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2024
ToxiCloakCN: Evaluating Robustness of Offensive Language Detection in Chinese with Cloaking Perturbations
By Yunze Xiao, Yujia Hu, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main, 2024.Bridging Modalities: Enhancing Cross-Modality Hate Speech Detection with Few-Shot In-Context Learning
By Ming Shan Hee, Aditi Kumaresan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main, 2024.Recent Advances in Online Hate Speech Moderation: Multimodality and the Role of Large Models
By Ming Shan Hee, Shivam Sharma, RUI CAO, Palash Nandi, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Findings, 2024.Math-LLaVA: Bootstrapping Mathematical Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models
By Wenhao Shi, Zhiqiang Hu, Yi Bin, Junhua Liu, Yang Yang, See-Kiong Ng, Lidong Bing, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Findings, 2024.From Fragment to Fabric: Long-Context Scaling with Short Instruction-Tuning Data
By Tianduo Wang, Yuhao Wu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Wei Lu
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Findings, 2024.MultiHateClip: A Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Hateful Video Detection on YouTube and Bilibili
By Han Wang, Rui Yang Tan, Usman Naseem, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024.InstructAV: Instruction Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Authorship Verification
By Yujia Hu, Zhiqiang Hu, Chun Wei Seah, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024.SGHateCheck: Functional Tests for Detecting Hate Speech in Low-Resource Languages of Singapore
By Ri Chi Ng, Nirmalendu Prakash, Ming Shan Hee, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 2024. [Dataset]Improving Covert Toxicity Detection by Retrieving and Generating References
By Dong-Ho Lee , Hyundong Justin Cho, Woojeong Jin, Jihyung Moon, Sungjoon Park, Paul Rottger, Jay Pujara, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 2024.RumourGraphXplainer: Do Structures Really Matter in Rumour Detection
By Chin Wai Kit Daniel, Kwan Hui Lim, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024.Contrastive Disentanglement for Authorship Attribution
By Zhiqiang Hu, Thao Thanh Nguyen, Yujia Hu, Chia-Yu Hung, Ming Shan Hee, Chun Wei Seah, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP), 2024. [Codes]Love-Hate Dataset: A Multi-Modal Multi-Platform Dataset Depicting Emotions in the 2023 Israel-Hamas War
By Lynnette Ng, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Adrian Xuan Wei Lim
International Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good (MM4SG), 2024.Brinjal: A Web-Plugin for Collaborative Hate Speech Detection
By Ming Shan Hee, Karandeep Singh, Charlotte Ng Si Min, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM The Web Conference (WWW) - Demonstration Track, 2024.Modularized Networks for Few-shot Hateful Meme Detection
By Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Jing Jiang
ACM The Web Conference (WWW), Web4Good, 2024. [Codes]MemeCraft: Contextual and Stance-Driven Multimodal Meme Generation
By Han Wang and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM The Web Conference (WWW), Web4Good, 2024. [Codes]
2023
SBTREC - A Transformer Framework for Personalized Tour Recommendation Problem with Sentiment Analysis
By Ngai Lam Ho, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Kwan Hui Lim
IEEE BigData 2023 special session 9th Special Session on Intelligent Data Mining, 2023MERMAID: A Dataset and Framework for Multimodal Meme Semantic Understanding
By Shaun Shou'en Toh, Adriel Kuek, Wen-Haw Chong, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA), 2023. [Codes]Interpretable Sock Puppet Attribution
By Chun Wei Seah, Chia-Yu Hung, Zhiqiang Hu, Yujia Hu, Hai Leong Chieu, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA), 2023.Prompting Large Language Models for Topic Modeling
By Han Wang, Nirmalendu Prakash, Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Ming Shan Hee, Usman Naseem, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA), 2023.TikTok's Project Texas - Social Media Data Governance across Geopolitical Lines
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and Lynnette Hui Xian NG
ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), 2023.Layered Bias: Interpreting Bias in Pretrained Large Language Models
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and Nirmalendu Prakash
Workshop on Analysing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (BlackboxNLP), 2023.LLM-Adapter: An Empirical Study of Adapter-based Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
By Zhiqiang Hu, Lei Wang, Yihuai Lan, Wanyu Xu, Ee-Peng Lim, Lidong Bing, Xing Xu, Soujanya Poria, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023 [Codes]Adapter-TST: A Parameter Efficient Method for Multiple-Attribute Text Style Transfer
By Zhiqiang Hu, Nancy F. Chen, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2023 [Codes]Who Wrote it and Why? Prompting Large-Language Models for Authorship Verification
By Chia-Yu Hung, Zhiqiang Hu, Yujia Hu, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2023 [Codes]Language Guided Visual Question Answering: Elevate Your Multimodal Language Model Using Knowledge-Enriched Prompts
By Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Rada Mihalcea, and Soujanya Poria
