About me
I am Xiaocui Yang (杨晓翠), a lecturer at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University (NEU), China. I am a member of NEU Data Mining group. NEU DM group belongs to Data Science and Big Data Technology Group led by Professor Ge Yu（于戈）.
Lab
Education
2019.09-2024.07, Ph.D, supervised by Prof. Daling Wang, Northeastern University (NEU), China
2021.10-2023.10, Visiting Ph.D (CSC), supervised by Prof. Soujanya Poria, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
2017.09-2019.07, Master, supervised by Prof. Daling Wang, Northeastern University (NEU), China
2013.09-2017.06, Bachelor, Shandong University of Science and Technology
Research
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Affective Computing, Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, …
I have published 20 papers in conferences/journals such as ACL, ACM MM, COLING, IEEE TMM, ICASSP, and so on, with 5 of them as the first author. And other papers are under review. If you are interested in discussing or collaborating with me, please contact me.
Publications
2025
MM-InstructEval: Zero-shot evaluation of (Multimodal) Large Language Models on multimodal reasoning tasks.Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Daling Wang, Yang Li, Qi Sun, Yifei Zhang, Xiaoming Fu, Soujanya Poria.
Information Fusion, SCI-Q1, Top.
Pixel-Level Reasoning Segmentation via Multi-turn Conversations. Paper, Code.
Dexian Cai, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Soujanya Poria.
The 63st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), CCF-A.
Muse: A Multimodal Conversational Recommendation Dataset with Scenario-Grounded User Profiles. Paper, Code.
Zihan Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
AnnaAgent: Dynamic Evolution Agent Systerm with Multi-Session Memory for Realistic Seeker Simulation. (Paper coming).
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Lin Wu, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yuxin Chen, Bixuan Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
SemanticCamo: Jailbreaking Large Language Models through Semantic Camouflage. (Paper coming).
Jihui Yan, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Yinzhi Zhao.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
Is mamba effective for time series forecasting? Paper, Code.
Zihan Wang, Fanheng Kong, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Han Zhao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Neurocomputing, JCR-Q1.
Generative Emotion Cause Explanation in Multimodal Conversations.Paper, Code.
Lin Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2025), CCF-B.
TOOL-ED: Enhancing Empathetic Response Generation with the Tool Calling Capability of LLM. Paper, Code.
Huiying Cao, Yiqun Zhang, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025), CCF-B.
2024
A Persona-Aware Chain-of-Thought Learning Framework for Personalized Dialogue Response Generation. Paper.
Yameng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiaocui Yang.
CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing(NLPCC-2024), CCF-C.
Consistency Guided Knowledge Retrieval and Denoising in LLMs for Zero-shot Document-level Relation Triplet Extraction. Paper, Code.
Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Rong Tong , Kun Zhang and Soujanya Poria.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW-2024), CCF-A.
Few-Shot Multimodal Named Entity Recognition based on Mutlimodal Causal Intervention Graph. Paper.
Feihong Lu, Xiaocui Yang, Qian Li, Qingyun Sun, Ke Jiang, Cheng Ji, and Jianxin Li.
LREC-COLING 2024 (COLING 2024), CCF-B.
PAPER: A Persona-Aware Chain-of-Thought Learning Framework for Personalized Dialogue Response Generation.
Yameng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiaocui Yang.
The 13th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, (NLPCC 2024), CCF-C.
2023
Few-shot Multimodal Sentiment Analysis based on Multimodal Probabilistic Fusion Prompts. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
2023 ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2023), CCF-A.
Few-shot Joint Multimodal Aspect-Sentiment Analysis Based on Generative Multimodal Prompt. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Qi Sun, Wenfang Wu, Yifei Zhang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023) (Finds of ACL 2023), CCF-A.
Multiple Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Paper.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), CCF-B.
Uncertainty Guided Label Denoising for Document-level Distant Relation Extraction. Paper, Code.
Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Pengfei Hong, Kun Zhang and Soujanya Poria.
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), CCF-A.
2021
Multimodal Sentiment Detection Based on Multi-channel Graph Neural Networks. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang and Daling Wang.
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021), CCF-A.
SINN: A speaker influence aware neural network model for emotion detection in conversations.Paper.
Shi Feng, Jia Wei, Daling Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Zhenfei Yang, Yifei Zhang and Ge Yu.
World Wide Web, 2021 (WWWJ 2021), CCF-B.
2020
Image-Text Multimodal Emotion Classification via Multi-View Attentional Network.Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang and Yifei Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020 (TMM 2020), SCI-1，CCF-B.
Academic and Social Services
Conference/Journal Reviewer
- ACL, ACM MM, ACMMM, EMNLP, COLING, ICASSP, NLPCC, etc.