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# Manling Li

Manling Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/), [Chenkai Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenkai-sun/), [Chi Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-han/).

2 papers in our library · 2019–2024

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5052644952) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5543-3343) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130962361) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5052644952) · [107 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052644952) · [1,270 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052644952&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manling-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 386 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manling-li/cited-by/) · [15 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5373](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/54/#star-5373)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Manling+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Manling+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Manling+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Manling+Li)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2023–2026 · 20 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Drexel University** Philadelphia · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/drexel-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2020–2024 · 31 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2024–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🔬**Institute of Computing Technology** Beijing · China 2016–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-computing-technology/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2016–2018 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute** Troy · United States 2019–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute/) · [🎓**Jiaying University** Meizhou · China 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/018jdfk45)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 12 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manling-li/year/2024/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manling-li/year/2019/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2019-keep-meeting-summaries-topic-abstractive/)** *(2019 · 190 citations)* Meeting transcripts consist of fragmented, loosely structured speech from several people. Because of this, neural generators trained mostly on news-style text tend to drift away from the main topics. The authors build an abstractive summarizer for recorded meetings that uses both transcripts and participant videos.
2. **[Word Embeddings Are Steers for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2024-word-embeddings-are-steers-language/)** *(2024 · 49 citations)* The paper asks what role output word embeddings play in how language models generate text, a question earlier work has mostly treated only at the level of individual word meaning.

## All works

17 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2019-keep-meeting-summaries-topic-abstractive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Manling Li, Lingyu Zhang, Heng Ji, et al.*2019 · 190 citations*
2. **[COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-demos.8/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations · no summary yet**Qingyun Wang et al.*2021 · 140 citations*
3. **[Cross-media Structured Common Space for Multimedia Event Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.230/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Manling Li et al.*2020 · 137 citations*
4. **[Connecting the Dots: Event Graph Schema Induction with Path Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.50/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Manling Li et al.*2020 · 119 citations*
5. **[GAIA: A Fine-grained Multimedia Knowledge Extraction System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.11/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Manling Li et al.*2020 · 97 citations*
6. **[The Future is not One-dimensional: Complex Event Schema Induction by Graph Modeling for Event Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.422/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Manling Li et al.*2021 · 87 citations*
7. **[RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-demos.16/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations · no summary yet**Haoyang Wen et al.*2021 · 83 citations*
8. **[Word Embeddings Are Steers for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2024-word-embeddings-are-steers-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chi Han, Jialiang Xu, Manling Li, et al.*2024 · 49 citations*
9. **[Event-Centric Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-tutorials.2/) Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts · no summary yet**Muhao Chen et al.*2021 · 41 citations*
10. **[RESIN-11: Schema-guided Event Prediction for 11 Newsworthy Scenarios ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-demo.7/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Xinya Du et al.*2022 · 38 citations*
11. **[MuMuQA: Multimedia Multi-Hop News Question Answering via Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction and Grounding ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i10.21370) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Revanth Gangi Reddy et al.*2022 · 32 citations*
12. **[Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.303/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yu Zhou et al.*2023 · 12 citations*
13. **[GENE: Global Event Network Embedding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.textgraphs-1.5/) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs-15) · no summary yet**Qi Zeng et al.*2021 · 12 citations*
14. **[New Frontiers of Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-tutorials.3/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Tutorial Abstracts · no summary yet**Muhao Chen et al.*2022 · 8 citations*
15. **[Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/085713-0603) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran et al.*2025 · 5 citations*
16. **[Adaptation of Agentic AI: A Survey of Post-Training, Memory, and Skills ↗](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.esem.2026.62) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jiang, Pengcheng et al.*2025 · 3 citations*
17. **[Training-free Deep Concept Injection Enables Language Models for Video Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1249/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Xudong Lin et al.*2024 · 2 citations*

## Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) ×2
- [Chenkai Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenkai-sun/)
- [Chi Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-han/)
- [Yi Fung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×4: [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/), [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/)
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×3
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations ×2
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Tutorial Abstracts
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs-15)
- neural information processing systems

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 386 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manling-li/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026