Papers by Yuanyuan Zhao

7 papers
Neural Topic Modeling with Large Language Models in the Loop (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in topic discovery, but their direct application to topic modeling suffers from issues such as incomplete topic coverage, misalignment of topics, and inefficiency.
Approach: They propose a novel LLM-in-the-loop framework that integrates Large Language Models with Neural Topic Models (NTMs) global topics and document representations are learned through the NTM, while an LLM refines these topics using an Optimal Transport (OT)-based alignment objective.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves topic interpretability while preserving the efficiency of existing NTMs.
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.
Demystifying Data Organization for Enhanced LLM Training (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various fields, yet their training efficiency is heavily reliant on effective data curation.
Approach: They propose to reuse pre-computed sample-level scores originally generated for data efficiency and introduce two new data ordering methods to improve LLM training.
Outcome: The proposed methods improve the stability and performance of LLM training.
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.
Paragraph-level Neural Question Generation with Maxout Pointer and Gated Self-attention Networks (D18-1)

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Challenge: Existing rule-based question generation models rely on one or two sentences as input, while long text has posed challenges for sequence to sequence neural models.
Approach: They propose a maxout pointer mechanism with gated self-attention encoder to address the challenges of processing long text inputs for question generation.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models with sentence-level or paragraph-level inputs pushing the state-of-the-art result from 13.9 to 16.3 (BLEU_4).
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.

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