Papers by Hongbin Liu

6 papers
A Dialogue-based Information Extraction System for Medical Insurance Assessment (2021.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a new system that integrates advanced NLP technologies for medical insurance assessment is proposed . the average time cost of the procedure is reduced from 55 minutes to 35 minutes .
Approach: They propose a dialogue-based information extraction system that integrates advanced NLP technologies for medical insurance assessment.
Outcome: The proposed system reduces the time cost of the procedure from 55 minutes to 35 minutes and saves 30% human resources cost compared with the previous offline procedure.
Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to detect mental manipulations are limited due to complexity of detecting subtle, covert tactics in conversations.
Approach: They propose an approach to detect mental manipulations using large language models using intent-aware prompting by capturing the intents of participants.
Outcome: The proposed approach significantly reduces false negatives, helping detect more instances of mental manipulation with minimal misjudgment of positive cases.
Reinforced Training Data Selection for Domain Adaptation (P19-1)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to learn domains with massive data are not easy to implement and require a predefined threshold.
Approach: They propose a framework that searches for training instances relevant to the target domain and learns better representations for them.
Outcome: The proposed framework is effective in data selection and representation, but generalized to accommodate different NLP tasks.
Visual Hallucinations of Multi-modal Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies find VH instances only in existing image datasets, which results in biased understanding of MLLMs’ performance under VH.
Approach: They propose a tool called VHTest to generate a diverse set of VH instances from existing image datasets and a text-to-image generative model to generate VH images based on the text descriptions.
Outcome: The proposed tool finds VH instances in existing image datasets and generates images based on the text descriptions.
Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt Injection (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Multimodal large language models are powerful tools for analyzing Internet-scale image data.
Approach: They propose a method to protect images from unauthorized analysis by MLLMs . they embed a perturbation that acts as a visual prompt injection attack on MLMLs if a malicious actor downloads and queries an image .
Outcome: The proposed method protects images from unauthorized analysis by MLLMs . it embeds a perturbation that acts as a visual prompt injection attack on MLMLs if a malicious actor downloads and queries the protected image .
LC4EE: LLMs as Good Corrector for Event Extraction (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Event extraction (EE) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet deploying a practical EE system remains challenging.
Approach: They propose to leverage the superior extraction capability of LLMs and instruction-following ability of LRMs to construct a robust and highly available EE system.
Outcome: The proposed method can identify and correct errors in SLMs predictions based on automatically generated feedback information and improve performance.

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