| 2026 | ACL | Reward Alignment Optimization: A Direct Point-wise Alignment Approach. | Zelin Li, Jia Leng, Dawei Song, Yangen Hu |
| 2026 | ACL | Beyond Polarity: Continuous Affect-Enhanced Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification. | Ling-Ang Meng, Tianyu Zhao, Dawei Song, Jingxu Cao, Youhui Zuo |
| 2026 | ACL | Think Less, Know More: State-Aware Reasoning Compression with Knowledge Guidance for Efficient Reasoning. | Yi Sui, Chaozhuo Li, Dawei Song |
| 2026 | ACL | Beyond Literal Mapping: Benchmarking and Improving Non-Literal Translation Evaluation. | Yanzhi Tian, Cunxiang Wang, Zeming Liu, Heyan Huang, Wenbo Yu, Dawei Song, Jie Tang, Yuhang Guo |
| 2025 | ACL | Towards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models. | Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Zheyu Ye, Yan Gao, Yao Hu |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Expectation Preference Optimization: Reliable Preference Estimation for Improving the Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models. | Zelin Li, Dawei Song |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Bridging External and Parametric Knowledge: Mitigating Hallucination of LLMs with Shared-Private Semantic Synergy in Dual-Stream Knowledge. | Yi Sui, Chaozhuo Li, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song, Qiuchi Li |
| 2025 | NAACL | MoDification: Mixture of Depths Made Easy. | Chen Zhang, Meizhi Zhong, Qimeng Wang, Xuantao Lu, Zheyu Ye, Chengqiang Lu, Yan Gao, Yao Hu, Kehai Chen, Min Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2025 | WSDM | Dynamic Interaction-Driven Intent Evolver with Semantic Probability Distributions. | Zelin Li, Cheng Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | ACL | Controllable Text Generation with Residual Memory Transformer. | Hanqing Zhang, Si Sun, Haiming Wu, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | COLING | How Speculative Can Speculative Decoding Be? | Zhuorui Liu, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | COLING | Task-agnostic Distillation of Encoder-Decoder Language Models. | Chen Zhang, Yang Yang, Qiuchi Li, Jingang Wang, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | EACL | Minimal Distillation Schedule for Extreme Language Model Compression. | Chen Zhang, Yang Yang, Qifan Wang, Jiahao Liu, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | ECIR | Eliminating Contextual Bias in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. | Ruize An, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Bi-DCSpell: A Bi-directional Detector-Corrector Interactive Framework for Chinese Spelling Check. | Haiming Wu, Hanqing Zhang, Richeng Xuan, Dawei Song |
| 2024 | ICASSP | A Supervised Information Enhanced Multi-Granularity Contrastive Learning Framework for EEG Based Emotion Recognition. | Xiang Li, Jian Song, Zhigang Zhao, Chunxiao Wang, Dawei Song, Bin Hu |
| 2024 | ICTAI | SITH: Semantic Interpreter for Transformer Hierarchy. | Cheng Zhang, Jinxin Lv, Jingxu Cao, Jiachuan Sheng, Dawei Song, Tiancheng Zhang |
| 2023 | ACL | Lifting the Curse of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models. | Chen Zhang, Yang Yang, Jiahao Liu, Jingang Wang, Yunsen Xian, Benyou Wang, Dawei Song |
| 2023 | CogSci | MIP-GAT: A Multi-Task Interactive Graph Attention Network with Position Encodings for Joint Sentiment Classification and Emotion Recognition. | Ao Jia, Yazhou Zhang, Sagar Uprety, Dawei Song |
| 2023 | ICTAI | Which Words Pillar the Semantic Expression of a Sentence? | Cheng Zhang, Jingxu Cao, Dongmei Yan, Dawei Song, Jinxin Lv |
| 2022 | COLING | Structural Bias for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction. | Chen Zhang, Lei Ren, Fang Ma, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Dawei Song |
| 2022 | EMNLP | XPrompt: Exploring the Extreme of Prompt Tuning. | Fang Ma, Chen Zhang, Lei Ren, Jingang Wang, Qifan Wang, Wei Wu, Xiaojun Quan, Dawei Song |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Sparse Teachers Can Be Dense with Knowledge. | Yi Yang, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2022 | EMNLP | DisCup: Discriminator Cooperative Unlikelihood Prompt-tuning for Controllable Text Generation. | Hanqing Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Making Pretrained Language Models Good Long-tailed Learners. | Chen Zhang, Lei Ren, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Dawei Song |
| 2022 | NAACL | Beyond Emotion: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Human Desire Understanding. | Ao Jia, Yu He, Yazhou Zhang, Sagar Uprety, Dawei Song, Christina Lioma |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Adaptable Text Matching via Meta-Weight Regulator. | Bo Zhang, Chen Zhang, Fang Ma, Dawei Song |
| 2021 | AAAI | Quantum Cognitively Motivated Decision Fusion for Video Sentiment Analysis. | Dimitris Gkoumas, Qiuchi Li, Shahram Dehdashti, Massimo Melucci, Yijun Yu, Dawei Song |
