Papers by Dongyu Wang
Rhetorical Device-Aware Sarcasm Detection with Counterfactual Data Augmentation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Sarcasm is a complex form of sentiment expression widely used in human daily life. |
| Approach: | They propose a device-aware sarcasm dataset with counterfactually augmented data to capture its complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that it is more balanced than zero-shot models. |
VET: Verifiable Execution Tracing for Reliable Text-to-SQL Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for text-to-SQL generation are prone to hallucinations and grounding . authors present a novel reasoning paradigm that transforms text- to-Sql from unverifiable textual rationales into step-wise executable semantics. |
| Approach: | They propose a reasoning paradigm that transforms text-to-SQL from unverifiable textual rationales into step-wise executable semantics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed reasoning paradigm transforms text-to-SQL from unverifiable textual rationales into step-wise executable semantics. |
StoryAnalogy: Deriving Story-level Analogies from Large Language Models to Unlock Analogical Understanding (2023.emnlp-main)
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Cheng Jiayang, Lin Qiu, Tsz Chan, Tianqing Fang, Weiqi Wang, Chunkit Chan, Dongyu Ru, Qipeng Guo, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Yue Zhang, Zheng Zhang
| Challenge: | Analogy-making between narratives is crucial for human reasoning . despite its importance, there has been limited research on story analogies . |
| Approach: | They construct a large-scale story-level analogy corpus with 24K story pairs . they find that the tasks are incredibly difficult for large language models such as ChatGPT . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains 24K story pairs from diverse domains with human annotations on two similarities from the extended Structure-Mapping Theory. |
Active Sentence Learning by Adversarial Uncertainty Sampling in Discrete Space (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing uncertainty sampling methods are time-consuming and can't be executed frequently. |
| Approach: | They propose adversarial uncertainty sampling in discrete space to find informative unlabeled text samples for annotation using adversarials. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baselines on effectiveness on five datasets. |
A Unified Generative Framework for Bilingual Euphemism Detection and Identification (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing euphemism datasets are only domain-specific or language-specific. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified model to jointly conduct bilingual euphemism detection and identification tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is effective and provides a new reference standard for euphemism detection and identification. |
OpenResearcher: Unleashing AI for Accelerated Scientific Research (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Yuxiang Zheng, Shichao Sun, Lin Qiu, Dongyu Ru, Cheng Jiayang, Xuefeng Li, Jifan Lin, Binjie Wang, Yun Luo, Renjie Pan, Yang Xu, Qingkai Min, Zizhao Zhang, Yiwen Wang, Wenjie Li, Pengfei Liu
| Challenge: | Global scientific publications are growing annually by about 4%-5% (Pinedo et al., 2024). |
| Approach: | They introduce an AI-assisted platform that answers diverse questions from researchers using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) they develop various tools to understand queries, search from the scientific literature, filter retrieved information, provide accurate and comprehensive answers, and self-refine answers. |
| Outcome: | OpenResearcher is built on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) with up-to-date, domain-specific knowledge. |
TCSinger 2: Customizable Multilingual Zero-shot Singing Voice Synthesis (2025.findings-acl)
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Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Dongyu Yao, Zhiyuan Zhu, Ziyue Jiang, Yuhan Wang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao
| Challenge: | Existing zero-shot singing voice synthesis models depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting their robustness and producing poor transitions between phonemes and notes. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task multilingual zero-shot SVS model with style transfer and style control based on various prompts. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that TCSinger 2 outperforms baseline models in subjective and objective metrics across multiple related tasks. |
Correct after Answer: Enhancing Multi-Span Question Answering with Post-Processing Method (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Prior work focuses on designing specific methods or applying heuristic strategies to encourage models to predict more correct predictions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses a post-processing strategy to handle incorrect predictions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves the Exact Match scores on multiple MSQA datasets. |
Bold Claims or Self-Doubt? Factuality Hallucination Type Detection via Belief State (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on detecting the presence of hallucinations but lack a systematic classification approach, which hinders deeper exploration of their characteristics. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to categorize hallucinations into two types: Overconfident and Unaware . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method categorizes factuality hallucination into two types: Overconfident and Unaware Hallucinations. |
WECA: A WordNet-Encoded Collocation-Attention Network for Homographic Pun Recognition (D18-1)
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Yufeng Diao, Hongfei Lin, Di Wu, Liang Yang, Kan Xu, Zhihao Yang, Jian Wang, Shaowu Zhang, Bo Xu, Dongyu Zhang
| Challenge: | Homographic puns have a long history in human writing, widely used in written and spoken literature, which intended as jokes. |
| Approach: | They propose a WordNet-encoded model to settle polysemy of homographic puns and a word weighted model for recognizing them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can distinguish between homographic pun and non-homographic pun texts. |