• "UAL-Bench: The First Comprehensive Unusual Activity Localization Benchmark".
  Hasnat Md Abdullah, Tian Liu, Kangda Wei, Shu Kong and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2025).
  

• "Evaluating Gender Bias of LLMs in Making Morality Judgements".
  Divij Bajaj, Yuanyuan Lei, Jonathan Tong and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2024).
  

• "Boosting Logical Fallacy Reasoning in LLMs via Logical Structure Tree".
  Yuanyuan Lei and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024).
  

• "Are LLMs Good Annotators for Discourse-level Event Relation Extraction?".
  Kangda Wei, Aayush Gautam and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2024).
  

• "LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing".
  Jiangshu Du, Yibo Wang,...Fei Liu, Ruihong Huang, Eduardo Blanco, Yixin Cao, Rui Zhang, Philip S. Yu and Wenpeng Yin.
  in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024).
  

• "EMONA: Event-level Moral Opinions in News Articles".
  Yuanyuan Lei, Md Messal Monem Miah, Ayesha Qamar, Sai Ramana Reddy, Jonathan Tong, Haotian Xu and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).
  [pdf]

• "Sentence-level Media Bias Analysis with Event Relation Graph".
  Yuanyuan Lei and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).
  [pdf]

• "Polarity Calibration for Opinion Summarization".
  Yuanyuan Lei, Kaiqiang Song, Sangwoo Cho, Xiaoyang Wang, Ruihong Huang and Dong Yu.
  in Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).
  [pdf]

• "Discourse Structures Guided Fine-grained Propaganda Identification".
  Yuanyuan Lei and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
  

• "All Things Considered: Detecting Partisan Events from News Media with Cross-Article Comparison".
  Yujian Liu, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Kaijian Zou, Ruihong Huang, Nick Beauchamp and Lu Wang.
  in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
  

• "Identifying Conspiracy Theories News based on Event Relation Graph".
  Yuanyuan Lei and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2023).
  

• "Who is Speaking? Speaker-Aware Multiparty Dialogue Act Classification".
  Ayesha Qamar, Adarsh Pyarelal and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2023).
  

• "Hierarchical Fusion for Online Multimodal Dialog Act Classification".
  Md Messal Monem Miah Md Messal Monem Miah, Adarsh Pyarelal and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2023).
  

• "Composition-contrastive Learning for Sentence Embeddings".
  Sachin Chanchani and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).
  [pdf]

• "HYTREL: Hypergraph-enhanced Tabular Data Representation Learning".
  Pei Chen, Soumajyoti Sarkar, Leonard Lausen, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Sheng Zha, Ruihong Huang and George Karypis.
  in Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).
  [pdf]

• "Semi-supervised News Discourse Profiling with Contrastive Learning".
  Ming Li and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023).
  [pdf]

• "Sentence-level Media Bias Analysis Informed by Discourse Structures".
  Yuanyuan Lei, Ruihong Huang, Lu Wang and Nick Beauchamp.
  in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).
  

• "Few-Shot (Dis)Agreement Identification in Online Discussions with Regularized and Augmented Meta-Learning".
  Yuanyuan Lei and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2022).
  

• "Modeling Document-level Temporal Structures for Building Temporal Dependency Graph".
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL 2022) (short paper), to appear.
  [pdf]

• "Crossroads, Buildings and Neighborhoods: a Dataset for Fine-grained Location Recognition".
  Pei Chen, Haotian Xu, Cheng Zhang and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2022).
  [pdf]

• Predicting Sentence Deletions for Text Simplification Using a Functional Discourse Structure"".
  Bohan Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) (short paper).
  [pdf]

• "Modeling Content Organization Structures for News Discourse Profiling via Explicit Subtopic Structures Guided Critics"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP 2021).
  [pdf]

• "A Joint Model for Structure-based News Genre Classification with Application to Text Summarization".
  Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang.
  in Findings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Findings of ACL, 2021).
  [pdf]

• "Explicitly Capturing Relations between Entity Mentions via Graph Neural Networks for Domain-specific Named Entity Recognition".
  Pei Chen, Haibo Ding, Jun Araki and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL 2021) (short paper).
  [pdf]

• "Automatic Data Acquisition for Event Coreference Resolution".
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021).
  [pdf]

• "Recognizing creative visual design: multiscale design characteristics in free-form web curation documents".
  Ajit Jain, Andruid Kerne, Nic Lupfer, Gabriel Britain, Aaron Perrine, Yoonsuck Choe, John Keyser and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2021.
  [pdf]

• "PYInfer: Deep Learning Semantic Type Inference for Python Variables".
  Siwei Cui, Gang Zhao, Zeyu Dai, Luochao Wang, Ruihong Huang, Jeff Huang.
  in arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14316, 2021.
  [pdf]

