Publications

2024

Antonia Karamolegkou, Phillip Rust, Yong Cao, Ruixiang Cui, Anders Søgaard, Daniel Hershcovich. Vision-Language Models under Cultural and Inclusive Considerations. HuCLLM workshop @ ACL 2024.  [Paper]

Zhengdao Li, Yong Cao, Kefan Shuai, Yiming Miao, Kai Hwang. Rethinking the Effectiveness of Graph Classification Datasets in Benchmarks for Assessing GNNs. In Proceedings of 2024 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI `2024).  [Paper]  [Code]  [Poster]

Li Zhou, Wenyu Chen, Yong Cao, Dingyi Zeng, Wanlong Liu, Hong Qu. MLPs Compass: What is learned when MLPs are combined with PLMs? In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP `2024).  [Paper]

Li Zhou, Taelin Karidi, Nicolas Garneau, Yong Cao, Wanlong Liu, Wenyu Chen, Daniel Hershcovich. Does mapo tofu contain coffee? probing llms for food-related cultural knowledge.Arxiv 2024.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Wenyan Li, Jiaang Li, Yifei Yuan, Daniel Hershcovich. Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing. Arxiv 2024.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ruixiang Cui, Antonia Karamolegkou, Li Zhou, Megan Dare, Lucia Donatelli, Daniel Hershcovich. Cultural adaptation of recipes. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2024.  [Paper]  [Code]

Yong Cao, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich. Bridging Cultural Nuances in Dialogue Agents through Cultural Value Surveys. In Findings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL `2024 Findings) Findings.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Ruixue Ding, Boli Chen, Xianzhi Li, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang. Geo-Encoder: A Chunk-Argument Bi-Encoder Framework for Chinese Geographic Re-Ranking. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL `2024).  [Paper]  [Code]  [Slides]

2023

Yong Cao, Xianzhi Li, Huiwen Liu, Wen Dai, Shuai Chen, Bin Wang, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich. Pay More Attention to Relation Exploration for Knowledge Base Question Answering. In Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL `2023 Findings).  [Paper]  [Code]

Li Zhou, Laura Cabello, Yong Cao, Daniel Hershcovich. Cross-cultural transfer learning for Chinese offensive language detection. In Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop at EACL 2023.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Li Zhou, Seolhwa Lee, Laura Cabello, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich. Accessing Cross-Cultural Alignment between ChatGPT and Human Societies: An Empirical Study. In Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop at EACL 2023.  [Paper]  [Slides]  [Code]

2022

Tarik Alafif, Bander Alzahrani, Yong Cao, Reem Alotaibi, Ahmed Barnawi, Min Chen. Generative adversarial network based abnormal behavior detection in massive crowd videos: a Hajj case study. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 2023.  [Paper]

Tianshu Hao, Kai Hwang, Jianfeng Zhan, Yuejin Li, Yong Cao. Scenario-Based AI Benchmark Evaluation of Distributed Cloud/Edge Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers 2022.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Wei Li, Xianzhi Li, Min Chen, Guangyong Chen, Long Hu, Zhengdao Li, Hwang Kai. Explore more guidance: A task-aware instruction network for sign language translation enhanced with data augmentation. In Findings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL `2022).  [Paper]

2020

Min Chen, Yingying Jiang, Yong Cao, Albert Y Zomaya. CreativeBioMan: a brain-and body-wearable, computing-based, creative gaming system. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 2020.  [Paper]

Rui Wang, Yong Cao, Adeeb Noor, Thamer A Alamoudi, Redhwan Nour. Agent-enabled task offloading in UAV-aided mobile edge computing. Computer Communications 2020.  [Paper]

2019

Min Chen, Yong Cao, Rui Wang, Yong Li, Di Wu, Zhongchun Liu. DeepFocus: Deep encoding brainwaves and emotions with multi-scenario behavior analytics for human attention enhancement. IEEE Network 2019.  [Paper]

Yong Cao, Rui Wang, Min Chen, Ahmed Barnawi. AI agent in software-defined network: Agent-based network service prediction and wireless resource scheduling optimization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2019.  [Paper]

2018

Jun Yang, Jiayi Lu, Yiming Miao, Lu Wang, Yiting Zhao, Yong Cao. A novel approach for detecting and tracking moving objects in video surveillance. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME `2018).  [Paper]