@inproceedings{pbj,title={Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions},author={Liu, Emmy and Bertsch, Amanda and Sutawika, Lintang and Tjuatja, Lindia and Fernandes, Patrick and Marinov, Lara and Chen, Michael and Singhal, Shreya and Lawrence, Carolin and Raghunathan, Aditi and Gashteovski, Kiril and Neubig, Graham},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)},year={2025},publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},keywords={conference},}
@inproceedings{mem-lm,title={Language Modeling with Editable External Knowledge},author={Li, Belinda Z. and Liu, Emmy and Ross, Alexis and Zeitoun, Abbas and Neubig, Graham and Andreas, Jacob},year={2025},booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025},}
@inproceedings{abductive-reasoning,title={An Incomplete Loop: Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive Reasoning in Large Language Models},author={Liu, Emmy and Neubig, Graham and Andreas, Jacob},year={2024},booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Language Modeling},}
@inproceedings{brain-lm,title={Divergences between Language Models and Human Brains},author={Zhou, Yuchen and Liu, Emmy and Neubig, Graham and Tarr, Michael J. and Wehbe, Leila},year={2024},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37},address={Vancouver, Canada},}
Program-Aided Reasoners (Better) Know What They Know
Anubha Kabra, Sanketh Rangreji, Yash Mathur, Aman Madaan, Emmy Liu, and
1 more author
In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2024
title = {Program-Aided Reasoners (Better) Know What They Know},author = {Kabra, Anubha and Rangreji, Sanketh and Mathur, Yash and Madaan, Aman and Liu, Emmy and Neubig, Graham},year = {2024},booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},address = {Mexico City, Mexico}}
@inproceedings{idiom-translation,title={Crossing the Threshold: Idiomatic Machine Translation through Retrieval Augmentation and Loss Weighting},author={Liu, Emmy and Chaudhary, Aditi and Neubig, Graham},year={2023},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},address={Singapore},keywords={conference},}
@article{hf_survey,title={Bridging the Gap: A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation},author={Fernandes, Patrick and Madaan, Aman and Liu, Emmy and Farinhas, António and Martins, Pedro Henrique and Bertsch, Amanda and de Souza, José G. C. and Zhou, Shuyan and Wu, Tongshuang and Neubig, Graham and Martins, André F. T.},year={2023},journal={Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},keywords={journal},}
star_sem
Syntax and Semantics Meet in the "Middle": Probing the Syntax-Semantics Interface of LMs Through Agentivity
Lindia Tjuatja, Emmy Liu, Lori Levin, and Graham Neubig
In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2023
@inproceedings{lm-agentivity,title={Syntax and Semantics Meet in the "Middle": Probing the Syntax-Semantics Interface of LMs Through Agentivity},author={Tjuatja, Lindia and Liu, Emmy and Levin, Lori and Neubig, Graham},year={2023},booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics},}
@inproceedings{muda,title={When Does Translation Require Context? A Data-driven, Multilingual Exploration (Best Resource Paper)},author={},booktitle={Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},year={2023},}
@inproceedings{multi-figqa,title={Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Figurative Language Understanding},author={},booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023},year={2023},}
@inproceedings{tom-learning,title={Computational Language Acquisition with Theory of Mind},author={Liu, Andy and Zhu, Hao and Liu, Emmy and Bisk, Yonatan and Neubig, Graham},booktitle={The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations},year={2023},}
@inproceedings{exam-stress,title={Exam Eustress: Designing a Brief Online Intervention for Helping Students Identify Positive Aspects of Stress},author={Reza, Mohi and Zavaleta, Angela B. and Liu, Emmy and Li, Tong and Barber, Calista and Liang, Zhongyuan and Williams, Joseph Jay},year={2023},booktitle={CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},}
Testing the Ability of Language Models to Interpret Figurative Language
Emmy Liu, Chenxuan Cui, Kenneth Zheng, and Graham Neubig
In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Jul 2022
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2022-testing,title={Testing the Ability of Language Models to Interpret Figurative Language},author={Liu, Emmy and Cui, Chenxuan and Zheng, Kenneth and Neubig, Graham},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},month=jul,year={2022},address={Seattle, United States},publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},url={https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.330},doi={10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.330},pages={4437--4452},}
@inproceedings{compositionality-22,author={Liu, Emmy and Neubig, Graham},address={"Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},month=dec,title={Are Representations Built from the Ground Up? An Empirical Examination of Local Composition in Language Models},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},year={2022},}
@inproceedings{child-morality-22,author={Ramezani, Aida and Liu, Emmy and Ferreira Pinto Junior, Renato and Lee, Spike W.S. and Xu, Yang},title={The emergence of moral foundations in child language development},booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},year={2022},volume={44},url={https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qv9h3j9},month=jul,}
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2022-assessing,title={Assessing Group-level Gender Bias in Professional Evaluations: The Case of Medical Student End-of-Shift Feedback},author={Liu, Emmy and Tessler, Michael Henry and Dubosh, Nicole and Hiller, Katherine and Levy, Roger},booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)},month=jul,year={2022},address={Seattle, Washington},publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},url={https://aclanthology.org/2022.gebnlp-1.11},doi={10.18653/v1/2022.gebnlp-1.11},pages={86--93},}
@inproceedings{euphemism-detect,author={Keh, Sedrick Scott and Bharadwaj, Rohit K. and Liu, Emmy and Tedeschi, Simone and Gangal, Varun and Navigli, Roberto},title={EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation},booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang)},publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},year={2022},month=dec,copyright={Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International},}
@article{plos-metascience,author={Liu, Emmy and Xu, Yang},year={2022},title={Chaining and the temporal dynamics of scientists’ publishing behaviour},journal={PLoS One},}
2021
RL4ED@EDM
Statistical Consequences of Duelling Bandits
Nayan Saxena, Pan Chen, and Emmy Liu
In EDM21 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Education, Dec 2021
@inproceedings{duelling-bandits,author={Saxena, Nayan and Chen, Pan and Liu, Emmy},title={Statistical Consequences of Duelling Bandits},year={2021},booktitle={EDM21 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Education},}
@inproceedings{chaining-science,author={Liu, Emmy and Xu, Yang},title={Chaining and the Process of Scientific Innovation},year={2020},booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},volume={42},pages={1639--1646},}
@article{numerals-journal,author={Liu, Emmy and Xu, Yang},title={Numeral Systems across Languages Support Efficient Communication: From Approximate Numerosity to Recursion},year={2020},journal={Open Mind},volume={4},pages={57--70},}
@inproceedings{numerals-cogsci,author={Liu, Emmy and Xu, Yang},title={Rapid information gain explains cross-linguistic tendenciees in numeral ordering},year={2019},booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},volume={41},pages={2166--2173},}
CUNY
Ordering in numerals supports rapid information processing
Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu
In 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Dec 2019