Papers by Susik Yoon
DynaMiTE: Discovering Explosive Topic Evolutions with User Guidance (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing Dynamic topic models are either fully supervised, requiring expensive human annotations, or fully unsupervised, producing topic evolutions that often do not cater to a user’s needs. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a framework that ensembles semantic similarity, category indicative, and time indicative scores to produce informative topic evolutions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be used to discover topic evolutions from temporal corpora that align with user-provided category names and uniquely capture topics at each time step. |
Multi-level Diagnosis and Evaluation for Robust Tabular Feature Engineering with Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models have shown promise in feature engineering for tabular data, but reliability concerns persist due to variability in generated outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level diagnosis and evaluation framework to assess the robustness of large language models in feature engineering across diverse domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses the robustness of large language models across domains. |
MEGClass: Extremely Weakly Supervised Text Classification via Mutually-Enhancing Text Granularities (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for text classification use human annotations or a set of class seed words for supervision, which can be costly, especially in emerging domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a weakly-supervised method that leverages mutually-enhancing text granularities to learn a contextualized document representation that captures the most discriminative class indicators. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on seven benchmark datasets show that MEGClass outperforms other weakly and extremely weakly supervised methods. |
Topic Taxonomy Expansion via Hierarchy-Aware Topic Phrase Generation (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for topic taxonomies focus on frequent terms and local topic-subtopic relations, which leads to limited topic term coverage. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for topic taxonomy expansion that directly generates topic-related terms belonging to new topics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on two real-world text corpora. |
Why These Documents? Explainable Generative Retrieval with Hierarchical Category Paths (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Generative retrieval directly decodes a document identifier, making it impossible to provide explanations for its retrieval decision. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical category path-Enhanced Generative Retrieval that generates category paths step-by-step and decodes docid. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method provides explanations for retrieval decision by generating hierarchical category paths step-by-step and decoding docid. |