Learning Event Extraction From a Few Guideline Examples.Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Xintong Yu, and Changshui Zhang.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2022.paper,
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Conference Publications
2025
Attention Entropy is a Key Factor: An Analysis of Parallel Context Encoding with Full-attention-based Pre-trained Language Models.Zhisong Zhang, Yan Wang, Xinting Huang, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Chenlong Deng, Shuaiyi Li, and Dong Yu.(ACL 2025)paper
OpenWebVoyager: Building Multimodal Web Agents via Iterative Real-World Exploration, Feedback and Optimization.Hongliang He, Wenlin Yao, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Zhenzhong Lan, and Dong Yu.(ACL 2025)paper
Assimilation and Accommodation: Task-Adaptive Hierarchical Abstraction for Solving Web Tasks.Xinyu Pang, Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, and Changshui Zhang.(Findings of ACL 2025)paper
DocBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Document Reading Systems.Anni Zou, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Deng Cai, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao, and Dong Yu.(KnowledGeNLP 2025)paper
Cognitive Kernel: An Open-source Agent System towards Generalist Autopilots.Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Hongwei Wang, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, and Dong Yu.(NAACL 2025 Demo)papercode
DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?Liqiang Jing, Zhehui Huang, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Hongming Zhang, Xinya Du, and Dong Yu.(ICLR 2025)
RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph.Siru Ouyang, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Zilin Xiao, Zhihan Zhang, Mengzhao Jia, Jiawei Han, Hongming Zhang, and Dong Yu.(ICLR 2025)
2024
Chain-of-Note: Enhancing Robustness in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models.Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Peixin Cao, Kaixin Ma, Jian Li, Hongwei Wang, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2024)
MixGR: Enhancing Retriever Generalization for Scientific Domain through Complementary Granularity.Fengyu Cai, Xinran Zhao, Tong Chen, Sihao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Iryna Gurevych, and Heinz Koeppl.(EMNLP 2024)
Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?Tong Chen, Hongwei Wang, Sihao Chen, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2024)
Abstraction-of-Thought Makes Language Models Better Reasoners.Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Dong Yu, and Changshui Zhang.(Findings of EMNLP 2024)
NegotiationToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind on Negotiation Surrounding.Chunkit Chan, Cheng Jiayang, Yauwai Yim, Zheye Deng, Wei Fan, Haoran Li, Xin Liu, Hongming Zhang, Weiqi Wang, and Yangqiu Song.(Findings of EMNLP 2024)
AbsInstruct: Eliciting Abstraction Ability from LLMs through Explanation Tuning with Plausibility Estimation.Zhaowei Wang, Wei Fan, Qing Zong, Hongming Zhang, Sehyun Choi, Tianqing Fang, Xin Liu, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, and Simon See.(ACL 2024)
CLOMO: Counterfactual Logical Modification with Large Language Models.Yinya Huang, Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Wei Shao, Zhicheng Yang, Dong Yu, Changshui Zhang, Xiaodan Liang, and Linqi Song.(ACL 2024)
WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models.Hongliang He, Wenlin Yao, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, Yong Dai, Hongming Zhang, Zhenzhong Lan, and Dong Yu.(ACL 2024)
Fact-and-Reflection (FaR) Improves Confidence Calibration of Large Language Models.Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Wenlin Yao, Dong Yu, Tongshuang Wu, and Jianshu Chen.(Findings of ACL 2024)