• "Weakly Supervised Subevent Knowledge Acquisition"
  Wenlin Yao, Zeyu Dai, Maitreyi Ramaswamy, Bonan Min and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2020).
  [pdf] [code & data]

• "PARADE: A New Dataset for Paraphrase Identification Requiring Computer Science Domain Knowledge"
  Yun He, Zhuoer Wang, Yin Zhang, Ruihong Huang and James Caverlee.
  in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2020).
  [pdf] [data]

• "Reconstructing Event Regions for Event Extraction via Graph Attention Networks"
  Pei Chen, Hang Yang, Kang Liu, Ruihong Huang, Yubo Chen, Taifeng Wang and Jun Zhao.
  In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-2020).
  [pdf]

• "Discourse as a Function of Event: Profiling Discourse Structure in News Articles around the Main Event"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Aaron Lee, Ruihong Huang and Lu Wang.
  in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2020).
  [pdf] [data (The NewsDiscourse Corpus)]

• "One Classifier for All Ambiguous Words: Overcoming Data Sparsity by Utilizing Sense Correlations Across Words"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-20).
  [pdf]

• "Weakly-supervised Fine-grained Event Recognition on Social Media Texts for Disaster Management"
  Wenlin Yao, Cheng Zhang, Shiva Saravanan, Ruihong Huang and Ali Mostafavi.
  in Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20).
  [pdf]

• "ADORE: Aspect Dependent Online REview Labeling for Review Generation"
  Parisa Kaghazgaran, Jianling Wang, Ruihong Huang and James Caverlee.
  in the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-20).
  [pdf]

• "Semiautomated Social Media Analytics for Sensing Societal Impacts Due to Community Disruptions during Disasters"
  Cheng Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Yang Yang, Ruihong Huang and Ali Mostafavi.
  in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (2020).
  [pdf]

• "A Regularization Approach for Incorporating Event Knowledge and Coreference Relations into Neural Discourse Parsing"
  Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-19).
  [pdf]

• "In Plain Sight: Media Bias through the Lens of Factual Reporting"
  Lisa Fan, Marshall White, Eva Sharma, Ruisi Su, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang and Lu Wang.
  in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-19) (Short Paper).
  [pdf]

• "Modeling Document-level Causal Structures for Event Causal Relation Identification"
  Lei Gao, Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-19).
  [pdf]

• "Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Discerning the Relevant Context"
  Sanuj Sharma, Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-19) (Short Paper).
  [pdf]

• "Exploring the Emergence of Influential Users on Social Media during Natural Disasters"
  Yang Yang, Cheng Zhang, Chao Fan, Wenlin Yao, Ruihong Huang and Ali Mostafavi.
  in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2019): 101204.
  [pdf]

• "A Graph-based Approach for Detecting Critical Infrastructure Disruptions on Social Media in Disasters"
  Chao Fan, Ali Mostafavi, Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 52nd HAWAII International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-19) (Best Paper Nomination).
  [pdf]

• "Building Context-aware Clause Representations for Situation Entity Type Classification"
  Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-18).
  [pdf]

• "Improving Event Coreference Resolution by Modeling Correlations between Event Coreference Chains and Document Topic Structures"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-18).
  [pdf]

• "Temporal Event Knowledge Acquisition via Identifying Narratives"
  Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-18).
  [pdf]

• "Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph"
  Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-18).
  [pdf]

• "Identifying the Most Dominant Event in a News Article by Mining Event Coreference Relations"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kaushik Raju and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-18) (Short Paper).
  [pdf]

• "Fine-grained Structure-based News Genre Categorization".
  Zeyu Dai, Himanshu Taneja and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2018 Events and Stories in the News Workshop (co-located with COLING-18).
  [pdf] [data]

• "Event Coreference Resolution by Iteratively Unfolding Inter-dependencies among Events"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-17).
  [pdf]

• "A Sequential Model for Classifying Temporal Relations between Intra-Sentence Events"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-17) (Short Paper).
  [pdf]

• "A Weakly Supervised Approach to Train Temporal Relation Classifiers and Acquire Regular Event Pairs Simultaneously"
  Wenlin Yao, Saipravallika Nettyam and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-17).
  [pdf]

• "Online Deception Detection Refueled by Real World Data Collection"
  Wenlin Yao, Zeyu Dai, Ruihong Huang and James Caverlee.
  in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-17).
  [pdf]

• "Detecting Online Hate Speech Using Context Aware Models"
  Lei Gao and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-17) (Poster Paper).
  [pdf]

• "Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach"
  Lei Gao, Alexis Kuppersmith and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017).
  [pdf]

• "Using Context Events in Neural Network Models for Event Temporal Status Identification"
  Zeyu Dai, Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017) (Short Paper).
  [pdf]

• "TAMU at KBP 2017: Event Nugget Detection and Coreference Resolution"
  Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2017).
  [pdf]