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2023BTRec: BERT-based Trajectory Recommendation for Personalized Tours
By Ngai Lam Ho, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Kwan Hui Lim
ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (ACM RecTour), 2023MATK: The Meme Analytical Tool Kit
By Ming Shan Hee, Aditi Kumaresan, Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Nirmalendu Prakash, Rui Cao, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023 [Codes]PromptMTopic: Unsupervised Multimodal Topic Modeling of Memes using Large Language Models
By Nirmalendu Prakash, Han Wang, Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Ming Shan Hee, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023 [Codes]Pro-Cap: Leveraging a Frozen Vision-Language Model for Hateful Meme Detection
By Rui Cao, Ming Shan Hee, Adriel Kuek, Wen-Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Jing Jiang
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023 [Codes]Misogynistic Extremism: A Scoping Review
By Robin O’Hanlon, Frederick L. Altice, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Jack LaViolette, Gloria Mark, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Navin Kumar, Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2023.Improving the Detection of Multilingual Online Attacks with Rich Social Media Data from Singapore
By Janosch Haber, Bertie Vidgen, Matthew S. Chapman, Vibhor Agarwal, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Yong Keong Yap, and Paul Röttger
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.Plan-and-Solve Prompting: Improving Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning by Large Language Models
By Lei Wang, Wanyu Xu, Yihuai Lan, Zhiqiang Hu, Yunshi Lan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Ee-Peng Lim
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023. [Codes]Decoding the Underlying Meaning of Multimodal Hateful Memes
By Mingshan Hee, Wen-Haw Chong, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023. [Dataset]Evaluating GPT-3 Generated Explanations for Hateful Content Moderation
By Han Wang, Mingshan Hee, Md Rabiul Awal, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023. [Codes]TotalDefMeme: A Multi-Attribute Meme dataset on Total Defence in Singapore
By Nirmalendu Prakash, Ming Shan Hee, and Roy Ka-Wei Lee
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSYS), 2023 [Dataset]Predicting Hate Intensity of Twitter Conversation Threads
By Qing MENG, Tharun SURESH, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Tanmoy CHAKRABORTY
Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 2023. [Codes]Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection
By Md Rabiul AWAL, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Tanmay GARG, Eshaan TANWAR, and Tanmoy CHAKRABORTY
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2023. [Codes]
2022
Categorizing Memes About the Ukraine Conflict
By Keyu Chen, Ashley Feng, Rohan Aanegola, Koustuv Saha, Allie Wong, Zach Schwitzky, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Robin O’Hanlon, Munmun De Choudhury, Frederick L. Altice, Kaveh Khoshnood, and Navin Kumar,
International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSONET), 2022.MUSCAT: Multilingual Rumor Detection in Social Media Conversations
By Md Rabiul AWAL, Minh Dang NGUYEN, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Kenny Tsu Wei CHOO
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA), 2022. [Codes]Prompting for Multimodal Hateful Meme Classification
By Rui CAO, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Wen-Haw CHONG, and Jing JIANG
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022. [Codes]Attention-Fused Deep Relevancy Matching Network for Clickbait Detection
By Qing MENG, Bo LIU, xiangguo SUN, Hui YAN, Chengyu LIANG, Jiuxin CAO, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Xing BAO
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2022.DReD - A Descriptive Relation Dataset for Expanding Relation Extraction
By Logan MARKEWICH, Yubin XING, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Zhi LI, and Seokbum KO
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), 2022.Text Style Transfer: A Review and Experimental Evaluation
By Zhiqiang HU, Roy Ka-Wei LEEm, Charu C. AGGARWAL, and Aston ZHANG
ACM SIGKDD Explorations, 2022.Temporal-aware and Multifaceted Social Contexts Modeling for Social Recommendation
By Qing MENG, Bo LIU, Hengyuan ZHANG, Xuheng SUN, Jiuxin CAO, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 2022.Multimodal Zero-Shot Hateful Meme Detection
By Jiawen ZHU, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Wen Haw CHONG
ACM Conference on Web Science (WEBSCI), 2022.Nowhere to Hide: Online Rumor Detection based on Retweeting Graph Neural Networks
By Bo LIU, Xiangguo SUN, Qing MENG, Xinyan YANG, Yang LEE, Jiuxin CAO, Junzhou LUO, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022.On Explaining Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection Models
By Mingshan HEE, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Wen-Haw CHONG
ACM The Web Conference (WWW), 2022. [Codes]Segmentation for document layout analysis: not dead yet
By Logan MARKEWICH, Hao ZHANG, Yubin XING, Navid Lambert-Shirzad, Zhexin JIANG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Zhi LI, and Seok-Bum KO
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2022.
