publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2026

  1. COLM 2026
    Useless but Safe? Benchmarking Utility Recovery with User Intent Clarification in Multi-Turn Conversations
    Mingqian Zheng, Malia Morgan, Liwei Jiang, and 2 more authors
    In COLM, 2026
  2. ACL 2026 Findings
    Imperfectly Cooperative Human-AI Interactions: Comparing the Impacts of Human and AI Attributes in Simulated and User Studies
    Myke C. Cohen, Mingqian Zheng, Neel Bhandari, and 6 more authors
    In Findings of ACL, 2026

2025

  1. EMNLP 2025 Findings
    Let Them Down Easy! Contextual Effects of LLM Guardrails on User Perceptions and Preferences
    Mingqian Zheng, Wenjia Hu, Patrick Zhao, and 5 more authors
    2025
  2. EMNLP 2025
    Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics
    Jiarui Liu, Yueqi Song*, Yunze Xiao*, and 5 more authors
    2025

2024

  1. NAACL 2025
    Causally Modeling the Linguistic and Social Factors that Predict Email Response
    Yinuo Xu*, Hong Chen*, Sushrita Rakshit*, and 14 more authors
    Sep 2024
  2. EMNLP 2024 Findings
    When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models
    Mingqian Zheng, Jiaxin Pei, Lajanugen Logeswaran, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10054, Sep 2024