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Yunyao Li

28 accepted papers

2026

Human-LLM Collaborative Feature Engineering for Tabular Data

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate feature engineering in tabular learning. Given task-specific information, LLMs can propose diverse feature transformation operations to enhance downstream model performance. However, current approaches typically assign the LLM as a black…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PAGER: Proactive Monitoring Agent for Enterprise AI Assistant

AAAI 2026technical

We present a Proactive Monitoring Agent designed for large-scale customer data platforms, such as Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), to predict and prevent workflow disruptions before they impact business operations. Unlike existing reactive solutions that assist engineers only after failures occur, o

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Doc-React: Multi-page Heterogeneous Document Question-answering

ACL 2025short

Answering questions over multi-page, multimodal documents, including text and figures, is a critical challenge for applications that require answers to integrate information across multiple modalities and contextual dependencies. Existing methods, such as single-turn retrieval-augmented generation (…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses

AAAI 2025technical

We present ECLAIR (Enhanced CLArification for Interactive Responses), a novel unified and end-to-end framework for interactive disambiguation in enterprise AI assistants. ECLAIR generates clarification questions for ambiguous user queries and resolves ambiguity based on the user's response. We intro…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses in an Enterprise AI Assistant

AAAI 2025technical

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in understanding and generating natural language across various applications. However, they often struggle with resolving ambiguities in real-world, enterprise-level interactions, where context and domain-specific knowledge play a crucial r…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Evaluation and Incident Prevention in an Enterprise AI Assistant

AAAI 2025technical

Enterprise AI Assistants are increasingly deployed in domains where accuracy is paramount, making each erroneous output a potentially significant incident. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for monitoring, benchmarking, and continuously improving such complex, multi-component systems und…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Federated Retrieval Augmented Generation for Multi-Product Question Answering

COLING 2025industry

Recent advancements in Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation have boosted interest in domain-specific question-answering for enterprise products. However, AI Assistants often face challenges in multi-product QA settings, requiring accurate responses across diverse domains. Existin…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

KG-TRICK: Unifying Textual and Relational Information Completion of Knowledge for Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

COLING 2025main

Multilingual knowledge graphs (KGs) provide high-quality relational and textual information for various NLP applications, but they are often incomplete, especially in non-English languages. Previous research has shown that combining information from KGs in different languages aids either Knowledge G…

2025

MuRAR: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Retrieval and Answer Refinement Framework for Multimodal Question Answering

COLING 2025system demonstrations

Recent advancements in retrieval-augmented generation have demonstrated impressive performance on the question-answering task. However, most previous work predominantly focuses on text-based answers. Although some studies have explored multimodal data, they still fall short in generating comprehensi…

2025

Rewind and Render: Towards Factually Accurate Text-to-Video Generation with Distilled Knowledge Retrieval

AAAI 2025technical

Text-to-Video (T2V) models, despite recent advancements, struggle with factual accuracy, especially for knowledge-dense content. We introduce FACT-V (Factual Accuracy in Content Translation to Video), a system integrating multi-source knowledge retrieval into T2V pipelines. FACT-V offers two key ben…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

AGRaME: Any-Granularity Ranking with Multi-Vector Embeddings

EMNLP 2024main

Ranking is a fundamental problem in search, however, existing ranking algorithms usually restrict the granularity of ranking to full passages or require a specific dense index for each desired level of granularity. Such lack of flexibility in granularity negatively affects many applications that can…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Construction of Paired Knowledge Graph - Text Datasets Informed by Cyclic Evaluation

COLING 2024main

Datasets that pair Knowledge Graphs (KG) and text together (KG-T) can be used to train forward and reverse neural models that generate text from KG and vice versa. However models trained on datasets where KG and text pairs are not equivalent can suffer from more hallucination and poorer recall. In t…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA Datasets with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024industry

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conversational assistants necessitates dynamic, scalable, and configurable conversational datasets for training and evaluation.These datasets must accommodate diverse user interaction modes, including text and voice, each presenting unique mode…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Enhancing Machine Translation Experiences with Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