2021
Early Prediction of Hate Speech Propagation
By Ken-Yu LIN, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Wei GAO, and Wen-Chih PENG
IEEE ICDM Workshop on Intelligence-Augmented Anomaly Analytics (IAAA), 2021. [Codes]Will You Dance To The Challenge? Predicting User Participation of TikTok Challenges
By Lynnette Hui Xian NG, John Yeh Han TAN, Darryl Jing Heng TAN, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2021Improving Text Auto-Completion with Next Phrase Prediction
By Dong-Ho LEE, Zhiqiang HU, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2021. [Codes]A Syntax-Aware Encoder for Authorship Attribution
By Jianbo LIU, Zhiqiang HU, Jiasheng ZHANG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Jie SHAO
International conference on web information systems engineering (WISE), 2021.AutoChart: A Dataset for Chart-to-Text Generation Task
By Jiawen ZHU, Jinye RAN, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Kenny Tsu Wei CHOO, and Zhi LI
International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2021. [Codes]Syntax Matters! Syntax-Controlled in Text Style Transfer
By Zhiqiang HU, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Charu C. AGGARWAL
International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2021. [Codes]Disentangling Hate in Online Memes
By Rui CAO, Ziqing FAN, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Wen-Haw CHONG, and Jing JIANG
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021. [Codes]Hierarchical Expert Recommendation on Community Question Answering Platforms
by Amirabbas JALALI and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2021.On Orthogonality Constraints for Transformers
by Aston ZHANG, Alvin CHAN, Yi TAY, Jie FU, Shuohang WANG, Shuai ZHANG, Huajie SHAO, Shuochao YAO, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2021.AngryBERT: Joint Learning Target and Emotion for Hate Speech Detection
by Md Rabiul AWAL, Rui CAO, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Sandra MITROVIC
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2021. [Codes]
2020
Online Xenophobic Behavior Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: A Commentary
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and Zhi LI
ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), 2020.I miss you babe: Analyzing Emotion Dynamics During COVID-19 Pandemic
by Lynnette Hui Xian NG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Md Rabiul AWAL
Workshop on NLP and CSS (NLPCSS), 2020HateGAN: Adversarial Generative-Based Data Augmentation for Hate Speech Detection
by Rui CAO and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020. [Codes]On Analyzing Annotation Consistency in Online Abusive Behavior Datasets
by Md Rabiul AWAL, Rui CAO, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Sandra MITROVIC
International Conference on Web and Social Media - Data Challenge (ICWSM-DC), 2020. [Codes]DeepStyle: User Style Embedding for Authorship Attribution of Short Texts
by Zhiqiang HU, Lei WANG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Ee-Peng LIM, and Bo DAI
Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM), 2020. [Codes]OCEAN: A Dual Learning Approach for Generalized Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
by Jiawen ZHU, Xing XU, Fumin SHEN, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Zheng WANG, and Heng Tao SHEN,
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2020.Teacher-Student Networks with Multiple Decoders for Solving Math Word Problem
by Jipeng ZHANG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Lei WANG, Wei QIN, Qiangru SUN, Jie SHAO, and Ee-Peng LIM
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), 2020. [Codes]DeepHate: Hate Speech Detection via Multi-Faceted Text Representations
by Rui CAO, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, and Tuan-Anh HOANG
12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WEBSCI), 2020. [Codes]Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems
Jipeng ZHANG, Lei WANG, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Yi BIN, Yan WANG, Jie SHAO, and Ee-Peng LIM
Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. [Codes]Keen2Act: Activity Recommendation in Online Social Collaborative Platforms
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Thong HOANG, Richard Jayadi OENTARYO, and David LO
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2020. [Codes]Retrofitting Embeddings for Unsupervised User Identity Linkage
by Tao ZHOU, Ee-peng LIM, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Feida ZHU, and Jiuxin CAO
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020.
2019
Discovering Hidden Topical Hubs and Authorities Across Multiple Online Social Networks
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Tuan-Anh HOANG, and Ee-Peng LIM
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2019. [Codes]AD-Link: An Adaptive Approach for User Identity Linkage
by Xin MU, Wei XIE, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Feida ZHU, and Ee-Peng LIM
IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK), 2019.Topic Enhanced Word Embedding for Toxic Content Detection in Q&A Sites
by Do Yeon KIM, Xiaohang LI, Sheng WANG, Yunying ZHUO, and Roy Ka-Wei LEE
Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA), 2019.
2018
Linky: Visualizing User Profile Linkage Results For Multiple Online Social Networks
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Ming Shan HEE, Philips Kokoh PRASETYO, and Ee-Peng LIM
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2018.Unsupervised User Identity Linkage via Factoid Embedding
by Wei XIE, Xin MU, Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Feida ZHU, and Ee-Peng LIM
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2018.Wisdom in Sum of Parts: Multi-Platform Activity Prediction in Social Collaborative Sites
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and David LO
ACM Conference on Web Science (WEBSCI), 2018.Discovering Hidden Topical Hubs and Authorities in Online Social Networks
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Tuan-Anh HOANG, and Ee-Peng LIM
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2018. [Codes]GitHub and Stack Overflow: Analyzing Developer Interests Across Multiple Social Collaborative Platforms
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and David LO
2017 and before
9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SOCINFO), 2017.
On Analyzing User Topic-Specific Platform Preferences Across Multiple Social Media Sites
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Tuan-Anh HOANG, and Ee-Peng LIM
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017. [Codes]Friendship Maintenance and Prediction in Multiple Social Networks
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and Ee-Peng LIM
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), 2016.Measuring User Influence, Susceptibility and Cynicalness in Sentiment Diffusion
by Roy Ka-Wei LEE and Ee-Peng LIM
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2015.