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publications
End-to-End Trainable Non-Collaborative Dialog System
Published in AAAI 2020, 2020
Yu Li, Kun Qian, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu.
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Gunrock 2.0: A User Adaptive Social Conversational System
Published in 3rd Proceedings of Alexa Prize, 2020
Kaihui Liang, Austin Chau, Yu Li, Xueyuan Lu, Dian Yu, Mingyang Zhou, Ishan Jain, Sam Davidson, Josh Arnold, Minh Nguyen, Zhou Yu.
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A Multi-Persona Chatbot for Hotline Counselor Training
Published in EMNLP 2020 (Findings), 2020
Orianna Demasi, Yu Li, Zhou Yu.
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DEUX: An Attribute-Guided Framework for Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems
Published in Preprint, 2021
Yu Li, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu.
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Alternating Recurrent Dialog Model with Large-scale Pre-trained Language Models
Published in EACL 2021, 2021
Qingyang Wu, Yichi Zhang, Yu Li, Zhou Yu.
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Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems
Published in ACL 2021, 2021
Siyang Liu, Chujie Zheng, Orianna Demasi, Sahand Sabour, Yu Li, Zhou Yu, Yong Jiang, Minlie Huang.
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The R-U-A-Robot Dataset: Helping Avoid Chatbot Deception by Detecting User Questions About Human or Non-Human Identity
Published in ACL 2021, 2021
David Gros, Yu Li, Zhou Yu.
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LEGOEval: An Open-Source Toolkit for Dialogue System Evaluation via Crowdsourcing
Published in ACL 2021 (Demo), 2021
Yu Li, Josh Arnold, Feifan Yan, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu.
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Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration
Published in EMNLP 2021 (Findings), 2021
Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu.
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Using Chatbots to Teach Languages
Published in L@S 2022, 2022
Yu Li, Chun-Yen Chen, Dian Yu, Sam Davidson, Ryan Hou, Xun Yuan, Yinghua Tan, Derek Pham, Zhou Yu.
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Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with a Unified Knowledge Representation
Published in NAACL 2022, 2022
Yu Li, Baolin Peng, Yelong Shen, Yi Mao, Lars Liden, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao.
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Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems’ Quality with Context-Aware Item Meta Information
Published in NAACL 2022 (Findings), 2022
Bowen Yang, Cong Han, Yu Li, Lei Zuo, Zhou Yu.
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Robots-Don’t-Cry: Understanding Falsely Anthropomorphic Utterances in Dialog Systems
Published in EMNLP 2022, 2022
David Gros, Yu Li, Zhou Yu.
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DIONYSUS: A Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization
Published in ACL 2023, 2023
Yu Li, Baolin Peng, Pengcheng He, Michel Galley, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao.
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User Adaptive Language Learning Chatbots with a Curriculum
Published in AIED 2023, 2023
Kun Qian, Ryan Shea, Yu Li, Luke K. Fryer, Zhou Yu.
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Curriculum-Driven Edubot: A Framework for Developing Language Learning Chatbots Through Synthesizing Conversational Data
Published in SIGDIAL 2024, 2024
Yu Li, Shang Qu, Jili Shen, Shangchao Min, Zhou Yu.
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From Pixels to Personas: Investigating and Modeling Self-Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Dialogues
Published in EMNLP 2024 (Findings), 2024
Yu Li, Devamanyu Hazarika, Di Jin, Julia Hirschberg, Yang Liu.
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LIONs: An Empirically Optimized Approach to Align Language Models
Published in EMNLP 2024, 2024
Xiao Yu, Qingyang Wu, Yu Li, Zhou Yu.
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Visual Language Model-based Food Safety Support for Persons with Blindness and Low Vision
Published in ICCV 2025 Workshops (ACVR), 2025
Ryan Hansen, Hardik Setia, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Aryan Jain, Zirui Liu, Mariam Zoair, Reem Aboutaleb, Qing Wen, Yu Li, John Ross Rizzo.
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Exploring the Use of VLMs for Navigation Assistance for People with Blindness and Low Vision
Published in Preprint, 2025
Yu Li, Yuchen Zheng, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Marco Mezzavilla, Yao Wang, Sundeep Rangan, Maurizio Porfiri, Zhou Yu, John-Ross Rizzo.
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The Need for a Socially-Grounded Persona Framework for User Simulation
Published in Preprint, 2026
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Yu Li, Yada Pruksachatkun, Chien-Sheng Wu.
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InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation
Published in Preprint, 2026
Yu Li, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Yada Pruksachatkun, Chien-Sheng Wu.
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Don’t Stop Early: Scalable Enterprise Deep Research with Controlled Information Flow and Evidence-Aware Termination
Published in Preprint, 2026
Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Jiaxin Zhang, Vaibhav Vats, Yu Li, Xiangyu Peng, Chien-Sheng Wu.
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talks
teaching
COMS W4156: Advanced Software Engineering
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, 2022
COMS W4705: Natural Language Processing
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, 2023