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Yang Janet Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MaiNLP research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich, where she was also affiliated with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML).
Dr. Liu earned her Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. During her doctoral studies, she was advised by Amir Zeldes and was a member of both Corpling@GU and Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown (GUCL) research groups. She was also a student research affiliate of NERT, directed by Nathan Schneider.
Her research focuses on tackling text variation in NLP, studying model internals for discourse-level linguistic phenomena and generalization, and analyzing discourse-level phenomena across genres using computational, statistical, and corpus-based methods. She investigates NLP applications involving discourse structure and understanding, particularly summarization for genre-diverse texts. Dr. Liu is also deeply involved in cross-framework discourse understanding and unifying discourse resources, having co-organized the DISRPT shared task. Her work extends to multilingual annotation projects involving discourse-level phenomena.
Dr. Liu's recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on discourse analysis, multilingual capabilities, and genre diversity in NLP. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical NLP applications, particularly in discourse parsing, summarization, and multilingual generalization. She has made significant contributions to creating diverse datasets for discourse analysis and understanding the limitations of current discourse parsing systems.
Dr. Liu is actively involved in the academic community, having co-organized workshops such as the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025. She regularly presents her work at major NLP conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and INLG.
Dr. Liu maintains connections with her previous institutions and collaborators, including her postdoctoral advisor Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank at LMU Munich and her doctoral advisor Amir Zeldes at Georgetown University. Her work continues to build on the foundation established during her time at these institutions.
