Publications

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• ClusterLLM: Large Language Models as a Guide for Text Clustering.
  Yuwei Zhang, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  arXiv:2305.14871.

• Debiasing Made State-of-the-art: Revisiting the Simple Seed-based Weak Supervision for Text Classification.
  Chengyu Dong, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  arXiv:2305.14794.

• Goal-Driven Explainable Clustering via Language Descriptions.
  Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, Ruiqi Zhong.
  arXiv:2305.13749. Github

• A Benchmark on Extremely Weakly Supervised Text Classification: Reconcile Seed Matching and Prompting Approaches.
  Zihan Wang*, Tianle Wang**, Dheeraj Mekala, Jingbo Shang.
  ACL (Findings) 2023.   Github

• WOT-Class: Weakly Supervised Open-world Text Classification.
  Tianle Wang, Zihan Wang, Weitang Liu, Jingbo Shang.
  arXiv:2305.12401.

• WavSpA: Wavelet Space Attention for Boosting Transformers' Long Sequence Learning Ability.
  Yufan Zhuang, Zihan Wang, Fangbo Tao, Jingbo Shang.
  arXiv:2210.01989.

• Formulating Few-shot Fine-tuning Towards Language Model Pre-training: A Pilot Study on Named Entity Recognition.
  Zihan Wang, Kewen Zhao, Zilong Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP (Findings) 2022.   Github

• WeDef: Weakly Supervised Backdoor Defense for Text Classification.
  Lesheng Jin*, Zihan Wang*, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2022.   Github

• Learning Adaptive Axis Attentions in Fine-tuning: Beyond Fixed Sparse Attention Patterns.
  Zihan Wang, Jiuxiang Gu, Jason Kuen, Handong Zhao, Vlad I Morariu, Ruiyi Zhang, Ani Nenkova, Tong Sun and Jingbo Shang.
  ACL (Findings) 2022.

• "Average" Approximates "First Principal Component"? An Empirical Analysis on Representations from Neural Language Models.
  Zihan Wang, Chengyu Dong, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2021.   Github

• UCPhrase: Unsupervised Context-aware Quality Phrase Tagging.
  Xiaotao Gu*, Zihan Wang*, Zhenyu Bi, Yu Meng, Liyuan Liu, Jiawei Han, Jingbo Shang
  KDD 2021.   Github   Presentation slides for KDD

• X-Class: Text Classification with Extremely Weak Supervision.
  Zihan Wang, Dheeraj Mekala, Jingbo Shang.
  NAACL 2021.   Github   Presentation slides for NAACL   Blog

• Extending Multilingual BERT to Low-Resource Languages.
  Zihan Wang*, Karthikeyan K*, Stephen Mayhew, Dan Roth.
  EMNLP Findings 2020.   CogComp Website

• CatE: Category-Name Guided Word Embedding.
  Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Guangyuan Wang, Zihan Wang, Chao Zhang, Jiawei Han.
  WWW 2020.   Github

• Raw-to-End Name Entity Recognition in Social Media.
  Liyuan Liu, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, Dandong Yin, Heng Ji, Xiang Ren, Shaowen Wang, Jiawei Han.
  arXiv:1908.05344.   Github

• TopicMine: User-Guided Topic Mining by Category-Oriented Embedding.
  Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Zihan Wang, Chenyu Fan, Guangyuan Wang, Chao Zhang, Jingbo Shang, Lance Kaplan, Jiawei Han.
  KDD 2019 Demo.

• Cross-Lingual Ability of Multilingual BERT: An Empirical Study.
  Karthikeyan K*, Zihan Wang*, Stephen Mayhew, Dan Roth.
  ICLR 2020.   Cogcomp Website   Blog

• CrossWeigh: Training Named Entity Tagger from Imperfect Annotations.
  Zihan Wang*, Jingbo Shang*, Liyuan Liu*, Lihao Lu, Jiacheng Liu, and Jiawei Han.
  EMNLP 2019.   Github   Blog