Yi-Chen Chiang
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Knowledge Editing & Downstream UtilityAn international team of researchers, students, and collaborators from 12+ countries, united by one question: how do humans and agents thrive together?
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
His recent research investigates how large language models and agents mediate communication, reshape human decision-making, and influence society — with particular interests in LLM-mediated communication, the social impact of agents, human-agent collaboration in high-stakes settings, and the detection and verification of forward-looking exaggeration and misinformation.
His earlier work centered on NLP and information retrieval for high-stakes domains including finance, law, and social science: forward-looking argument mining, financial text analysis, legal technology, expert decision support, and evaluation frameworks for language technologies used in consequential contexts.
He is the founder of ACL SIG-FinTech, organizer of the FinNLP/FinWeb workshop series (IJCAI, WWW, EMNLP, IJCNLP-AACL), leader of the FinNum and FinArg shared task series at NTCIR, and recipient of the SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award (Excellence in Community Engagement).
Education: Ph.D., NLP Lab, CSIE, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · M.S., Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan · B.S., Economics (minor CSIE), National Taipei University, Taiwan
Full profile & publications at nlpfin.github.ioNational Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Knowledge Editing & Downstream UtilityJadavpur University, India
Cross-Temporal Decision-MakingJadavpur University, India
Diverse Viewpoint GenerationNational Taiwan University, Taiwan · NII Visiting Researcher
Adversarial Audit SimulationNational Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Election Polling SimulationNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
Decision SimulationDMI – St. John the Baptist University, Malawi
ESG Disclosure AnalysisNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Adaptive Teamwork & PlanningNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
ESG Commitment TracingResearch partnerships around the world.
UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Clinical Conversation SimulationNational Taipei University, Taiwan
Chinese ESG Factor AnalysisTechnische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Quality Assurance in Scholarly CommunicationThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Evidence-Based Decision-MakingNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Personalized Model EditingNII, Japan
Eye-tracking for Decision Reasoning3DS Outscale, France
Cross-Lingual ESG ScoringHitotsubashi University, Japan
Multilingual ESG ComplianceMBZUAI, United Arab Emirates
Clinical Conversation SimulationUNIST, South Korea
Personalized Financial EducationHitotsubashi University, Japan
AI for Social Science ResearchUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan
Cross-Lingual ESG ScoringNational Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Presidential Debate AnalysisChulalongkorn University, Thailand
Multilingual ESG ComplianceChaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Cross-Temporal Argument VerificationNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
AI Sports CoachingPublished at leading venues and recognized with paper, thesis, and scholarship awards.
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
MM-Compliance: A Multilingual Multimodal Dataset for Sustainability Compliance Auditing (EMNLP'26)
Academia Sinica, Taiwan · NII Visiting Researcher
Upstream Influence, Downstream Re-Anchoring in LLM Agent Chains (arXiv)
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (AIST Intern)
Linguistic Cues in Political Debates: Lexical Choices and Evaluative Framing in GPT-Generated Commentary (Findings of AACL-IJCNLP 2026)
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (AIST Intern)
Ideological SteeringNational Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Faithful to the Frame: Source-Framing Propagation in LLM-Agent Decision Workflows (EMNLP'26)
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Self-Guided Planning and Repair Framework for Code Generation (AAAI'26)
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (AIST Intern)
Why Expert Alignment Is Hard: Evidence from Subjective Evaluation (arXiv)
Manchester University, UK
Multi-Agent InteractionsUniversity of Manchester, UK
Insight GenerationJadavpur University, India
Crowd Reaction AssessmentIT:U, Austria
Turning Evidence into Actionable InsightsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assess Text CreativityINESC TEC, Portugal
Diagnostic SimulationThe University of Tokyo, Japan · AIST RA
🏆 Outstanding Paper Award (ANLP, Japan)
Can GPT-4 Sway Experts' Decisions? (NAACL'25) · Personalized Dynamic Recommender System for Investors (SIGIR'23)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Financial ComplianceNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
Society-Undermining Disinformation Detection (Findings of EACL 2024) · Diagnosing Model Editing via Knowledge Spectrum · Why Has the Least Side Effect on Model Editing
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
🏆 Outstanding Award, 18th TSC Thesis Award
RAG for Earnings Call Answer Rehearsal (CIKM'25) · Rehearsing Answers to Probable Questions with Perspective-Taking
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Confidence-Driven Multi-Scale Model Selection (Findings of EACL 2026) · Refining Financial Consumer Complaints
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland · AIST Intern
National Taiwan University, Taiwan · AIST Intern
🏆 NSTC Study Abroad Program (Chien-Li-Ma Scholarship)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
🏆 Hon Hai Technology Award
Evaluating LLMs as Expert Annotators (COLM'25) · DynamicESG (CIKM'23)
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
RAG-Enhanced Evidence Recommendation in Financial Legal Resolutions (WWW'25)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Argument-Based Sentiment Analysis on Forward-Looking Statements (ACL 2024)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Co-Trained Retriever-Generator for Question Generation (WWW'25) · Generating Multiple Questions from Presentation Transcripts (INLG'23) · CustodiAI (IJCNLP-AACL'23)
University of Sheffield, UK · AIST Intern
From Facts to Insights: Analytical Reports for Earnings Calls (COLING 2025)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Entity-Aware Dual Co-Attention Network for Fake News Detection (EACL 2023)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan · AIST Intern
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pre-Finetuning with Impact Duration Awareness (WWW'25) · Learning Strategies for Robust Argument Mining (LREC-COLING'24)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
General Numeral Attachment Dataset for Earnings Calls (IJCNLP-AACL'23)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Financial Statement AdequacyNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dynamic Graph Transformer for Implicit Tag Recognition (EACL'21) · FinSense (WSDM'21)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Semantics-Preserved Data Augmentation for ABSA (EMNLP'21) · Risk-aware Regularization for Opinion-based Portfolio Selection (ICWSM'21)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Retrieving Implicit Information for Stock Movement Prediction (SIGIR'21)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Learning to Generate Correct Numeric Values in News Headlines (WWW'20)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Text-Based Economic Indicator Construction (CIKM'24)
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Learning Strategies for Robust Argument Mining (LREC-COLING'24)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland · AIST Intern
Financial Q&AJadavpur University, India
Generator-Guided Crowd Reaction Assessment (WWW'24) · The Mask One At a Time Framework (FIRE'23)
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