Publications

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  1. CulFiT: A Fine-grained Cultural-aware LLM Training Paradigm via Multilingual Critique Data Synthesis. Ruixiang Feng, Shen Gao*, Xiuying Chen, Lisi Chen, Shuo Shang. ACL 2025.

  2. Generative Next POI Recommendation with Semantic ID. Dongsheng Wang, Yuxi Huang, Shen Gao*, Yifan Wang, Chengrui Huang, Shuo Shang. KDD 2025.

  3. SMSMO: Learning to generate multimodal summary for scientific papers. Xinyi Zhong, Zusheng Tan, Shen Gao, Jing Li, Jiaxing Shen, Jingyu Ji, Jeff Tang, Billy Chiu. Knowledge-Based Systems.

  4. Unified Multi-Scenario Summarization Evaluation and Explanation. Shuo Shang, Zhitao Yao, Hao Fu, Chongyang Tao, Xiuying Chen, Feng Wang, Yongbo Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Shen Gao*. TKDE.

  5. Tool learning in the wild: Empowering language models as automatic tool agents. Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Lingyong Yan, Yue Feng, Xiuyi Chen, Zhumin Chen, Dawei Yin, Suzan Verberne, Zhaochun Ren. WWW 2025.

  6. New Paradigm for Evaluating Scholar Summaries: A Facet-aware Metric and A Meta-evaluation Benchmark. Tairan Wang, Xiuying Chen, Qingqing Zhu, Taicheng Guo, Shen Gao, Zhiyong Lu, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang. TOIS 2025.

  7. Real-Time Single-Source Personalized PageRank over Evolving Social Networks. Sujun Shuai, Xuan Rao, Lisi Chen, Shuo Shang, Shen Gao. ICDE 2025.

  8. DRE: Generating Recommendation Explanations by Aligning Large Language Models at Data-level. Yifan Wang, Shen Gao, Jiabao Fang, Lisi Chen, Peng Han, and Shuo Shang. DASFAA 2025.

  9. DRMR: An Immersing Oriented Role-Playing Framework with Duplex Relationship Modeling. Yuntao Wen, Shen Gao, Chengrui Huang, Yifan Wang, and Shuo Shang. DASFAA 2025.

  10. Learning to Use Tools via Cooperative and Interactive Agents. Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Xiuyi Chen, Yue Feng, Lingyong Yan, Haibo Shi, Dawei Yin, Pengjie Ren, Suzan Verberne and Zhaochun Ren. EMNLP 2024 Findings. PDF

  11. 360REA: Towards A Reusable Experience Accumulation with 360 Assessment for Multi-Agent System. Shen Gao, Hao Li, Zhengliang Shi, Chengrui Huang, Quan Tu, Shuo Shang, Zhiliang Tian, Minlie Huang. ACL 2024 Findings. PDF

  12. Generate-then-Ground in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering. Zhengliang Shi, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Sun, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Zhaochun Ren. ACL 2024. PDF

  13. Characteristic AI Agents via Large Language Models. Xi Wang, Hongliang Dai, Shen Gao and Piji Li. COLING 2024. PDF

  14. Generative News Recommendation. Shen Gao, Jiabao Fang, Quan Tu, Zhitao Yao, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren. WWW 2024. PDF

  15. Confucius: Iterative Tool Learning from Introspection Feedback by Easy-to-Difficult Curriculum. Shen Gao, Zhengliang Shi, Minghang Zhu, Bowen Fang, Xin Xin, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Jun Ma, Zhaochun Ren. AAAI 2024. PDF

  16. Write Summary Step-by-Step: A Pilot Study of Stepwise Summarization. Xiuying Chen, Shen Gao, Mingzhe Li, Qingqing Zhu, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang. TASLP. PDF

  17. Center-retained fine-tuning for conversational question ranking through unsupervised center identification. Zhongkun Liu, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Shen Gao, Jun Ma, Pengjie Ren. Information Processing & Management. PDF

  18. Multi-Defendant Legal Judgment Prediction via Hierarchical Reasoning. Yougang Lyu, Jitai Hao, Zihan Wang, Kai Zhao, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Fang Wang, Zhaochun Ren. EMNLP 2023 Findings. PDF

  19. Towards a Unified Framework for Reference Retrieval and Related Work Generation. Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao^, Zhen Zhang, Xiuying Chen, Chumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren. EMNLP 2023 Findings. PDF

  20. Multi-Defendant Legal Judgment Prediction via Hierarchical Reasoning. Yougang Lyu, Jitai Hao, Zihan Wang, Kai Zhao, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Fang Wang, Zhaochun Ren. EMNLP 2023 Findings. PDF

  21. Dialogue Summarization with Static-Dynamic Structure Fusion Graph. Shen Gao, Xin Cheng, Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Jinpeng Li, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by ACL 2023. PDF

  22. SSP: Self-Supervised Post-training for Conversational Search. Quan Tu*, Shen Gao*, Xiaolong Wu, Zhao Cao, Ji-Rong Wen and Rui Yan. Accepted by ACL 2023 Findings. PDF

  23. UMSE: Unified Multi-scenario Summarization Evaluation. Shen Gao, Zhitao Yao, Chongyang Tao, Xiuying Chen, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren and Zhumin Chen. Accepted by ACL 2023 Findings. PDF

  24. A Topic-aware Summarization Framework with Different Modal Side Information. Xiuying Chen, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Xin Cheng, Qiang Yang, Qishen Zhang, Xin Gao and Xiangliang Zhang. Accepted by SIGIR 2023. PDF

