Papers by Yuanyuan Sun

15 papers
OD-RTE: A One-Stage Object Detection Framework for Relational Triple Extraction (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing pipelines for relational triple extraction are underutilizing regional information of triple.
Approach: They propose a one-stage Object Detection framework for Relational Triple Extraction . framework uses vertices-based bounding box detection and global relational triple region detection .
Outcome: The proposed framework could extract all types of triples on two widely used datasets.
It’s Not Bragging If You Can Back It Up: Can LLMs Understand Braggings? (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Bragging is a pervasive social-linguistic phenomenon that reflects complex human interaction patterns.
Approach: They propose to use bragging recognition, bragging explanation, and bragging generation tasks to examine bragging in large language models (LLMs) .
Outcome: The proposed models can identify bragging intent, social appropriateness, and account for context sensitivity and provide new insights into how LLMs process bragging.
Joint Entity and Relation Extraction for Legal Documents with Legal Feature Enhancement (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for information extraction are based on pipelining to extract entities from unstructured judgment documents . a large number of judgment documents are released on China Judgments Online .
Approach: They propose a legal triplet extraction system for drug-related criminal judgment documents . they annotate a dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction in Chinese legal domain .
Outcome: The proposed system extracts entities and semantic relations jointly and benefits from the proposed legal lexicon feature and multi-task learning framework.
CogEvolve: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Relational Reasoning in Semantic Extension (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: a gap exists between human embodied logic and machine statistical learning . authors: models internalize statistical patterns or mimic static recognition .
Approach: They propose a cognitive linguistic benchmark to test whether large language models internalize statistical logic or not . they find that models function as "Super-Associators" expert at static recognition yet fail at causal reasoning .
Outcome: The proposed model fails at causal reasoning and has a high-fidelity concept representation but lacks transformational operators essential for true relational understanding.
STATE ToxiCN: A Benchmark for Span-level Target-Aware Toxicity Extraction in Chinese Hate Speech Detection (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies on Chinese hate speech detection lack span-level fine-grained annotations.
Approach: They construct a Span-level target-aware Toxicity Extraction dataset and evaluate existing models for Chinese hateful slang.
Outcome: The proposed dataset is the first span-level Chinese hate speech dataset and evaluates the ability of existing models to understand hate semantics.
Prototype Tuning: A Meta-Learning Approach for Few-Shot Document-Level Relation Extraction with Large Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Few-Shot Document-Level Relation Extraction (FSDLRE) aims to develop models capable of generalizing to new categories with minimal support examples.
Approach: They propose a meta-training approach to train Large Language Models to improve their ICL capabilities . they construct simulated episodes using relation types that do not overlap with test corpus .
Outcome: Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms baseline models on few-shot tasks.
Breaking the Boundaries: A Unified Framework for Chinese Named Entity Recognition Across Text and Speech (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks are limited by the complexity of the data and the potential connections between tasks.
Approach: They propose a task to break the boundaries between different modal NER tasks by using a unified data format for inputs from different modalités.
Outcome: The proposed task breaks the boundaries between different modal NER tasks and is a unified implementation of them.
Semantic Parsing for English as a Second Language (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies on domain adaptation in NLP focus on learning challenges at the syntax-semantics interface during second language acquisition.
Approach: They propose to use English Resource Grammar and TLE to parse ESL data using a reranking model to evaluate the quality of the annotations.
Outcome: The proposed model can obtain a very promising quality in comparison to human annotations.
Uncovering the Bigger Picture: Comprehensive Event Understanding Via Diverse News Retrieval (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing news retrieval systems prioritize textual relevance, leading to redundancy and limited viewpoint exposure.
Approach: They propose a framework that explicitly models semantic variation at the sentence level.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms strong baselines in terms of retrieval diversity without compromising relevance.
Semantic Role Labeling for Learner Chinese: the Importance of Syntactic Parsing and L2-L1 Parallel Data (D18-1)

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Challenge: a learner language (interlanguage) is an idiolect developed by a learning of a second or foreign language.
Approach: They propose to use semantic role labeling as a case task to parse interlanguages . they then evaluate three off-the-shelf SRL systems to gauge how successful they are .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an F-score of 72.06, a 2.02 point improvement over the baseline.
Mechanistic Insights into Deferred Semantic Drift in LLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) face a fundamental challenge with delayed disambiguation: how can a model update the meaning of an early, ambiguous token when clarifying context only appears later in the sequence?
Approach: They propose a method to defer semantic re-evaluation to subsequent tokens in a process they call "Deferred Semantic Drift" they demonstrate this mechanism in metaphor comprehension and provide causal validation by steering model outputs towards literal or metaphorical meanings via targeted activation interventions.
Outcome: The proposed model can update the meaning of an ambiguous word when clarifying context arrives only after it has been processed.
Two Languages Are Better than One: Bilingual Enhancement for Chinese Named Entity Recognition (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies focus on internal features of Chinese named entity recognition, but neglect other lingual modalities.
Approach: They propose a bilingual enhancement module for Chinese Named Entity Recognition . they integrate rich English information into Chinese representation and use it to learn the interaction between bilinguals and dependent information within Chinese.
Outcome: The proposed model can learn the interaction of bilinguals and dependent information within Chinese.
Pre- and In-Parsing Models for Neural Empty Category Detection (P18-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies on empty category detection have shown positive effects on syntactic parsing . empty categories are used to indicate long-distance dependencies, discontinuous constituents, and certain dropped elements.
Approach: They propose to use ECD to detect empty categories without syntactic analysis.
Outcome: The proposed models outperform the prior state-of-the-art by significant margins.
Sheep’s Skin, Wolf’s Deeds: Are LLMs Ready for Metaphorical Implicit Hate Speech? (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: specialized models fail to detect implicit hate speech due to its indirectly expressed hateful intent . advanced LLMs often misinterpret metaphorical implicit hate content, resulting in its propagation .
Approach: They propose a Jailbreaking strategy and Energy-based Constrained Decoding techniques to detect implicit hate speech in large language models.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate metaphorical implicit hate speech, but it fails to detect it effectively.

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