| 2026 | AAAI | Reinforce Trustworthiness in Multimodal Emotional Support System. | Huy M. Le, Dat Tien Nguyen, Ngan T. T. Vo, Tuan D. Q. Nguyen, Nguyen Binh Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Daniel Sonntag, Lizi Liao, Binh T. Nguyen |
| 2026 | ACL | Beyond Semantic Similarity: Appraisal-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Retrieval for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversations. | Yuqi Chu, Lizi Liao, Jinggui Liang, Boyang Li, Richang Hong |
| 2026 | ACL | Exploring and Distilling Multi-Dimensional Clues for Interpretable Social Bot Detection. | Yi Han, Haiqi Lu, Lizi Liao, Shuhan Zhou, Yuanxing Liu, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu |
| 2026 | ACL | LS-Guard: Adaptive Safety Guardrails Tailored to Individual LLMs. | Jinggui Liang, Lizi Liao |
| 2026 | ACL | Reusable Experiences: Latent Routing and Modular Composition in LLMs. | Shuai Ling, Lizi Liao, Dongmei Jiang, Weili Guan |
| 2026 | ACL | Aligned Multi-View Scripts for Universal Chart-to-Code Generation. | Zhihan Zhang, Lizi Liao |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Generation-Augmented Video Corpus Moment Retrieval. | Mingjin Kuai, Qianyin Xiao, Juncheng Li, Jin Peng, Lizi Liao, Wei Ji |
| 2025 | AAAI | Simulation-Free Hierarchical Latent Policy Planning for Proactive Dialogues. | Tao He, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Yuanxing Liu, Yiheng Sun, Zerui Chen, Ming Liu, Bing Qin |
| 2025 | ACL | XFinBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Complex Financial Problem Solving and Reasoning. | Zhihan Zhang, Yixin Cao, Lizi Liao |
| 2025 | ACL | Breaking the Reasoning Barrier A Survey on LLM Complex Reasoning through the Lens of Self-Evolution. | Tao He, Hao Li, Jingchang Chen, Runxuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Lizi Liao, Zihao Zheng, Zheng Chu, Jiafeng Liang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin |
| 2025 | ACL | Colloquial Singaporean English Style Transfer with Fine-Grained Explainable Control. | Jinggui Liang, Dung Vo, Yap Hong Xian, Hai Leong Chieu, Kian Ming Adam Chai, Jing Jiang, Lizi Liao |
| 2025 | ACL | MeMoTune: A Measure and Moment-Driven Fine-Tuning Framework for Quantized Large Language Models. | Yun Zhang, Xue Geng, Lizi Liao, Jintong Sun, Minghe Yu, Ge Yu |
| 2025 | ACL | Debate, Reflect, and Distill: Multi-Agent Feedback with Tree-Structured Preference Optimization for Efficient Language Model Enhancement. | Xiaofeng Zhou, Heyan Huang, Lizi Liao |
| 2025 | CIKM | DistillCaps: Enhancing Audio-Language Alignment in Captioning via Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Distillation. | Thinh Pham, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Lizi Liao, Binh T. Nguyen |
| 2025 | EMNLP | One Planner To Guide Them All ! Learning Adaptive Conversational Planners for Goal-oriented Dialogues. | Huy Quang Dao, Lizi Liao |
| 2025 | EMNLP | IntentionFrame: A Semi-Structured, Multi-Aspect Framework for Fine-Grained Conversational Intention Understanding. | Jinggui Liang, Dung Vo, Lizi Liao |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Context-Aware Hierarchical Taxonomy Generation for Scientific Papers via LLM-Guided Multi-Aspect Clustering. | Kun Zhu, Lizi Liao, Yuxuan Gu, Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin |
| 2025 | IJCAI | R2DQG: A Quality Meets Diversity Framework for Question Generation over Knowledge Bases. | Yimeng Ren, Yanhua Yu, Lizi Liao, Yuhu Shang, Kangkang Lu, Mingliang Yan |
| 2025 | WWW | Towards Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation: A Rich Text-Speech-Vision Avatar-based Benchmark. | Han Zhang, Zixiang Meng, Meng Luo, Hong Han, Lizi Liao, Erik Cambria, Hao Fei |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Simulating Before Planning: Constructing Intrinsic User World Model for User-Tailored Dialogue Policy Planning. | Tao He, Lizi Liao, Ming Liu, Bing Qin |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Retrieval Augmented Generation for Dynamic Graph Modeling. | Yuxia Wu, Lizi Liao, Yuan Fang |
