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<h2>2026</h2>
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Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering
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<p><em>Chak Tou Leong, Dingwei Chen, Heming Xia, Qingyu Yin, Sunbowen Lee, Jian Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Where and What: Reasoning Dynamic and Implicit Preferences in Situated Conversational Recommendation
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<p><em>Dongding Lin, Jian Wang, Yongqi Li, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting
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<p><em>Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li, Chak Tou Leong, Yongqi Li, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Foresight Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models
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<p><em>Jessie Wang, Jiawen Duan, Jian Wang, Kaitao Song, Chunpu Xu, Johnny K. W. Ho, YU Fenggang, Johan F. Hoorn, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents
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<p><em>Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models
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<p><em>Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Meng Liu, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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TInR: Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models
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<p><em>Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Fan Liu, Hongru Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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Omni-R1: Towards the Unified Generative Paradigm for Multimodal Reasoning
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<p><em>Dongjie Cheng, Yongqi Li, Zhixin Ma, Hongru Cai, Yupeng Hu, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18731" target="_blank">One Adapts to Any: Meta Reward Modeling for Personalized LLM Alignment
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<p><em>Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Tiezheng Yu, Fengbin Zhu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>The 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in the Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2026).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00466" target="_blank">SCALE: Selective Resource Allocation for Overcoming Performance Bottlenecks in Mathematical Test-time Scaling
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<p><em>Yang Xiao, Chunpu Xu, Ruifeng Yuan, Jiashuo Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Pengfei Liu.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2026)</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19187" target="_blank">LIMOPro: Reasoning Refinement for Efficient and Effective Test-time Scaling</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yang Xiao, Jiashuo Wang, Ruifeng Yuan, Chunpu Xu, Kaishuai Xu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Pengfei Liu.</em></p>
<p>The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16994" target="_blank">R²ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Xin Zhang, Wenjie Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Liqiang Nie.</em></p>
<p>The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="" target="_blank">SSRB: Direct Natural Language Querying to Massive Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Xin Zhang, Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Yongqi Li, Yinghui Li, Pengjun Xie, Meishan Zhang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Min Zhang, Philip S. Yu.</em></p>
<p>The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2025), Datasets and Benchmarks Track.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12067" target="_blank">TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Heming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang, Yongqi Li, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="" target="_blank">RAR^2: Retrieval-Augmented Medical Reasoning via Thought-Driven Retrieval</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Kaishuai Xu, Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=NC6G1KCxlt" target="_blank">Phased Training for LLM-powered Text Retrieval Models Beyond Data Scaling</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Xin Zhang, Yanzhao Zhang, Wen Xie, Dingkun Long, Mingxin Li, Pengjun Xie, Meishan Zhang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Min Zhang.</em></p>
<p>Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06638" target="_blank">Subtle Errors in Reasoning: Preference Learning via Error-injected Self-editing</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Kaishuai Xu, Tiezheng Yu, Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Chak Tou Leong, Liangyou Li, Xin Jiang, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14318" target="_blank">RADAR: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Kaishuai Xu, Heng Li, Yan Hu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Jiang Liu.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13946" target="_blank">Why Safeguarded Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models' Safety Mechanisms Tend to Be Anchored in The Template Region</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Chak Tou Leong, Qingyu Yin, Jian Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12799" target="_blank">Towards Text-Image Interleaved Retrieval</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Xin Zhang, Ziqi Dai, Yongqi Li, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Pengjun Xie, Meishan Zhang, Jun Yu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Min Zhang.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17663" target="_blank">Towards Dynamic Theory of Mind: Evaluating LLM Adaptation to Temporal Evolution of Human States</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yang Xiao, Jiashuo Wang, Qiancheng Xu, Changhe Song, Chunpu Xu, Yi Cheng, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Pengfei Liu.