AAAI 2024technical

Translating entity names, especially when a literal translation is not correct, poses a significant challenge. Although Machine Translation (MT) systems have achieved impressive results, they still struggle to translate cultural nuances and language-specific context. In this work, we show that the i…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Entity Disambiguation via Fusion Entity Decoding

NAACL 2024long

Entity disambiguation (ED), which links the mentions of ambiguous entities to their referent entities in a knowledge base, serves as a core component in entity linking (EL). Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy compared to classification approaches under the standardized ZELD…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

RETAIN: Interactive Tool for Regression Testing Guided LLM Migration

EMNLP 2024system demonstrations

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into diverse applications. The rapid evolution of LLMs presents opportunities for developers to enhance applications continuously. However, this constant adaptation can also lead to performance regressions during model migrations. While severa…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

StorySparkQA: Expert-Annotated QA Pairs with Real-World Knowledge for Children’s Story-Based Learning

EMNLP 2024main

Interactive story reading is common in early childhood education, where teachers expect to teach both language skills and real-world knowledge beyond the story. While many story reading systems have been developed for this activity, they often fail to infuse real-world knowledge into the conversatio…

2024

Time Sensitive Knowledge Editing through Efficient Finetuning

ACL 2024short

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in different tasks and are bringing transformative changes to many domains. However, keeping the knowledge in LLMs up-to-date remains a challenge once pretraining is complete. It is thus essential to design effective methods to bot…

2024

Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

EMNLP 2024main

Translating text that contains entity names is a challenging task, as cultural-related references can vary significantly across languages. These variations may also be caused by transcreation, an adaptation process that entails more than transliteration and word-for-word translation. In this paper,…

2023

Beyond Labels: Empowering Human Annotators with Natural Language Explanations through a Novel Active-Learning Architecture

EMNLP 2023long findings

Real-world domain experts (e.g., doctors) rarely annotate only a decision label in their day-to-day workflow without providing explanations. Yet, existing low-resource learning techniques, such as Active Learning (AL), that aim to support human annotators mostly focus on the label while neglecting t…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

EMNLP 2023long main

Recent work in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision has been using textual information – e.g., entity names and descriptions – available in knowledge graphs to ground neural models to high-quality structured data. However, when it comes to non-English languages, the quantity and quality o…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

When to Use What: An In-Depth Comparative Empirical Analysis of OpenIE Systems for Downstream Applications

ACL 2023long

Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) has been used in the pipelines of various NLP tasks. Unfortunately, there is no clear consensus on which models to use in which tasks. Muddying things further is the lack of comparisons that take differing training sets into account. In this paper, we present an…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

Domain Representative Keywords Selection: A Probabilistic Approach

ACL 2022findings

We propose a probabilistic approach to select a subset of a target domain representative keywords from a candidate set, contrasting with a context domain. Such a task is crucial for many downstream tasks in natural language processing. To contrast the target domain and the context domain, we adapt t…

2021

Development of an Enterprise-Grade Contract Understanding System

NAACL 2021industry

Contracts are arguably the most important type of business documents. Despite their significance in business, legal contract review largely remains an arduous, expensive and manual process. In this paper, we describe TECUS: a commercial system designed and deployed for contract understanding and use…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2021

LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

ACL 2021long

Entity linking (EL) is the task of disambiguating mentions appearing in text by linking them to entities in a knowledge graph, a crucial task for text understanding, question answering or conversational systems. In the special case of short-text EL, which poses additional challenges due to limited c…

2020

Exploiting Node Content for Multiview Graph Convolutional Network and Adversarial Regularization

COLING 2020main

Network representation learning (NRL) is crucial in the area of graph learning. Recently, graph autoencoders and its variants have gained much attention and popularity among various types of node embedding approaches. Most existing graph autoencoder-based methods aim to minimize the reconstruction e…

2020

SEBF: A Single-Chain based Extension Model of Blockchain for Fintech

IJCAI 2020poster

The traditional blockchain has the shortcoming that a single-chain can only deal with one or a few specific data types. The research question of how to make blockchain be able to deal with various data types has not been well studied. In this paper, we propose a single-chain based extension model of…