Publications

Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations

Hongbin Na*, Zimu Wang*, Zhaoming Chen, Yining Hua, Rena Gao, Kailai Yang, Ling Chen, Wei Wang, Shaoxiong Ji, John Torous, Sophia Ananiadou

BioNLP@ACL 2026

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2605.24907

MEUR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Multimodal Event Understanding and Reasoning

Zimu Wang, Yuqi Wang, Tong Chen, Changyu Zeng, Hongbin Na, Nijia Han, Fuyu Xing, Qi Chen, Qiufeng Wang, Anh Nguyen, Shuihua Wang, Ling Chen, Jionglong Su, Haiyang Zhang, Wei Wang

LREC 2026

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Design and Report Benchmarks for Knowledge Work

Yining Hua, Hongbin Na, Cyrus Ayubcha, Levi Lian

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2605.23262

You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations

Hongbin Na*, Zimu Wang*, Zhaoming Chen*, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Grace Ziqi Zhou, Haiyang Zhang,, Tao Shen, Wei Wang, John Torous, Shaoxiong Ji, Ling Chen

ACL Findings 2026

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2512.15601

Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy

Hongbin Na, Tao Shen, Shumao Yu, Ling Chen

LREC 2026

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2410.05824

Lost in Pronunciation: Detecting Chinese Offensive Language Disguised by Phonetic Cloaking Replacement

Haotan Guo*, Jianfei He*, jiayuan Ma*, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Qi Chen, Wei Wang, Zijing Shi, Tao Shen, Ling Chen

EMNLP 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2507.07640

Charting the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Mental Health Chatbots from Rule-based Systems to Large Language Models: A Systematic Review

Yining Hua, Steve Siddals, Zilin Ma, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Winna Xia, Christine Hau, Hongbin Na, Matthew Flathers, Jake Linardon, Cyrus Ayubcha, John Torous

World Psychiatry 2025

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From Posts to Timelines: Modeling Mental Health Dynamics from Social Media Timelines with Hybrid LLMs

Zimu Wang*, Hongbin Na*, Rena Gao, Jiayuan Ma, Yining Hua, Ling Chen, Wei Wang

CLPsych@NAACL 2025

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A Survey of Large Language Models in Psychotherapy: Current Landscape and Future Directions

Hongbin Na*, Yining Hua*, Zimu Wang*, Tao Shen, Beibei Yu, Lilin Wang, Wei Wang, John Torous, Ling Chen

ACL Findings 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2502.11095

Hazards in Daily Life? Enabling Robots to Proactively Detect and Resolve Anomalies

Zirui Song*, Guangxian Ouyang*, Meng Fang*, Hongbin Na, Zijing Shi, Zhenhao Chen, Yujie Fu, Zeyu Zhang, Shiyu Jiaying, Miao Fang, Ling Chen, Xiuying Chen

NAACL 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2411.00781

Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting

Jiayuan Ma*, Hongbin Na*, Zimu Wang, Yining Hua, Yue Liu, Wei Wang, Ling Chen

COLING 2025

Best Short Paper Award

PDF Code Bibtex arXiv: 2412.08414

A Scoping Review of Large Language Models for Generative Tasks in Mental Health Care

Yining Hua, Hongbin Na, Zehan Li, Fenglin Liu, Xiao Fang, David Clifton, John Torous

npj Digital Medicine 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2408.11288

Large Language Models in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review

Yining Hua, Fenglin Liu, Kailai Yang, Zehan Li, Hongbin Na, Yi-han Sheu, Peilin Zhou, Lauren V Moran, Sophia Ananiadou, David Clifton, Andrew Beam, John Torous

Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2401.02984

Thinker-DDM: Modeling Deliberation for Machine Translation with a Drift-Diffusion Process

Hongbin Na*, Zimu Wang*, Mieradilijiang Maimaiti, Tong Chen, Wei Wang, Tao Shen, Ling Chen

ALTA 2025

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2402.10699

MineAgent: Towards Remote-Sensing Mineral Exploration with Multimodal Large Language Models

Beibei Yu, Tao Shen, Hongbin Na, Ling Chen, Denqi Li

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2412.17339

Guardians of Discourse: Evaluating LLMs on Multilingual Offensive Language Detection

Jianfei He, Lilin Wang, Jiaying Wang, Zhenyu Liu, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Wei Wang, Qi Chen

IEEE UIC 2024

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2410.15623

CBT-LLM: A Chinese Large Language Model for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based Mental Health Question Answering

Hongbin Na

LREC-COLING 2024

PDF Bibtex arXiv: 2403.16008

Attention-Based Multimodal Bilinear Feature Fusion for Lung Cancer Survival Analysis

Hongbin Na*, Lilin Wang*, Xinyao Zhuang, Jianfei He, Zhenyu Liu, Zimu Wang, Hong-Seng Gan

IEEE BIBE 2023

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