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18874" target="_blank">Learning to Align Multi-Faceted Evaluation: A Unified and Robust Framework</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Kaishuai Xu, Tiezheng Yu, Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Liangyou Li, Xin Jiang, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18980" target="_blank">PEToolLLM: Towards Personalized Tool Learning in Large Language Models</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Heming Xia, Fan Liu, Min Yang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14276" target="_blank">STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent Learning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Hanlin Wang, Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13311" target="_blank">Training Turn-by-Turn Verifiers for Dialogue Tutoring Agents: The Curious Case of LLMs as Your Coding Tutors</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Jian Wang, Yinpei Dai, Yichi Zhang, Ziqiao Ma, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Joyce Chai.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<p><em>Xinghao Chen, Zhijing Sun, Wenjin Guo, Miaoran Zhang, Yanjun Chen, Yirong Sun, Hui Su, Yijie Pan, Dietrich Klakow, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Xiaoyu Shen.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).</p>
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<p><em>Feiteng Mu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).</p>
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<p><em>Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Ruifeng Yuan, Wenjie Wang, Zhen Zhang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Tat-Seng Chua.</em></p>
<p>The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in the Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2025).</p>
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<p><em>Yongqi Li, Hongru Cai, Wenjie Wang, Leigang Qu, Yinwei Wei, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Liqiang Nie, Tat-Seng Chua.</em></p>
<p>The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in the Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2025).</p>
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<p><em>Xin Zhang, Yanzhao Zhang, Wen Xie, Mingxin Li, Zigi Dai, Dingkun Long, Pengjun Xie, Meishan Zhang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Min Zhang.</em></p>
<p>IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19488" target="_blank">Interleaved-modal Chain-of-Thought</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Jun Gao, Yongqi Li, Ziqiang Cao, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.01556" target="_blank">Integrative Decoding: Improving Factuality via Implicit Self-consistency</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yi Cheng, Xiao Liang, Yeyun Gong, Wen Xiao, Song Wang, Yuji Zhang, Wenjun Hou, Kaishuai Xu, Wenge Liu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Jian Jiao, Qi Chen, Peng CHENG, Wayne Xiong.</em></p>
<p>13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).</p>
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<p><em>Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Jun zhang, Cunxiao Du, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17236" target="_blank">Large Language Models Empowered Personalized Web Agent</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Wang, Fengbin ZHU, Xiaoyu Shen, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Tat-Seng Chua.</em></p>
<p>The Web Conference (WWW 2025).</p>
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<p><em>Ruifeng Yuan, Shichao Sun, Yongqi Li, Zili Wang, Ziqiang Cao, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025).</p>
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<span class="tag_journal">Journal</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457323003722" target="_blank">Dialogue Acts Enhanced Extract-Abstract Framework for Meeting Summarization</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Shichao Sun, Ruifeng Yuan, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Ziqiang Cao, Sujian Li.</em></p>
<p>Information Processing and Management.</p>
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<span class="tag_journal">Journal</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652598" target="_blank">Target-constrained Bidirectional Planning for Generation of Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Jian Wang, Dongding Lin, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/html/2406.12429v2" target="_blank">Adaptive Selection for Homogeneous Tools: An Instantiation in the RAG scenario</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Feiteng Mu, Yong Jiang, Liwen Zhang, Liuchu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang.</em></p>
<p>In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.561.pdf" target="_blank">Enhancing Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Heming Xia, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.528/" target="_blank">ICON: Improving Inter-Report consistency of Radiology Report Generation via Lesion-aware Mix-up Augmentation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Kaishuai Xu, Yan Hu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Jiang Liu.</em></p>
<p>In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.448/" target="_blank">Exploration-based Error Correction Learning for Embodied Agents</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3664647.3681651" target="_blank">SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Dongding Lin, Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.31/" target="_blank">Muffin: Mitigating Unhelpfulness in Emotional Support Conversations with Multifaceted AI Feedback</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Jiashuo Wang, Chunpu Xu, Chak Tou Leong, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Jing Li.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.456/" target="_blank">Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Heming Xia, Zhe Yang, Qingxiu Dong, Peiyi Wang, Yongqi Li, Tao Ge, Tianyu Liu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Zhifang Sui.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<p><em>Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jiashuo Wang, Dongding Lin, <b>Wenjie Li</b>, Xiaoyong Wei.