| 2021 | ACL | Exploiting Position Bias for Robust Aspect Sentiment Classification. | Fang Ma, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2021 | ACL | How does Attention Affect the Model? | Cheng Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Lingyu Hua, Dawei Song |
| 2021 | EMNLP | What Does Your Smile Mean? Jointly Detecting Multi-Modal Sarcasm and Sentiment Using Quantum Probability. | Yaochen Liu, Yazhou Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang, Dawei Song |
| 2021 | IJCAI | An Entanglement-driven Fusion Neural Network for Video Sentiment Analysis. | Dimitris Gkoumas, Qiuchi Li, Yijun Yu, Dawei Song |
| 2020 | ECAI | Assessing the Memory Ability of Recurrent Neural Networks. | Cheng Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Lingyu Hua, Dawei Song |
| 2020 | ECIR | Quantum-Like Structure in Multidimensional Relevance Judgements. | Sagar Uprety, Prayag Tiwari, Shahram Dehdashti, Lauren Fell, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Massimo Melucci |
| 2020 | EMNLP | A Multi-task Learning Framework for Opinion Triplet Extraction. | Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Benyou Wang |
| 2020 | SIGIR | A Quantum Interference Inspired Neural Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval. | Yongyu Jiang, Peng Zhang, Hui Gao, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | AAAI | A Generalized Language Model in Tensor Space. | Lipeng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xindian Ma, Shuqin Gu, Zhan Su, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Aspect-based Sentiment Classification with Aspect-specific Graph Convolutional Networks. | Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | ICONIP | Link Prediction with Attention-Based Semantic Influence of Multiple Neighbors. | Meixian Song, Bo Wang, Xindian Ma, Qinghua Hu, Xin Wang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | IJCAI | Quantum-Inspired Interactive Networks for Conversational Sentiment Analysis. | Yazhou Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Peng Zhang, Panpan Wang |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Modelling Dynamic Interactions Between Relevance Dimensions. | Sagar Uprety, Shahram Dehdashti, Lauren Fell, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | WWW | Semantic Hilbert Space for Text Representation Learning. | Benyou Wang, Qiuchi Li, Massimo Melucci, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | SIGIR | SCSS-LIE: A Novel Synchronous Collaborative Search System with a Live Interactive Engine. | Junyan Wang, Peng Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Syntax-Aware Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification with Proximity-Weighted Convolution Network. | Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | AAAI | End-to-End Quantum-like Language Models with Application to Question Answering. | Peng Zhang, Jiabin Niu, Zhan Su, Benyou Wang, Liqun Ma, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | CIKM | A Quantum Many-body Wave Function Inspired Language Modeling Approach. | Peng Zhang, Zhan Su, Lipeng Zhang, Benyou Wang, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | ECIR | Modeling Relevance Judgement Inspired by Quantum Weak Measurement. | Panpan Wang, Tianshu Wang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | ECIR | Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Posts Using Density Matrix Representation. | Yazhou Zhang, Dawei Song, Xiang Li, Peng Zhang |
| 2018 | ICTIR | The 8th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access. | Haiming Liu, Ingo Frommholz, Ingo Schmitt, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | ICTIR | Investigating Order Effects in Multidimensional Relevance Judgment using Query Logs. | Sagar Uprety, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | PRICAI | Investigating the Dynamic Decision Mechanisms of Users' Relevance Judgment for Information Retrieval via Log Analysis. | Yi Su, Jingfei Li, Dawei Song, Pengqing Zhang, Yazhou Zhang |
| 2018 | PRICAI | Text Classification with Enriched Word Features. | Jingda Xu, Cheng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Modeling Multidimensional User Relevance in IR using Vector Spaces. | Sagar Uprety, Yi Su, Dawei Song, Jingfei Li |
| 2018 | SIGIR | A Study of Per-Topic Variance on System Comparison. | Meng Yang, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2017 | CHIIR | Personalised Query Suggestion for Intranet Search with Temporal User Profiling. | Thanh Vu, Alistair Willis, Udo Kruschwitz, Dawei Song |
| 2017 | ECIR | Search Personalization with Embeddings. | Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Mark Johnson, Dawei Song, Alistair Willis |
| 2017 | WWW | Extending the Balance Theory by Measuring Bidirectional Opinions with Interactive Language. | Bo Wang, Yingjun Sun, Bo Han, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song |
| 2016 | AAAI | Iterative Project Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Training RBM. | Shuai Mi, Xiaozhao Zhao, Yuexian Hou, Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Dawei Song |
| 2016 | SIGIR | SECC: A Novel Search Engine Interface with Live Chat Channel. | Cheng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jingfei Li, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | CIKM | A Real-Time Eye Tracking Based Query Expansion Approach via Latent Topic Modeling. | Yongqiang Chen, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Benyou Wang |
| 2015 | ECIR | Temporal Latent Topic User Profiles for Search Personalisation. | Thanh Tien Vu, Alistair Willis, Son Ngoc Tran, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | ECIR | Document Boltzmann Machines for Information Retrieval. | Qian Yu, Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song, Jun Wang |
| 2015 | EMNLP | Reinforcing the Topic of Embeddings with Theta Pure Dependence for Text Classification. | Ning Xing, Yuexian Hou, Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | FUSION | Adaptive relevance feedback for fusion of text and visual features. | Leszek Kaliciak, Hans I. Myrhaug, Ayse Gker, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Modeling Quantum Entanglements in Quantum Language Models. | Mengjiao Xie, Yuexian Hou, Peng Zhang, Jingfei Li, Wenjie Li, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | WWW | Modelling Time-aware Search Tasks for Search Personalisation. | Thanh Tien Vu, Alistair Willis, Dawei Song |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Modeling Multi-query Retrieval Tasks Using Density Matrix Transformation. | Qiuchi Li, Jingfei Li, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song |
| 2014 | CIKM | Generalized Bias-Variance Evaluation of TREC Participated Systems. | Peng Zhang, Linxue Hao, Dawei Song, Jun Wang, Yuexian Hou, Bin Hu |
| 2014 | FUSION | On the duality of specific early and late fusion strategies. | Leszek Kaliciak, Hans I. Myrhaug, Ayse Gker, Dawei Song |
| 2014 | MMM | Rebuilding Visual Vocabulary via Spatial-temporal Context Similarity for Video Retrieval. | Lei Wang, Eyad Elyan, Dawei Song |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Improving search personalisation with dynamic group formation. | Thanh Tien Vu, Dawei Song, Alistair Willis, Son Ngoc Tran, Jingfei Li |
| 2013 | IJCAI | A Global Constrained Optimization Method for Designing Road Networks with Small Diameters. | Teng Ma, Yuexian Hou, Xiaozhao Zhao, Dawei Song |
| 2013 | MMM | Combining Visual and Textual Systems within the Context of User Feedback. | Leszek Kaliciak, Dawei Song, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Jeff Z. Pan |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Bias-variance decomposition of ir evaluation. | Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Jun Wang, Yuexian Hou |
| 2012 | CIKM | Improving bag-of-visual-words model with spatial-temporal correlation for video retrieval. | Lei Wang, Dawei Song, Eyad Elyan |
| 2012 | ECIR | Analysis of Query Reformulations in a Search Engine of a Local Web Site. | M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Ibrahim Adeyanju, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 2012 | ECIR | Learning Adaptive Domain Models from Click Data to Bootstrap Interactive Web Search. | Deirdre Lungley, Udo Kruschwitz, Dawei Song |
| 2012 | WWW | Learning from users' querying experience on intranets. | Ibrahim Adepoju Adeyanju, Dawei Song, M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Anne N. De Roeck, Maria Fasli |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Adaptation of the concept hierarchy model with search logs for query recommendation on intranets. | Ibrahim Adepoju Adeyanju, Dawei Song, M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Anne N. De Roeck, Maria Fasli |
| 2011 | ECIR | AutoEval: An Evaluation Methodology for Evaluating Query Suggestions Using Query Logs. | M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Yunhyong Kim, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 2011 | ECIR | Towards Predicting Relevance Using a Quantum-Like Framework. | Emanuele Di Buccio, Massimo Melucci, Dawei Song |
| 2011 | ECIR | Video Retrieval Based on Words-of-Interest Selection. | Lei Wang, Dawei Song, Eyad Elyan |
| 2011 | ECIR | A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement. | Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou |
| 2011 | ICTIR | Exploring Ant Colony Optimisation for Adaptive Interactive Search. | M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 2011 | ICTIR | Pure High-Order Word Dependence Mining via Information Geometry. | Yuexian Hou, Liang He, Xiaozhao Zhao, Dawei Song |
| 2011 | ICTIR | Investigating Query-Drift Problem from a Novel Perspective of Photon Polarization. | Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Xiaozhao Zhao, Yuexian Hou |
| 2011 | MMM | An Information Foraging Theory Based User Study of an Adaptive User Interaction Framework for Content-Based Image Retrieval. | Haiming Liu, Paul Mulholland, Dawei Song, Victoria S. Uren, Stefan M. Rger |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Words-of-interest selection based on temporal motion coherence for video retrieval. | Lei Wang, Dawei Song, Eyad Elyan |
