Mastering the Craft of Data Synthesis for CodeLLMs
Meng Chen, Philip Arthur, Qianyu Feng, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Yu-Heng Hong, Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam, Omid Nezami, Duc Thien Nguyen, Gioacchino Tangari, Duy Vu, Thanh Vu, Mark Johnson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Don Dharmasiri, Long Duong, Yuan-Fang Li
The 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2025) [accepted, to appear]

AutoMV: An Autonomous Agent Framework for Real Estate Marketing Video Generation
Kuizong Wu, Shaozu Yuan, Chang Shen, Long Xu, Meng Chen
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) [accepted, to appear]

DeepMSD: Advancing Multimodal Sarcasm Detection through Knowledge-augmented Graph Reasoning
Yiwei Wei, Hengyang Zhou, Shaozu Yuan, Meng Chen, Haitao Shi, Zhiyang Jia, Longbiao Wang, Xiaodong He
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025. [accepted, to appear]

Enhancing Semantic Awareness by Sentimental Constraint with Automatic Outlier Masking for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Shaozu Yuan, Yiwei Wei, Hengyang Zhou, Qinfu Xu, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025. [accepted, to appear]

MuJo-SF: Multimodal Joint Slot Filling for Attribute Value Prediction of E-commerce Commodities
Meihuizi Jia, Lei Shen, Anh Tuan Luu, Meng Chen, Jing Xu, Lejian Liao, Shaozu Yuan, Xiaodong He
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2024. [pdf]

G2SAM: Graph-Based Global Semantic Awareness Method for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Yiwei Wei*, Shaozu Yuan*, Hengyang Zhou, Longbiao Wang, Zhiling Yan, Ruosong Yang, Meng Chen
The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024) [pdf]

POSPAN: Position-Constrained Span Masking for Language Model Pre-training
Zhenyu Zhang, Lei Shen, Yuming Zhao, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
The 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023) [pdf]

MPP-Net: Multi-Perspective Perception Network for Dense Video Captioning
Yiwei Wei, Shaozu Yuan, Meng Chen, Xin Shen, Longbiao Wang, Lei Shen, Zhiling Yan
Neurocomputing, 2023. [pdf]

OTF: Optimal Transport based Fusion of Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning Models for Automatic Speech Recognition
Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li, Fangzhu Li, Liping Deng, Lu Fan, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He
The 24th INTERSPEECH Conference (Interspeech 2023) [pdf]

Leveraging Label Information for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Peiying Wang, Sunlu Zeng, Junqing Chen, Lu Fan, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He
The 24th INTERSPEECH Conference (Interspeech 2023) [pdf]

Enhancing New Intent Discovery via Robust Neighbor-based Contrastive Learning
Zhenhe Wu, Xiaoguang Yu, Meng Chen, Liangqing Wu, Jiahao Ji, Zhoujun Li
The 24th INTERSPEECH Conference (Interspeech 2023) [pdf]

DiffusEmp: A Diffusion Model-Based Framework with Multi-Grained Control for Empathetic Response Generation
Guanqun Bi, Lei Shen, Yanan Cao, Meng Chen, Yuqiang Xie, Zheng Lin, Xiaodong He
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023) [pdf]

Dialog-Post: Multi-Level Self-Supervised Objectives and Hierarchical Model for Dialogue Post-Training
Zhenyu Zhang, Lei Shen, Yuming Zhao, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023) [pdf]

Tackling Modality Heterogeneity with Multi-View Calibration Network for Multimodal Sentiment Detection
Yiwei Wei*, Shaozu Yuan*, Ruosong Yang, Lei Shen, Zhangmeizhi Li, Longbiao Wang, Meng Chen
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023) [pdf]

Improving Disfluency Detection with Multi-scale Self Attention and Contrastive Learning
Peiying Wang, Chaoqun Duan, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). [pdf]

UFO2: A Unified Pre-training Framework for Online and Offline Speech Recognition
Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li, Liping Deng, Fangzhu Li, Lu Fan, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). [pdf]

Enhancing Multimodal Alignment with Momentum Augmentation for Dense Video Captioning
Yiwei Wei*, Shaozu Yuan*, Meng Chen, Longbiao Wang
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). [pdf]

MNER-QG: An End-to-End MRC framework for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition with Query Grounding
Meihuizi Jia, Lei Shen, Xin Shen, Lejian Liao, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He, Zhendong Chen, Jiaqi Li
The 37th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023). [pdf]

Few-Shot Table Understanding: A Benchmark Dataset and Pre-Training Baseline
Ruixue Liu*, Shaozu Yuan*, Aijun Dai, Lei Shen, Tiangang Zhu, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022). [pdf]

Legal Charge Prediction via Bilinear Attention Network
Yuquan Le, Yuming Zhao, Meng Chen, Zhe Quan, Xiaodong He, Kenli Li
The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022). [pdf]

MCIC: Multimodal Conversational Intent Classification for E-commerce Customer Service
Shaozu Yuan, Xin Shen, Yuming Zhao, Hang Liu, Zhiling Yan, Ruixue Liu, Meng Chen
The 11th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2022). [pdf]

