Towards Goal-oriented Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Online Education
    Yang Deng*, Zifeng Ren*^, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
    ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS)

2024

  • 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 (Oral)

  • 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, Wai Lam, Ying Shen, Ruifeng Xu
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

2023

  • 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)

2022

  • 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)

2021

  • 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)

2020

  • 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)

- 2019

  • 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)