Here is an archive for my (co-)authored conference papers, workshop papers and technical reports.
[1] Yisong Miao, Jian Zhu, Vered Shwartz (2026) LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary (To appear). [PDF] [Data and Code]
[2] Nura Tamton, Yisong Miao, Min-Yen Kan (2026) REPA: Reproducibility Evaluation via an Autonomous Pipeline Architecture. ICML 2026 Workshop AI4Science. [OpenReview]
[1] Yisong Miao , Min-Yen Kan (2025) Discursive Circuits: How Do Language Models Understand Discourse Relations? Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China (Talk). [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Data and Code]
[1] Yisong Miao , Hongfu Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Nancy F. Chen, Min-Yen Kan (2024) Discursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models’ Understanding of Discourse Relations. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand (Talk). ⭐️Senior Area Chair Award (Discourse and Pragmatics Track)⭐️ [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [The Dataset / Official Implementation]
[2] Zi Yun Yang^, Ziqing Zhang^, Yisong Miao (2024). ELCo Dataset: Bridging Emoji and Lexical Composition. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italia (Poster). [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [The Dataset / Official Implementation]
^ denotes my undergraduate student mentees. I took the senior author position since my PhD advisor served as the conference chair. We submitted the article without him. We are grateful for his tireless training.
[1] Saurabh Jain, Yisong Miao, Min-Yen Kan, Comparative Snippet Generation. [ 2022.ecnlp-1.7 (@ ACL Anthology) ] [ Poster (.pdf) ] [ Dataset (@ GitHub) ]
[1] Wenqiang Lei, Yisong Miao, Runpeng Xie, Bonnie Webber, Meichun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua and Nancy Chen (2021) Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It’s Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence (AAAI ‘21 Virtual). [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Code and Data] [bib]
[2] Yisong Miao. (2021). Mining and Analyzing Questions from Paper Titles. An Engineering Trial Task. [Slides@Google] [Codebase@GitHub]
[3] Yihao Ang, Yisong Miao* . (*=Ordered Alphabetically) (2021) Towards Molecular-level Similarity Search based on Text Data. An In-Class Project in CS6219, Advanced Topics in Computer Systems. [Slides@here] [Code@GitHub]
[4] Yong Liang Goh* , Yongbin Li* , Yisong Miao*. (*=Ordered Alphabetically) (2021) Connecting the Dots: Explaining Human Reasoning on the Graph. A Case Study on Deep Question Generation. An In-Class Paper in CS6208, Advanced Topics in AI. [PDF] [Code upon request]
[1] Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan, Tat Seng Chua (2020). Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ‘20) (Talk). [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Codes and Project Websites @ Github.io]
[2] Wenqiang Lei, Gangyi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Xiang Wang, Liang Chen and Tat-Seng Chua (2020). Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation. (KDD ‘20) (Virtual). [PDF] [Codes and Project Websites @ Github.io]