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Wen-tau Yih

100 papers · 2002–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (10) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (23) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (13) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (30) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (13) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (17) 🌱 Topic Pioneer πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ† Grand Slam πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (27) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (22) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (17) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (266) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (10) ❓ The Questioner (2) πŸ’Ž Century Club (99) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter

Conferences

EMNLP (30) ACL (25) NAACL (13) ICML (6) IJCNLP (6) CONLL (5) ICLR (4) NIPS (4) COLING (3) EACL (2) AAAI (1) CVPR (1)

Top co-authors

Luke Zettlemoyer (17) Mike Lewis (12) Xilun Chen (11) Barlas Oguz (11) Xi Victoria Lin (10) Weijia Shi (9) Ming-Wei Chang (8) Christopher Meek (7) Sewon Min (7) Xiaodong He (7)

Research topics

Reasoning (1)

Keywords

question answering (17) semantic parsing (9) large language model (8) information retrieval (8) retrieval-augmented generation (8) open-domain question answering (7) few-shot learning (6) dense retrieval (6) contrastive learning (5) zero-shot learning (5) language model (5) procedural text (5) multi-task learning (4) instruction tuning (4) knowledge-intensive task (3) sparse retrieval (3) transfer learning (3) domain adaptation (3) natural language processing (3) fact verification (3)