| 2024 | AAAI | Harnessing Holistic Discourse Features and Triadic Interaction for Sentiment Quadruple Extraction in Dialogues. | Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao, Yu Zhao, Fangfang Su, Fei Li, Donghong Ji |
| 2024 | AAAI | Reverse Multi-Choice Dialogue Commonsense Inference with Graph-of-Thought. | Li Zheng, Hao Fei, Fei Li, Bobo Li, Lizi Liao, Donghong Ji, Chong Teng |
| 2024 | ACL | EmpathyEar: An Open-source Avatar Multimodal Empathetic Chatbot. | Hao Fei, Han Zhang, Bin Wang, Lizi Liao, Qian Liu, Erik Cambria |
| 2024 | ACL | Planning Like Human: A Dual-process Framework for Dialogue Planning. | Tao He, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Yuanxing Liu, Ming Liu, Zerui Chen, Bing Qin |
| 2024 | ACL | Synergizing Large Language Models and Pre-Trained Smaller Models for Conversational Intent Discovery. | Jinggui Liang, Lizi Liao, Hao Fei, Jing Jiang |
| 2024 | ACL | Analyzing Temporal Complex Events with Large Language Models? A Benchmark towards Temporal, Long Context Understanding. | Zhihan Zhang, Yixin Cao, Chenchen Ye, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2024 | ACL | Self-chats from Large Language Models Make Small Emotional Support Chatbot Better. | Zhonghua Zheng, Lizi Liao, Yang Deng, Libo Qin, Liqiang Nie |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Experience as Source for Anticipation and Planning: Experiential Policy Learning for Target-driven Recommendation Dialogues. | Huy Dao, Yang Deng, Khanh-Huyen Bui, Dung D. Le, Lizi Liao |
| 2024 | EMNLP | PCQPR: Proactive Conversational Question Planning with Reflection. | Shasha Guo, Lizi Liao, Jing Zhang, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen |
| 2024 | EMNLP | A Survey of Ontology Expansion for Conversational Understanding. | Jinggui Liang, Yuxia Wu, Yuan Fang, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Balancing Visual Context Understanding in Dialogue for Image Retrieval. | Zhaohui Wei, Lizi Liao, Xiaoyu Du, Xinguang Xiang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | DC-Instruct: An Effective Framework for Generative Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding. | Bowen Xing, Lizi Liao, Minlie Huang, Ivor W. Tsang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation. | Zhonghua Zheng, Lizi Liao, Yang Deng, Ee-Peng Lim, Minlie Huang, Liqiang Nie |
| 2024 | IJCAI | A Survey on Neural Question Generation: Methods, Applications, and Prospects. | Shasha Guo, Lizi Liao, Cuiping Li, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2024 | NAACL | SGSH: Stimulate Large Language Models with Skeleton Heuristics for Knowledge Base Question Generation. | Shasha Guo, Lizi Liao, Jing Zhang, Yanling Wang, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen |
| 2024 | NAACL | Actively Learn from LLMs with Uncertainty Propagation for Generalized Category Discovery. | Jinggui Liang, Lizi Liao, Hao Fei, Bobo Li, Jing Jiang |
| 2024 | NAACL | Mix-Initiative Response Generation with Dynamic Prefix Tuning. | Yuxiang Nie, Heyan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao, Lizi Liao |
| 2024 | WWW | On the Feasibility of Simple Transformer for Dynamic Graph Modeling. | Yuxia Wu, Yuan Fang, Lizi Liao |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Broadening the View: Demonstration-augmented Prompt Learning for Conversational Recommendation. | Huy Dao, Yang Deng, Dung D. Le, Lizi Liao |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents. | Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Zhonghua Zheng, Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2023 | ACL | DiaASQ: A Benchmark of Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Analysis. | Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Fei Li, Yuhan Wu, Jinsong Zhang, Shengqiong Wu, Jingye Li, Yijiang Liu, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua, Donghong Ji |
