Kaisong Song - NLP Group, Tongyi Lab- Alibaba Group

Contact:

Address: Xixi area- Hangzhou- Zhejiang, P.R.China

Department: Machine Intelligence Technology Lab

Company: Zhejiang Tmall Tehchnology Co., Ltd                  

Email: kaisongsong@gmail.com or  kaisong.sks@alibaba-inc.com

Tel.: +86 13588775542                                                             

Short Bro:

• • 2023.12-Now, I am working in Institute for Aritificial Intelligence (通义实验室), Alibaba Group as an algorithm expert (算法专家). Senior Engineer (Professor) (正高级工程师职称). My current interests include legal large language model pre-training and application.

  • 2018.3-2023.12, I worked in Machine Intelligence Technology Lab, DAMO (达摩院), Alibaba Group as an algorithm expert. My interests include auto response generation, multi-view sentiment analysis, customer service quality evaluation and document summarization generation. 

  • I received Ph.D. of Computer Software and Theory in July, 2017 from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University. My research field includes Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

  • During my doctoral period, I mainly focus on the research of social media text personalized sentiment based on matrix factorization. I have published many high-quality papers in peer-reviewed journal articles and conferences, such as IJCAI, WWW, SIGIR, HT, WAIM, WWWJ and JCST.

Services:

• •  I have ever worked for many top-tier conferences and journals as reviewers. PC member for KDD, IJCAI, EMNLP AAAI, ACL, WWW, SIGIR, NLPCC, EACL, NAACL and reviewer for TKDE, IPM, WWWJ, TALLIP. 

  • Distinguished  PC for IJCAI 19, Session chair in NLP/NLG 1 for IJCAI 19

  • Committee member of Social Media Processing  and Sentiment Computing.

  • Off-campus tutor at Nanchang Hangkong University and Northeastern University.

  • Chair for ICDM-LegalAI 2023 Workshop     

Education:

• • Ph.D. Computer Software and Theory, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Sept. 2012--July 2017.   advisor Daling Wang (professor, department of computer science)

  • M.A. Computer Software and Theory, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Sept. 2010-- July 2012.  advisor Daling Wang (professor, department of computer science)

  • B.S. Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Sept. 2006-- July 2010.

  • Joint Ph.D. student advised by Chengqi Zhang (professor, director) and Ling Chen (senior lecturer) in the centre for quantum computation and intelligent systems (QCIS), University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), March 2015--March 2016

Publications (google scholar or DBLP )

2025

• • Tianqianjin Lin, Yangyang Kang, Zhuoren Jiang, Kaisong Song, Kun Kuang, Changlong Sun, Cui Huang, Xiaozhong Liu: Unraveling and Mitigating Endogenous Task-oriented Spurious Correlations in Ego-graphs via Automated Counterfactual Contrastive Learning. Expert Syst. Appl. 266: 126015 (2025)

  • Dong Yang, Xiangju Li, Zhongying Zhao, Faliang Huang, Kaisong Song: Span-level emotion-cause-category triplet extraction via table-filling. Expert Syst. Appl. 268: 126062 (2025)

  • Qingting Xu, Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Chaoqun Liu, Yu Hong, Guodong Zhou: DTDA: Dual-channel Triple-to-quintuple Data Augmentation for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction. Knowl. Based Syst. 307: 112734 (2025)

  • Tianqianjin Lin, Yangyang Kang, Zhuoren Jiang, Kaisong Song, Xurui Li, Hongsong Li, Jiawei Liu, Changlong Sun, Cui Huang, Xiaozhong Liu: Preserving high-order ego-centric topological patterns in node representation in heterogeneous graph. Knowl. Based Syst. 311: 113067 (2025)

  • Qingting Xu, Kaisong Song, Chaoqun Liu, Yangyang Kang, Xiabing Zhou, Jun Lin, Yu Hong: COF: Adaptive Chain of Feedback for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction. COLING 2025: 3236-3247

2024

• • Tianqianjin Lin, Kaisong Song, Zhuoren Jiang, Yangyang Kang, Weikang Yuan, Xurui Li, Changlong Sun, Cui Huang, Xiaozhong Liu: Towards human-like perception: Learning structural causal model in heterogeneous graph. Inf. Process. Manag.

  • Pengwei Yan, Kaisong Song, Zhuoren Jiang, Yangyang Kang, Tianqianjin Lin, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu: Empowering Dual-Level Graph Self-Supervised Pretraining with Motif Discovery. AAAI 2024

  • Yiqun Zhang, Fanheng Kong, Peidong Wang, Shuang Sun, Lingshuai Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Kaisong Song: STICKERCONV: Generating Multimodal Empathetic Responses from Scratch. ACL (1) 2024: 7707-7733

  • Kai Zhang, Pengcheng Li, Kaisong Song, Xurui Li, Yangyang Kang, Xuhong Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu: Knowledge Triplets Derivation from Scientific Publications via Dual-Graph Resonance. LREC/COLING 2024: 9865-9877

