Publications 📚

Selected publications and preprints. "*" denotes equal contribution.

2024

  1. Nuance Matters: Probing Epistemic Consistency in Causal Reasoning
    Shaobo Cui, Junyou Li , Luca Mouchel , Yiyang Feng , and Boi Faltings
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00103, 2024
  2. The Odyssey of Commonsense Causality: From Foundational Benchmarks to Cutting-Edge Reasoning
    Shaobo Cui, Zhijing Jin , Bernhard Schölkopf , and Boi Faltings
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , 2024
  3. Exploring Defeasibility in Causal Reasoning
    Shaobo Cui, Lazar Milikic , Yiyang Feng , Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , and Boi Faltings
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 , 2024
  4. Unveiling the Art of Heading Design: A Harmonious Blend of Summarization, Neology, and Algorithm
    Shaobo Cui*, Yiyang Feng* , Yisong Mao , Yifan Hou , and Boi Faltings
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 , 2024

2023

  1. Towards Zero-Shot Personalized Table-to-Text Generation with Contrastive Persona Distillation
    Haolan Zhan , Xuming Lin , Shaobo Cui, Zhongzhou Zhao , Wei Zhou , and Haiqing Chen
    In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10, 2023 , 2023

2021

  1. GGP: A Graph-based Grouping Planner for Explicit Control of Long Text Generation
    Xuming Lin , Shaobo Cui, Zhongzhou Zhao , Wei Zhou , Ji Zhang , and Haiqing Chen
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management , 2021
  2. Predict-then-decide: a predictive approach for wait or answer task in dialogue systems
    Zehao Lin , Shaobo Cui, Guodun Li , Xiaoming Kang , Feng Ji , Fenglin Li , Zhongzhou Zhao , Haiqing Chen , and Yin Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021
  3. SPMoE: Generate Multiple Pattern-Aware Outputs with Sparse Pattern Mixture of Experts
    Shaobo Cui, Xintong Bao , Xuming Lin , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , Wei Zhou , and Haiqing Chen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07535, 2021
  4. Onestop qamaker: extract question-answer pairs from text in a one-stop approach
    Shaobo Cui, Xintong Bao , Xinxing Zu , Yangyang Guo , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , and Haiqing Chen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12128, 2021

2020

  1. Context-to-session matching: Utilizing whole session for response selection in information-seeking dialogue systems
    Zhenxin Fu , Shaobo Cui, Mingyue Shang , Feng Ji , Dongyan Zhao , Haiqing Chen , and Rui Yan
    In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery & data mining , 2020
  2. MTSS: learn from multiple domain teachers and become a multi-domain dialogue expert
    Shuke Peng , Feng Ji , Zehao Lin , Shaobo Cui, Haiqing Chen , and Yin Zhang
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2020
  3. Query-to-Session Matching: Do NOT Forget History and Future during Response Selection for Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems
    Zhenxin Fu , Shaobo Cui, Feng Ji , Ji Zhang , Haiqing Chen , Dongyan Zhao , and Rui Yan
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management , 2020

2019

  1. Dal: Dual adversarial learning for dialogue generation
    Shaobo Cui, Rongzhong Lian , Di Jiang , Yuanfeng Song , Siqi Bao , and Yong Jiang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09556, 2019

2017

  1. Accelerated stochastic greedy coordinate descent by soft thresholding projection onto simplex
    Chaobing Song , Shaobo Cui, Yong Jiang , and Shu-Tao Xia
    In NeurIPS 2017 , 2017
  2. Improved Optimization Methods for Regularized Optimal Transport
    Shaobo Cui, Chaobing Song , and Yong Jiang
    In 2017 IEEE 29th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) , 2017
  3. Effective Lipschitz constraint enforcement for Wasserstein GAN training
    Shaobo Cui, and Yong Jiang
    In ICCIA 2017 , 2017