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2024
The Effect of Data Partitioning Strategy on Model Generalizability: A Case Study of Morphological Segmentation
Zoey Liu and Bonnie J. Dorr
In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2851–2864.
How Important is a Language Model for Low-resource ASR?
Zoey Liu, Nitin Venkateswaran*, Éric Le Ferrand and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings of ACL).
Are modern neural ASR architectures robust for polysynthetic languages?
Éric Le Ferrand, Zoey Liu,, Antti Arppe, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
To appear in Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings).
Balancing Transparency and Accuracy: A Comparative Analysis of Rule-Based and Deep Learning Models in Political Bias Classification
Manuel Nunez Martinez*, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Zoey Liu, Sangpil Youm, Chathuri Jayaweera and Bonnie J. Dorr.
To appear in Proceedings of the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop.
Leveraging Speech Data Diversity to Document Indigenous Heritage and Culture
Allahsera Tapo, A.*, Éric Le Ferrand, Zoey Liu, Christopher Homan, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 5088-5092.
Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Mandarin Elastic Word Length
Skyler Jove Reese*, Zoey Liu, Masoud Jasbi and Emily Morgan
In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 3917-3923.
Enough is Enough! A Case Study on the Effect of Data Size for Evaluation Using Universal Dependencies
Rob van der Goot, Zoey Liu and Max Müller-Eberstein*
In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 6167–6176.
Looking within the self: Investigating the Impact of Data Augmentation with Self-training on Automatic Speech Recognition for Hupa
Nitin Venkateswaran* and Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-7), 58-66.
Towards Cross-Linguistic Semantic Grounding using Dictionary Graph Analysis
Ethan Eschrich* and Zoey Liu
To appear in Proceedings of the 4th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop.
Modeling the Dative Alternation in English Early Child Language
Zoey Liu, Haiyin Yang*, Jarrod Cruz* and Stefanie Wulff.
In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 7(1), 338–342.
2023
Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL); 11 1734–1753.
Investigating data partitioning strategies for crosslinguistic low-resource ASR evaluation
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 123-131.
Morphological Inflection: A Reality Check
Jordan Kodner, {Sarah Payne*, Salam Khalifa*} and Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 6082–6101.
An (unhelpful) guide to selecting the best ASR architecture for your under-resourced language
Robbie Jimerson*, Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1008–1016.
Double PP Constituent Ordering Preferences in English Early Child Language
Zoey Liu, Lauren Lamdar*, Stefanie Wulff and Kenji Sagae
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 317-324.
Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Neural Morphological Inflection Models
Jordan Kodner, {Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne} and Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 3259-3267.
Studying the impact of language model size for low-resource ASR
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-6), 77-83.
The development of dependency length minimization in early child language: A case study of the dative alternation
Zoey Liu and Stefanie Wulff
In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling), 1-8.
Why we need a gradient approach to word order
Natalia Levshina, Savithry Namboodiripad, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Anastasia Panova, and Natalia Stoynova
Linguistics (61)4, 825-883.
2022
A Multifactorial Approach to Crosslinguistic Constituent Orderings
Zoey Liu
Linguistics Vanguard 9(s1), 107-120.
Data-driven Model Generalizability in Crosslinguistic Low-resource Morphological Segmentation
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 10:393-413.
Not always about you: Prioritizing community needs when developing endangered language technology
{Zoey Liu, Crystal Richardson*}, Richard Hatcher*, Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 3933-3944.
Evaluating the Performance of Transformer-based Language Models for Neuroatypical Language
Duanchen Liu*, Zoey Liu, Qingyun Yang*, Yujing Huang, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 3412–3419.
Enhancing Documentation of Hupa with Automatic Speech Recognition
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 187–192.
Data-driven Crosslinguistic Syntactic Transfer in Second Language Learning
Zoey Liu, Tiwa Eisape*, Emily Prud’hommeaux and Joshua Hartshorne
In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 1903-1911.
Does One Size Fit all in Crosslinguistic Dependency Length Minimization?
Zoey Liu, Ria Upreti*, Mathew A. Kramer* and Savithry Namboodiripad
In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2066-2073.
UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology
Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Reut Tsarfaty, Ekaterina Vylomova
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 840–855.
2021
The Crosslinguistic Relationship between Ordering Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization: A Data-Driven Approach
Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of The Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), 264-274.
Morphological Segmentation for Seneca
Zoey Liu, Robert Jimerson*, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 90-101.
Dependency Parsing Evaluation for Low-resource Spontaneous Speech
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP, 156–165.
English Negative Constructions and Communicative Functions in Child Language
Zoey Liu and Masoud Jasbi
In Proceedings of The 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2957-2963.
Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain
William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu, and Greg Scontras
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP), 957–967.
Predicting pragmatic discourse features in the language of adults with autism spectrum disorder
Christine Yang*, Duanchen Liu*, Qingyun Yang*, Zoey Liu, and Emily Prud’hommeaux
In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, 284–291.
SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages
Tiago Pimentel, Maria Ryskina, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Ben Ambridge, Ekaterina Vylomova
In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 229–259.
2020
Mixed evidence for crosslinguistic dependency length minimization
Zoey Liu
STUF-Language Typology and Universals 73(4), 605-633
Frequency-dependent Regularization in Constituent Ordering Preferences
Zoey Liu and Emily Morgan
In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2990-2996.
A Predicate-Function-Argument Annotation of Natural Language for Open-Domain Information eXpression
Mingming Sun, Wenyue Hua, Zoey Liu, Xin Wang, Kangjie Zheng, and Ping Li
In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2140–2150.
2019
A Comparative Corpus Analysis of PP Ordering in English and Chinese
Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy), 33-45.
Quantifying Structural and Lexical Constraints in PP Ordering Typology
Zoey Liu
In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 2, Article 33.
2018
Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone
Santiago Barreda and Zoey Liu
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, EL 143(2), EL61-EL66.
Syntactic Annotation of a Hupa Text Corpus
Justin Spence, Zoey Liu, Kayla Palakurthy, and Tyler Lee-Wynant
In Proceedings of Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages: Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers.
Dependency Length Minimization and Lexical Frequency in Prepositional Phrase Ordering in English
Zoey Liu and Kenji Sagae
In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL): Vol. 1, Article 23.