Papers by Yuying Zhu
CAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition (NER) in Chinese is essential but difficult because of the lack of natural delimiters. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) model that uses a character-based convolutional neural network and a gated recurrent unit to capture the information from adjacent characters and sentence contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on Weibo, MSRA and Chinese Resume datasets. |
Beyond Single-View Detection: A Dual-Space Reasoning Framework for Interpretable Harmful Meme Understanding (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying harmful memes rely on modal alignment or black-box classifiers . BPDMoE-Hate provides visual explanations for viewpoint selection and hierarchical structuring . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that conceptualizes harmful meme detection as a process of "viewpoint decoupling and hierarchical fusion" they propose BPDMoE-Hate, which generates adversarial binary perspectives via VLMs and incorporates an adaptive viewpoint gating to facilitate viewpoint selection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses existing methods in performance and provides visual explanations for viewpoint selection and hierarchical structuring. |
MTAG: Modal-Temporal Attention Graph for Unaligned Human Multimodal Language Sequences (2021.naacl-main)
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Jianing Yang, Yongxin Wang, Ruitao Yi, Yuying Zhu, Azaan Rehman, Amir Zadeh, Soujanya Poria, Louis-Philippe Morency
| Challenge: | a novel graph-based neural model for multimodal sequential data is proposed . fusion is the process of blending information from multiple modalities, usually preceded by alignment . |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based neural model that converts unaligned data into a modal-temporal graph . they use a dynamic pruning and read-out technique to efficiently process the graph fusion operation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs state-of-the-art on multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition benchmarks while utilizing significantly fewer model parameters. |