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Lu Wang

Associate professor @ University of Michigan

media bias

text summarization

controlled text generation

long document

verifiable generation

summarization

question generation

citation

partisan events

knowledge distillation

generalizability

text generation

efficient attentions

long document summarization

information extraction

29

presentations

15

number of views

SHORT BIO

Lu Wang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan. Previously until 2020, she was at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, under supervision of Professor Claire Cardie. Lu's research is focused on natural language processing, computational social science, and machine learning. More specifically, Lu works on algorithms for text summarization, language generation, reasoning, argument mining, information extraction, as well as novel applications that apply such techniques to understand media bias and polarization and other interdisciplinary subjects. Her work won best paper honorable mention award at CHI 2023, outstanding paper award at ACL 2017, and best paper nomination award at SIGDIAL 2012. Lu currently serves as ACL equity director. She is a co-founder and an officer of ACL Special Interest Group on Summarization (SIGSUMM).

Presentations

Improving Temporal Reasoning of Language Models via Recounted Narratives

Xinliang Frederick Zhang and 2 other authors

Enhancing Language Model Factuality via Activation-Based Confidence Calibration and Guided Decoding

Xin Liu and 2 other authors

Scalable Fine-tuning from Multiple Data Sources: A First-Order Approximation Approach

Dongyue Li and 3 other authors

Closing the Loop: Learning to Generate Writing Feedback via Language Model Simulated Student Revisions

Inderjeet Nair and 5 other authors

Enhanced Language Model Truthfulness with Learnable Intervention and Uncertainty Expression

Farima Fatahi Bayat and 3 other authors

Small Language Models Need Strong Verifiers to Self-Correct Reasoning

Yunxiang Zhang and 6 other authors

Verifiable Generation with Subsentence-Level Fine-Grained Citations

Shuyang Cao and 1 other author

MOKA: Moral Knowledge Augmentation for Moral Event Extraction

Xinliang Frederick Zhang and 3 other authors

PELMS: Pre-training for Effective Low-Shot Multi-Document Summarization

Joseph Peper and 2 other authors

AWESOME: GPU Memory-constrained Long Document Summarization using Memory Mechanism and Global Salient Content

Shuyang Cao and 1 other author

All Things Considered: Detecting Partisan Events from News Media with Cross-Article Comparison

Yujian Liu and 5 other authors

Crossing the Aisle: Unveiling Partisan and Counter-Partisan Events in News Reporting

Kaijian Zou and 4 other authors

Merging Generated and Retrieved Knowledge for Open-Domain QA

Yunxiang Zhang and 5 other authors

General then Personal: Decoupling and Pre-training for Personalized Headline Generation | VIDEO

Yun-Zhu Song and 3 other authors

GRACE: Discriminator-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Muhammad Khalifa and 4 other authors

BOLT: Fast Energy-based Controlled Text Generation with Tunable Biases

Xin Liu and 2 other authors

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