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Liyan Xu

PhD in Computer Science and Informatics

Fall 2018 ~ Spring 2023

Liyan Xu earned a PhD in Computer Science and Informatics from Emory University (Spring 2023). After Emory, Liyan moved to Tencent as a research scientist.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science and Informatics, Emory University (2023)
  • BS in Computer Science, Colorado State University (2016)

PhD Dissertation

Publications

  1. Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding Model Inference via Task Taxonomy — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2024
  2. Towards Open-World Product Attribute Mining: A Lightly-Supervised Approach — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
  3. Exploring a Multi-Layered Cross-Genre Corpus of Document-Level Semantic Relations — Information: Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing, 2023
  4. Predicting Kidney Transplant Recipient Cohorts’ 30-Day Re- Hospitalization Using Clinical Notes and Electronic Healthcare Record Data — Kidney International Reports, 2023
  5. Online Coreference Resolution for Dialogue Processing: Improving Mention-Linking on Real-Time Conversations — Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2022
  6. Modeling Explicit Task Interactions in Document-Level Joint Entity and Relation Extraction — Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
  7. RescoreBERT: Discriminative Speech Recognition Rescoring with Bert — IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
  8. Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension via Inter-Sentence Dependency Graph — AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
  9. Adapted End-to-End Coreference Resolution System for Anaphoric Identities in Dialogues — EMNLP Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC): Shared Task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues (CODI), 2021
  10. Boosting Cross-Lingual Transfer via Self-Learning with Uncertainty Estimation — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021
  11. ELIT: Emory Language and Information Toolkit — arXiv, 2021
  12. COVID-19 Pandemic-Associated Changes in the Acuity of Brain MRI Findings: A Secondary Analysis of Reports Using Natural Language Processing — Contemporary Problems in Diagnostic Radiology (CPDR), 2021
  13. Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
  14. Noise Pollution in Hospital Readmission Prediction: Long Document Classification with Reinforcement Learning — ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), 2020

Achievements

  • CODI-CRAC Shared Task (anaphora in dialogue) — 1st place (07/2021)
  • ICPC Southeast USA Region, Division 2 — 1st place (M||E) (11/2018)