GEOHard: Towards Measuring Class-wise Hardness through Modelling Class Semantics.Fengyu Cai, Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Iryna Gurevych, and Heinz Koeppl.(Findings of ACL 2024)
A Closer Look at the Self-Verification Abilities of Large Language Models in Logical Reasoning.Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Xinyu Pang, Dong Yu, and Changshui Zhang.(NAACL 2024)
Sub-Sentence Encoder: Contrastive Learning of Propositional Semantic Representations.Sihao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Tong Chen, Ben Zhou, Wenhao Yu, Dian Yu, Baolin Peng, Hongwei Wang, Dan Roth, and Dong Yu.(NAACL 2024)
SocREval: Large Language Models with the Socratic Method for Reference-free Reasoning Evaluation.Hangfeng He, Hongming Zhang, and Dan Roth.(Findings of NAACL 2024)
Getting Sick After Seeing a Doctor? Diagnosing and Mitigating Knowledge Conflicts in Event Temporal Reasoning.Tianqing Fang, Zhaowei Wang, Wenxuan Zhou, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Muhao Chen.(Findings of NAACL 2024)
AbsPyramid: Benchmarking the Abstraction Ability of Language Models with a Unified Entailment Graph.Zhaowei Wang, Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Sehyun Choi, Xin Liu, and Yangqiu Song.(Findings of NAACL 2024)
CEO: Corpus-based Open-Domain Event Ontology Induction.Nan Xu, Hongming Zhang, and Jianshu Chen.(Findings of EACL 2024)
On-the-fly Denoising for Data Augmentation in Natural Language Understanding.Tianqing Fang, Wenxuan Zhou, Fangyu Liu, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Muhao Chen.(Findings of EACL 2024)
Event Semantic Classification in Context.Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Kaiqiang Song, Dong Yu, and Dan Roth.(Findings of EACL 2024)
2023
Are All Steps Equally Important? Benchmarking Essentiality Detection of Events.Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Yueguan Wang, Yuqian Deng, Muhao Chen, and Dan Roth.(EMNLP 2023)
On the Dimensionality of Sentence Embeddings.Hongwei Wang, Hongming Zhang, and Dong Yu.(Findings of EMNLP 2023)
PIVOINE: Instruction Tuning for Open-world Information Extraction.Keming Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Kaiqiang Song, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen.(Findings of EMNLP 2023)
STORYANALOGY: Deriving Story-level Analogies from Large Language Models to Unlock Analogical Understanding.Jiayang Cheng, Lin Qiu, Tsz Ho Chan, Tianqing Fang, Weiqi Wang, Chunkit Chan, Qipeng Guo, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Yue Zhang, and Zheng Zhang.(EMNLP 2023)
Bridging Continuous and Discrete Spaces: Interpretable Sentence Representation Learning via Compositional Operations.James Y. Huang, Wenlin Yao, Kaiqiang Song, Hongming Zhang, Muhao Chen, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2023, Outstanding Paper)
Thrust: Adaptively Propels Large Language Models with External Knowledge.Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Wenlin Yao, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen.(NeurIPS 2023)
Video State-changing Object Segmentation.Xiang Li, Jiangwei Yu, Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, and Yu-Xiong Wang.(ICCV 2023)
Faithful Question Answering with Monte-Carlo Planning.Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Hong Zhao, Dong Yu, and Changshui Zhang.(ACL 2023)
COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causality Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspective.Zhaowei Wang, Quyet V. Do, Hongming Zhang, Jiayao Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, and Simon See.(ACL 2023)
Knowledge-in-Context: Towards Knowledgeable Semi-Parametric Language Models.Xiaoman Pan, Wenlin Yao, Hongming Zhang, Dian Yu, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen.(ICLR 2023)paper
Extracting or Guessing? Improving Faithfulness of Event Temporal Relation Extraction.Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Yuqian Deng, Jacob R. Gardner, Muhao Chen, and Dan Roth.(EACL 2023)paper
