Papers by Mingjie Chen
Automatic Speech Recognition System-Independent Word Error Rate Estimation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Word error rate (WER) is a metric used to evaluate the quality of transcriptions produced by Automatic Speech Recognition systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a hypothesis generation method for ASR system-dependent WER estimation . they use phonetically similar or linguistically more likely alternative words to generate hypotheses . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline estimators on in-domain data and out-of-domain on Switchboard and CALLHOME. |
Retrieval and Reasoning on KGs: Integrate Knowledge Graphs into Large Language Models for Complex Question Answering (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have performed impressively in various NLP tasks, but their inherent hallucination phenomena severely challenge their credibility in complex reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate explainable Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with LLMs to alleviate hallucinations . they construct subgraphs to enhance the retrieval capabilities of KGs via CoT reasoning. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on two KGQA datasets show that the proposed model achieves convincing performance compared to strong baselines. |
Towards Boosting LLMs-driven Relevance Modeling with Progressive Retrieved Behavior-augmented Prompting (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to relevance modeling have lacked generalization and accuracy . recent studies have focused on capturing the semantic relationships between queries and items . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates world knowledge stored in LLMs with specialized domain knowledge represented by user behavior data for promising performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can handle full-scale search traffics of Alipay with acceptable cost and latency. |
HyCoRec: Hypergraph-Enhanced Multi-Preference Learning for Alleviating Matthew Effect in Conversational Recommendation (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to study the Matthew effect in Recommender Systems (RSs) however, it is amplified when the user interacts with the system over time. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm to alleviate the Matthew effect in conversational recommendation by learning multi-aspect preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art performance and superior of alleviating Matthew effect in conversational recommendation tasks. |
HyperCRS: Hypergraph-Aware Multi-Grained Preference Learning to Burst Filter Bubbles in Conversational Recommendation System (2025.findings-acl)
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Yongsen Zheng, Mingjie Qian, Guohua Wang, Yang Liu, Ziliang Chen, Mingzhi Mao, Liang Lin, Kwok-Yan Lam
| Challenge: | Existing methods to analyze filter bubbles in the static recommendation environment are unable to burst them during user interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm to learn multi-grained user preferences during dynamic user-system interactions via natural language conversations to burst filter bubbles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art performance and the superior of bursting filter bubbles in the conversational recommendation system. |