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.353/" target="_blank">Generating Contrastive Narratives Using the Brownian Bridge Process for Narrative Coherence Learning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Feiteng Mu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.354/" target="_blank">A Causal Approach for Counterfactual Reasoning in Narratives</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Feiteng Mu, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.406/" target="_blank">Reasoning Like a Doctor: Improving Medical Dialogue Systems via Diagnostic Reasoning Process Alignment</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Kaishuai Xu, Yi Cheng, Wenjun Hou, Qiaoyu Tan, <b>Wenjie Li</b>.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.269.pdf" target="_blank">Detoxifying Language Models by Reversing Toxification</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Leong C.T., Cheng Y., Wang J.S., Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp4433-4449.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.72.pdf" target="_blank">Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue with Personalization: Problem Formulation and Dataset Curation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Wang J., Cheng Y., Lin D.D., Leong C.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp1132-1143.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.203.pdf" target="_blank">VIBE: Topic-Driven Temporal Adaptation for Twitter Classification</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Zhang Y.J., Li J. and <b>Li W.J.</b>, Li S.J., Zhou X.J., Yang Y., and Zhang J.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp3340-3354.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.140/" target="_blank">RECAP: Towards Precise Radiology Report Generation via Dynamic Disease Progression Reasoning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Hou W.J., Cheng Y., Xu K.S., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Liu J.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp2134-2147.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.537/" target="_blank">Data Selection Curriculum for Abstractive Text Summarization</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Sun S.C., Yuan R.F., He J.F., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Jia X.H.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp7990-7995.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.751/" target="_blank">KBioXLM: A Knowledge-Anchored Biomedical Multilingual Pretrained Model</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Geng L., Yan X., Cao Z.Q., Li J.T., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Li S.J., Zhou X.J., Yang Y., and Zhang J.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp11239-11250.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J.S., Wang H.Z., Sun S.C. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’2023), December 10-16, 2023, Louisiana, USA, pp1-20.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval</b></span>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q., Yang N., Wang L., <b>Li W.J.</b>, and Wei F.R.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6636-6648.</p>
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<p><em>Hou W.J., Xu K.S., Cheng Y., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Tom K. and Liu J.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp8108-8122.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Enhancing Event Causality Identification with Counterfactual Reasoning</b></span>
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<p><em>Mu F.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp967-975.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Dialogue Generation</b></span>
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<p><em>Wang J., Lin D.D. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp370-387.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Separating Context and Pattern: Learning Disentangled Sentence Representations for Low-Data Extractive Summarization</b></span>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Sun S.C., Wang Z.L., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp7575-7586.</p>
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<p><em>Xu K.S., Hou W.J., Cheng Y., Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6771-6784.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Improving Sentence Similarity Estimation for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization</b></span>
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<p><em>Sun S.C., Yuan R.F., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Li S.J.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP’2023), Greek island of Rhodes, Greece June 4-10, 2023.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Preserve Context Information through Interpretability for Extract-Generate Long-Input Summarization Framework</b></span>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Wang Z.L., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp13932-13939.</p>
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<p><em>Lin D.D., Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp4462-4470.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J., Lin D.D. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, January, 2023.</p>
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<p><em>Yang Y., Zhang C.B., Song X., Dong Z., Zhu H.S., <b>Li W.J.</b>, and Yang J.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 42(2), No. 33, September, 2023.</p>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q., Yang N., Wang L., Wei F.R. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Information Processing and Management, 60(5), No. 103475, September, 2023.</p>
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<p><em>Luo Y., Leong C.T., Jiao S.H., Chung F.L., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Liu G.P.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 9(2) No. 10, April 2023.</p>