  • Xurui Li, Kaisong Song, Tianqianjin Lin, Yangyang Kang, Fubang Zhao, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu: PDAMeta: Meta-Learning Framework with Progressive Data Augmentation for Few-Shot Text Classification. LREC/COLING 2024: 12668-12678

  • Weikang Yuan, Junjie Cao, Zhuoren Jiang, Yangyang Kang, Jun Lin, Kaisong Song, Tianqianjin Lin, Pengwei Yan, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu: Can Large Language Models Grasp Legal Theories? Enhance Legal Reasoning with Insights from Multi-Agent Collaboration. EMNLP (Findings) 2024: 7577-7597

  • Pengwei Yan, Yangyang Kang, Zhuoren Jiang, Kaisong Song, Tianqianjin Lin, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu: Modeling Scholarly Collaboration and Temporal Dynamics in Citation Networks for Impact Prediction. SIGIR 2024: 2522-2526

2023

• • Qian Li, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Variational autoencoder densified graph attention for fusing synonymous entities: Model and protocol. Knowl. Based Syst.

  • Qian Li, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: OERL: Enhanced Representation Learning via Open Knowledge Graphs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.

  • Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Jiawei Liu, Xurui Li, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu: A Speaker Turn-Aware Multi-Task Adversarial Network for Joint User Satisfaction Estimation and Sentiment Analysis. AAAI 2023

  • Qingting Xu, Yu Hong, Fubang Zhao, Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Jiaxiang Chen, Guodong Zhou: Low-Resource Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction by Data Augmentation with Prompting. EMNLP (Findings) 2023

  • Kai Zhang, Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Xiaozhong Liu: Content- and Topology-Aware Representation Learning for Scientific Multi-Literature. EMNLP 2023.

  • Xurui Li, Yue Qin, Rui Zhu, Tianqianjin Lin, Yongming Fan, Yangyang Kang, Kaisong Song, Fubang Zhao, Changlong Sun, Haixu Tang, Xiaozhong Liu: STINMatch: Semi-Supervised Semantic-Topological Iteration Network for Financial Risk Detection via News Label Diffusion. EMNLP 2023

  • Qingting Xu, Yu Hong, Fubang Zhao, Kaisong Song, Jiaxiang Chen, Yangyang Kang, Guodong Zhou: GCN-based End-to-End Model for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction. IJCNN 2023

2022

• • Order-Disorder: Imitation Adversarial Attacks for Black-box Neural Ranking Models. Jiawei Liu, Yangyang Kang, Di Tang, Kaisong Song, Changlong Sun, Xiaofeng Wang, Wei Lu, Xiaozhong Liu.  CCS 2022.

  • Informative and diverse emotional conversation generation with variational recurrent pointer-generator. Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shifeng Li. Frontiers Comput. Sci. 16(5): 165326 (2022) [pdf ]

  • Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation in Geometric Algebra. Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu. DASFAA 2022 [pdf ]

2021

• • Harvest shopping advice: Neural Question Generation from multiple information sources in E-commerce. Yongzhen Wang, Kaisong Song, Lidong Bing, Xiaozhong Liu. Neurocomputing 433: 252-262 (2021) [pdf ]

  • A Role-Selected Sharing Network for Joint Machine-Human Chatting Handoff and Service Satisfaction Analysis. Jiawei Liu, Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Guoxiu He, Changlong Sun, Wei Lu, Xiaozhong Liu. EMNLP 2022. [pdf ]

  • Dual-view hypergraph neural networks for attributed graph learning. Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu. KBS, (227). [pdf ]

  • Which Node Pair and What Status? Asking Expert for Better Network Embedding. Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu. DASFAA 2021. (1) 141-157. [pdf ]

  • Evidence Aware Neural Pornographic Text Identification for Child Protection. Kaisong Song, Yangyang Kang, Wei Gao, Zhe Gao, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu. AAAI 2021, 14939-14947. [pdf ]

  • A Graph Reasoning Network for Multi-turn Response Selection via Customized Pre-training. Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Feiliang Ren, Yifei Zhang. AAAI 2021, 13433-13442. [pdf ]

  • InterSentiment: combining deep neural models on interaction and sentiment for review rating prediction. Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Wei Gao. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (IJMLC), 1-12. [pdf ]

2020

• • Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation in E-Commerce Platform with the Context of Historical Dialogue. Kaisong Song, Weisheng Zhang, Yangyang Kang, Zhongqing Wang, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu, Shoushan Li, Min Zhang, Luo Si. EMNLP Findings 2020. [pdf ]

  • EmoElicitor: An Open Domain Response Generation Model with User Emotional Reaction Awareness. Shifeng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Weichao Wang. IJCAI 2020, 3637-3643. [pdf ]

2019

• • Using Customer Service Dialogues for Satisfaction Analysis with Context-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning. Kaisong Song, Lidong Bing, Wei Gao, Jun Lin, Lujun Zhao, Jiancheng Wang, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu and Qiong Zhang. EMNLP 2019. [pdf, codes ]

  • Cold-Start Aware Deep Memory Network for Multi-Entity Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Lujun Zhao, Jun Lin, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu. IJCAI 2019. [pdf, poster, codes]

  • Review Response Generation in E-Commerce Platforms with External Product Information. Lujun Zhao, Kaisong Song, Changlong Sun, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Xiaozhong Liu. The Web Conference. WWW 2019. [pdf]

2018

• • A Co-attention Neural Network Model for Emotion Cause Analysis with Emotional Context Awareness. Xiangju Li, Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Daling Wang. 2018 Conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2018, 4752 -- 4757. [pdf]

  • Detecting Multiple Coexisting Emotions in Microblogs with Convolutional Neural Networks. Shi Feng, Yaqi Wang, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang and Ge Yu. Cognitive Computation 10(1): 136-155 (2018). [pdf]

2017

• • Recommendation vs Sentiment Analysis: A Text-Driven Latent Factor Model for Rating Prediction with Cold-Start Awareness. Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, Chengqi Zhang. IJCAI 2017: The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2017, Melbourne, Australia. [pdf, dataset, codes]

2016

• • Build Emotion Lexicon from the Mood of Crowd via Topic-Assisted Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Ling Chen, Wei Gao, Daling Wang and Chengqi Zhang. SIGIR 2016: The 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 17-21, 2016, Pisa, Italy. [pdf, dataset, poster]

  • PerSentiment: A Personalized Sentiment Classification System for Microblog Users. Kaisong Song, Ling Chen, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang and Chengqi Zhang. WWW 2016: The 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, April 11-15, 2016, Montreal, Canada. [pdf, system demo, poster, codes]

2015

• • Build Emotion Lexicon from Microblogs by Combining Effects of Seed Words and Emoticons in a Heterogeneous Graph. Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ling Chen and Chengqi Zhang. Hypertext 2015: The 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, September 1-4, 2015, Guzelyurt, TRNC, Cyprus. [pdf, dataset, slides, corpus]

  • Personalized Sentiment Classification Based on Latent Individuality of Microblog Users. Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ge Yu and Kam-Fai Wong. IJCAI 2015: The 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 25-31, 2015, , Buenos Aires, Argentina. [pdf, slides, poster, codes]

2014

• • CTROF: A Collaborative Tweet Ranking Framework for Online Personalized Recommendation. Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Wen Qu and Ge Yu. PAKDD 2014: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 18th Pacific-Asia Conference, May 13-16, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan. [pdf]

  • A word-emoticon mutual reinforcement ranking model for building sentiment lexicon from massive collection of microblogs. Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang and Ge Yu. WWWJ: World Wide Web 18(4), 949--967. [pdf]

2013

• • A Novel Approach Based on Multi-View Content Analysis and Semi-Supervised Enrichment for Movie Recommendation. Wen Qu, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang and Ge Yu. JCST: J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 28(5), 776--787. [pdf]

  • Online Friends Recommendation Based on Geographic Trajectories and Social Relations. Shi Feng, Dajun Huang, Kaisong Song and Daling Wang. ADMD 2013: Advanced Data Mining and Applications, 9th International Conference, December 14-16, 2013, Hangzhou, China. [pdf]

2012

• • Detecting Positive Opinion Leader Group from Forum. Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Dong Wang and Ge Yu. WAIM 2012: Web-Age Information Management - 13th International Conference, August 18-20, 2012, Harbin, China. [pdf]

  • An Approach of Sentiment Lexicon Building and Orientation Analysis for Chinese Microblogs. Wang Lin, Feng Shi, Kaisong Song and Daling Wang. JCIS: Journal of Computational Information Systems 8(3), 1113--1120. [pdf]

2011

• • Detecting Opinion Leader Dynamically in Chinese News Comments. Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shi Feng and Ge Yu. WAIM 2011 (Workshop): Web-Age Information Management -  International Workshops: SNA, September 14-16, 2011, Wuhan, China. [pdf]

Awards:

• • Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress First Prize, 2025. (吴文俊人工智能科学技术进步一等奖)

  • Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People's Court's Best Effect Award for Legal Document Generation, 2024.

  • CCS 2022 Best Paper Runner Up.

  • Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Northeastern University, 2017 [thesis slides]

  • Student Travel Grant, IJCAI-17, 2017

  • China National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2015

  • National government study abroad scholarship, China Scholarship Council, 2015

  • Doctoral Student Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2015

  • Student Travel Grant, ACM Hypertext'15, 2015

  • Outstanding Party Member Award, School of Computer Science and Engineering, 2015

  • Merit Graduate Student Award, Northeastern University, 2014

  • Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Northeastern University, 2012

  • First-class Scholarship, Northeastern University, 2011, 2012.

  • First-class Scholarship, Shandong University of Science and Technology, 2006--2010.

Fundings:

• • National Key R&D Program, Public safety risk prevention and control and emergency technical equipment, Online consultation and service based on Q-A question and answer (2020YFC0832505), project host.

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project. Research on Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation and Evaluation Technology for Emotional Comfort (62106039), project host.

Activities:

• • Report. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University. 2021.3.28

  • Report. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Nanning Normal University. 2020.1.29. Link