11 papers
StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming
Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu +5
Cybergrooming is an evolving threat to youth, requiring proactive educational interventions. We address this by modeling dialogue progression as a structured planning problem over…
Toward Integrated Solutions: A Systematic Interdisciplinary Review of Cybergrooming Research
Heajun An, Marcos Silva, Qi Zhang +8
Cybergrooming exploits minors through online trust-building, yet research remains fragmented, limiting holistic prevention. Social sciences focus on behavioral insights, while comp…
From Vulnerable to Resilient: Examining Parent and Teen Perceptions on How to Respond to Unwanted Cybergrooming Advances
Xinyi Zhang, Mamtaj Akter, Heajun An +6
Cybergrooming is a form of online abuse that threatens teens' mental health and physical safety. Yet, most prior work has focused on detecting perpetrators' behaviors, leaving a li…
Navigating Ideation Space: Decomposed Conceptual Representations for Positioning Scientific Ideas
Yuexi Shen, Minqian Liu, Dawei Zhou +1
Scientific discovery is a cumulative process and requires new ideas to be situated within an ever-expanding landscape of existing knowledge. An emerging and critical challenge is h…
How Do Large Language Models Learn Concepts During Continual Pre-Training?
Barry Menglong Yao, Sha Li, Yunzhi Yao +4
Human beings primarily understand the world through concepts (e.g., dog), abstract mental representations that structure perception, reasoning, and learning. However, how large lan…
AMELI: Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Fine-Grained Attributes
Barry Menglong Yao, Sijia Wang, Yu Chen +5
We propose attribute-aware multimodal entity linking, where the input consists of a mention described with a text paragraph and images, and the goal is to predict the corresponding…