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My Research

My research focuses on natural language processing, such as dialog systems, sentiment analysis, information extraction and so on. I'm especially interested in exploiting multi-task learning frameworks and graph structures/networks.

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Publications

(# denotes equal contribution, * denotes corresponding author)

Conference Papers

• MTKDN: Multi-Task Knowledge Disentanglement Network for Recommendation.
  Haotian Wu^#, Bowen Xing^#* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023) [short paper].

• Co-evolving Graph Reasoning Network for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2023) [Oral] .

• Co-guiding Net: Modeling Mutual Guidances between Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling via Heterogenous Semantics-Label Graphs.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) [Oral].

• Group is better than individual: Exploiting Label Topologies and Label Relations for Joint Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) .

• Neural Subgraph Explorer: Reducing Noisy Information via Target-oriented Syntax Graph Pruning.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) [Oral].

• DARER: Dual-task Temporal Relational Recurrent Reasoning Network for Joint Dialog Sentiment Classification and Act Recognition.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) [Findings].

• Earlier Attention? Aspect-Aware LSTM for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
  Bowen Xing, Lejian Liao, Dandan Song, Jingang Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang and Heyan Huang.
  In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) [Oral].

Journal Papers

• Exploiting Contextual Target Attributes for Target Sentiment Classification.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2024 .

• Co-guiding for Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding .
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2023 .

• Relational Temporal Graph Reasoning for Dual-task Dialogue Language Understanding
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2023 .

• Out of Context: A New Clue for Context Modeling of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2022 .

• Understand me, if you refer to Aspect Knowledge: Knowledge-aware Gated Recurrent Memory Network.
  Bowen Xing^* and Ivor W. Tsang.
  In IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), 2022 .

• DigNet: Digging Clues from Local-Global Interactive Graph for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification.
  Bowen Xing and Ivor W. Tsang.
  Under-review.

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Professional Service

• Conference Reviewer/PC Member:

• ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, ACML, CCL

• Journal Reviewer:

• TNNLS, TASLP