Wenkai Zhang
2026
DeepPresenter: Environment-Grounded Reflection for Agentic Presentation Generation
Hao Zheng | Guozhao Mo | Xinru Yan | Qianhao Yuan | Wenkai Zhang | Xuanang Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Hao Zheng | Guozhao Mo | Xinru Yan | Qianhao Yuan | Wenkai Zhang | Xuanang Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Presentation generation requires deep content research, coherent visual design, and iterative refinement based on observation. However, existing presentation agents often rely on predefined workflows and fixed templates. To address this, we present DeepPresenter, an agentic framework that adapts to diverse user intents, enables effective feedback-driven refinement, and generalizes beyond a scripted pipeline. Specifically, DeepPresenter autonomously plans, renders, and revises intermediate slide artifacts to support long-horizon refinement with environmental observations. Furthermore, rather than relying on self-reflection over internal signals (e.g., reasoning traces), our environment-grounded reflection conditions the generation process on perceptual artifact states (e.g., rendered slides), enabling the system to identify and correct presentation-specific issues during execution. Results on the evaluation set covering diverse presentation-generation scenarios show that DeepPresenter achieves state-of-the-art performance, and the fine-tuned DeepPresenter-9B remains highly competitive at substantially lower cost.
2025
PPTAgent: Generating and Evaluating Presentations Beyond Text-to-Slides
Hao Zheng | Xinyan Guan | Hao Kong | Wenkai Zhang | Jia Zheng | Weixiang Zhou | Hongyu Lin | Yaojie Lu | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hao Zheng | Xinyan Guan | Hao Kong | Wenkai Zhang | Jia Zheng | Weixiang Zhou | Hongyu Lin | Yaojie Lu | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Automatically generating presentations from documents is a challenging task that requires accommodating content quality, visual appeal, and structural coherence. Existing methods primarily focus on improving and evaluating the content quality in isolation, overlooking visual appeal and structural coherence, which limits their practical applicability. To address these limitations, we propose PPTAgent, which comprehensively improves presentation generation through a two-stage, edit-based approach inspired by human workflows. PPTAgent first analyzes reference presentations to extract slide-level functional types and content schemas, then drafts an outline and iteratively generates editing actions based on selected reference slides to create new slides. To comprehensively evaluate the quality of generated presentations, we further introduce PPTEval, an evaluation framework that assesses presentations across three dimensions: Content, Design, and Coherence. Results demonstrate that PPTAgent significantly outperforms existing automatic presentation generation methods across all three dimensions.
2021
De-biasing Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via Causal Intervention
Wenkai Zhang | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Wenkai Zhang | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Distant supervision tackles the data bottleneck in NER by automatically generating training instances via dictionary matching. Unfortunately, the learning of DS-NER is severely dictionary-biased, which suffers from spurious correlations and therefore undermines the effectiveness and the robustness of the learned models. In this paper, we fundamentally explain the dictionary bias via a Structural Causal Model (SCM), categorize the bias into intra-dictionary and inter-dictionary biases, and identify their causes. Based on the SCM, we learn de-biased DS-NER via causal interventions. For intra-dictionary bias, we conduct backdoor adjustment to remove the spurious correlations introduced by the dictionary confounder. For inter-dictionary bias, we propose a causal invariance regularizer which will make DS-NER models more robust to the perturbation of dictionaries. Experiments on four datasets and three DS-NER models show that our method can significantly improve the performance of DS-NER.
2020
Multistage Fusion with Forget Gate for Multimodal Summarization in Open-Domain Videos
Nayu Liu | Xian Sun | Hongfeng Yu | Wenkai Zhang | Guangluan Xu
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Nayu Liu | Xian Sun | Hongfeng Yu | Wenkai Zhang | Guangluan Xu
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Multimodal summarization for open-domain videos is an emerging task, aiming to generate a summary from multisource information (video, audio, transcript). Despite the success of recent multiencoder-decoder frameworks on this task, existing methods lack fine-grained multimodality interactions of multisource inputs. Besides, unlike other multimodal tasks, this task has longer multimodal sequences with more redundancy and noise. To address these two issues, we propose a multistage fusion network with the fusion forget gate module, which builds upon this approach by modeling fine-grained interactions between the modalities through a multistep fusion schema and controlling the flow of redundant information between multimodal long sequences via a forgetting module. Experimental results on the How2 dataset show that our proposed model achieves a new state-of-the-art performance. Comprehensive analysis empirically verifies the effectiveness of our fusion schema and forgetting module on multiple encoder-decoder architectures. Specially, when using high noise ASR transcripts (WER>30%), our model still achieves performance close to the ground-truth transcript model, which reduces manual annotation cost.