SCaLa: Supervised Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Li Fu, Xiaoxiao Li, Runyu Wang, Lu Fan, Zhengchen Zhang, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He
The 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference (Interspeech 2022). [pdf]

Cross-modal Transfer Learning via Multi-grained Alignment for End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding
Yi Zhu*, Zexun Wang*, Hang Liu, Peiying Wang, Mingchao Feng, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
The 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference (Interspeech 2022). [pdf]

Query Prior Matters: A MRC Framework for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
Meihuizi Jia, Xin Shen, Lei Shen, Jinhui Pang, Lejian Liao, Yang Song, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2022). [pdf]

Learning to Generate Poetic Chinese Landscape Painting with Calligraphy
Shaozu Yuan, Aijun Dai, Zhiling Yan, Ruixue Liu, Meng Chen, Baoyang Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022). [pdf]

Label Anchored Contrastive Learning for Language Understanding
Zhenyu Zhang, Yuming Zhao, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022). [pdf]

E-ConvRec: A Large-Scale Conversational Recommendation Dataset for E-Commerce Customer Service
Meihuizi Jia, Ruixue Liu, Peiying Wang, Yang Song, Zexi Xi, Haobin Li, Xin Shen, Meng Chen, Jinhui Pang, Xiaodong He
The 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). [pdf]

SE-GAN: Skeleton Enhanced GAN-based Model for Brush Handwriting Font Generation
Shaozu Yuan, Ruixue Liu, Meng Chen, Baoyang Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2022 (ICME 2022). [pdf]

Building Robust Spoken Language Understanding by Cross Attention Between Phoneme Sequence and ASR Hypothesis
Zexun Wang*, Yuquan Le*, Yi Zhu, Yuming Zhao, Mingchao Feng, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022). [pdf]

Gated Multimodal Fusion with Contrastive Learning for Turn-taking Prediction in Human-Robot Dialogue
Jiudong Yang*, Peiying Wang*, Yi Zhu, Mingchao Feng, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He
2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022). [pdf]

DialogueBERT: A Self-Supervised Learning based Dialogue Pre-training Encoder
Zhenyu Zhang, Tao Guo, Meng Chen
The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021). [pdf]

SketchBird: Learning to Generate Bird Sketches from Text
Shaozu Yuan, Aijun Dai, Zhiling Yan, Zehua Guo, Ruixue Liu, Meng Chen
ICCV 2021 Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity. [pdf]

ViDA-MAN: Visual Dialog with Digital Humans
Tong Shen, Jiawei Zuo, Fan Shi, Jin Zhang, Liqin Jiang, Meng Chen, Zhengchen Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xiaodong He, Tao Mei
The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2021, Best Demo Award). [pdf]

Learning to Compose Stylistic Calligraphy Artwork with Emotions
Shaozu Yuan*, Ruixue Liu*, Meng Chen, Baoyang Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2021). [pdf]

Conversational Query Rewriting with Self-supervised Learning
Hang Liu, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou
2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021). [pdf]

MaLiang: An Emotion-driven Chinese Calligraphy Artwork Composition System
Ruixue Liu*, Shaozu Yuan*, Meng Chen, Baoyang Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2020). [pdf]

Enhancing Multi-turn Dialogue Modeling with Intent Information for E-commerce Customer Service
Ruixue Liu*, Meng Chen*, Hang Liu, Lei Shen, Yang Song, Xiaodong He
The 9th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2020). [pdf]

Compose Like Humans: Jointly Improving the Coherence and Novelty for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation
Lei Shen, Xiaoyu Guo, Meng Chen
The 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020). [pdf]

The JDDC Corpus: A Large-Scale Multi-Turn Chinese Dialogue Dataset for E-commerce Customer Service
Meng Chen, Ruixue Liu, Lei Shen, Shaozu Yuan, Jingyan Zhou, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou
The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). [pdf]

Learning to Predict Charges for Legal Judgment via Self-Attentive Capsule Network
Yuquan Le, Congqing He, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou
The 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020). [pdf]

A Sequence-to-Action Architecture for Character-based Chinese Dependency Parsing with Status History
Hang Liu, Yujie Zhang, Meng Chen, Jinan Xu, Yufeng Chen
The 8th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2019). [pdf]

Automated Thematic and Emotional Modern Chinese Poetry Composition
Xiaoyu Guo, Meng Chen, Yang Song, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou
The 8th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2019). [pdf]

Another AI? Artificial Imagination for Artistic Mind Map Generation
Ruixue Liu, Baoyang Chen, Xiaoyu Guo, Meng Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, Volume 10, Issue 3, Article 3, 2019. [pdf]

Mappa Mundi: An Interactive Artistic Mind Map Generator with Artificial Imagination
Ruixue Liu, Baoyang Chen, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019). [pdf]

From Knowledge Map to Mind Map: Artificial Imagination
Ruixue Liu, Baoyang Chen, Xiaoyu Guo, Yan Dai, Meng Chen, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He
The Second International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2019). [pdf]

Adapted Language Modeling for Recognition of Retelling Story in Language Learning
Meng Chen, Yang Song, Lan Wang
2012 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP 2012). [pdf]

Automatic Scoring in a Task of Retelling Stories for Language Learners
Meng Chen, Dean Luo, Lan Wang
The 15th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2011). [pdf]