| 2026 | ACL | When Rules Learn: A Self-Evolving Agent for Legal Case Retrieval. | Mingxu Tao, Jiawei Hu, Xian Zhou, Wenpeng Hu, Jiajun Cheng, Yunbo Cao, Zhunchen Luo, Guotong Geng |
| 2026 | ACL | SHARP: Self-adaptive Harmful Category-aware Prompt Generation for Black-box Jailbreaking. | Yingjie Xue, Xingyou Xia, Jun Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Dengpan Ye, Guotong Geng, Fei Li |
| 2026 | ACL | DisCal: Distribution-Aware Calibration for Mathematical Reasoning Under Character-Level Noisy Inputs. | Bo Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Cong Gao, Bingxu Han, Minghao Hu, Jun Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Zhunchen Luo, Wen Yao, Guotong Geng, Zhong Wang |
| 2025 | CVPR | AdaDARE-gamma: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Multi-modal LLMs through Efficient Adaptation. | Jingyi Xie, Jintao Yang, Zhunchen Luo, Yunbo Cao, Qiang Gao, Mengyuan Zhang, Wenpeng Hu |
| 2024 | ACL | Large Language Models are not Fair Evaluators. | Peiyi Wang, Lei Li, Liang Chen, Zefan Cai, Dawei Zhu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu, Tianyu Liu, Zhifang Sui |
| 2024 | ICASSP | SkillNet-X: A Multilingual Multitask Model with Sparsely Activated Skills. | Zhangyin Feng, Yong Dai, Fan Zhang, Duyu Tang, Xiaocheng Feng, Shuangzhi Wu, Bing Qin, Yunbo Cao, Shuming Shi |
| 2024 | NAACL | DialogVCS: Robust Natural Language Understanding in Dialogue System Upgrade. | Zefan Cai, Xin Zheng, Tianyu Liu, Haoran Meng, Jiaqi Han, Gang Yuan, Binghuai Lin, Baobao Chang, Yunbo Cao |
| 2023 | ACL | Denoising Bottleneck with Mutual Information Maximization for Video Multimodal Fusion. | Shaoxiang Wu, Damai Dai, Ziwei Qin, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui |
| 2023 | ACL | G³R: A Graph-Guided Generate-and-Rerank Framework for Complex and Cross-domain Text-to-SQL Generation. | Yanzheng Xiang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Xu Zhang, Zejie Liu, Yunbo Cao, Deyu Zhou |
| 2023 | ACL | Enhancing Continual Relation Extraction via Classifier Decomposition. | Heming Xia, Peiyi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui |
| 2023 | ACL | Soft Language Clustering for Multilingual Model Pre-training. | Jiali Zeng, Yufan Jiang, Yongjing Yin, Yi Jing, Fandong Meng, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Jie Zhou |
| 2023 | ADMA | Read Then Respond: Multi-granularity Grounding Prediction for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation. | Yiyang Du, Shi-Wei Zhang, Xianjie Wu, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Bi-Drop: Enhancing Fine-tuning Generalization via Synchronous sub-net Estimation and Optimization. | Shoujie Tong, Heming Xia, Damai Dai, Runxin Xu, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui |
| 2023 | EMNLP | DialogQAE: N-to-N Question Answer Pair Extraction from Customer Service Chatlog. | Xin Zheng, Tianyu Liu, Haoran Meng, Xu Wang, Yufan Jiang, Meng-Liang Rao, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui |
| 2023 | ICASSP | Contextual Similarity is More Valuable Than Character Similarity: An Empirical Study for Chinese Spell Checking. | Ding Zhang, Yinghui Li, Qingyu Zhou, Shirong Ma, Yangning Li, Yunbo Cao, Hai-Tao Zheng |
| 2023 | PRICAI | QURG: Question Rewriting Guided Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing. | Linzheng Chai, Dongling Xiao, Zhao Yan, Jian Yang, Liqun Yang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li |
| 2022 | ACL | Type-Driven Multi-Turn Corrections for Grammatical Error Correction. | Shaopeng Lai, Qingyu Zhou, Jiali Zeng, Zhongli Li, Chao Li, Yunbo Cao, Jinsong Su |
| 2022 | ACL | The Past Mistake is the Future Wisdom: Error-driven Contrastive Probability Optimization for Chinese Spell Checking. | Yinghui Li, Qingyu Zhou, Yangning Li, Zhongli Li, Ruiyang Liu, Rongyi Sun, Zizhen Wang, Chao Li, Yunbo Cao, Hai-Tao Zheng |
| 2022 | ACL | Seeking Patterns, Not just Memorizing Procedures: Contrastive Learning for Solving Math Word Problems. | Zhongli Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Chao Yan, Qingyu Zhou, Chao Li, Hongzhi Liu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | ACL | Hierarchical Curriculum Learning for AMR Parsing. | Peiyi Wang, Liang Chen, Tianyu Liu, Damai Dai, Yunbo Cao, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui |
| 2022 | ACL | Pre-training and Fine-tuning Neural Topic Model: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Incorporating External Knowledge. | Linhai Zhang, Xuemeng Hu, Boyu Wang, Deyu Zhou, Qian-Wen Zhang, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | AIED | Introducing Response Time into Guessing and Slipping for Cognitive Diagnosis. | Penghe Chen, Yu Lu, Yang Pian, Yan Li, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | CIKM | Knowledge-Sensed Cognitive Diagnosis for Intelligent Education Platforms. | Haiping Ma, Manwei Li, Le Wu, Haifeng Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Xingyi Zhang, Xuemin Zhao |
| 2022 | CIKM | A Prerequisite Attention Model for Knowledge Proficiency Diagnosis of Students. | Haiping Ma, Jinwei Zhu, Shangshang Yang, Qi Liu, Haifeng Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Xuemin Zhao |
| 2022 | COLING | AiM: Taking Answers in Mind to Correct Chinese Cloze Tests in Educational Applications. | Yusen Zhang, Zhongli Li, Qingyu Zhou, Ziyi Liu, Chao Li, Mina Ma, Yunbo Cao, Hongzhi Liu |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Learning from the Dictionary: Heterogeneous Knowledge Guided Fine-tuning for Chinese Spell Checking. | Yinghui Li, Shirong Ma, Qingyu Zhou, Zhongli Li, Yangning Li, Shulin Huang, Ruiyang Liu, Chao Li, Yunbo Cao, Haitao Zheng |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Linguistic Rules-Based Corpus Generation for Native Chinese Grammatical Error Correction. | Shirong Ma, Yinghui Li, Rongyi Sun, Qingyu Zhou, Shulin Huang, Ding Zhang, Yangning Li, Ruiyang Liu, Zhongli Li, Yunbo Cao, Haitao Zheng, Ying Shen |
| 2022 | EMNLP | DialogUSR: Complex Dialogue Utterance Splitting and Reformulation for Multiple Intent Detection. | Haoran Meng, Zheng Xin, Tianyu Liu, Zizhen Wang, He Feng, Binghuai Lin, Xuemin Zhao, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Learning Robust Representations for Continual Relation Extraction via Adversarial Class Augmentation. | Peiyi Wang, Yifan Song, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Sujian Li, Zhifang Sui |
| 2022 | EMNLP | HPT: Hierarchy-aware Prompt Tuning for Hierarchical Text Classification. | Zihan Wang, Peiyi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Zhifang Sui, Houfeng Wang |
| 2022 | EMNLP | CQR-SQL: Conversational Question Reformulation Enhanced Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL Parsers. | Dongling Xiao, Linzheng Chai, Qian-Wen Zhang, Zhao Yan, Zhoujun Li, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | EMNLP | DualNER: A Dual-Teaching framework for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition. | Jiali Zeng, Yufan Jiang, Yongjing Yin, Xu Wang, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Contrastive Learning with Prompt-derived Virtual Semantic Prototypes for Unsupervised Sentence Embedding. | Jiali Zeng, Yongjing Yin, Yufan Jiang, Shuangzhi Wu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2022 | ICASSP | A Non-Hierarchical Attention Network with Modality Dropout for Textual Response Generation in Multimodal Dialogue Systems. | Rongyi Sun, Borun Chen, Qingyu Zhou, Yinghui Li, Yunbo Cao, Hai-Tao Zheng |
| 2022 | NAACL | An Enhanced Span-based Decomposition Method for Few-Shot Sequence Labeling. | Peiyi Wang, Runxin Xu, Tianyu Liu, Qingyu Zhou, Yunbo Cao, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui |
| 2021 | AAAI | RadarMath: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Math Education. | Yu Lu, Yang Pian, Penghe Chen, Qinggang Meng, Yunbo Cao |
| 2021 | AAAI | MMKE: A Multi-Model Knowledge Extraction System from Unstructured Texts. | Qian-Wen Zhang, Zhao Yan, Tianyang Zhao, Shi-Wei Zhang, Meng Yao, Meng-Liang Rao, Yunbo Cao |
| 2021 | AAAI | Exploiting Unlabeled Data via Partial Label Assignment for Multi-Class Semi-Supervised Learning. | Zhen-Ru Zhang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Min-Ling Zhang |
| 2021 | AAAI | A Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework for Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations. | Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li |
| 2021 | ACL | Improving BERT with Syntax-aware Local Attention. | Zhongli Li, Qingyu Zhou, Chao Li, Ke Xu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2021 | ACL | Dialogue Response Selection with Hierarchical Curriculum Learning. | Yixuan Su, Deng Cai, Qingyu Zhou, Zibo Lin, Simon Baker, Yunbo Cao, Shuming Shi, Nigel Collier, Yan Wang |
| 2021 | ACL | Read, Listen, and See: Leveraging Multimodal Information Helps Chinese Spell Checking. | Heng-Da Xu, Zhongli Li, Qingyu Zhou, Chao Li, Zizhen Wang, Yunbo Cao, Heyan Huang, Xian-Ling Mao |
| 2021 | ACL | Enhancing Label Correlation Feedback in Multi-Label Text Classification via Multi-Task Learning. | Ximing Zhang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Zhao Yan, Ruifang Liu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2021 | ACL | Enhancing Dialogue-based Relation Extraction by Speaker and Trigger Words Prediction. | Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li |
| 2021 | EDM | LANA: Towards Personalized Deep Knowledge Tracing Through Distinguishable Interactive Sequences. | Yuhao Zhou, Xihua Li, Yunbo Cao, Xuemin Zhao, Qing Ye, Jiancheng Lv |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Diversity and Consistency: Exploring Visual Question-Answer Pair Generation. | Sen Yang, Qingyu Zhou, Dawei Feng, Yang Liu, Chao Li, Yunbo Cao, Dongsheng Li |
| 2021 | EMNLP | A Divide-And-Conquer Approach for Multi-label Multi-hop Relation Detection in Knowledge Base Question Answering. | Deyu Zhou, Yanzheng Xiang, Linhai Zhang, Chenchen Ye, Qian-Wen Zhang, Yunbo Cao |
| 2021 | IJCAI | Correlation-Guided Representation for Multi-Label Text Classification. | Qian-Wen Zhang, Ximing Zhang, Zhao Yan, Ruifang Liu, Yunbo Cao, Min-Ling Zhang |
| 2020 | EMNLP | Difference-aware Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-grounded Conversation Generation. | Chujie Zheng, Yunbo Cao, Daxin Jiang, Minlie Huang |
| 2020 | IJCAI | Asking Effective and Diverse Questions: A Machine Reading Comprehension based Framework for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction. | Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li |
| 2018 | AAAI | Mention and Entity Description Co-Attention for Entity Disambiguation. | Feng Nie, Yunbo Cao, Jinpeng Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, Rong Pan |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | A Statistical Framework for Product Description Generation. | Jinpeng Wang, Yutai Hou, Jing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2014 | ACL | Collective Tweet Wikification based on Semi-supervised Graph Regularization. | Hongzhao Huang, Yunbo Cao, Xiaojiang Huang, Heng Ji, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2013 | IJCNLP | Learning a Replacement Model for Query Segmentation with Consistency in Search Logs. | Wei Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan |
| 2013 | WWW | An error driven approach to query segmentation. | Wei Zhang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan |
| 2012 | COLING | A Lazy Learning Model for Entity Linking using Query-Specific Information. | Wei Zhang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2011 | AAAI | Learning to Suggest Questions in Online Forums. | Tom Chao Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, Young-In Song, Yunbo Cao |
| 2011 | IJCAI | Leveraging Unlabeled Data to Scale Blocking for Record Linkage. | Yunbo Cao, Zhiyuan Chen, Jiamin Zhu, Pei Yue, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu |
| 2010 | CIKM | Automatic extraction of web data records containing user-generated content. | Xinying Song, Jing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Hsiao-Wuen Hon |
| 2009 | CIKM | Learning to recommend questions based on user ratings. | Ke Sun, Yunbo Cao, Xinying Song, Young-In Song, Xiaolong Wang, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2009 | EMNLP | A Structural Support Vector Method for Extracting Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums. | Wen-Yun Yang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin |
| 2008 | AAAI | Question Utility: A Novel Static Ranking of Question Search. | Young-In Song, Chin-Yew Lin, Yunbo Cao, Hae-Chang Rim |
| 2008 | ACL | A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search. | Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Miao Xiong, Yunbo Cao, Yong Yu |
| 2008 | ACL | Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus. | Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu |
| 2008 | COLING | Understanding and Summarizing Answers in Community-Based Question Answering Services. | Yuanjie Liu, Shasha Li, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Dingyi Han, Yong Yu |
| 2008 | WWW | Recommending questions using the mdl-based tree cut model. | Yunbo Cao, Huizhong Duan, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu, Hsiao-Wuen Hon |
| 2007 | CIKM | Using social annotations to improve language model for information retrieval. | Shengliang Xu, Shenghua Bao, Yunbo Cao, Yong Yu |
| 2007 | ECIR | Searching Documents Based on Relevance and Type. | Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, Yalou Huang |
| 2007 | EMNLP | Low-Quality Product Review Detection in Opinion Summarization. | Jingjing Liu, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yalou Huang, Ming Zhou |
| 2007 | PAKDD | Using Social Annotations to Smooth the Language Model for IR. | Shengliang Xu, Shenghua Bao, Yong Yu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2006 | ICDM | Mining Latent Associations of Objects Using a Typed Mixture Model--A Case Study on Expert/Expertise Mining. | Shenghua Bao, Yunbo Cao, Bing Liu, Yong Yu, Hang Li |
| 2006 | ICDM | CoMiner: An Effective Algorithm for Mining Competitors from the Web. | Rui Li, Shenghua Bao, Jin Wang, Yong Yu, Yunbo Cao |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval. | Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon |
| 2005 | CIKM | A new approach to intranet search based on information extraction. | Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Yunhua Hu, Shenjie Li, Dmitriy Meyerzon |
| 2005 | KDD | Email data cleaning. | Jie Tang, Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, ZhaoHui Tang |
| 2005 | WWW | Ranking definitions with supervised learning methods. | Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Min Zhao |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Title extraction from bodies of HTML documents and its application to web page retrieval. | Yunhua Hu, Guomao Xin, Ruihua Song, Guoping Hu, Shuming Shi, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li |
| 2003 | ACL | Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm. | Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Li Lian |
| 2002 | COLING | Base Noun Phrase Translation Using Web Data and the EM Algorithm. | Yunbo Cao, Hang Li |