Wai Lam

Reinforcement Learning on Pre-Training Data ACL 2026 Adam’s Law: Textual Frequency Law on Large Language Models ACL 2026 The Essence of Contextual Understanding in Theory of Mind: A Study on Question Answering with Story Characters ACL 2025 Neuro-Symbolic Integration Brings Causal and Reliable Reasoning Proofs NAACL 2025 Stephanie: Step-by-Step Dialogues for Mimicking Human Interactions in Social Conversations NAACL 2025 LLM2: Let Large Language Models Harness System 2 Reasoning NAACL 2025 Harnessing Webpage UIs for Text-Rich Visual Understanding ICLR 2025 LNE-Blocking: An Efficient Framework for Contamination Mitigation Evaluation on Large Language Models EMNLP 2025 SLoW: Select Low-frequency Words! Automatic Dictionary Selection for Translation on Large Language Models EMNLP 2025 JsonTuning: Towards Generalizable, Robust, and Controllable Instruction Tuning ACL 2025 InfiniteICL: Breaking the Limit of Context Window Size via Long Short-term Memory Transformation ACL 2025 SeqPO-SiMT: Sequential Policy Optimization for Simultaneous Machine Translation ACL 2025 SWE-Fixer: Training Open-Source LLMs for Effective and Efficient GitHub Issue Resolution ACL 2025 Revamping Multilingual Agreement Bidirectionally via Switched Back-translation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation EACL 2024 On the Worst Prompt Performance of Large Language Models NIPS 2024 StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving NIPS 2024 Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis and Quantifications: Probing for Hypernymy in Functional Distributional Semantics ACL 2024 CodeAttack: Revealing Safety Generalization Challenges of Large Language Models via Code Completion ACL 2024 Reasons to Reject? Aligning Language Models with Judgments ACL 2024 A Frustratingly Simple Decoding Method for Neural Text Generation COLING 2024 CO3: Low-resource Contrastive Co-training for Generative Conversational Query Rewrite COLING 2024 Chain-of-Dictionary Prompting Elicits Translation in Large Language Models EMNLP 2024 A Thorough Examination of Decoding Methods in the Era of LLMs EMNLP 2024 Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers EMNLP 2024 Not All Preference Pairs Are Created Equal: A Recipe for Annotation-Efficient Iterative Preference Learning EMNLP 2024 Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents ICLR 2024 Unveiling the Generalization Power of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models NAACL 2024 Rephrasing Invokes Better Generations for Large Language Models NAACL 2024 Exploring Compositional Generalization of Large Language Models NAACL 2024 From Cloze to Comprehension: Retrofitting Pre-trained Masked Language Models to Pre-trained Machine Reader NIPS 2023 PeerDA: Data Augmentation via Modeling Peer Relation for Span Identification Tasks ACL 2023 Easy-to-Hard Learning for Information Extraction ACL 2023 Product Question Answering in E-Commerce: A Survey ACL 2023 mPMR: A Multilingual Pre-trained Machine Reader at Scale ACL 2023 Progressive Translation: Improving Domain Robustness of Neural Machine Translation with Intermediate Sequences ACL 2023 Enhancing Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Explanations ACL 2023 Functional Distributional Semantics at Scale ACL 2023 Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations ACL 2023 A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects IJCAI 2023 TRIP: Accelerating Document-level Multilingual Pre-training via Triangular Document-level Pre-training on Parallel Data Triplets EMNLP 2023 PCC: Paraphrasing with Bottom-k Sampling and Cyclic Learning for Curriculum Data Augmentation EACL 2023 DepWiGNN: A Depth-wise Graph Neural Network for Multi-hop Spatial Reasoning in Text EMNLP 2023 Once Upon a Time in Graph: Relative-Time Pretraining for Complex Temporal Reasoning EMNLP 2023 Bridging the Gap between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning for Commonsense Generation EACL 2023 On the Effectiveness of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning AAAI 2023 McQueen: a Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Query Rewrite EMNLP 2022 Partner Personas Generation for Dialogue Response Generation NAACL 2022 On Controlling Fallback Responses for Grounded Dialogue Generation ACL 2022 Towards Generalizable and Robust Text-to-SQL Parsing EMNLP 2022 PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance EMNLP 2022 UniGDD: A Unified Generative Framework for Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue ACL 2022 Semantic Composition with PSHRG for Derivation Tree Reconstruction from Graph-Based Meaning Representations ACL 2022 Retrofitting Multilingual Sentence Embeddings with Abstract Meaning Representation EMNLP 2022 ConReader: Exploring Implicit Relations in Contracts for Contract Clause Extraction EMNLP 2022 A Two-Stage Training Framework with Feature-Label Matching Mechanism for Learning from Label Proportions ACML 2021 Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis