publications

2023

1. EMNLP

   Crossing the Threshold: Idiomatic Machine Translation through Retrieval Augmentation and Loss Weighting

   Emmy Liu, Aditi Chaudhary, and Graham Neubig

   In , 2023
2. Bridging the Gap: A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation

   Patrick Fernandes, Aman Madaan, Emmy Liu, António Farinhas, Pedro Henrique Martins, and 6 more authors

   Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
3. 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

   Bib

   @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},
   }

4. ACL

   When Does Translation Require Context? A Data-driven, Multilingual Exploration (Best Resource Paper)

   In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

   Bib

   @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},
   }

5. ACL Findings

   Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Figurative Language Understanding

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

   Bib

   @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},
   }

6. ICLR

   Computational Language Acquisition with Theory of Mind

   Andy Liu, Hao Zhu, Emmy Liu, Yonatan Bisk, and Graham Neubig

   In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

   Bib

   @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},
   }

7. CHI

   Exam Eustress: Designing a Brief Online Intervention for Helping Students Identify Positive Aspects of Stress

   Mohi Reza, Angela B. Zavaleta, Emmy Liu, Tong Li, Calista Barber, and 2 more authors

   In CHI ’23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2022

1. NAACL

   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

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2. EMNLP

   Are Representations Built from the Ground Up? An Empirical Examination of Local Composition in Language Models

   Emmy Liu, and Graham Neubig

   In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2022

   Bib

   @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},
   }

3. CogSci

   The emergence of moral foundations in child language development

   Aida Ramezani, Emmy Liu, Renato Ferreira Pinto Junior, Spike W.S. Lee, and Yang Xu

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul 2022

   Bib

   @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,
   }

4. GeBNLP@NAACL

   Assessing Group-level Gender Bias in Professional Evaluations: The Case of Medical Student End-of-Shift Feedback

   Emmy Liu, Michael Henry Tessler, Nicole Dubosh, Katherine Hiller, and Roger Levy

   In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), Jul 2022

   Bib

   @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},
   }

5. FigLang@EMNLP

   EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation

   Sedrick Scott Keh, Rohit K. Bharadwaj, Emmy Liu, Simone Tedeschi, Varun Gangal, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang), Dec 2022

   Bib

   @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},
   }

6. PLoS One

   Chaining and the temporal dynamics of scientists’ publishing behaviour

   Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu

   PLoS One, Dec 2022

   Bib

   @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

1. RL4ED@EDM

   Statistical Consequences of Duelling Bandits

   Nayan Saxena, Pan Chen, and Emmy Liu

   In EDM21 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Education, Dec 2021

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2020

1. CogSci

   Chaining and the Process of Scientific Innovation

   Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Dec 2020

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2. Open Mind

   Numeral Systems across Languages Support Efficient Communication: From Approximate Numerosity to Recursion

   Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu

   Open Mind, Dec 2020

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2019

1. CogSci

   Rapid information gain explains cross-linguistic tendenciees in numeral ordering

   Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Dec 2019

   Bib

   @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},
   }

2. CUNY

   Ordering in numerals supports rapid information processing

   Emmy Liu, and Yang Xu

   In 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Dec 2019

   Bib

   @inproceedings{cuny,
     author = {Liu, Emmy and Xu, Yang},
     booktitle = {32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing},
     year = {2019},
   }