  25. A Trend of AI Conference Convergence in Similarity: An Empirical Study through Trans-Temporal Heterogeneous Graph. Shen Gao, Haotong Zhang, Xiuying Chen, Chongyang Tao, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by TKDE. PDF

  26. Follow the Timeline! Generating an Abstractive and Extractive Timeline Summary in Chronological Order. Xiuying Chen, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Zhangming Chan, Dongyan Zhao, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang and Rui Yan. Accepted by TOIS. PDF

  27. Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations. Weiwei Sun, Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Maarten de Rijke and Zhaochun Ren. Accepted by AAAI 2023. PDF

  28. Summarizing Procedural Text: Data and Approach. Shen Gao, Haotong Zhang, Xiuying Chen, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by EMNLP 2022 Findings. PDF

  29. Scientific Paper Extractive Summarization Enhanced by Citation Graphs. Xiuying Chen, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Rui Yan, Xin Gao and Xiangliang Zhang . Accepted by EMNLP 2022. PDF

  30. Neural Machine Translation with Contrastive Translation Memories. Xin Cheng, Shen Gao, Lemao Liu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan . Accepted by EMNLP 2022. PDF

  31. Conversational Recommendation via Hierarchical Information Modeling. Shen Gao, Quan Tu, Yanran Li, Jianwei Cui, Bin Wang and Rui Yan. Accepted by SIGIR 2022. PDF

  32. Target-aware Abstractive Related Work Generation with Contrastive Learning. Xiuying Chen, Hind Alamro, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Rui Yan, Xin Gao and Xiangliang Zhang. Accepted by SIGIR 2022. PDF

  33. Learning towards conversational AI: A survey. Tingchen Fu, Shen Gao, Xueliang Zhao, Ji-rong Wen and Rui Yan. Accepted by AI Open 2022. PDF

  34. Follow the Timeline! Generating Abstractive and Extractive Timeline Summary in Chronological Order. Xiuying Chen, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Zhangming Chan, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by TOIS 2022. PDF

  35. HeteroQA: Learning towards Question-and-Answering through Multiple Information Sources via Heterogeneous Graph Modeling. Shen Gao, Yuchi Zhang, Yongliang Wang, Yang Dong, Xiuying Chen, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by WSDM 2022. PDF

  36. BioGen: Generating Biography Summary under Table Guidance on Wikipedia. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Chang Liu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by ACL Findings 2021. PDF

  37. Capturing Relations between Scientific Papers: An Abstractive Model for Related Work Section Generation. Xiuying Chen, Hind Alamro, Mingzhe Li, Shen Gao, Xiangliang Zhang, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by ACL 2021. PDF

  38. Learning to Organize a Bag of Words into Sentences with Neural Networks: An Empirical Study. Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Juntao Li, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan. Accepted by NAACL 2021. PDF

  39. The Style-Content Duality of Attractiveness: Learning to Write Eye-Catching Headlines via Disentanglement. Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Min Yang, Shen Gao, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by AAAI 2021. PDF

  40. Meaningful Answer Generation of E-Commerce Question-Answering. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by TOIS 2021. PDF

  41. Learning to Respond with Your Favorite Stickers: A Framework of Unifying Multi-Modality and User Preference in Multi-Turn Dialog. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Li Liu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by TOIS 2021. PDF

  42. Selection and Generation: Learning towards Multi-Product Advertisement Post Generation. Zhangming Chan, Yuchi Zhang, Xiuying Chen, Shen Gao, Zhiqiang Zhang, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by EMNLP 2020. PDF

  43. VMSMO: Learning to Generate Multimodal Summary for Video-based News Articles. Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Shen Gao, Zhangming Chan, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by EMNLP 2020. PDF

  44. From Standard Summarization to New Tasks and Beyond: Summarization with Manifold Information. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by IJCAI 2020 (Special Track. Acceptance criteria: 1) Core AI topic and 2) The list of authors should contain at least one author who has made significant contributions to the topic over the last few years and can be considered an expert on that topic.) PDF

  45. RPM-Oriented Query Rewriting Framework for E-commerce Keyword-Based Sponsored Search. Xiuying Chen, Daorui Xiao, Shen Gao, Guojun Liu, Wei Lin, Bo Zheng, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by AAAI 2020 Student Poster. PDF

  46. Learning to Respond with Stickers: A Framework of Unifying Multi-Modality in Multi-Turn Dialog. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Chang Liu, Li Liu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by WWW 2020. PDF

  47. How to Write Summaries with Patterns? Learning towards Abstractive Summarization through Prototype Editing. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Piji Li, Zhanming Chan, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by EMNLP 2019. PDF

  48. Learning towards Abstractive Timeline Summarization. Xiuying Chen, Zhangming Chan, Shen Gao, Meng-Hsuan Yu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by IJCAI 2019. PDF

  49. Product-Aware Answer Generation in E-Commerce Question-Answering. Shen Gao, Zhaochun Ren, Yihong Eric Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Dawei Yin and Rui Yan. Accepted by WSDM 2019. PDF

  50. Abstractive Text Summarization by Incorporating Reader Comments. Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Piji Li, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by AAAI 2019. PDF

  51. Iterative Document Representation Learning Towards Summarization with Polishing. Xiuying Chen, Shen Gao, Chongyang Tao, Yan Song, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by EMNLP 2018. PDF

  52. Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism. Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, Wei Wu, Dongyan Zhao and Rui Yan. Accepted by IJCAI 2018. PDF