Papers by Liping Jing
Structured Confidence–Guided Online Adaptation for LLM-based Multi-Label Classification (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) enable zero-shot and few-shot multi-label text classification . but most approaches perform static inference and degrade under streaming test data . |
| Approach: | They propose a structured confidence-guided online adaptation framework for LLM-based multi-label generation without parameter updates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves Micro-F1 and Macro-F1, with the largest gains on long-tail labels. |
Noisy Multi-Label Text Classification via Instance-Label Pair Correction (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Noise is a significant challenge for machine learning models, especially deep learning models. |
| Approach: | They propose a holistic selection metric that identifies noisy pairs while considering global loss information and instance-specific ranking information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach significantly improves performance in noisy multi-label text classification tasks. |
PsyChain: A Collaborative Chain-of-Agents Framework for Generating Personalized and Professional Counseling Dialogues (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing psychological counseling datasets suffer from monolithic client personas, insufficient therapeutic depth, and a lack of process controllability. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that evolves static counseling corpora into high-fidelity dialogues . they use a Client Profiler that pairs life scenarios with psychological personality archetypes based on client personality and stage progression . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 61-91% win rates against domain-specific baselines in pairwise evaluation and the highest average score in human evaluation, indicating potential for real-world counseling. |
Mitigating Over-Generation for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction with Heterogeneous Centrality Detection (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing keyphrase extraction models incorrectly determine a keyphrase as a phrase but output other candidates as keyphrases because they contain the same word. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach that detects both implicit and explicit centrality within a heterogeneous graph as the importance score of each candidate keyphrase. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art keyphrase extraction models on three benchmark datasets. |
Reframe Your Life Story: Interactive Narrative Therapist and Innovative Moment Assessment with Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yi Feng, Jiaqi Wang, Wenxuan Zhang, Zhuang Chen, Shen Yutong, Xiyao Xiao, Minlie Huang, Liping Jing, Jian Yu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to mental health support lack realism and capture therapeutic progression over time. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that simulates expert narrative therapists by planning therapeutic stages, guiding reflection levels, and generating contextually appropriate responses through retrieval-augmentation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms standard methods in quality and depth on 260 simulated clients and 230 human participants. |
Enhancing Multi-Label Text Classification under Label-Dependent Noise: A Label-Specific Denoising Framework (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing noisy multi-label text classification methods rely on the class-conditional noise assumption, but in practice, noisy labels exhibit a certain degree of correlation with the true labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a label-specific denoising framework to counteract label-dependent noise by evaluating loss information, ranking information, and feature centroid. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves over existing state-of-the-art models under both synthetic and real-world noise conditions. |
Importance Estimation from Multiple Perspectives for Keyphrase Extraction (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing keyphrase extraction methods focus on the part of phrase that is important . experimental results show that KIEMP outperforms existing keyphrase extracting methods . |
| Approach: | They propose to estimate the importance of keyphrase from multiple perspectives using a chunking module, ranking module and matching module. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art keyphrase extraction methods on six benchmark datasets. |
Match More, Extract Better! Hybrid Matching Model for Open Domain Web Keyphrase Extraction (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for keyphrase extraction use noisy information to filter the salient phrases from the document. |
| Approach: | They propose a hybrid matching model that combines representation-focused and interaction-based matching modules into a unified framework for improving keyphrase extraction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art keyphrase extraction models on the OpenKP dataset. |
Continual Gradient Low-Rank Projection Fine-Tuning for LLMs (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers efficiency but constrains the model’s ability to learn new tasks and transfer knowledge due to its low-rank nature and reliance on explicit parameter constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a training strategy that synergistically combines full and low-rank parameters and jointly updating within a unified low-ranked gradient subspace. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on continual learning benchmarks show that GORP improves performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches. |
StereoRel: Relational Triple Extraction from a Stereoscopic Perspective (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for relational triple extraction still face challenges, including information loss and error propagation. |
| Approach: | They propose a model which maps relational triples to a three-dimensional space and leverages three decoders to extract them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the baselines on five public datasets. |
Hyperbolic Capsule Networks for Multi-Label Classification (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for classification of labels are limited by feature aggregation and encoding. |
| Approach: | They propose to use hyperbolic capsule networks to capture fine-grained label information . they also propose a new routing method to adaptively adjust capsule number during routing . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves the performance of multi-label classification on tail labels. |
Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction by Learning Neural Keyphrase Set Function (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Unsupervised keyphrase extraction is a task of extracting a keyphrase set that provides readers with highlevel information about the key ideas or important topics described in the document. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised keyphrase extraction task that is a document-set matching problem instead of modeling the relevance between an individual phrase and the document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised keyphrase extraction baselines by a large margin. |
HyperRank: Hyperbolic Ranking Model for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised keyphrase extraction models overlook latent hierarchical structures when extracting keyphrases. |
| Approach: | They propose a new ranking model that models global and local contexts to estimate the importance of each candidate keyphrase within the hyperbolic space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in keyphrase extraction tasks. |
Hyperbolic Relevance Matching for Neural Keyphrase Extraction (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Keyphrase extraction is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to extract a set of phrases with important information from a source document. |
| Approach: | They propose a hyperbolic matching model to explore keyphrase extraction in hyperbolical space using word embeddings from RoBERTa to capture hierarchical syntactic and semantic structures. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on six benchmark datasets and outperformed previous models. |
A Survey on Recent Advances in Keyphrase Extraction from Pre-trained Language Models (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Keyphrase extraction is a key component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems for selecting a set of phrases from the document that could summarize the important information discussed in the source document. |
| Approach: | They propose to use supervised and unsupervised keyphrase extraction techniques to investigate the state-of-the-art models for keyphrase extracting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed keyphrase extraction system can significantly accelerate the speed of retrieval and help people get first-hand information from a long document quickly and accurately. |
Improving Embedding-based Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction by Incorporating Structural Information (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised keyphrase extraction models ignore the indicative role of the highlights in certain locations, leading to wrong keyphrases extraction. |
| Approach: | They propose a Highlight-Guided Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction model that models phrase-document relevance via the highlights of documents and calculates cross-phrase relevance between all candidate phrases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised keyphrase extraction models on three benchmarks. |
Label-Specific Document Representation for Multi-Label Text Classification (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to classify documents using labels only assign one label to document . multi-label text classification is a challenging task because of the huge amount of documents, words and labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a Label-Specific Attention Network (LSAN) to learn a label-specific document representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four datasets . it can predict low-frequency labels, and it can be used in sentimental analysis . |