| 2026 | AAAI | AMaPO: Adaptive Margin-attached Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment. | Ruibo Deng, Duanyu Feng, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2026 | AAAI | VP-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Visual Prompting in Multimodal Large Language Models. | Mingjie Xu, Jinpeng Chen, Yuzhi Zhao, Jason Chun Lok Li, Yue Qiu, Zekang Du, Mengyang Wu, Pingping Zhang, Kun Li, Hongzheng Yang, Wenao Ma, Jiaheng Wei, Qinbin Li, Kangcheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2026 | ACL | Towards Proactive Information Probing: Customer Service Chatbots Harvesting Value from Conversation. | Chen Huang, Zitan Jiang, Changyi Zou, Wenqiang Lei, See-Kiong Ng |
| 2026 | ACL | NL \Rightarrow Schedule: Evaluate Multitask Scheduling Capability of Large Language Models. | Wenrui Liao, Weihong Du, Yi Li, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2026 | ACL | METER: Evaluating Multi-Level Contextual Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models. | Pengfeng Li, Chen Huang, Chaoqun Hao, Hongyao Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei, Wenqiang Lei, See-Kiong Ng |
| 2026 | ACL | E2EDev: Benchmarking Large Language Models in End-to-End Software Development Task. | Jingyao Liu, Chen Huang, Zhizhao Guan, Wenqiang Lei, Yang Deng |
| 2026 | ACL | Empathy in Diversity: Personalized Depression and Anxiety Therapy via Dialogue State Tracking and Patient-Aware Planning. | Xinwei Yang, Junyi Fan, Yuqing Liu, Jiaxuan Wang, Jiashuai Zhang, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei, Yao Song |
| 2026 | ACL | METRO: Towards Strategy Induction from Expert Dialogue Transcripts for Non-collaborative Dialogues. | Haofu Yang, Jiaji Liu, Chen Huang, Faguo Wu, Wenqiang Lei, See-Kiong Ng |
| 2026 | ACL | Beyond Prompt: Fine-grained Simulation of Cognitively Impaired Standardized Patients via Stochastic Steering. | Weikang Zhang, Zimo Zhu, Zhichuan Yang, Chen Huang, Wenqiang Lei, See-Kiong Ng |
| 2025 | AAAI | CDW-CoT: Clustered Distance-Weighted Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning. | Yuanheng Fang, Guoqing Chao, Wenqiang Lei, Shaobo Li, Dianhui Chu |
| 2025 | AAAI | LEGEND: Leveraging Representation Engineering to Annotate Safety Margin for Preference Datasets. | Duanyu Feng, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang, Youcheng Huang, Zheng Zhang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | ACL | 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 |
| 2025 | ACL | BAR: A Backward Reasoning based Agent for Complex Minecraft Tasks. | Weihong Du, Wenrui Liao, Binyu Yan, Hongru Liang, Anthony G. Cohn, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | ACL | ASTRO: Automatic Strategy Optimization For Non-Cooperative Dialogues. | Yikuan Hu, Chen Huang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | ACL | Cross-model Transferability among Large Language Models on the Platonic Representations of Concepts. | Youcheng Huang, Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2025 | ACL | Can Large Language Models Understand Internet Buzzwords Through User-Generated Content. | Chen Huang, Junkai Luo, Xinzuo Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2025 | ACL | SCOP: Evaluating the Comprehension Process of Large Language Models from a Cognitive View. | Yongjie Xiao, Hongru Liang, Peixin Qin, Yao Zhang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | ACL | ELABORATION: A Comprehensive Benchmark on Human-LLM Competitive Programming. | Xinwei Yang, Zhaofeng Liu, Chen Huang, Jiashuai Zhang, Tong Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | COLING | GraphOTTER: Evolving LLM-based Graph Reasoning for Complex Table Question Answering. | Qianlong Li, Chen Huang, Shuai Li, Yuanxin Xiang, Deng Xiong, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2025 | NAACL | Breaking the Stigma! Unobtrusively Probe Symptoms in Depression Disorder Diagnosis Dialogue. | Jieming Cao, Chen Huang, Yanan Zhang, Ruibo Deng, Jincheng Zhang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2024 | AAAI | Towards Equipping Transformer with the Ability of Systematic Compositionality. | Chen Huang, Peixin Qin, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2024 | ACL | 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 |
| 2024 | ACL | PAGED: A Benchmark for Procedural Graphs Extraction from Documents. | Weihong Du, Wenrui Liao, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2024 | ACL | CARE: A Clue-guided Assistant for CSRs to Read User Manuals. | Weihong Du, Jia Liu, Zujie Wen, Dingnan Jin, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2024 | ACL | ARAIDA: Analogical Reasoning-Augmented Interactive Data Annotation. | Chen Huang, Yiping Jin, Ilija Ilievski, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2024 | ACL | Discursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models' Understanding of Discourse Relations. | Yisong Miao, Hongfu Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Nancy F. Chen, Min-Yen Kan |
| 2024 | ACL | 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 |
| 2024 | EMNLP | 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 |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Beyond Persuasion: Towards Conversational Recommender System with Credible Explanations. | Peixin Qin, Chen Huang, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2024 | EMNLP | 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 |
| 2024 | WWW | Cross-Space Adaptive Filter: Integrating Graph Topology and Node Attributes for Alleviating the Over-smoothing Problem. | Chen Huang, Haoyang Li, Yifan Zhang, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2023 | ACL | Tailor: A Soft-Prompt-Based Approach to Attribute-Based Controlled Text Generation. | Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Mingfeng Xue, Boxing Chen, Jun Xie |
| 2023 | ACL | Knowing-how & Knowing-that: A New Task for Machine Comprehension of User Manuals. | Hongru Liang, Jia Liu, Weihong Du, Dingnan Jin, Wenqiang Lei, Zujie Wen, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2023 | ACL | Fantastic Expressions and Where to Find Them: Chinese Simile Generation with Multiple Constraints. | Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Xiangpeng Wei, Zhengyuan Liu, Jun Xie |
| 2023 | EMNLP | TRAVEL: Tag-Aware Conversational FAQ Retrieval via Reinforcement Learning. | Yue Chen, Dingnan Jin, Chen Huang, Jia Liu, Wenqiang Lei |
| 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 | Reduce Human Labor On Evaluating Conversational Information Retrieval System: A Human-Machine Collaboration Approach. | Chen Huang, Peixin Qin, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Unifying Discrete and Continuous Representations for Unsupervised Paraphrase Generation. | Mingfeng Xue, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Jie Fu, Jian Lan, Mei Li, Baosong Yang, Jun Xie, Yidan Zhang, Dezhong Peng, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Dynamic Voting for Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models. | Mingfeng Xue, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Xingzhang Ren, Baosong Yang, Jun Xie, Yidan Zhang, Dezhong Peng, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Towards Effective Automatic Debt Collection with Persona Awareness. | Tong Zhang, Junhong Liu, Chen Huang, Jia Liu, Hongru Liang, Zujie Wen, Wenqiang Lei |
| 2023 | IJCAI | A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects. | Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2023 | WWW | A Dual Prompt Learning Framework for Few-Shot Dialogue State Tracking. | Yuting Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Pei Huang, Juan Cao, Jintao Li, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2022 | ACL | GCPG: A General Framework for Controllable Paraphrase Generation. | Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Haibo Zhang, Xue Zhao, Wenqing Yao, Boxing Chen |
| 2022 | CIKM | KuaiRec: A Fully-observed Dataset and Insights for Evaluating Recommender Systems. | Chongming Gao, Shijun Li, Wenqiang Lei, Jiawei Chen, Biao Li, Peng Jiang, Xiangnan He, Jiaxin Mao, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2022 | CIKM | KuaiRand: An Unbiased Sequential Recommendation Dataset with Randomly Exposed Videos. | Chongming Gao, Shijun Li, Yuan Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Biao Li, Wenqiang Lei, Peng Jiang, Xiangnan He |
| 2022 | EMNLP | PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance. | Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Reconciliation of Pre-trained Models and Prototypical Neural Networks in Few-shot Named Entity Recognition. | Youcheng Huang, Wenqiang Lei, Jie Fu, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2022 | EMNLP | ConReader: Exploring Implicit Relations in Contracts for Contract Clause Extraction. | Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenlong Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Wai Lam |
| 2022 | IJCAI | Abstract Rule Learning for Paraphrase Generation. | Xianggen Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv, Jizhe Zhou |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Interacting with Non-Cooperative User: A New Paradigm for Proactive Dialogue Policy. | Wenqiang Lei, Yao Zhang, Feifan Song, Hongru Liang, Jiaxin Mao, Jiancheng Lv, Zhenglu Yang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2021 | AAAI | Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It's Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence. | Wenqiang Lei, Yisong Miao, Runpeng Xie, Bonnie Webber, Meichun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Nancy F. Chen |
| 2021 | AAAI | Generalized Relation Learning with Semantic Correlation Awareness for Link Prediction. | Yao Zhang, Xu Zhang, Jun Wang, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei, Zhe Sun, Adam Jatowt, Zhenglu Yang |
| 2021 | ACL | POS-Constrained Parallel Decoding for Non-autoregressive Generation. | Kexin Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Dayiheng Liu, Weizhen Qi, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2021 | ACL | TAT-QA: A Question Answering Benchmark on a Hybrid of Tabular and Textual Content in Finance. | Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Youcheng Huang, Chao Wang, Shuo Zhang, Jiancheng Lv, Fuli Feng, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2021 | CIKM | DisenKGAT: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Disentangled Graph Attention Network. | Junkang Wu, Wentao Shi, Xuezhi Cao, Jiawei Chen, Wenqiang Lei, Fuzheng Zhang, Wei Wu, Xiangnan He |
| 2021 | EMNLP | GMH: A General Multi-hop Reasoning Model for KG Completion. | Yao Zhang, Hongru Liang, Adam Jatowt, Wenqiang Lei, Xin Wei, Ning Jiang, Zhenglu Yang |
| 2021 | RecSys | RecSys 2021 Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation. | Wenqiang Lei, Chongming Gao, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2020 | COLING | Molweni: A Challenge Multiparty Dialogues-based Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset with Discourse Structure. | Jiaqi Li, Ming Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Zihao Zheng, Zekun Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Ting Liu, Bing Qin |
| 2020 | EMNLP | Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL. | Wenqiang Lei, Weixin Wang, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2020 | KDD | Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation. | Wenqiang Lei, Gangyi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Xiang Wang, Liang Chen, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation. | Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Maarten de Rijke, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2020 | WSDM | Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems. | Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Revisit Automatic Error Detection for Wrong and Missing Translation - A Supervised Approach. | Wenqiang Lei, Weiwen Xu, Ai Ti Aw, Yuanxin Xiang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2018 | AAAI | Linguistic Properties Matter for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition: Combining Semantic Interaction, Topic Continuity and Attribution. | Wenqiang Lei, Yuanxin Xiang, Yuwei Wang, Qian Zhong, Meichun Liu, Min-Yen Kan |
| 2018 | ACL | Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures. | Wenqiang Lei, Xisen Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, Dawei Yin |
| 2018 | CIKM | Explicit State Tracking with Semi-Supervisionfor Neural Dialogue Generation. | Xisen Jin, Wenqiang Lei, Zhaochun Ren, Hongshen Chen, Shangsong Liang, Yihong Zhao, Dawei Yin |
| 2017 | IJCAI | SWIM: A Simple Word Interaction Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. | Wenqiang Lei, Xuancong Wang, Meichun Liu, Ilija Ilievski, Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan |