Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor
Leads the WING group on natural language processing, information retrieval and digital libraries, including scientific discourse analysis and fact verification.
Min-Yen Kan's lab at NUS works on knowledge, QA & retrieval, compilers & programming languages and recommendation, search & web. 68 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly EMNLP and ACL. 10 PhD students and 5 master's students. 45 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 18/ year
- at T1 venues
- 25%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 45
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 15 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 1
- 17 papers2024 · T1 5
- 20 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EMNLP, ACL, Findings of EMNLP, EACL, CIKM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval10 papers
- Recommendation, search & web8 papers
- Compilers & programming languages0 papers
- discourse analysis0 papers
- digital libraries0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202615 papers
- EMNLP (T1)AnalysisBank: An Expert Analysis Pattern Library for Financial Report Generation
- Proceedings of the Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language ProcessingBetter with Experience: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Evidence-Grounded Health Community Notes
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 5152-5171Beyond the Crowd: LLM-Augmented Community Notes for Governing Health Misinformation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL ) · Long PaperBridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts
- Findings of ACLComicVQA: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- Companion Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion ) · 143-147 · IUI CompanionConversing with the Past: Immersive Access to Cultural Digital Archives with LLMs and Spatial Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ) · Poster PaperFlowSteer: Prompt-Only Workflow Steering Exposes Planning-Time Vulnerabilities in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT ) · 724-727 · Tampere, Finland; OpenProceedings.org publisher PDF: https://openproceedings.org/ /conf/edbt/paper-321.pdfHistoricRAG: Evidence-Centered Newspaper Retrieval for Misinformation-Resilient Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ) · 16484 · 204-221 · Lecture Notes in Computer Science 16484; Springer, ChamImproving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-Based Reranking (opens in a new tab)
- ACS Nano Medicine · 1 (5) · 1263-1277 · American Chemical Society; volume, issue andQuantitative Computational Validation of Nanoscale Interactions between Drug Molecules and Diabetic Wound-Related Proteins for Drug Discovery (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)The Facade of Truth: Uncovering and Mitigating LLM Susceptibility to Deceptive Evidence
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 6480-6502What's Left Unsaid? Detecting and Correcting Misleading Omissions in Multimodal News Previews (opens in a new tab)
202516 papers
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2526-2547Aligning Large Language Models with Human Opinions through Persona Selection and Value–Belief–Norm Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · Findings paperAre Knowledge and Reference in Multilingual Language Models Cross-Lingually Consistent? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsBeyond In-Context Learning: Aligning Long-form Generation of Large Language Models via Task-Inherent Attribute Guidelines (opens in a new tab)
- KDD SciSoc LLM WorkshopCCSBench: Evaluating Compositional Controllability in LLMs for Scientific Document Summarization (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of NAACLChatCRS: Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · Main oral paperDiscursive Circuits: How Do Language Models Understand Discourse Relations? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2277-2290DnA-Eval: Enhancing Large Language Model Evaluation through Decomposition and Aggregation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGIR Forum 59(1) ·Evaluating Sakana's AI Scientist for Autonomous Research: Wishful Thinking or an Emerging Reality Towards 'Artificial Research Intelligence' (ARI)? (opens in a new tab)
- The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · Short PaperForecasting the Buzz: Enriching Hashtag Popularity Prediction with LLM Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · Findings paperKAHAN: Knowledge-Augmented Hierarchical Analysis and Narration for Financial Data Narration (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 299-330LLMs Are Biased Towards Output Formats! Systematically Evaluating and Mitigating Output Format Bias of LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- TCSVTManager: Aggregating Insights from Unimodal Experts in Two-Tower VLMs and MLLMs (opens in a new tab)
202417 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 14805-14829A Probability–Quality Trade-off in Aligned Language Models and its Relation to Sampling Adaptors (opens in a new tab)
- TASLP (T1)Adapter-based Selective Knowledge Distillation for Federated Multi-domain Meeting Summarization (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational LinguisticsBeyond Memorization: The Challenge of Random Memory Access in Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)DataTales: A Benchmark for Real-World Intelligent Data Narration (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference '24Discrete Semantic Tokenization for Deep CTR Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational LinguisticsDiscursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models' Understanding of Discourse Relations (opens in a new tab)
- TOMMKeYric: Unsupervised Keywords Extraction and Expansion from Music for Coherent Lyrics Generation (opens in a new tab)
- DGovMisinformation, Disinformation, and Generative AI: Implications for Perception and Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 20370-20401Multi-expert Prompting Improves Reliability, Safety and Usefulness of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPMVP-Bench: Can Large Vision-Language Models Conduct Multi-level Visual Perception Like Humans? (opens in a new tab)
- EACLNNOSE: Nearest Neighbor Occupational Skill Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Reasoning Robustness of LLMs to Adversarial Typographical Errors (opens in a new tab)
202320 papers
- Proceedings of KaRS WorkshopA Conversation is Worth A Thousand Recommendations: A Survey of Holistic Conversational Recommender Systems (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)Adaptive Multi-Modalities Fusion in Sequential Recommendation Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL '23). (Posted to cs.CL) · Area Chair AwardAttacking Open-domain Question Answering by Injecting Misinformation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the SIGIR-AP Conference, November 26-29, Beijing, ChinaAutomatic Feature Fairness in Recommendation via Adversaries (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)CoAnnotating: Uncertainty-Guided Work Allocation between Human and Large Language Models for Data Annotation (opens in a new tab)
- —Doolittle: Benchmarks and Corpora for Academic Writing Formalization (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPECHo: A Visio-Linguistic Dataset for Event Causality Inference via Human-Centric Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL '23).FollowUpQG: Towards Information-Seeking Follow-up Question Generation (opens in a new tab)
- WSDM WorkshopImproving Recommendation Systems with User Personality Inferred from Product Reviews (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL '23).Investigating Zero- and Few-shot Generalization in Fact Verification (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPOn the Risk of Misinformation Pollution with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went45 listed
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