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<p><em>He J.F., Sun S.C., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Jia X.H.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT’2023), Tampere, Finland, June 12-15 2023.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J.S., Wang H.Z., Sun S.C. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’2023), December 10-16, 2023, Louisiana, USA, pp1-20.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.366/" target="_blank">Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q., Yang N., Wang L., <b>Li W.J.</b>, and Wei F.R.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6636-6648.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.451/" target="_blank">ORGAN: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Hou W.J., Xu K.S., Cheng Y., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Tom K. and Liu J.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp8108-8122.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.83/" target="_blank">Enhancing Event Causality Identification with Counterfactual Reasoning</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Mu F.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp967-975.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.25/" target="_blank">Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Dialogue Generation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Wang J., Lin D.D. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp370-387.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.479/" target="_blank">Separating Context and Pattern: Learning Disentangled Sentence Representations for Low-Data Extractive Summarization</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Sun S.C., Wang Z.L., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp7575-7586.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.423/" target="_blank">Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Xu K.S., Hou W.J., Cheng Y., Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6771-6784.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12490" target="_blank">Improving Sentence Similarity Estimation for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Sun S.C., Yuan R.F., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Li S.J.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP’2023), Greek island of Rhodes, Greece June 4-10, 2023.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26631" target="_blank">Preserve Context Information through Interpretability for Extract-Generate Long-Input Summarization Framework</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Wang Z.L., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp13932-13939.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26631" target="_blank">COLA: Improving Conversational Recommender Systems by Collaborative Augmentation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Lin D.D., Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp4462-4470.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10042178" target="_blank">A Target-driven Planning Approach for Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Wang J., Lin D.D. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, January, 2023.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597022" target="_blank">Contextualized Knowledge Graph Embedding for Explainable Talent Training Course Recommendation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Yang Y., Zhang C.B., Song X., Dong Z., Zhu H.S., <b>Li W.J.</b>, and Yang J.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 42(2), No. 33, September, 2023.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457323002121" target="_blank">Generative Retrieval for Conversational Question Answering</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q., Yang N., Wang L., Wei F.R. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Information Processing and Management, 60(5), No. 103475, September, 2023.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571741" target="_blank">Geo-Tile2Vec: A Multi-Modal and Multi-Stage Embedding Framework for Urban Analytics</a></b></span>
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<p><em>Luo Y., Leong C.T., Jiao S.H., Chung F.L., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Liu G.P.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 9(2) No. 10, April 2023.</p>
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<span><b><a class="text-link" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.eamt-1.10/" target="_blank">Empirical Analysis of Beam Search Curse and Search Errors with Model Errors in Neural Machine Translation</a></b></span>
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<p><em>He J.F., Sun S.C., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Jia X.H.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT’2023), Tampere, Finland, June 12-15 2023.</p>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Wang Z.L., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp3704-3714, pp3704-3714.</p>
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<p><em>Cheng Y., Liu W.G., Wang J.S. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp3014-3026.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J.S., Lin P.Q., Mu F.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp729-741.</p>
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<p><em>Yan H.Q., Gui L., <b>Li W.J.</b> and He Y.L.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Eindhoven, Netherlands (UAI’2022), August 1-5, 2022, PMLR 180:2181-2191.</p>
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<p><em>Mu F.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’22), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4310-4316.</p>
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<p><em>Liu W.G., Cheng Y., Wang H., Tang J.H., Liu Y.F, Zhao R.H., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Zheng Y.F., Liang X.D.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’22), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4266-4272.</p>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q. <b>Li W.J.</b> and Nie L.Q.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2022), Dublin, May 22-27 2022, pp4220-4231.</p>
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<p><em>Mei X., Cai X.Y., Xu S., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Pan S.R. and Yang L.B.</em></p>
<p>Expert Systems with Applications, 204, No. 117616, October 2022.</p>
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<p><em>Li Y.Q., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Nie L.Q.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(4), No. 821, October 2022.</p>
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<p><em>Gu J.H., Xiang R., Wang X., Li J., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Qian L.H., Zhou G.D. and Huang C.R.</em></p>
<p>23(1), No. 259, BMC Bioinformatics, June, 2022.</p>
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<span class="tag_journal">Journal</span><span><b>Social Attentive Deep Q-networks for Recommender Systems</b></span>
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<p><em>Lei Y, Wang Z.T., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Pei H.B. and Dai Q.Y.</em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(5): 2443-2457, May 2022.</p>
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<p><em>Wang Z.T., Chen C.Y. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(3):1275-1287, March 2022.</p>
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<p><em>Li Y.R., Zhang R.X., Cao Z.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(1):314-327, January, 2022.</p>
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<p><em>Liu W.G., Cheng Y., Tang J.H, <b>Li W.J.</b>, Zheng Y.F., Liang X.D.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC’2022), September 24-25, 2022, pp447-459.</p>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Wang Z.L. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021, pp4075-4084.</p>
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<p><em>Mu F.T., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Xie Z.P.</em></p>
<p>Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021, pp527-533.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2021), November 1-5, 2021, pp3468-347.</p>
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<p><em>Li Y.R., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Wang Z.T.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’2021), July 11-15, 2021, pp1930-1934.</p>
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<p><em>Wang J.S., Lin P.Q., Mu F.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Knowledge-based Systems, 233(5), 107547, December, 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Wang Z.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Knowledge-based Systems, 232(28), 107431, November 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Xiang R., Chersoni E., Lu Q., Huang C.R., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Long, Y.F.</em></p>
<p>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(11):1432-1447, November 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Wang Z.T., Lei Y. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems, 32(8):3653-3663, August 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Xiang R., Li J., Wan M.Y. Gu J.H., Lu Q., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Huang C.R.</em></p>
<p>Knowledge-based Systems, 226(17), 107137, August 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Wang H.W., Wang J.L., Wang J., Zhao M., Zhang W.N., Zhang F.Z., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Xie X. and Guo M.Y.</em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 33(8):3090-3103, August 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Lin D.D, Wang J., and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of RECSYS 2021 Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender System</p>
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<p><em>Xiang R., Gu J.H., Chersoni E., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Lu Q. and Huang C.R.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval’2021), August 5-6, 2021.</p>
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<p><em>Yuan R.F., Wang Z.L. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain, December 8-11, 2020, pp5629-5639.</p>
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<p><em>Lei Y., Pei H.B., Yan H.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’2020), July 25-30, 2020, Xi'an, China, pp1757-1760.</p>
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<p><em>Chen C.Y., Wang Z.T. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 11(4):627-639, October 2020.</p>
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<p><em>Li C.C., Wang H.W., Zhao M., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Deng X.T.</em></p>
<p>IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22(6):1634-1646, June 2020.</p>
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<span class="tag_journal">Journal</span><span><b>Joint Model of Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction with Self-attention Mechanism</b></span>
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<p><em>Liu M.F., Zhang Y.K., <b>Li W.J.</b>, and Ji D.H.</em></p>
<p>ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 19(4), No. 59, May 2020.</p>
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<p><em>Xu K.S., Li Y.Q. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of TREC’2020.</p>
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<p><em>Wang Z.T., Lei Y. and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2019), Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019, pp2153-2156.</p>
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<p><em>Wang Z.T and <b>Li W.J.</b></em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’2019), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019, pp3828-3834.</p>
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<p><em>Wang H.W., Zhang F.Z., Zhang M.D., Leskovec J., Zhao M., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Wang Z.Y.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’2019), Alaska, USA, August 4-8, 2019, pp968-977.</p>
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<span class="tag_conference">Conference</span><span><b>Jointly Learning Semantic Parser and Generator via Dual Information Maximization</b></span>
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<p><em>Ye H., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Wang L.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2019), Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2, 2019, pp2090-2101.</p>
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<p><em>Lei Y., Wang Z.T., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Pei H.B.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’2019), Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019, pp1189-1192.</p>
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<p><em>Wang H.W., Zhang F.Z., Zhao M., <b>Li W.J.</b>, Xie X. and Guo M.Y.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of the Web Conference 2019 (WWW’2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019, pp2000-2010.</p>
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<p><em>Wang H.W., Zhao M., Xie X., <b>Li W.J.</b> and Guo M.Y.</em></p>
<p>Proceedings of Web Conference 2019 (WWW’2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019, pp3307-3313.</p>