@article{Li2025RAVENEAAB,journal={ArXiv},title={RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding},author={Li, Jiaang and Yuan, Yifei and Li, Wenyan and Aliannejadi, Mohammad and Hershcovich, Daniel and S{\o}gaard, Anders and Vuli'c, Ivan and Zhang, Wenxuan and Liang, Paul Pu and Deng, Yang and Belongie, Serge},year={2025},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:278769446},show_bib={true}}
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
@article{Yuan2025RevisitingTO,title={Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis},author={Yuan, Yifei and Søgaard, Anders},journal={ArXiv},year={2025},volume={abs/2503.04421},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:276813578},}
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
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
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
@article{Yuan2024UnlockingMA,title={Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering},author={Yuan, Yifei and Deng, Yang and Søgaard, Anders and Aliannejadi, Mohammad},journal={Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},year={2024},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:272832066},}
WWW
Asking Multimodal Clarifying Questions in Mixed-Initiative Conversational Search
Yifei Yuan, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and 2 more authors
@article{Yuan2024AskingMC,title={Asking Multimodal Clarifying Questions in Mixed-Initiative Conversational Search},author={Yuan, Yifei and Siro, Clemencia and Aliannejadi, Mohammad and de Rijke, Maarten and Lam, Wai},journal={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024},year={2024},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:267627964},}
Arxiv
A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics and Humans in Citation Evaluation
Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jiahuan Pei, and 3 more authors
ArXiv, 2024
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
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
LREC-COLING
CO3: Low-resource Contrastive Co-training for Generative Conversational Query Rewrite
Yifei Yuan, Chen Shi, Runze Wang, and 5 more authors
@article{Yuan2024CO3LC,title={CO3: Low-resource Contrastive Co-training for Generative Conversational Query Rewrite},author={Yuan, Yifei and Shi, Chen and Wang, Runze and Chen, Liyi and Hu, Renjun and Zhang, Zengming and Jiang, Feijun and Lam, Wai},journal={COLING},year={2024},volume={abs/2403.11873},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:268531326},}
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
arxiv
Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing
Yong Cao, Wenyan Li, Jiaang Li, and 2 more authors
ArXiv, 2024
2023
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
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
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
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
@article{Yuan2022McQueenAB,title={McQueen: a Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Query Rewrite},author={Yuan, Yifei and Shi, Chen and Wang, Runze and Chen, Liyi and Jiang, Feijun and You, Yuan and Lam, Wai},journal={Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},year={2022},volume={abs/2210.12775},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253098774},}
2021
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
@article{Yuan2021SentimentAO,title={Sentiment Analysis of Fashion Related Posts in Social Media},author={Yuan, Yifei and Lam, Wai},journal={Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},year={2021},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:244117093},}
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
@article{Zhang2021AspectSQ,title={Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation},author={Zhang, Wenxuan and Deng, Yang and Li, Xin and Yuan, Yifei and Bing, Lidong and Lam, Wai},journal={Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},year={2021},volume={abs/2110.00796},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:238259938},}
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
@article{Yuan2021ConversationalFI,title={Conversational Fashion Image Retrieval via Multiturn Natural Language Feedback},author={Yuan, Yifei and Lam, Wai},journal={Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},year={2021},url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235368051},}
2020
AACL
Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation