YANG JANET LIU
I study Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University with the Department of Linguistics, where I’m advised by Amir Zeldes, Ph.D. and a member of Corpling@GU and Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown (GUCL). I also work on research with Nathan Schneider, Ph.D. as a student affiliate of NERT. I obtained my M.S. in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown University in May 2019.
My primary research interests are centered around discourse-level linguistic phenomena (i.e. transcending sentence boundaries) across genres using computational, statistical, and corpus-based methods. In addition, my work also involves the creation of discourse resources spanning different genres to inform model development and facilitate targeted evaluation. In addition, I have been working on initiatives for facilitating cross-framework discourse understanding and unifying discourse resources by co-organizing the Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking shared task. I have also contributed to multilingual annotation projects such as the development of the largest multi-genre RST treebank for Mandarin Chinese and the creation of the first Chinese corpus annotated with adposition semantics that makes parallel analysis possible.
Before coming to Georgetown, I majored in Linguistics at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA from 2015 to 2017, where I was a research assistant in Temple University’s Multilingual Research Group.
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Feb 23, 2024 | I passed my dissertation defense |
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Dec 01, 2023 | Invited talk (online) at Prof. Dr. Dirk Hovy’s MilaNLP Lab at Bocconi University 🇮🇹 |
Sep 25, 2023 | Invited talk at Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank’s MaiNLP research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU in Munich, Germany about The Pivotal Role of Genres: Insights from English RST Parsing and Abstractive Summarization 🕺🏻 |
Sep 20, 2023 | Invited talk at Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede’s Applied CL Discourse Lab at Universität Potsdam about English RST Parsing in Potsdam, Germany 🇩🇪 |
Jul 11, 2023 | One paper accepted to SIGDIAL 2023 🙌🏼 See you in Prague 🇨🇿 in September |
Jun 23, 2023 | Area Chair of Discourse and Pragmatics at EMNLP 2023 🇸🇬 |
May 30, 2023 | Started a Research Scientist internship at Spotify USA Inc. 🤠🕺🏻🎸🎧🥁 |
May 17, 2023 | One paper accepted to INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 |
May 02, 2023 | One paper accepted to the Findings of ACL 2023 See y’all in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 |
Apr 22, 2023 | Invited talk at MASC-SLL 2023 at Georgetown Mason University (Arlington campus) 🤠 |
Jan 21, 2023 | One paper accepted to the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023) 🕺🏻 See y’all in Dubrovnik, Croatia 🇭🇷 |
Jan 11, 2023 | Co-organizing the DISRPT2023 Shared Task on Discourse Segmentation, Connective and Relation Identification across Formalisms in conjunction with ACL2023 and the CODI2023 Workshop 🤠 More languages and discourse treebanks available 🙌🏼 |
Dec 14, 2022 | Awarded a Fall 2023 GSAS Conference Travel Grant! |
Dec 14, 2022 | Awarded a Fall 2022 GSAS Conference Travel Grant and a Fall 2022 GSAS-GradGov Research Project Award! |
Sep 21, 2022 | One co-authored paper accepted at the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP) 👏🏼 |
May 09, 2022 | One paper on Adpositional Pragmatic Markers accepted at the 16th Lingusitic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVI) Workshop, co-located with LREC 2022 in Marseille, France 🇫🇷 |
Nov 05, 2021 | Passed my dissertation proposal defense ✌🏼 |
Jun 07, 2021 | Started the Research Scientist, PhD - Summer Internship with the Lab in Language Technologies at Spotify Research 🎸🎧🥁 |
May 11, 2021 | Passed the 2nd Qualifying Review ✌🏼 |
Feb 18, 2021 | Co-organizing the DISRPT2021 Shared Task on Discourse Segmentation, Connective and Relation Identification across Formalisms in conjunction with EMNLP2021 and the CODI2021 Workshop 🤠 |
Dec 16, 2020 | Done with PhD Coursework ✌🏼 |
Jul 01, 2020 | A journal paper on detecting signals of discourse relations by Amir and I now published in Dialogue & Discourse 🕵🏻♀️ |
May 18, 2020 | Started my first internship at Alexa AI @ Amazon as a Language Data Researcher Intern (VIRTUAL) 🔍 |
May 17, 2019 | Happy Graduation 🎓 M.S. in Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University 🎉 |
Apr 15, 2019 | Awarded a Spring 2019 GSAS Conference Travel Grant and a Spring 2019 GSAS-GradGov Research Project Award! |