Prof. Liu is not available to take on new advisees in Fall 2027.
Education & Training
- PhD, Georgetown University
- Postdoc, LMU Munich
Representative Publications
* = equal contribution
Silvia Casola*, Yang Janet Liu*, Siyao Peng*, Oliver Kraus, Albert Gatt, and Barbara Plank. 2025. References Matter: Investigating the Impact of Reference Set Variation on Summarization Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Hanoi , Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Florian Eichin*, Yang Janet Liu*, Barbara Plank, and Michael A. Hedderich. 2025. Probing LLMs for Multilingual Discourse Generalization Through a Unified Label Set. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 18665–18684, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yang Janet Liu*, Tatsuya Aoyama*, Wesley Scivetti*, Yilun Zhu*, Shabnam Behzad, Lauren Elizabeth Levine, Jessica Lin, Devika Tiwari, and Amir Zeldes. 2024. GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12287–12303, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yang Janet Liu, Tatsuya Aoyama, and Amir Zeldes. 2023. What’s Hard in English RST Parsing? Predictive Models for Error Analysis. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 31–42, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yang Janet Liu and Amir Zeldes. 2023. GUMSum: Multi-Genre Data and Evaluation for English Abstractive Summarization. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 9315–9327, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yang Janet Liu and Amir Zeldes. 2023. Why Can’t Discourse Parsing Generalize? A Thorough Investigation of the Impact of Data Diversity. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3112–3130, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.