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janetlauyeung.bsky.social
Janet Liu
@janetlauyeung.bsky.social
🏫 asst. prof. of compling at university of pittsburgh

past:
🛎️ postdoc @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
🤠 PhD in CompLing from Georgetown
🕺🏻 x2 intern @Spotify @SpotifyResearch

https://janetlauyeung.github.io/
🛎️ we are up! #COLM2025
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025

🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour

📍 room 518B

schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🕺🏼swing by our poster in Hall 4/5 on Wednesday, July 30 at 11:00 to chat with @florian-eichin.com and I to find out the answers to these questions

🛎️ bonus: to see the full poster 🫣🧩

#ACL2025 #NLProc
July 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔍 finding 3: discourse representations are best aligned across languages in the intermediate layers
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🌍 finding 2: our probes generalize across languages and language families
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📌 finding 1: model size alone does not lead to discourse probing success; instead, multilingual training, dataset composition, and language-specific factors play significant roles
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
❓problem: discourse relations are central to NLU, but current work is primarily fragmented across frameworks & languages

🔧 solution: we proposed a unified label set of 17 relations across 4 discourse frameworks. This lets us compare model behavior across corpora, languages, and annotation schemes
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🦙 how well do LLMs encode discourse knowledge? does that generalize across languages?

🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations!

joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦

As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄

🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM