Du Huifang

Ph.D. candidate

College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

My name is Huifang Du. I’m a Ph.D. candidate at Tongji University under the supervision of Haofen Wang. My research interests include KBQA, Task-Oriented Dialogue, and Human-Centered Dialogue.

Research Interests

KBQA
Task-Oriented Dialogue
Human-Centered Dialogue

Publications

Huifang Du, Xuejing Feng, Jun Ma, Meng Wang, Shiyu Tao, Yijie Zhong, Yuan-Fang Li, and Haofen Wang. (2024). Towards proactive interactions for in-vehicle conversational assistants utilizing large language models. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Lingyuan Liu, Huifang Du, Xiaolian Zhang, Mengying Guo, Haofen Wang, Meng Wang. (2024). A Question-Answering Assistant over Personal Knowledge Graph. *Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval**.
Huifang Du, Shuqin Li, Minghao Wu, Xuejing Feng, Yuan-Fang Li, Haofen Wang. (2024). Rewarding What Matters: Step-by-Step Reinforcement Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue. EMNLP Findings.
Huifang Du, Shiyu Tao, Xuejing Feng, Jun Ma, Haofen Wang. (2024). From Passive to Active: Towards Conversational In-Vehicle Navigation Through Large Language Models. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Huifang Du, Xixie Zhang, Meng Wang, Yunwen Chen, Daqi Ji, Jun Ma, Haofen Wang. (2023). A contrastive framework for enhancing knowledge graph question answering: alleviating exposure bias. Knowledge-Based Systems.
Haofen Wang, Huifang Du, Guilin Qi, Huajun Chen, Wei Hu, Zhuo Chen. (2022). Construction of a linked data set of COVID-19 knowledge graphs: development and applications. JMIR Medical Informatics.
Huifang Du, Zhongwen Le, Haofen Wang, Yunwen Chen, Jing Yu. (2022). COKG-QA: Multi-hop question answering over COVID-19 knowledge graphs. Data Intelligence.