Yu Zou
Author directoryAlso published as: 煜 邹
2026
Fin-STAR: Structure-as-Semantics to Resolve Implicitness in Financial Retrieval
Yu Zou | Yan Chen | Lida He | Qi Zhou | Xiaorui Zhou | Aixi Zhong | Yi Wang | Wei Li | Qingyu Wang | Jiatao Li | Wei Gong | Jialei Zeng | Jingmei Zhao | Ke Jiang | Qing Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yu Zou | Yan Chen | Lida He | Qi Zhou | Xiaorui Zhou | Aixi Zhong | Yi Wang | Wei Li | Qingyu Wang | Jiatao Li | Wei Gong | Jialei Zeng | Jingmei Zhao | Ke Jiang | Qing Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Understanding financial documents is critical for high-stakes decision-making yet hindered by systemic semantic implicitness: key facts are rarely explicit in surface text and often determined by global structural cues. Missing these cues invites semantic misinterpretations, such as misreading what a number refers to, an outcome unacceptable in high-stakes environments. However, existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems typically treat structure as a physical navigational skeleton rather than intrinsic semantic knowledge. To address this, we introduce Fin-STAR (Financial STructure-As-Semantics Retrieval), a framework redefining hierarchy as intrinsic semantics. Fin-STAR incorporates a novel Structure-Enriched Semantic Indexing mechanism that augments the hierarchical lineage with snippet-derived virtual nodes, and injects this enriched context via a semantic cross-attention paradigm, rendering implicit cues explicit. By grounding evidence within its structural scope, we preserve factual invariance and ensure contextual integrity. Addressing the lack of granular public datasets, we conduct experiments on FinTierQA Gold, a curated expert benchmark. Results show that Fin-STAR outperforms state-of-the-art hierarchical and graph-based baselines across diverse query complexities, document types, and markets. Notably, ablations confirm that our semantic injection consistently outperforms alternative strategies. Finally, we release FinTierQA, comprising 3.9M pairs automatically constructed from 78k documents via our framework .
TETHER: Training-Free, Elastic, ToC-Anchored Hierarchy Extraction and Recovery in Design-Driven Long Documents
Yu Zou | Yan Chen | Jialei Zeng | Xiaorui Zhou | Aixi Zhong | Qi Zhou | Haoran You | Ke Jiang | Changyu Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yu Zou | Yan Chen | Jialei Zeng | Xiaorui Zhou | Aixi Zhong | Qi Zhou | Haoran You | Ke Jiang | Changyu Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Converting complex documents into structured knowledge constitutes the critical infrastructure urgently required for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in downstream research. However, blind to the Table of Contents (ToC) as a macro-structure, existing bottom-up paradigms rely on localized visual cues, inducing heuristic fragility in high-entropy layouts where visual prominence decouples from logical depth; meanwhile, direct LLM extraction lacks spatial grounding, triggering hallucinations in long contexts. To address this, we introduce TETHER, a training-free framework that elevates the ToC from discarded noise to a vital structural prior, enabling robust adaptation across design-driven long documents. TETHER operates via a two-stage neuro-symbolic mechanism: first, it constructs a document skeleton from the raw ToC using a Large Multimodal Model (LMM) empowered by spatio-semantic constraints; second, it employs an anchor-based alignment strategy to tether content blocks to this skeleton, effectively resolving boundary ambiguities. Evaluated across a multilingual benchmark of ESG reports, product manuals, and annual reports, TETHER delivers highly precise, state-of-the-art (SOTA) zero-shot hierarchy recovery, outperforming deep hierarchical recovery models, dedicated parsers, and general-purpose LMMs. Moreover, stress tests highlight TETHER’s resilience to sparse omissions and textual noise, demonstrating that its precise semantic alignment is fundamentally anchored in topological and depth fidelity. Crucially, ablations confirm the framework’s architectural irreducibility, while achieving 90% token reduction and drastic speedups over end-to-end baselines, establishing a compelling equilibrium between structural precision and deployment scalability.
2020
基于统一模型的藏文新闻摘要(Abstractive Summarization of Tibetan News Based on Hybrid Model)
Xiaodong Yan (闫晓东) | Xiaoqing Xie (解晓庆) | Yu Zou (邹煜) | Wei Li (李维)
Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
Xiaodong Yan (闫晓东) | Xiaoqing Xie (解晓庆) | Yu Zou (邹煜) | Wei Li (李维)
Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
Seq2seq神经网络模型在中英文文本摘要的研究中取得了良好的效果,但在低资源语言的文本摘要研究还处于探索阶段,尤其是在藏语中。此外,目前还没有大规模的标注语料库进行摘要提取。本文提出了一种生成藏文新闻摘要的统一模型。利用TextRank算法解决了藏语标注训练数据不足的问题。然后,采用两层双GRU神经网络提取代表原始新闻的句子,减少冗余信息。最后,使用基于注意力机制的Seq2Seq来生成理解式摘要。同时,我们加入了指针网络来处理未登录词的问题。实验结果表明,ROUGE-1评分比传统模型提高了2%。 关键词:文本摘要;藏文;TextRank; 指针网络;Bi-GRU
2010
CMDMC: A Diachronic Digital Museum of Chinese Mandarin
Min Hou | Yu Zou | Yonglin Teng | Wei He | Yan Wang | Jun Liu | Jiyuan Wu
CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing
Min Hou | Yu Zou | Yonglin Teng | Wei He | Yan Wang | Jun Liu | Jiyuan Wu
CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing