Lucy Lu Wang

select recent publications

1. 

   Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?

   Han Luo, Bingbing Wen, and Lucy Lu Wang

   In Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Dec 2026

   arXiv PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{luo2026agenticAA,
     title = {Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?},
     author = {Luo, Han and Wen, Bingbing and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
     year = {2026},
     month = dec,
   }

2. 

   Clarify or Answer: Reinforcement Learning for Agentic VQA with Context Under-specification

   Zongwan Cao, Bingbing Wen, and Lucy Lu Wang

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) Oct 2026

   arXiv PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{cao2026clarifyOA,
     title = {Clarify or Answer: Reinforcement Learning for Agentic VQA with Context Under-specification},
     author = {Cao, Zongwan and Wen, Bingbing and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)},
     year = {2026},
     month = oct,
   }

3. 

   Illusions of the Gold Standard: A Large-scale Analysis of Human Evaluation Protocols for Long-form Text Generation

   Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Yi-Li Hsu, Minjoon Choi, Zongwan Cao, Chenjun Xu, Bingbing Wen, Su Lin Blodgett, and Lucy Lu Wang

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Jul 2026

   PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{mei2026illusions,
     title = {Illusions of the Gold Standard: A Large-scale Analysis of Human Evaluation Protocols for Long-form Text Generation},
     author = {Mei, Katelyn Xiaoying and Hsu, Yi-Li and Choi, Minjoon and Cao, Zongwan and Xu, Chenjun and Wen, Bingbing and Blodgett, Su Lin and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
     year = {2026},
     month = jul,
   }

4. 

   Enhancing Extubation Failure Prediction with LLM-Derived Features from Respiratory Therapy Clinical Notes

   Izzy Chaiken, Aditya Khowal, Neha A. Sathe, Mark M. Wurfel, and Lucy Lu Wang

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) Jun 2026

   PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{chaiken2026enhancing,
     title = {Enhancing Extubation Failure Prediction with LLM-Derived Features from Respiratory Therapy Clinical Notes},
     author = {Chaiken, Izzy and Khowal, Aditya and Sathe, Neha A. and Wurfel, Mark M. and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL)},
     year = {2026},
     month = jun,
   }

5. 

   Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations

   Anukriti Kumar, Kate Glazko, Yueran Sun, Mark Harniss, Lucy Lu Wang, and Jennifer Mankoff

   In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) Jun 2026

   PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{kumar2026beyond,
     title = {Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations},
     author = {Kumar, Anukriti and Glazko, Kate and Sun, Yueran and Harniss, Mark and Wang, Lucy Lu and Mankoff, Jennifer},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)},
     year = {2026},
     month = jun,
   }

6. 

   ReFinE: Streamlining UI Mockup Iteration with Research Findings

   Donghoon Shin, Bingcan Guo, Jaewook Lee, Lucy Lu Wang, and Gary Hsieh

   In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference Jun 2026

   arXiv PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{shin2026refine,
     title = {ReFinE: Streamlining UI Mockup Iteration with Research Findings},
     author = {Shin, Donghoon and Guo, Bingcan and Lee, Jaewook and Wang, Lucy Lu and Hsieh, Gary},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference},
     year = {2026},
     month = jun,
   }

7. 

   ROBOTO2: An Interactive System and Dataset for LLM-assisted Clinical Trial Risk of Bias Assessment

   Anthony Hevia, Sanjana Chintalapti, Veronica Ka Wai Lai, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Wai-Tat Wong, Terry Klassen, and Lucy Lu Wang

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations Nov 2025

   PDF Bib

   @inproceedings{hevia2025roboto2,
     title = {ROBOTO2: An Interactive System and Dataset for LLM-assisted Clinical Trial Risk of Bias Assessment},
     author = {Hevia, Anthony and Chintalapti, Sanjana and Lai, Veronica Ka Wai and Nguyen, Thanh Tam and Wong, Wai-Tat and Klassen, Terry and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     year = {2025},
     month = nov,
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
   }

8. 

   Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models

   Bingbing Wen, Jihan Yao, Shangbin Feng, Chenjun Xu, Yulia Tsvetkov, Bill Howe, and Lucy Lu Wang

   Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) Nov 2025

   arXiv ACL PDF Bib

   @article{wen2025know,
     title = {Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models},
     author = {Wen, Bingbing and Yao, Jihan and Feng, Shangbin and Xu, Chenjun and Tsvetkov, Yulia and Howe, Bill and Wang, Lucy Lu},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)},
   }