How do Words Contribute to Sentence Semantics? Revisiting Sentence Embeddings with a Perturbation Method.Wenlin Yao, Lifeng Jin, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Kaiqiang Song, Dian Yu, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen.(Findings of EACL 2023)
CIKQA: Learning Commonsense Inference with a Unified Knowledge-in-the-loop QA Paradigm.Hongming Zhang, Yintong Huo, Yanai Elazar, Yangqiu Song, Yoav Goldberg, and Dan Roth.(Findings of EACL 2023)paper, code & data
Global Constraints with Prompting for Zero-Shot Event Argument Classification.Zizheng Lin, Hongming Zhang, and Yangqiu Song.(Findings of EACL 2023)
2022
MetaLogic: Logical Reasoning Explanations with Fine-Grained Structure.Yinya Huang, Hongming Zhang, Ruixin Hong, Xiaodan Liang, Changshui Zhang, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2022)paper, data & code
SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controller.Zhaowei Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, and Simon See.(EMNLP 2022)paper, code
Salience Allocation as Guidance for Abstractive Summarization.Fei Wang, Kaiqiang Song, Hongming Zhang, Lifeng Jin, Sangwoo Cho, Wenlin Yao, Xiaoyang Wang, Muhao Chen, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2022)paper, code
Z-LaVI: Zero-Shot Language Solver Fueled by Visual Imagination.Yue Yang, Wenlin Yao, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen.(EMNLP 2022)paper, code
Efficient Zero-shot Event Extraction with Context-Definition Alignment.Hongming Zhang, Wenlin Yao, and Dong Yu.(Findings of EMNLP 2022)paper, code
PseudoReasoner: Leveraging Pseudo Labels for Commonsense Knowledge Base Population.Tianqing Fang, Quyet V. Do, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, and Simon See.(Findings of EMNLP 2022)paper, code
MICO: A Multi-alternative Contrastive Learning Framework for Commonsense Knowledge Representation.Ying Su, Zihao Wang, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Tong Zhang.(Findings of EMNLP 2022)paper, code
Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation with Unified Sense Representation.Ying Su, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Tong Zhang.(COLING 2022)paper, code
Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality.Jiayao Zhang, Hongming Zhang, Weijie Su, and Dan Roth.(ICML 2022)paper, code
Towards Open-Domain Topic Classification.Hantian Ding, Jinrui Yang, Yuqian Deng, Hongming Zhang, and Dan Roth.(NAACL 2022 Demo)paper, code
METGEN: A Module-based Entailment Tree Generation Framework for Answer Explanation.Ruixin Hong, Hongming Zhang, Xintong Yu, and Changshui Zhang.(Findings of NAACL 2022)paper, code
Query2Particles: Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Particle Embeddings.Jiaxin Bai, Zihao Wang, Hongming Zhang, and Yangqiu Song.(Findings of NAACL 2022)paper, code
PCR4ALL: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Pronoun Coreference Resolution in English.Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, and Yangqiu Song.(LREC 2022)paper, code & data
CoCoLM: COmplex COmmonsense Enhanced Language Model.Changlong Yu*, Hongming Zhang*, Yangqiu Song, and Wilfred Ng.(Findings of ACL 2022)paper, code & data
Rare and Zero-shot Word Sense Disambiguation using Z-Reweighting.Ying Su, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Tong Zhang.(ACL 2022)paper, code
ARCLIN: Automated API Mention Resolution for Unformatted Texts.Yintong Huo, Yuxin Su, Hongming Zhang, and Michael Lyu.(ICSE 2022)paper
2021
Learning Constraints and Descriptive Segmentation for Subevent Detection.Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Muhao Chen, and Dan Roth.(EMNLP 2021)paper, code & data
Back to Square One: Bias Detection, Training and Commonsense Disentanglement in the Winograd Schema.Yanai Elazar, Hongming Zhang, Yoav Goldberg, and Dan Roth.(EMNLP 2021)paper, code & data
Exophoric Pronoun Resolution in Dialogues with Topic Regularization.Xintong Yu, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Changshui Zhang, Kun Xu, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2021)paper, code & data
Benchmarking Commonsense Knowledge Base Population with an Effective Evaluation Dataset.Tianqing Fang, Weiqi Wang, Sehyun Choi, Shibo Hao, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Bin He.(EMNLP 2021)paper, code & data
Do Boat and Ocean Suggest Beach? Dialogue Summarization with External Knowledge.Tianqing Fang, Haojie Pan, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Kun Xu, and Dong Yu.(AKBC 2021)paper, code & data
Zero-shot Label-Aware Event Trigger and Argument Classification.Hongming Zhang, Haoyu Wang, and Dan Roth.(Findings of ACL 2021)paper, code & data
Zero-shot Event Extraction via Transfer Learning: Challenges and Insights.Qing Lyu, Hongming Zhang, Elior Sulem, and Dan Roth.(ACL 2021)paper, code & data
Leveraging Topic Relatedness for Argument Persuasion.Xinran Zhao, Esin Durmus, Hongming Zhang, and Claire Cardie.(Findings of ACL 2021)
Learning Contextual Causality from Time-consecutive Images.Hongming Zhang, Yintong Huo, Xinran Zhao, Yangqiu Song, and Dan Roth.(CVPR 2021)paper, code & data
DISCOS: Bridging the Gap between Discourse Knowledge and Commonsense Knowledge.Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song, and Bin He.(WWW 2021)paper, code & data
Joint Coreference Resolution and Character Linking for Multiparty Conversation.Jiaxin Bai, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Kun Xu.(EACL 2021)paper, code & data
2020
What Are You Trying to Do? Semantic Typing of Event Processes.Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Haoyu Wang, and Dan Roth.(CoNLL 2020, Best Paper Nomination)paper, code & data
Analogous Process Structure Induction for Sub-event Sequence Prediction.Hongming Zhang, Muhao Chen, Haoyu Wang, Yangqiu Song, and Dan Roth.(EMNLP 2020)paper, code & data
Joint Constrained Learning for Event-Event Relation Extraction.Haoyu Wang, Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, and Dan Roth.(EMNLP 2020)paper, code
When Hearst Is not Enough: Improving Hypernymy Detection from Corpus with Distributional Models.Changlong Yu, Jialong Han, Peifeng Wang, Yangqiu Song, Hongming Zhang, Wilfred Ng, and Shuming Shi.(EMNLP 2020)paper, code
Enriching Large-Scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph with Entailment Relations.Changlong Yu, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Wilfred Ng, and Lifeng Shang.(AKBC 2020)paper, code & data
TransOMCS: From Linguistic Graphs to Commonsense Knowledge.Hongming Zhang, Daniel Khashabi, Yangqiu Song, and Dan Roth.(IJCAI 2020)paper, code & data
WinoWhy: A Deep Diagnosis of Essential Commonsense Knowledge for Answering Winograd Schema Challenge.Hongming Zhang*, Xinran Zhao*, and Yangqiu Song.(ACL 2020)paper, code & data
ASER: A Large-scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph.Hongming Zhang*, Xin Liu*, Haojie Pan*, Yangqiu Song, and Cane Wing-Ki Leung.(WWW 2020)paper, code & data
2019
Multiplex Word Embeddings for Selectional Preference Acquisition.Hongming Zhang*, Jiaxin Bai*, Yan Song, Kun Xu, Changlong Yu, Yangqiu Song, Wilfred Ng, and Dong Yu.(EMNLP 2019)paper, code
What You See is What You Get: Visual Pronoun Coreference Resolution in Conversations.Xintong Yu*, Hongming Zhang*, Yangqiu Song, Yan Song, and Changshui Zhang.(EMNLP 2019)paper, code
Multilingual and Multi-aspect Hate Speech Analysis.Nedjma Ousidhoum, Zizheng Lin, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Dit-Yan Yeung.(EMNLP 2019)paper, code
SP-10K: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set for Selectional Preference Acquisition.Hongming Zhang, Hantian Ding, and Yangqiu Song.(ACL 2019)paper, code & data
Knowledge-aware Pronoun Coreference Resolution.Hongming Zhang, Yan Song, Yangqiu Song, and Dong Yu.(ACL 2019)paper, code
Incorporating Context and External Knowledge for Pronoun Coreference Resolution.Hongming Zhang, Yan Song, and Yangqiu Song.(NAACL 2019)paper, code