Yansong Feng
Associate Professor
Researches natural language processing, especially information extraction and question answering.
Yansong Feng's lab at Peking works on knowledge, QA & retrieval. 43 papers since 2023, 20 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of ACL. 34 alumni, most often to Google and Alibaba. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 47%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 34
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 5
- 14 papers2024 · T1 4
- 14 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of ACL, Findings of EMNLP, EMNLP, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval9 papers
- question4 papers
- question answering4 papers
- information extraction0 papers
- researches natural0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage and DBLP.
20266 papers
- ACL (T1)CLARity: Reasoning Consistency Alone Can Teach Reinforced Experts (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)D²Plan: Dual-Agent Dynamic Global Planning for Complex Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)DreamOn: Diffusion Language Models For Code Infilling Beyond Fixed-size Canvas (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Efficient Low-Resource Language Adaptation via Multi-Source Dynamic Logit Fusion (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)From Single to Societal: Analyzing Persona-Induced Bias in Multi-Agent Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)RefTool: Reference-Guided Tool Creation for Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- ACL (T1)Automating Legal Interpretation with LLMs: Retrieval, Generation, and Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)Chain-of-Discussion: A Multi-Model Framework for Complex Evidence-Based Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Cross-Lingual Transfer of Cultural Knowledge: An Asymmetric Phenomenon (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLEpiCoDe: Boosting Model Performance Beyond Training with Extrapolation and Contrastive Decoding (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPHow Much Do Large Language Models Know about Human Motion? A Case Study in 3D Avatar Control (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)JUREX-4E: Juridical Expert-Annotated Four-Element Knowledge Base for Legal Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLMiLiC-Eval: Benchmarking Multilingual LLMs for China's Minority Languages (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Read it in Two Steps: Translating Extremely Low-Resource Languages with Code-Augmented Grammar Books (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPRecipe2Plan: Evaluating Planning Abilities of LLMs for Efficient and Feasible Multitasking with Time Constraints Between Actions (opens in a new tab)
202414 papers
- Findings of ACLAre LLMs Capable of Data-based Statistical and Causal Reasoning? Benchmarking Advanced Quantitative Reasoning with Data (opens in a new tab)
- Tiny Papers @ ICLRCan LLMs Learn a New Language on the Fly? A Case Study on Zhuang (opens in a new tab)
- Tiny Papers @ ICLRCan Perplexity Reflect Large Language Model's Ability in Long Text Understanding? (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)CASA: Causality-driven Argument Sufficiency Assessment (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPChain of Condition: Construct, Verify and Solve Conditions for Conditional Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)ELLA: Empowering LLMs for Interpretable, Accurate and Informative Legal Advice (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Harder Task Needs More Experts: Dynamic Routing in MoE Models (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)MC²: Towards Transparent and Culturally-Aware NLP for Minority Languages in China (opens in a new tab)
- LREC/COLINGMotion Generation from Fine-grained Textual Descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- NLPCCOnly One Relation Possible? Modeling the Ambiguity in Temporal Relation Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- LREC/COLINGProbing Multimodal Large Language Models for Global and Local Semantic Representations (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPProTrix: Building Models for Planning and Reasoning over Tables with Sentence Context (opens in a new tab)
202314 papers
- NLPCCA Frustratingly Easy Improvement for Position Embeddings via Random Padding (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLAlign-then-Enhance: Multilingual Entailment Graph Enhancement with Soft Predicate Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLAn Intra-Class Relation Guided Approach for Code Comment Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Can BERT Refrain from Forgetting on Sequential Tasks? A Probing Study
- Findings of EACLCross-Lingual Question Answering over Knowledge Base as Reading Comprehension (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)DiNeR: A Large Realistic Dataset for Evaluating Compositional Generalization (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Enhancing Structured Evidence Extraction for Fact Verification (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)From the One, Judge of the Whole: Typed Entailment Graph Construction with Predicate Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLHow Many Answers Should I Give? An Empirical Study of Multi-Answer Reading Comprehension (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPLearning Dynamic Representations for Discourse Dependency Parsing (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)More than Classification: A Unified Framework for Event Temporal Relation Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLStructure-Discourse Hierarchical Graph for Conditional Question Answering on Long Documents (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went34 listed, 55% to industry
Industry 11Academia 9
Most often to
- Alibaba
- Tencent
Also to
- Columbia University
- John Hopkins University
- NYU
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