Rui Fan

School of Chinese Language and Literature
Central China Normal University
ruifan@ccnu.edu.cn

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Room 110,

South Building, School of Chinese Language and Literature

152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China

I am a Lecturer at Central China Normal University. Within the university, I am affiliated with the School of Chinese Language and Literature, the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Learning, and the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center for Network Media.

I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), followed by an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Central China Normal University, under the supervision of Prof. Tingting He.

Research Interests

  • Sentiment Analysis
    Aspect-based sentiment analysis, emotion cause extraction, and multimodal sentiment analysis

  • Dialogue Systems
    Task-oriented dialogue, dialogue understanding, and human–computer interaction

  • Intelligent Education and Language Resources
    Applications of AI in education and the construction and computational analysis of language and text resources

news

Jul 01, 2026 Our ReproHum study on sociopolitical acceptability judgments will appear at GEM 2026. :smile:
May 08, 2026 Our study on multi-strategy emotional support responses is now accepted in Neurocomputing. :smile:
Nov 02, 2025 Our LLM-based data augmentation paper has been accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems. :smile:
Sep 10, 2025 Happy to share that our latest NLP work has been accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2025. :smile:
Jan 01, 2025 Our syntax-opinion-sentiment reasoning chain paper will appear at COLING 2025. :smile:

selected publications

  1. Emotion-Cause Relationship Between Clauses Prediction: a Novel Method Based on BERT for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction
    Rui Fan, Tingting He, Yufan Wang, Jie Hong, and Xinhui Tu
    In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2022
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  2. Dual Causes Generation Assisted Model for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification
    Rui Fan, Tingting He, Menghan Chen, Mengyuan Zhang, Xinhui Tu, and Ming Dong
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024
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  3. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Syntax-Opinion-Sentiment Reasoning Chain
    Rui Fan, Shu Li, Tingting He, and Yu Liu
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025
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  4. Multi-faceted data augmentation for aspect-based sentiment analysis via large language models
    Rui Fan, Tingting He, and Ming Dong
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025
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  5. ReproHum# 0866-04: Variability in Human Judgments of Sociopolitical Acceptability Across Studies
    Rui Fan and Guanyi Chen
    In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM), 2026
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  6. Emotional supporters often use multiple strategies in a single turn
    Xin Bai, Guanyi Chen, Tingting He, Rui Fan, Chenlian Zhou, and Yu Liu
    Neurocomputing, 2026
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