Papers by Jianzhu Bao
Comprehensive and Efficient Distillation for Lightweight Sentiment Analysis Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent efforts to develop lightweight and practical sentiment analysis models are limited by manual instruction and large-scale user texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for sentiment analysis that uses attribute-based instruction construction and difficulty-based data filtering to distill knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods in data efficiency and performance. |
A Multi-persona Framework for Argument Quality Assessment (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for argument quality assessment do not consider multi-perspective evaluation due to subjective nature of arguments. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-persona framework for argument quality assessment that simulates diverse evaluator perspectives through large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines while providing comprehensive multi-perspective rationales on IBM-Rank-30k and IBM-ArgQ-5.3kArgs datasets. |
Have my arguments been replied to? Argument Pair Extraction as Machine Reading Comprehension (2022.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies identify argument pairs indirectly by predicting sentence-level relations between two documents, neglecting the holistic argument-level interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use machine reading comprehension to extract argument pairs from two documents . they propose to employ an AM query to identify all arguments in two documents, then an APE query to extract its paired arguments from another document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 7.11% in F1 score. |
PITA: Prompting Task Interaction for Argumentation Mining (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Argumentation mining (AM) aims to detect arguments and their inherent relations from textual compositions. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to model the inter-relationships among three subtasks within a generative framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two AM benchmarks. |
Exploring Quality and Diversity in Synthetic Data Generation for Argument Mining (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Argument Mining (AM) is hindered by the scarcity of structure-annotated datasets, which are expensive to create manually. |
| Approach: | They propose to use quality-oriented synthesis and diversity-oriented approach to generate argumentative texts with diverse topics and argument structures. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach significantly improves existing models in full-data and low-resource settings. |
BC-Prover: Backward Chaining Prover for Formal Theorem Proving (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for interactive theorem proving in formal logic lack robustness and robustness. |
| Approach: | They propose a backward chaining framework guided by pseudo steps for proofstep generation that prioritizes pseudo steps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the miniF2F benchmark. |
A Generative Model for End-to-End Argument Mining with Reconstructed Positional Encoding and Constrained Pointer Mechanism (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Argument mining (AM) is a challenging task as it requires recognizing complex argumentation structures involving multiple subtasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a generative framework where expected outputs of AM are framed as a simple target sequence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on two AM benchmarks. |
Argument Pair Extraction with Mutual Guidance and Inter-sentence Relation Graph (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on argumentation mining focus on monological argumentation and dialogical argumentation. |
| Approach: | They propose a mutual guidance framework that could guide arguments in one passage . they propose an inter-sentence relation graph to effectively model the inter-relations between two sentences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art model. |
Learning First-Order Logic Rules for Argumentation Mining (2025.acl-long)
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Yang Sun, Guanrong Chen, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Jianzhu Bao, Yuqi Huang, Bin Liang, Kam-Fai Wong, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu
| Challenge: | Argumentation Mining (AM) aims to extract argumentative structures from texts by identifying argumentation components (ACs) and their argumentative relations (ARs). |
| Approach: | They propose a First- Order Logic reasoning framework for AM to capture logical reasoning paths within argumentative texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong baselines while significantly improving explainability. |
Decomposing Argumentative Essay Generation via Dialectical Planning of Complex Reasoning (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Argumentative Essay Generation (AEG) is a challenging task in computational argumentation, where detailed logical reasoning and effective rhetorical skills are essential. |
| Approach: | They propose an argumentative planning strategy for prompting large language models to generate high-quality essays by sketch planning and dialectical planning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates more dialectical and persuasive essays with higher diversity compared to baselines. |
ArgGenBench: Benchmarking the Complex Controlled Argument Generation Capability of Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on limited control signals such as topic, stance, length, style, strategy, audience, and key aspects, failing to capture this complexity. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that integrates multi-dimensional control into a single instruction to evaluate LLMs' ability to produce persuasive arguments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that existing models fail to capture multifaceted argumentative control signals. |
Targeted Distillation for Sentiment Analysis (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies demonstrate that large language models exhibit remarkable capabilities and achieve state-of-the-art performance in diverse sentiment analysis tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a distillation framework that decouples knowledge from alignment and introduces a sentiment analysis benchmark that covers a diverse set of tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves models' generalization to unseen tasks and their generalization is strong against existing small-scale models. |
Discourse Structure-Aware Prefix for Generation-Based End-to-End Argumentation Mining (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in AM models overlook the integration of supplementary discourse structure information, resulting in suboptimal outcomes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework which generates discourse structure-aware prefixes for each layer of the generation model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on two AM benchmarks. |
Learning More from Less: Exploiting Counterfactuals for Data-Efficient Chart Understanding (2026.acl-long)
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Jianzhu Bao, Haozhen Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Bozhi Wu, Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi, Zi Pong Lim, Yon Shin Teo, Wenya Wang
| Challenge: | Chart understanding is a critical capability for vision-language models, serving as a cornerstone for automated data analysis, document understanding, and scientific research. |
| Approach: | They propose a chart-efficient training framework to enhance counterfactual sensitivity by code modification and a similarity-based data selection strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves superior or comparable performance to strong chart-specific VLMs while using significantly less training data. |
Probing Structural Knowledge from Pre-trained Language Model for Argumentation Relation Classification (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Argumentation relation classification (ARC) is the most challenging subtask of argumentation mining. |
| Approach: | They propose a dual prior graph neural network to explore probing knowledge and syntactical information for comprehensively modeling the relationship between AC pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on three public datasets. |
Probing Graph Decomposition for Argument Pair Extraction (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Argument pair extraction (APE) aims to extract interactive argument pairs from two passages within a discussion. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to extract interactive argument pairs from two passages . they propose to decompose the probing graph into four sub-graphs based on inter- and intra-passage perspectives . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on strong baselines on two benchmark datasets. |
A Synthetic Data Generation Framework for Grounded Dialogues (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to train grounded dialogues require large amounts of data. |
| Approach: | They propose a synthetic data generation framework for grounded dialogues that takes knowledge data and heuristics to determine a dialogue flow and incrementally turn it into a dialog. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly boosts model performance in training data and low-resource scenarios. |
Deep-Reporter: Deep Research for Grounded Multimodal Long-Form Generation (2026.acl-long)
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Fangda Ye, Kuicai Dong, Xie Zhifei, Yuxin Hu, Yihang Yin, Shurui Huang, Shikai Dong, Chen Zhang, Jianzhu Bao, Shuicheng Yan
| Challenge: | Recent agentic search frameworks are text-centric, overlooking multimodal evidence . a pressing task is multimodal long-form generation, a new paper argues . |
| Approach: | They propose a unified agentic framework for grounded multimodal long-form generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is based on a unified agentic framework for grounded multimodal long-form generation. |
Retrieval-free Knowledge Injection through Multi-Document Traversal for Dialogue Models (2023.acl-long)
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Rui Wang, Jianzhu Bao, Fei Mi, Yi Chen, Hongru Wang, Yasheng Wang, Yitong Li, Lifeng Shang, Kam-Fai Wong, Ruifeng Xu
| Challenge: | Existing research on retrieval-augmented and retrieval free dialogue models focuses on retrieving knowledge from external sources and rely on finely annotated retrieval training data and knowledge-grounded responses. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-free approach by turning knowledge documents into simulated multi-turn dialogues using a Multi-Document Traversal algorithm. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms retrieval-augmented models while being cheaper and faster at domain transfer. |
Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction as Sequence Labeling Based on A Novel Tagging Scheme (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract emotions and causes from unannotated emotion texts are labor intensive and limited applications in real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel task to find emotions and corresponding causes in unannotated emotion texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 2.26% (p0.001) in F1 measure. |
A Neural Transition-based Model for Argumentation Mining (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying argumentation structures are inefficient and class imbalanced. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural transition-based model that incrementally builds an argumentation graph by generating a sequence of actions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can handle tree and non-tree structured argumentation without structural constraints. |
AEG: Argumentative Essay Generation via A Dual-Decoder Model with Content Planning (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on argument generation focus on generating individual short arguments, while research on generating long and coherent argumentative essays is under-explored. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to automatically generate argumentative essays using a writing prompt. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates persuasive essays with higher diversity and less repetition compared to baselines. |