Papers by Jingjing Tang
Asking Clarification Questions in Knowledge-Based Question Answering (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing clarification datasets with limited annotated examples do not address ambiguous phenomena. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that allows users to ask clarification questions using open-domain examples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves better performance than strong baselines and provides new challenges. |
Spatiotemporal Sycophancy: Negation-Based Gaslighting in Video Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing Vid-LLMs lack robust mechanisms for maintaining grounded spatiotemporal beliefs under conversational feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a negation-based gaslighting evaluation framework and introduce a benchmark to investigate spatiotemporal sycophancy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates state-of-the-art Vid-LLMs across video understanding tasks. |
Predicting Language Models’ Success at Zero-Shot Probabilistic Prediction (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Kevin Ren, Santiago Cortes-Gomez, Carlos Miguel Patiño, Ananya Joshi, Ruiqi Lyu, Jingjing Tang, Alistair Turcan, Khurram Yamin, Steven Wu, Bryan Wilder
| Challenge: | Recent work has investigated the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) as zero-shot models for generating individual-level characteristics. |
| Approach: | They conduct a large-scale empirical study of large language models’ zero-shot predictive capabilities across a wide range of tabular prediction tasks. |
| Outcome: | The results show that LLMs perform well on the base prediction task, and when they perform well, they are more likely to provide high-quality predictions. |
Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fact checking use string concatenation or fusing features of isolated evidence sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a method suitable for reasoning about the semantic-level structure of evidence . they use graph convolutional network and graph attention network to exploit the structure . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves claim verification accuracy and FEVER score on a benchmark dataset. |