| 2023 | EMNLP | End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions. | Libo Qin, Wenbo Pan, Qiguang Chen, Lizi Liao, Zhou Yu, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Min Li |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Reinforced Target-driven Conversational Promotion. | Huy Dao, Lizi Liao, Dung D. Le, Yuxiang Nie |
| 2023 | EMNLP | 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 |
| 2023 | EMNLP | ClusterPrompt: Cluster Semantic Enhanced Prompt Learning for New Intent Discovery. | Jinggui Liang, Lizi Liao |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Proactive Conversational Agents in the Post-ChatGPT World. | Lizi Liao, Grace Hui Yang, Chirag Shah |
| 2023 | WSDM | Proactive Conversational Agents. | Lizi Liao, Grace Hui Yang, Chirag Shah |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Conversation Disentanglement with Bi-Level Contrastive Learning. | Chengyu Huang, Zheng Zhang, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao |
| 2022 | EMNLP | A Unified Dialogue User Simulator for Few-shot Data Augmentation. | Dazhen Wan, Zheng Zhang, Qi Zhu, Lizi Liao, Minlie Huang |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Semi-supervised New Slot Discovery with Incremental Clustering. | Yuxia Wu, Lizi Liao, Xueming Qian, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Structured and Natural Responses Co-generation for Conversational Search. | Chenchen Ye, Lizi Liao, Fuli Feng, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2021 | WWW | Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking with Recursive Inference. | Lizi Liao, Tongyao Zhu, Le Hong Long, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2021 | SIGIR | MMConv: An Environment for Multimodal Conversational Search across Multiple Domains. | Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Zheng Zhang, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2020 | IJCNLP | Learning Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy with opposite Agent Awareness. | Zheng Zhang, Lizi Liao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Tat-Seng Chua, Zitao Liu, Yan Huang, Minlie Huang |
| 2020 | MMM | Crowd Knowledge Enhanced Multimodal Conversational Assistant in Travel Domain. | Lizi Liao, Lyndon Kennedy, Lynn Wilcox, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2019 | AAAI | TransNFCM: Translation-Based Neural Fashion Compatibility Modeling. | Xun Yang, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2019 | WWW | Neural Multimodal Belief Tracker with Adaptive Attention for Dialogue Systems. | Zheng Zhang, Lizi Liao, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2017 | IJCAI | Representativeness-aware Aspect Analysis for Brand Monitoring in Social Media. | Lizi Liao, Xiangnan He, Zhaochun Ren, Liqiang Nie, Huan Xu, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2017 | WWW | Neural Collaborative Filtering. | Xiangnan He, Lizi Liao, Hanwang Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Xia Hu, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2016 | ICDE | SLR: A scalable latent role model for attribute completion and tie prediction in social networks. | Lizi Liao, Qirong Ho, Jing Jiang, Ee-Peng Lim |
| 2015 | DASFAA | Multi-roles Affiliation Model for General User Profiling. | Lizi Liao, Heyan Huang, Yashen Wang |
| 2014 | AAAI | Lifetime Lexical Variation in Social Media. | Lizi Liao, Jing Jiang, Ying Ding, Heyan Huang, Ee-Peng Lim |
| 2014 | COLING | Generating Supplementary Travel Guides from Social Media. | Liu Yang, Jing Jiang, Lifu Huang, Minghui Qiu, Lizi Liao |