Papers

Knowledge Extraction on Semi-Structured Content: Does It Remain Relevant for Question Answering in the Era of LLMs? EACL 2026
DRAMA: Diverse Augmentation from Large Language Models to Smaller Dense Retrievers ACL 2025
Improving Factuality with Explicit Working Memory ACL 2025
Memory Layers at Scale ICML 2025
ImpRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Implicit Queries EMNLP 2025
SelfCite: Self-Supervised Alignment for Context Attribution in Large Language Models ICML 2025
PrismRAG: Boosting RAG Factuality with Distractor Resilience and Strategized Reasoning EMNLP 2025
In-Context Pretraining: Language Modeling Beyond Document Boundaries ICLR 2024
Few-Shot Data Synthesis for Open Domain Multi-Hop Question Answering EACL 2024
MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering CVPR 2024
Nearest Neighbor Speculative Decoding for LLM Generation and Attribution NIPS 2024
FLAME : Factuality-Aware Alignment for Large Language Models NIPS 2024
Trusting Your Evidence: Hallucinate Less with Context-aware Decoding NAACL 2024
REPLUG: Retrieval-Augmented Black-Box Language Models NAACL 2024
RA-DIT: Retrieval-Augmented Dual Instruction Tuning ICLR 2024
Altogether: Image Captioning via Re-aligning Alt-text EMNLP 2024
CRAG - Comprehensive RAG Benchmark NIPS 2024
Instruction-tuned Language Models are Better Knowledge Learners ACL 2024
RoMQA: A Benchmark for Robust, Multi-evidence, Multi-answer Question Answering EMNLP 2023
How to Train Your Dragon: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval EMNLP 2023
Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation ICML 2023
Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing ACL 2023
CITADEL: Conditional Token Interaction via Dynamic Lexical Routing for Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Retrieval ACL 2023
One Embedder, Any Task: Instruction-Finetuned Text Embeddings ACL 2023
Nonparametric Masked Language Modeling ACL 2023
Task-aware Retrieval with Instructions ACL 2023
Expand, Rerank, and Retrieve: Query Reranking for Open-Domain Question Answering ACL 2023
FActScore: Fine-grained Atomic Evaluation of Factual Precision in Long Form Text Generation EMNLP 2023
DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation ICML 2023
LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution ICML 2023
Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Modeling ICML 2023
Improving Passage Retrieval with Zero-Shot Question Generation EMNLP 2022
On Continual Model Refinement in Out-of-Distribution Data Streams ACL 2022
Salient Phrase Aware Dense Retrieval: Can a Dense Retriever Imitate a Sparse One? EMNLP 2022
On Unifying Misinformation Detection NAACL 2021
Multi-Task Retrieval for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks ACL 2021
RECONSIDER: Improved Re-Ranking using Span-Focused Cross-Attention for Open Domain Question Answering NAACL 2021
On the Efficacy of Adversarial Data Collection for Question Answering: Results from a Large-Scale Randomized Study ACL 2021
Joint Verification and Reranking for Open Fact Checking Over Tables ACL 2021
On the Influence of Masking Policies in Intermediate Pre-training EMNLP 2021
Joint Verification and Reranking for Open Fact Checking Over Tables IJCNLP 2021
On the Efficacy of Adversarial Data Collection for Question Answering: Results from a Large-Scale Randomized Study IJCNLP 2021
Multi-Task Retrieval for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks IJCNLP 2021
Open-Domain Question Answering ACL 2020
TaBERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular Data ACL 2020
Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions EMNLP 2020
Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering EMNLP 2020
An Imitation Game for Learning Semantic Parsers from User Interaction EMNLP 2020
Unsupervised Question Decomposition for Question Answering EMNLP 2020
Blockwise Self-Attention for Long Document Understanding EMNLP 2020
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks NIPS 2020
Abductive Commonsense Reasoning ICLR 2020
Language Models as Fact Checkers? ACL 2020
Everything Happens for a Reason: Discovering the Purpose of Actions in Procedural Text IJCNLP 2019
Model-based Interactive Semantic Parsing: A Unified Framework and A Text-to-SQL Case Study IJCNLP 2019
Model-based Interactive Semantic Parsing: A Unified Framework and A Text-to-SQL Case Study EMNLP 2019
Everything Happens for a Reason: Discovering the Purpose of Actions in Procedural Text EMNLP 2019
Be Consistent! Improving Procedural Text Comprehension using Label Consistency NAACL 2019
QUAREL: A Dataset and Models for Answering Questions about Qualitative Relationships AAAI 2019
FlowQA: Grasping Flow in History for Conversational Machine Comprehension ICLR 2019
Policy Shaping and Generalized Update Equations for Semantic Parsing from Denotations EMNLP 2018
Tracking State Changes in Procedural Text: a Challenge Dataset and Models for Process Paragraph Comprehension NAACL 2018
Reasoning about Actions and State Changes by Injecting Commonsense Knowledge EMNLP 2018
Dissecting Contextual Word Embeddings: Architecture and Representation EMNLP 2018
QuAC: Question Answering in Context EMNLP 2018
Natural Language to Structured Query Generation via Meta-Learning NAACL 2018
NLP for Precision Medicine ACL 2017
Maximum Margin Reward Networks for Learning from Explicit and Implicit Supervision EMNLP 2017
Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering ACL 2017
Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond NAACL 2016
Learning from Explicit and Implicit Supervision Jointly For Algebra Word Problems EMNLP 2016
The Value of Semantic Parse Labeling for Knowledge Base Question Answering ACL 2016
Compositional Learning of Embeddings for Relation Paths in Knowledge Base and Text ACL 2016
Semantic Parsing via Staged Query Graph Generation: Question Answering with Knowledge Base ACL 2015
WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question Answering EMNLP 2015
Deep Learning and Continuous Representations for Natural Language Processing NAACL 2015
Semantic Parsing via Staged Query Graph Generation: Question Answering with Knowledge Base IJCNLP 2015
Typed Tensor Decomposition of Knowledge Bases for Relation Extraction EMNLP 2014
Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering ACL 2014
Learning Continuous Phrase Representations for Translation Modeling ACL 2014
Multi-Relational Latent Semantic Analysis EMNLP 2013
Animacy Detection with Voting Models EMNLP 2013
Question Answering Using Enhanced Lexical Semantic Models ACL 2013
Linguistic Regularities in Continuous Space Word Representations NAACL 2013
Combining Heterogeneous Models for Measuring Relational Similarity NAACL 2013
Polarity Inducing Latent Semantic Analysis CONLL 2012
Polarity Inducing Latent Semantic Analysis EMNLP 2012
Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogeneous Vector Space Models NAACL 2012
MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit NAACL 2012
Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures CONLL 2011
Translingual Document Representations from Discriminative Projections EMNLP 2010
Learning Term-weighting Functions for Similarity Measures EMNLP 2009
Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment ACL 2006
Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment COLING 2006
Generalized Inference with Multiple Semantic Role Labeling Systems CONLL 2005
Demonstrating an Interactive Semantic Role Labeling System EMNLP 2005
Semantic Role Labeling Via Integer Linear Programming Inference COLING 2004
Semantic Role Labeling Via Generalized Inference Over Classifiers CONLL 2004
A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in Natural Language Tasks CONLL 2004
Probabilistic Reasoning for Entity & Relation Recognition COLING 2002