* indicates my advisees, mentees, or students.
2025
Zoey Liu, Haiyin Yang* and Stefanie Wulff. Modeling the Dative Alternation in English Early Child Language. (Accepted). Open Mind.
Jordan Kodner, {Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne} and Zoey Liu. Evaluating Learning Trajectories of Neural Morphology Acquisition Models. (Accepted). Linguistics Vanguard.
Zoey Liu and Masoud Jasbi. The Development of English Negative Constructions and Communicative Functions. Language Learning and Development, 1–35.
Joshua Higdon*, Valeria Pagliai* and Zoey Liu. Predictability Effects of Spanish-English Code-Switching: A Directionality and Part of Speech Analysis. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (QUASY, SyntaxFest), 83–89.
Xiulin Yang, Zhuoxuan Ju, Lanni Bu, Zoey Liu and Nathan Schneider. UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest), 52–58.
Haiyin Yang*, Zoey Liu and Stefanie Wulff. Using NLI to Identify Potential Collocation Transfer in L2 English. In Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), 687–696.
Emiliana Pulido*, Robert Pugh and Zoey Liu. I Speak for the Árboles: Developing a Dependency Treebank for Spanish L2 and Heritage Speakers. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 814–822
Zoey Liu, Haiyin Yang*, Wenshuo Qin and Joshua Hartshorne. Studying Cross-linguistic Structural Transfer in Second Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 4061-4070.
Nathaniel E. Parkes* and Zoey Liu. Morphological Segmentation for Hupa. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 188–193.
2024
Zoey Liu and Bonnie J. Dorr. The Effect of Data Partitioning Strategy on Model Generalizability: A Case Study of Morphological Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2851–2864.
Zoey Liu, Nitin Venkateswaran*, Éric Le Ferrand and Emily Prud’hommeaux. How Important is a Language Model for Low-resource ASR?. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 206–213.
Éric Le Ferrand, Zoey Liu,, Antti Arppe, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Are modern neural ASR architectures robust for polysynthetic languages?. In Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2953–2963.
Manuel Nunez Martinez*, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Zoey Liu, Sangpil Youm, Chathuri Jayaweera and Bonnie J. Dorr. Balancing Transparency and Accuracy: A Comparative Analysis of Rule-Based and Deep Learning Models in Political Bias Classification. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2024), 102–115.
Allahsera Tapo, A., Éric Le Ferrand, Zoey Liu, Christopher Homan, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Leveraging Speech Data Diversity to Document Indigenous Heritage and Culture. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 5088-5092.
Skyler Jove Reese, Zoey Liu, Masoud Jasbi and Emily Morgan. Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Mandarin Elastic Word Length. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3917-3923.
Rob van der Goot, Zoey Liu and Max Müller-Eberstein. Enough is Enough! A Case Study on the Effect of Data Size for Evaluation Using Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 6167–6176.
Nitin Venkateswaran* and Zoey Liu. Looking within the self: Investigating the Impact of Data Augmentation with Self-training on Automatic Speech Recognition for Hupa. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 58-66.
Ethan Eschrich* and Zoey Liu. Towards Cross-Linguistic Semantic Grounding using Dictionary Graph Analysis. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning, 186–188.
Zoey Liu, Haiyin Yang*, Jarrod Cruz* and Stefanie Wulff. Modeling the Dative Alternation in English Early Child Language. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 7(1), 338–342.
2023
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL); 11 1734–1753.
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Investigating data partitioning strategies for crosslinguistic low-resource ASR evaluation. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 123-131.
Jordan Kodner, {Sarah Payne, Salam Khalifa} and Zoey Liu. Morphological Inflection: A Reality Check. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6082–6101.
Robbie Jimerson, Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux. An (unhelpful) guide to selecting the best ASR architecture for your under-resourced language. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1008–1016.
Zoey Liu, Lauren Lamdar, Stefanie Wulff and Kenji Sagae. Double PP Constituent Ordering Preferences in English Early Child Language. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 317-324.
