📖 Selected Publications (Full List)

(* denotes equal contribution, # represents corresponding author)

Machine Learning for NLP

ACL 2025
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  • Impartial Multi-task Representation Learning via Variance-invariant Probabilistic Decoding.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. ACL 2025. (CCF-A)
    [Paper] [Code]
AAAI 2025
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  • An Information-theoretic Multi-task Representation Learning Framework for Natural Language Understanding.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. AAAI 2025. (CCF-A)
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ACL 2024
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  • Representation Learning with Conditional Information Flow Maximization.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. ACL 2024. (CCF-A)
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AAAI 2024
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  • Structured Probabilistic Coding.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Yaxin Liu, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. AAAI 2024. (CCF-A, Oral)
    [Paper] [Code]
EMNLP 2022
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  • VarMAE: Pre-training of Variational Masked Autoencoder for Domain-adaptive Language Understanding.
    Dou Hu, Xiaolong Hou, Xiyang Du, Mengyuan Zhou, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, and Xiaofeng Shi. Findings of EMNLP 2022. (CCF-B Findings)
    [Paper]

Representation Learning for Trustworthy LLMs

  • Regularized Contrastive Decoding with Hard Negative Samples for LLM Hallucination Mitigation.
    Haonan Sheng, Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. Findings of EMNLP 2025. (CCF-B Findings)

NLP Applications

Sentiment & Emotion Analysis:

  • Multi-stream Information Fusion Framework for Emotional Support Conversation.
    Yinan Bao, Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Shuchong Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. LREC-COLING 2024. (CCF-B)
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  • Supervised Adversarial Contrastive Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversations.
    Dou Hu, Yinan Bao, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. ACL 2023. (CCF-A)
    [Paper] [Code]

  • UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Enhancing Generalization of Multilingual BERT for Low-resource Sentiment Analysis.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Yaxin Liu, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. SemEval@ACL 2023. (1st Place, Best System Award)
    [Paper] [Code]

  • MM-DFN: Multimodal Dynamic Fusion Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversations.
    Dou Hu, Xiaolong Hou, Lingwei Wei, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo. ICASSP 2022. (CCF-B)
    [Paper] [Code]

  • DialogueCRN: Contextual Reasoning Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversations.
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Xiaoyong Huai. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. (CCF-A, Oral)
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Hierarchical Interaction Networks with Rethinking Mechanism for Document-level Sentiment Analysis.
    Lingwei Wei*, Dou Hu*, Wei Zhou, Xuehai Tang, Xiaodan Zhang, Xin Wang, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu. ECML-PKDD 2020. (CCF-B)
    [Paper] [Code]

Content Moderation & Safety:

  • Structure-adaptive Adversarial Contrastive Learning for Multi-Domain Fake News Detection.
    Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu#, Wei Zhou, Philip S. Yu, Songlin Hu#. Findings of ACL 2025. (CCF-A Findings) [Paper]

  • Transferring Structure Knowledge: A New Task to Fake News Detection Towards Cold-Start Propagation.
    Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. ICASSP 2024. (CCF-B)
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  • Modeling the Uncertainty of Information Propagation for Rumor Detection: A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach.
    Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu, Wei Zhou, Xin Wang, Songlin Hu. TNNLS 2024. (CCF-B, SCI-Q1)
    [Paper]

  • Modeling Both Intra-and Inter-Modality Uncertainty for Multimodal Fake News Detection.
    Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu. TMM 2023. (CCF-B, SCI-Q1)
    [Paper]

  • PALI at SemEval-2022 Task 7: Identifying Plausible Clarifications of Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Texts.
    Mengyuan Zhou, Dou Hu, Mengfei Yuan, Meizhi Jin, Xiyang Du, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, Xiaofeng Shi. SemEval@NAACL 2022. (1st Place)
    [Paper]

  • PALI-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 6: iSarcasmEval- Fine-tuning the Pre-trained Model for Detecting Intended Sarcasm.
    Xiyang Du, Dou Hu, Meizhi Jin, Lianxin Jiang, Xiaofeng Shi. SemEval@NAACL 2022. (1st Place)
    [Paper]

  • PAIC at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Multi-Modal Misogynous Detection in MEMES with Multi-Task Learning And Multi-model Fusion.
    Meizhi Jin, Mengyuan Zhou, Mengfei Yuan, Dou Hu, Xiyang Du, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, Xiaofeng Shi. SemEval@NAACL 2022. (2nd Place)
    [Paper]

  • PALI-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 4: Discriminative Fine-tuning of Transformers for Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection.
    Dou Hu, Zhou Mengyuan, Xiyang Du, Mengfei Yuan, Jin Zhi, Lianxin Jiang, Mo Yang, Xiaofeng Shi. SemEval@NAACL 2022. (1st Place)
    [Paper]

  • Towards Propagation Uncertainty: Edge-enhanced Bayesian Graph Convolutional Networks for Rumor Detection.
    Lingwei Wei, Dou Hu, Wei Zhou, Zhaojuan Yue, Songlin Hu. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. (CCF-A, Oral)
    [Paper]

  • A Rumor Detection Approach based on Multi-relational Propagation Tree (一种基于多关系传播树的谣言检测方法).
    Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Xiaoyong Huai, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu. Journal of Computer Research and Development 2021. (CCF-A Chinese)
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