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2026
MERaLiON-3: Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off
Longyin Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yingxu He, Won Cheng Yi Lewis, Muhammad Huzaifah, Hardik B. Sailor, Jeremy H.M. Wong, Tarun Kumar Vangani, Yi Ma, Qiongqiong Wang, et al.
arXiv 2026Multimodal
Train Multi-modal LLM to Understand Diverse Speech Paralinguistics by Distilling from Teacher with Meta-Information Prompt
Jeremy H.M. Wong, Muhammad Huzaifah, Hardik B. Sailor, Shuo Sun, Kye Min Tan, Bin Wang, Qiongqiong Wang, Wenyu Zhang, Xunlong Zou, Nancy F. Chen, et al.
2026Multimodal
2025
MERaLiON-AudioLLM: Advancing Speech and Language Understanding for Singapore
Yingxu He, Zhuohan Liu, Geyu Lin, Shuo Sun, Bin Wang, Wenyu Zhang, Xunlong Zou, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw
ACL 2025 (System Demo)Multimodal
AudioBench: A Universal Benchmark for Audio Large Language Models
Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Geyu Lin, Shuo Sun, Zhuohan Liu, Wenyu Zhang, Zhengyuan Liu, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen
NAACL 2025Benchmark
MoWE-Audio: Multitask AudioLLMs with Mixture of Weak Encoders
Wenyu Zhang, Shuo Sun, Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Zhuohan Liu, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw
ICASSP 2025Multimodal
Beyond Classification: Towards Speech Emotion Reasoning with Multitask AudioLLMs
Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin, Zhuohan Liu, Shuo Sun, Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Jeremy H.M. Wong, Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik B. Sailor, et al.
AACL-IJCNLP 2025Multimodal
IFEval-Audio: Benchmarking Instruction-Following Capability in Audio-based Large Language Models
Yiming Gao, Bin Wang, Chengwei Wei, Shuo Sun, Ai Ti Aw
AACL-IJCNLP 2025Benchmark
Soft Syntactic Reinforcement for Neural Event Extraction
Anran Hao, Jian Su, Shuo Sun, Teo Yong Sen
NAACL 2025NLP
Dynamic Task Balancing for Joint Information Extraction
Anran Hao, Shuo Sun, Jian Su, Siu Cheung Hui, Anh Tuan Luu
Neurocomputing 2025NLP
Advancing Singlish Understanding: Bridging the Gap with Datasets and Multimodal Models
Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Shuo Sun, Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Zhuohan Liu, Chengwei Wei, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw
arXiv 2025Dataset
Benchmarking Contextual and Paralinguistic Reasoning in Speech-LLMs
Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik B. Sailor, Tianchi Liu, Wenyu Zhang, Muhammad Huzaifah, Nattadaporn Lertcheva, Shuo Sun, Nancy F. Chen, Jinyang Wu, Ai Ti Aw
arXiv 2025Benchmark
Incorporating Contextual Paralinguistic Understanding in Large Speech-Language Models
Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik B. Sailor, Jeremy H.M. Wong, Tianchi Liu, Shuo Sun, Wenyu Zhang, Muhammad Huzaifah, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw
arXiv 2025Multimodal
SEA-SpeechBench: A Large-Scale Multitask Benchmark for Speech Understanding Across Southeast Asia
Jingyi Liao, Wenyu Zhang, Zhuohan Liu, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin, Xunlong Zou, Shuo Sun, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff, Dacheng Tao, Ai Ti Aw
PreprintBenchmark
Diversity and Complementarity of Speech Encoders Across Diverse Tasks in a Multi-modal Large Language Model
Jeremy H.M. Wong, Muhammad Huzaifah, Hardik B. Sailor, Shuo Sun, Kye Min Tan, Bin Wang, Qiongqiong Wang, Wenyu Zhang, Xunlong Zou, Nancy F. Chen, et al.
PreprintMultimodal
2024
MERaLiON-AudioLLM: Bridging Audio and Language with Large Language Models
Yingxu He*, Zhuohan Liu*, Shuo Sun*, Bin Wang*, Wenyu Zhang*, Xunlong Zou, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw
arXiv 2024 (Technical Report)Multimodal
Mitigating Linguistic Artifacts in Emotion Recognition for Conversations from TV Scripts to Daily Conversations
Donovan Ong, Shuo Sun, Jian Su, Bin Chen
LREC-COLING 2024NLP
SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages
Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, ..., Shuo Sun, et al.
EMNLP 2024Dataset
Encoding Method, Apparatus, and Storage Medium
Yizhang Tan, Shuo Sun, Jie Cao, Le Tian, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou
US Patent 11,934,788 & 11,995,406Patent
2023
An Exploratory Study on Model Compression for Text-to-SQL
Shuo Sun, Yuze Gao, Yuchen Zhang, Jian Su, Bin Chen, Yingzhan Lin, Shuqi Sun
ACL 2023 (Findings)NLP
Battle of the Large Language Models: Dolly vs LLaMA vs Vicuna vs Guanaco vs Bard vs ChatGPT — A Text-to-SQL Parsing Comparison
Shuo Sun, Yuchen Zhang, Jiahuan Yan, Yuze Gao, Donovan Ong, Bin Chen, Jian Su
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)NLP
Interface Display Method and Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium
Shuo Sun
US Patent App. 18/197,207Patent
2022
AfriCLIRMatrix: Enabling Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo, Xinyu Zhang, Shuo Sun, Kevin Duh, Jimmy Lin
EMNLP 2022CLIR
MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset
Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Erick Fonseca, Chrysoula Zerva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Nina Lopatina, Lucia Specia, André F.T. Martins
LREC 2022QEDataset
End-to-End Multilingual Information Retrieval with Massively Large Synthetic Datasets
Shuo Sun
Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins UniversityThesis
2021
Classification-based Quality Estimation: Small and Efficient Models for Real-world Applications
Shuo Sun, Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, James Cross, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
EMNLP 2021QE
WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from Wikipedia
Holger Schwenk, Vishrav Chaudhary, Shuo Sun, Hongyu Gong, Francisco Guzmán
EACL 2021NLP
2020
CLIRMatrix: A Massively Large Collection of Bilingual and Multilingual Datasets for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Shuo Sun, Kevin Duh
EMNLP 2020CLIR
CLIReval: Evaluating Machine Translation as a Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task
Shuo Sun, Suzanna Sia, Kevin Duh
ACL 2020 (System Demo)CLIR
Are We Estimating or Guesstimating Translation Quality?
Shuo Sun, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
ACL 2020QE
Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation
Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Francisco Guzmán, Mark Fishel, Nikolaos Aletras, Vishrav Chaudhary, Lucia Specia
TACL 2020QE
An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation
Shuo Sun, Marina Fomicheva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
AACL-IJCNLP 2020QE
BERGAMOT-LATTE Submissions for the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task
Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Mark Fishel, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
WMT 2020QE
Modeling Document Interactions for Learning to Rank with Regularized Self-Attention
Shuo Sun, Kevin Duh
arXiv 2020CLIR
An Analysis of BERT FAQ Retrieval Models for COVID-19 Infobot
Shuo Sun, João Sedoc
2020NLP
Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs
Adam Poliak, Max Fleming, Cash Costello, Kenton Murray, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Shivani Pandya, Darius Irani, Milind Agarwal, Udit Sharma, Shuo Sun, et al.
NLP-COVID19 @ EMNLP 2020NLP
2019
End-to-end Gated Self-attentive Memory Network for Dialog Response Selection
Shuo Sun, Yik-Cheung Tam, Jie Cao, Canxiang Yan, Zuohui Fu, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou
DSTC7 Workshop 2019NLP
2018
Cross-Lingual Learning-to-Rank with Shared Representations
Shota Sasaki, Shuo Sun, Shigehiko Schamoni, Kevin Duh, Kentaro Inui
NAACL 2018CLIR