Wenqiang Lei, Yisong Miao, Runpeng Xie, Bonnie Webber, Meichun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua and Nancy Chen, Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It’s Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence. AAAI. Vancouver, Canada. 2021 (Accepted, to appear)
Yao Zhang, Xu Zhang, Jun Wang, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei*, Zhe Sun, Adam Jatowt, Zhenglu Yang*. Generalized Relation Learning with Semantic Correlation Awareness. AAAI. Vancouver, Canada. 2021(Accepted, to appear) (*=Corresponding author)
Shijun Li#, Wenqiang Lei#*, Qingyun Wu, Xiangnan He, Peng Jiang, Tat-Seng Chua. Seamlessly Unifying Attributes and Items: Conversational Recommendation for Cold-Start Users. TOIS Special Issue on Conversational Recommendation and Search. (Accepted, to appear) (*=Corresponding author, #=Equal contribution)
Wenqiang Lei#, Weixin Wang#, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua. Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL. EMNLP 2020. (#=Equal contribution)
Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei*, Paul Tan, Zhenglu Yang, Maosong Sun, Tat-Seng Chua. Learning Melody-，Harmony-，Rhythm-，and Dynamics-aware Contextual Embeddings for Symbolic Music. ACM MM 2020. (*=Corresponding author)
--Best Paper Award
Wenqiang Lei, Gangyi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Xiang Wang, Liang Cheng, Tat-Seng Chua. Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation, KDD 2020.
Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan, Tat Seng Chua (2020). Estimation--Action--Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems. In WSDM 2020.
Wenqiang Lei, Weiwen Xu, Aiti Aw, Yuanxin Xiang, Tat Seng Chua (2019) Revisit Automatic Error Detection for Wrong and Missing Translation -- A Supervised Approach. In EMNLP 2019.
Wenqiang Lei, Xisen Jin, Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, Min-Yen Kan, Dawei Yin (2018) Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures. In Proceedings of 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourn (ACL 2018).
Wenqiang Lei, Yuanxin Xiang, Yuwei Wang, Qian Zhong, Meichun Liu, Min-Yen Kan (2018) Linguistic Properties Matter for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition: Combining Semantic Interaction, Topic Continuity and Attribution. The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18).
Wenqiang Lei, Xuancong Wang, Meichun Liu, Ilija Ilievski and Min-Yen Kan (2017) SWIM: A SimpleWord Interaction Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17).