| 2010 | ACL | Event-Based Hyperspace Analogue to Language for Query Expansion. | Tingxu Yan, Tamsin Maxwell, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou, Peng Zhang |
| 2010 | CIKM | Novel local features with hybrid sampling technique for image retrieval. | Leszek Kaliciak, Dawei Song, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Jeff Z. Pan |
| 2010 | ECIR | Colouring the Dimensions of Relevance. | Ulises Cervio Beresi, Yunhyong Kim, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven, Dawei Song |
| 2010 | ICDM | High-Order Concept Associations Mining and Inferential Language Modeling for Online Review Spam Detection. | Chapmann C. L. Lai, K. Q. Xu, Raymond Y. K. Lau, Yuefeng Li, Dawei Song |
| 2010 | WISE | Multi-facets Quality Assessment of Online Opinionated Expressions. | Raymond Y. K. Lau, Wenping Zhang, Yunqing Xia, Dawei Song |
| 2009 | DASFAA | Dimension-Specific Search for Multimedia Retrieval. | Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Dawei Song, Xue Li, Stefan M. Rger |
| 2009 | ICTIR | An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model. | Eduard Hoenkamp, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Qiang Huang |
| 2009 | ICTIR | A Four-Factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval. | Haiming Liu, Victoria S. Uren, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rger |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Using Domain Models for Context-Rich User Logging. | Stephen Dignum, Yunhyong Kim, Udo Kruschwitz, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data. | Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song |
| 2008 | CIKM | A latent variable model for query expansion using the hidden markov model. | Qiang Huang, Dawei Song |
| 2008 | CIKM | Modeling document features for expert finding. | Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rger, Xiangji Huang |
| 2008 | ECIR | Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. | Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rger |
| 2008 | ECIR | Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. | Dawei Song, Qiang Huang, Stefan M. Rger, Peter Bruza |
| 2008 | ICSoft | A Novel Metadata Based Meta-Search Engine. | Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Marc Eisenstadt, Cristi Barladeanu |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. | Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rger |
| 2006 | ADC | Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching. | Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza |
| 2006 | ADC | Document generality: its computation for ranking. | Xin Yan, Xue Li, Dawei Song |
| 2006 | APWEB | Text Based Knowledge Discovery with Information Flow Analysis. | Dawei Song, Peter Bruza |
| 2006 | CIKM | Concept-based document readability in domain specific information retrieval. | Xin Yan, Dawei Song, Xue Li |
| 2006 | DEXA | 3D Protein Structure Matching by Patch Signatures. | Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Dawei Song |
| 2005 | CIKM | Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval. | Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, Guihong Cao |
| 2005 | WISE | Document Re-ranking by Generality in Bio-medical Information Retrieval. | Xin Yan, Xue Li, Dawei Song |
| 2004 | APWEB | Fuzzy K-Means Clustering on a High Dimensional Semantic Space. | Guihong Cao, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza |
| 2004 | CIS | A Correlation Analysis on LSA and HAL Semantic Space Models. | Xin Yan, Xue Li, Dawei Song |
| 2004 | IJCNLP | Information Flow Analysis with Chinese Text. | Paulo Cheong, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Kam-Fai Wong |
| 2004 | SIGIR | The document as an ergodic markov chain. | Eduard Hoenkamp, Dawei Song |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval. | Raymond Y. K. Lau, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song |
| 2003 | ISMIS | Classifying Document Titles Based on Information Inference. | Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Zi Huang, Raymond Y. K. Lau |
| 2003 | SIGIR | A comparison of various approaches for using probabilistic dependencies in language modeling. | Peter Bruza, Dawei Song |
| 2002 | CIKM | Inferring query models by computing information flow. | Peter Bruza, Dawei Song |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Discovering Information Flow Using a High Dimensional Conceptual Space. | Dawei Song, Peter Bruza |
| 2000 | FlAIRS | Fundamental Properties of the Core Matching Functions for Information Retrieval. | Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong, Peter Bruza, Chun Hung Cheng |
| 1999 | FlAIRS | Towards Functional Benchmarking of Information Retrieval Models. | Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong, Peter Bruza, Chun Hung Cheng |
| 1999 | SIGIR | Fundamental Properties of Aboutness (poster abstract). | Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong |