publications

publications.

Most recent list at Google scholar. * denote equal contribution.

2025

  1. arxiv
    RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
    Jiaang Li*, Yifei Yuan*, Wenyan Li, and 8 more authors
    ArXiv, 2025
  2. WWW Tutorial
    Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
    Yifei Yuan, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Yang Deng, and 1 more author
    Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2025
  3. ICLR Workshop
    Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis
    Yifei Yuan and Anders Søgaard
    ArXiv, 2025
  4. arxiv
    Multi-Turn Multi-Modal Question Clarification for Enhanced Conversational Understanding
    Kimia Ramezan, Alireza Amiri Bavandpour, Yifei Yuan, and 2 more authors
    ArXiv, 2025

2024

  1. arxiv
    AGENT-CQ: Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Clarifying Questions for Conversational Search with LLMs
    Clemencia Siro, Yifei Yuan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and 1 more author
    ArXiv, 2024
  2. EMNLP
    Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering
    Yifei Yuan, Yang Deng, Anders Søgaard, and 1 more author
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
  3. WWW
    Asking Multimodal Clarifying Questions in Mixed-Initiative Conversational Search
    Yifei Yuan, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024
  4. Arxiv
    A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics and Humans in Citation Evaluation
    Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jiahuan Pei, and 3 more authors
    ArXiv, 2024
  5. INLG
    Towards Fine-Grained Citation Evaluation in Generated Text: A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics
    Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Yifei Yuan, and 3 more authors
    INLG, 2024
  6. EMNLP
    FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture
    Wenyan Li, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaang Li, and 9 more authors
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
  7. LREC-COLING
    CO3: Low-resource Contrastive Co-training for Generative Conversational Query Rewrite
    Yifei Yuan, Chen Shi, Runze Wang, and 5 more authors
    COLING, 2024
  8. ACL
    On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
    Yang Deng, Xuan Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang, and 3 more authors
    In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024
  9. arxiv
    Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing
    Yong Cao, Wenyan Li, Jiaang Li, and 2 more authors
    ArXiv, 2024

2023

  1. WSDM
    Let the LLMs Talk: Simulating Human-to-Human Conversational QA via Zero-Shot LLM-to-LLM Interactions
    Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Yifei Yuan, E. Kanoulas, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023
  2. SIGIR-AP
    Multimodal Fashion Knowledge Extraction as Captioning
    Yifei Yuan, Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 2023
  3. ACL
    Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, and 1 more author
    In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

2022

  1. EMNLP
    McQueen: a Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Query Rewrite
    Yifei Yuan, Chen Shi, Runze Wang, and 4 more authors
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

2021

  1. WSDM
    Sentiment Analysis of Fashion Related Posts in Social Media
    Yifei Yuan and Wai Lam
    Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2021
  2. EMNLP
    Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation
    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, and 3 more authors
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
  3. SIGIR
    Conversational Fashion Image Retrieval via Multiturn Natural Language Feedback
    Yifei Yuan and Wai Lam
    Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

2020

  1. AACL
    Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation
    Yifei Yuan, Jingbo Zhou, and Wai Lam
    In AACL, 2020