• "Distinguishing Past, Ongoing and Future Events: the EventStatus Corpus".
  Ruihong Huang, Ignacio Cases, Dan Jurafsky, Cleo Condoravdi, Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-16).
  [pdf] [Data (The EventStatus Corpus)]

• "Extracting Subevents via an Effective Two-phase Approach".
  Allison Badgett, Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-16) (Short Papers).
  [pdf]

• "Learning Event Expressions via Bilingual Structure Projection".
  Fangyuan Li, Ruihong Huang, Deyi Xiong.
  in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-16).
  [pdf]

• "CaseSummarizer: A System for Automated Summarization of Legal Texts".
  Seth Polsley, Pooja Jhunjhunwala, Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-16)(demo session).
  [pdf]

• "Towards Accurate Event Detection in Social Media: A Weakly Supervised Approach for Learning Implicit Event Indicators".
  Ajit Jain, Girish Kasiviswanathan, Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (co-located with COLING-16).
  [pdf]

• "IMPROVING INFORMATION EXTRACTION BY DISCOURSE-GUIDED AND MULTIFACETED EVENT RECOGNITION".
  Ruihong Huang.
  Dissertation 2014.
  [pdf]

• "Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-13).
  [pdf]

• "Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation".
  Ellen Riloff, Ashequl Qadir, Prafulla Surve, Lalindra De Silva, Nathan Gilbert, Ruihong Huang.
  in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-13).
  [pdf]

• "Classifying Message Board Posts with an Extracted Lexicon of Patient Attributes".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-13) (Short Papers).
  [pdf]

• "Modeling Textual Cohesion for Event Extraction".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of the 26th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12).
  [pdf]

• "Bootstrapped Training of Event Extraction Classifiers".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12).
  [pdf]

• "Peeling Back the Layers: Detecting Event Role Fillers in Secondary Contexts".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-11).
  [pdf]

• "Inducing Domain-specific Semantic Class Taggers from (Almost) Nothing".
  Ruihong Huang and Ellen Riloff.
  in Proceedings of The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10).
  [pdf] [code]

• Pei Chen (PhD, 2019-2023, first employment: Applied Scientist at Amazon), thesis: Connecting the Dots: Improving Information Extraction by Modeling the Non-Sequential Dependencies of Entity Mentions
• Prafulla Kumar Choubey (PhD, 2016-2021, first employment: Research Scientist at Salesforce), thesis: News Discourse Structure-Guided Approaches for Event Coreference Resolution
• Wenlin Yao (PhD, 2015-2020, first employment: Research Scientist at Tencent AI lab), thesis: Weakly-supervised Learning Approaches for Event Knowledge Acquisition and Event Detection
• Ajit Jain (PhD, co-advised with Dr. Andruid Kerne, 2015-2020), thesis: How to Support Situated Design Education Assessment and Feedback through AI-Based Analytics

• Rizu Jain (MS, 2020-2021, first employment: NVIDIA), thesis: Enhancing Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversation by Leveraging Common-sens
• Sanuj Sharma (MS, 2018-2020, first employment: Google), thesis: Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
• Aaron Lee (MS, 2018-2020)
• Sanjeev Kumar Singh (MS, 2019-2020, first employment: NVIDIA)
• Justin Hill (MS, 2018-2019), thesis: Exploiting Document-level Temporal Rhythms for Event Temporal Status Identification
• Amulya Jitendra Agarwal (MS, 2018-2019), worked on online hate speech detection
• Lei Gao (MS, 2016-2018), thesis: Detecting Online Hate Speech Using Both Supervised and Weakly-supervised Approaches
• Himanshu Taneja (MS, 2016-2017), worked on Fine-grained Structure Based News Genre Classification
• Nfn Kaushik Raju (MS, 2016-2018), worked on identifying dominant events in a news article
• Tianjian Wang (MS, 2015-2018), worked on text summarization
• Bowen Li (MS, 2016-2018), worked on word sense disambiguation

• Maitreyi Ramaswamy (ugrad, 2019-2020), honor thesis: Clustering Events Based On Common Subevent
• Kevin Sittser (ugrad, 2019-2020), honor thesis: Classification of Futuristic Technologies Described in Speculative Fiction Novels
• Alishah Dholasaniya (ugrad, 2017-2019), worked on event noun acquisition
• Allison Badgett (ugrad, 2016-2017), honor thesis: A General-Purpose Approach to Temporal Event Ontology Creation
• Saipravallika Nettyam (ugrad, 2016-2018), worked on annotating and identifying event temporal relations
• Chris Madison (ugrad, 2016-2019), worked on fake review identification
• Myunghoon Lee (ugrad, 2017), worked on metaphor identification

• Shiva Saravanan (local high school student, 2018-2019, then Princeton University), worked on event recognition from social media posts
• Alexis Kuppersmith (local high school student, 2016-2017, then Stanford University), worked on annotating and detecting online hate speech

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