Jordan Kodner, {Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne} and Zoey Liu. Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Neural Morphological Inflection Models. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3259-3267.
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Studying the impact of language model size for low-resource ASR. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 77-83.
Zoey Liu and Stefanie Wulff. The development of dependency length minimization in early child language: A case study of the dative alternation. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest), 1-8.
Natalia Levshina, Savithry Namboodiripad, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Anastasia Panova, and Natalia Stoynova Why we need a gradient approach to word order. Linguistics (61)4, 825-883.
2022
Zoey Liu. A Multifactorial Approach to Crosslinguistic Constituent Orderings. Linguistics Vanguard 9(s1), 107-120.
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Data-driven Model Generalizability in Crosslinguistic Low-resource Morphological Segmentation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 10:393-413.
{Zoey Liu, Crystal Richardson}, Richard Hatcher, Emily Prud’hommeaux Not always about you: Prioritizing community needs when developing endangered language technology. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3933-3944.
Duanchen Liu*, Zoey Liu, Qingyun Yang*, Yujing Huang, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Evaluating the Performance of Transformer-based Language Models for Neuroatypical Language. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 3412–3419.
Zoey Liu, Justin Spence, Emily Prud’hommeaux. Enhancing Documentation of Hupa with Automatic Speech Recognition. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 187–192.
Zoey Liu, Tiwa Eisape, Emily Prud’hommeaux and Joshua Hartshorne. Data-driven Crosslinguistic Syntactic Transfer in Second Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1903-1911.
Zoey Liu, Ria Upreti, Mathew A. Kramer and Savithry Namboodiripad. Does One Size Fit all in Crosslinguistic Dependency Length Minimization?. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2066-2073.
Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Reut Tsarfaty, Ekaterina Vylomova. UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 840–855.
2021
Zoey Liu. The Crosslinguistic Relationship between Ordering Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization: A Data-Driven Approach. In Proceedings of The Society for Computation in Linguistics, 264-274.
Zoey Liu, Robert Jimerson, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Morphological Segmentation for Seneca. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 90-101.
Zoey Liu and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Dependency Parsing Evaluation for Low-resource Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP, 156–165.
Zoey Liu and Masoud Jasbi. English Negative Constructions and Communicative Functions in Child Language. In Proceedings of The 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2957-2963.
William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu, and Greg Scontras. Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 957–967.
Christine Yang*, Duanchen Liu*, Qingyun Yang*, Zoey Liu, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. Predicting pragmatic discourse features in the language of adults with autism spectrum disorder. 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.
Tiago Pimentel, Maria Ryskina, ……, Zoey Liu, ……, Ben Ambridge, Ekaterina Vylomova. SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 229–259.
2020
Zoey Liu. Mixed evidence for crosslinguistic dependency length minimization. STUF-Language Typology and Universals 73(4), 605-633.
Zoey Liu and Emily Morgan. Frequency-dependent Regularization in Constituent Ordering Preferences. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2990-2996.
Mingming Sun, Wenyue Hua, Zoey Liu, Xin Wang, Kangjie Zheng, and Ping Li. A Predicate-Function-Argument Annotation of Natural Language for Open-Domain Information eXpression. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2140–2150.
2019
Zoey Liu. A Comparative Corpus Analysis of PP Ordering in English and Chinese. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest), 33-45.
Zoey Liu. Quantifying Structural and Lexical Constraints in PP Ordering Typology. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 2, Article 33.
2018
Santiago Barreda and Zoey Liu. Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, EL 143(2), EL61-EL66.
Justin Spence, Zoey Liu, Kayla Palakurthy, and Tyler Lee-Wynant. Syntactic Annotation of a Hupa Text Corpus. In Proceedings of Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages: Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers.
Zoey Liu and Kenji Sagae. Dependency Length Minimization and Lexical Frequency in Prepositional Phrase Ordering in English. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 1, Article 23.