Steven Au

Software Engineer

Projects

• SemEval 2024

  UCSC NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 10: Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversation (EDiReF)

  Shared-task publication on emotion recognition and emotion-flip reasoning in conversation, authored with the UCSC NLP cohort.

  Team

  Decker KroghNeng WanEsha UbaleIan Lane+1

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• PACLIC 2025

  Personalized Graph-Based Retrieval for Large Language Models

  Graph-based retrieval publication on personalization for large language models, centered on the PGraphRAG framework and benchmark.

  Team

  Ojasmitha PedirappagariCameron DimacaliNesreen K. AhmedRyan A. Rossi+3

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• NLP4MusA 2026

  MIDI-PHOR: Multi-View Distillation for Music Understanding and Captioning

  MIDI-first music understanding publication focused on interpretable symbolic representations and evidence-linked captioning.

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• arXiv 2026

  PeReGrINE: Evaluating Personalized Review Fidelity with User Item Graph Context

  Benchmark publication for personalized review generation grounded in temporal user-item graph evidence.

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• Project

  MedReview Paper

  Q1 2026 paper exploring medication knowledge graphs linking reviews to clinical trial side-effect evidence.

• SemEval 2026

  SoloSemantics at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Triplet-Tuned MPNet for StorySimilarity

  Shared-task publication on narrative similarity using a triplet-tuned MPNet bi-encoder after comparing against neuro-symbolic graph baselines.

• Team project

  Experience · Family vacation & reconnection

  Family trip and reconnection point that reframed joy, grief, obligation, and care.

  Team

  Johnny AuSusan AuSamuel Au