publications

2025

1. NAACL

   "Is There Anything Else?”: Examining Administrator Influence on Linguistic Features from the Cookie Theft Picture Description Cognitive Test

   Changye Li ,  Zhecheng Sheng ,  Trevor Cohen , and 1 more author

   Mar 2025

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   @misc{li2025iselseexaminingadministrator,
     title = {"Is There Anything Else?'': Examining Administrator Influence on Linguistic Features from the Cookie Theft Picture Description Cognitive Test},
     author = {Li, Changye and Sheng, Zhecheng and Cohen, Trevor and Pakhomov, Serguei},
     month = mar,
     year = {2025},
     eprint = {2503.20104},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20104},
   }

2024

1. ACL

   Too Big to Fail: Larger Language Models are Disproportionately Resilient to Induction of Dementia-Related Linguistic Anomalies

   Changye Li ,  Zhecheng Sheng ,  Trevor Cohen , and 1 more author

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 , Aug 2024

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   @inproceedings{li-etal-2024-big,
     title = {Too Big to Fail: Larger Language Models are Disproportionately Resilient to Induction of Dementia-Related Linguistic Anomalies},
     author = {Li, Changye and Sheng, Zhecheng and Cohen, Trevor and Pakhomov, Serguei},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024},
     month = aug,
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.380/},
   }

2. 

   BBScore: A Brownian Bridge Based Metric for Assessing Text Coherence

   Zhecheng Sheng ,  Tianhao Zhang ,  Chen Jiang , and 1 more author

   Aug 2024

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   @misc{sheng2023bbscore,
     title = {BBScore: A Brownian Bridge Based Metric for Assessing Text Coherence},
     author = {Sheng, Zhecheng and Zhang, Tianhao and Jiang, Chen and Kang, Dongyeop},
     year = {2024},
     journal = {Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16893},
   }

3. AMIA

   Backdoor Adjustment of Confounding by Provenance for Robust Text Classification of Multi-institutional Clinical Notes

   Xiruo Ding ,  Zhecheng Sheng ,  Meliha Yetişgen , and 2 more authors

   In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings , Aug 2024

   Published 2024 Jan 11

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   @inproceedings{ding2024backdoor,
     title = {Backdoor Adjustment of Confounding by Provenance for Robust Text Classification of Multi-institutional Clinical Notes},
     author = {Ding, Xiruo and Sheng, Zhecheng and Yetişgen, Meliha and Pakhomov, Serguei and Cohen, Trevor},
     booktitle = {AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings},
     volume = {2023},
     pages = {923--932},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38222433/},
     note = {Published 2024 Jan 11}
   }

2023

1. NeurIPS

   Enhancing Robustness of Foundation Model Representations under Provenance-related Distribution Shifts

   Xiruo Ding ,  Zhecheng Sheng ,  Brian Hur , and 3 more authors

   Dec 2023

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   @article{ding2023enhancing,
     title = {Enhancing Robustness of Foundation Model Representations under Provenance-related Distribution Shifts},
     author = {Ding, Xiruo and Sheng, Zhecheng and Hur, Brian and Chen, Feng and Pakhomov, Serguei V. S. and Cohen, Trevor},
     month = dec,
     year = {2023},
     eprint = {2312.05435},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05435},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL}
   }

2. AMIA

   A Chatbot for Activities of Daily Living Assessment Standardization

   Zhecheng Sheng ,  Ramond Finzel ,  Aditya. Gaydhani , and 4 more authors

   In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings , Nov 2023
3. ACL

   A Dialogue System for Assessing Activities of Daily Living: Improving Consistency with Grounded Knowledge

   Zhecheng Sheng ,  Raymond Finzel ,  Michael Lucke , and 3 more authors

   Jul 2023

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   @misc{sheng-etal-2023-dialogue,
     title = {A Dialogue System for Assessing Activities of Daily Living: Improving Consistency with Grounded Knowledge},
     author = {Sheng, Zhecheng and Finzel, Raymond and Lucke, Michael and Dufresne, Sheena and Gini, Maria and Pakhomov, Serguei},
     journal = {Proceedings of the Third DialDoc Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering},
     month = jul,
     year = {2023},
     address = {Toronto, Canada},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.dialdoc-1.8},
     pages = {68--79},
   }

2022

1. ICHI

   Canine Parvovirus Diagnosis Classification Utilizing Veterinary Free-Text Notes

   Zhecheng Sheng ,  Emma Bollig ,  Jennifer Granick , and 2 more authors

   In 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) , Jul 2022