IJCNLP 2021 Dynamic Semantic Graph Construction and Reasoning for Explainable Multi-hop Science Question Answering IJCNLP 2021 Dynamic Semantic Graph Construction and Reasoning for Explainable Multi-hop Science Question Answering ACL 2021 Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis ACL 2021 Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory ACL 2021 Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory IJCNLP 2021 Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation EMNLP 2021 Cross-lingual Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Aspect Term Code-Switching EMNLP 2021 Exploiting Reasoning Chains for Multi-hop Science Question Answering EMNLP 2021 Multilingual AMR Parsing with Noisy Knowledge Distillation EMNLP 2021 Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Question Answering Forums EMNLP 2021 Contrastive Representation Learning for Exemplar-Guided Paraphrase Generation EMNLP 2021 Learning to Rank Question Answer Pairs with Bilateral Contrastive Data Augmentation EMNLP 2021 A Theoretical Analysis of the Repetition Problem in Text Generation AAAI 2021 Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation with Distant Supervision EMNLP 2020 Open Domain Event Text Generation AAAI 2020 Intra-/Inter-Interaction Network with Latent Interaction Modeling for Multi-turn Response Selection COLING 2020 Dynamic Topic Tracker for KB-to-Text Generation COLING 2020 Unsupervised KB-to-Text Generation with Auxiliary Triple Extraction using Dual Learning AACL 2020 Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation AACL 2020 Answering Product-related Questions with Heterogeneous Information AACL 2020 Review-based Question Generation with Adaptive Instance Transfer and Augmentation ACL 2020 AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference ACL 2020 AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering EMNLP 2020 Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization EMNLP 2020 Joint Learning of Answer Selection and Answer Summary Generation in Community Question Answering AAAI 2020 Relevance-Promoting Language Model for Short-Text Conversation AAAI 2020 Graph Transformer for Graph-to-Sequence Learning AAAI 2020 Data Augmentation Based on Adversarial Autoencoder Handling Imbalance for Learning to Rank AAAI 2019 Word Embedding as Maximum A Posteriori Estimation AAAI 2019 Core Semantic First: A Top-down Approach for AMR Parsing IJCNLP 2019 Tackling Long-Tailed Relations and Uncommon Entities in Knowledge Graph Completion EMNLP 2019 Core Semantic First: A Top-down Approach for AMR Parsing EMNLP 2019 Skeleton-to-Response: Dialogue Generation Guided by Retrieval Memory NAACL 2019 Fact Discovery from Knowledge Base via Facet Decomposition NAACL 2019 Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2019 A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction AAAI 2019 Tackling Long-Tailed Relations and Uncommon Entities in Knowledge Graph Completion IJCNLP 2019 Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation IJCAI 2018 Responding E-commerce Product Questions via Exploiting QA Collections and Reviews COLING 2018 QuaSE: Sequence Editing under Quantifiable Guidance EMNLP 2018 Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification ACL 2018 Learning Domain-Sensitive and Sentiment-Aware Word Embeddings ACL 2018 Cascaded Attention based Unsupervised Information Distillation for Compressive Summarization EMNLP 2017 Deep Multi-Task Learning for Aspect Term Extraction with Memory Interaction EMNLP 2017 Deep Recurrent Generative Decoder for Abstractive Text Summarization EMNLP 2017 Detecting Common Discussion Topics Across Culture From News Reader Comments ACL 2016 A Unified Model for Unsupervised Opinion Spamming Detection Incorporating Text Generality IJCAI 2015 Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging ACL 2015 Entity Retrieval via Entity Factoid Hierarchy ACL 2015 Entity Retrieval via Entity Factoid Hierarchy IJCNLP 2015 Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging IJCNLP 2015 Reader-Aware Multi-Document Summarization via Sparse Coding IJCAI 2015 N-gram Fragment Sequence Based Unsupervised Domain-Specific Document Readability COLING 2012 Accelerated Training of Maximum Margin Markov Models for Sequence Labeling: A Case Study of NP Chunking COLING 2010 Jointly Identifying Entities and Extracting Relations in Encyclopedia Text via A Graphical Model Approach COLING 2010 Chinese NER Using CRFs and Logic for the Fourth SIGHAN Bakeoff IJCNLP 2008 A Framework Based on Graphical Models with Logic for Chinese Named Entity Recognition IJCNLP 2008 An Online Cascaded Approach to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition IJCNLP 2008 An Integrated Probabilistic and Logic Approach to Encyclopedia Relation Extraction with Multiple Features COLING 2008 Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization ACL 2003 Meta-evaluation of Summaries in a Cross-lingual Environment using Content-based Metrics COLING 2002