Yang Xu

According to our database, Yang Xu authored at least 54 papers between 2009 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

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2023

Word sense extension.

Lei Yu, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Knowledge of cultural moral norms in large language models.

Aida Ramezani, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Noun2Verb: Probabilistic Frame Semantics for Word Class Conversion.

Lei Yu, Yang Xu

Comput. Linguistics, 2022

The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development.

Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Spike W. S. Lee, Suzanne Stevenson, Yang Xu

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Semantically Informed Slang Interpretation.

Zhewei Sun, Richard S. Zemel, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Tracing Semantic Variation in Slang.

Zhewei Sun, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Neural reality of argument structure constructions.

Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Frank Rudzicz, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

2021

A Computational Framework for Slang Generation.

Zhewei Sun, Richard S. Zemel, Yang Xu

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Evolution of emotion semantics.

Aotao Xu, Jennifer E. Stellar, Yang Xu

CoRR, 2021

What do writing features tell us about AI papers?

Zining Zhu, Bai Li, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

CoRR, 2021

Boosting predictabilities of agronomic traits in rice using bivariate genomic selection.

Shibo Wang, Yang Xu, Han Qu, Yanru Cui, Ruidong Li, John M. Chater, Lei Yu, Rui Zhou, Renyuan Ma, Yuhan Huang, Yiru Qiao, Xuehai Hu, Weibo Xie, Zhenyu Jia

Briefings Bioinform., 2021

Extended application of genomic selection to screen multiomics data for prognostic signatures of prostate cancer.

Ruidong Li, Shibo Wang, Yanru Cui, Han Qu, John M. Chater, Le Zhang, Julong Wei, Meiyue Wang, Yang Xu, Lei Yu, Jianming Lu, Yuanfa Feng, Rui Zhou, Yuhan Huang, Renyuan Ma, Jianguo Zhu, Wei-De Zhong, Zhenyu Jia

Briefings Bioinform., 2021

Predicting emergent linguistic compositions through time: Syntactic frame extension via multimodal chaining.

Lei Yu, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

An unsupervised framework for tracing textual sources of moral change.

Aida Ramezani, Zining Zhu, Frank Rudzicz, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies.

Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

A diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism.

Anna Kapron-King, Yang Xu

Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021, 2021

2020

Semantic coordinates analysis reveals language changes in the AI field.

Zining Zhu, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

CoRR, 2020

Contextualized moral inference.

Jing Yi Xie, Graeme Hirst, Yang Xu

CoRR, 2020

Inferring symmetry in natural language.

Chelsea Tanchip, Lei Yu, Aotao Xu, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach.

Bai Li, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

How nouns surface as verbs: Inference and generation in word class conversion.

Lei Yu, Lana El Sanyoura, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Prototype theory and emotion semantic change.

Aotao Xu, Jennifer Stellar, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Emergence and Propagation of Online Slang.

Zhewei Sun, Yizhan Jiang, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Gender convergence in the expressions of love: A computational analysis of lyrics.

Lana El Sanyoura, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Typology of Polysemy: A Multilingual Distributional Framework.

Ella Rabinovich, Yang Xu, Suzanne Stevenson

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood.

Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Spike W. S. Lee, Suzanne Stevenson, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness.

Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Chaining and the process of scientific innovation.

Emmy Liu, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Euphemism and Gender: A Computational Inquiry.

Anna Kapron-King, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Chaining and historical adjective extension.

Karan Grewal, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Text-based inference of moral sentiment change.

Jing Yi Xie, Renato Ferreira Pinto Junior, Graeme Hirst, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

Slang Detection and Identification.

Zhengqi Pei, Zhewei Sun, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

A predictability-distinctiveness trade-off in the historical emergence of word forms.

Aotao Xu, Christian Ramiro, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Slang Generation as Categorization.

Zhewei Sun, Richard S. Zemel, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Rapid information gain explains cross-linguistic tendencies in numeral ordering.

Emmy Liu, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Children's overextension as communication by multimodal chaining.

Renato Ferreira Pinto Junior, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Is Nike female? Exploring the role of sound symbolism in predicting brand name gender.

Sridhar Moorthy, Ruth Pogacar, Samin Khan, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Lexical evolution, cognition, and computation.

Yang Xu, Barbara C. Malt, Mahesh Srinivasan

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Stability in the temporal dynamics of word meanings.

Yiwei Luo, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

Mental Algorithms in the Historical Emergence of Word Meanings.

Christian Ramiro, Barbara Malt, Mahesh Srinivasan, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Historical Semantic Chaining and Efficient Communication: The Case of Container Names.

Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Barbara Malt

Cogn. Sci., 2016

Evolution of polysemous word senses from metaphorical mappings.

Yang Xu, Barbara Malt, Mahesh Srinivasan

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Pragmatics of Spatial Language.

Tomer D. Ullman, Yang Xu, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

A computational investigation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: The case of spatial relations.

Christine Tseng, Alexandra Carstensen, Terry Regier, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color.

Emily Cibelli, Yang Xu, Joseph L. Austerweil, Thomas L. Griffiths, Terry Regier

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

An adaptive cue combination model of spatial reorientation.

Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Nora S. Newcombe

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Semantic chaining and efficient communication: The case of container names.

Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Barbara Malt

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

A Computational Evaluation of Two Laws of Semantic Change.

Yang Xu, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

The space of spatial relations: An extended stimulus set.

Alexandra Carstensen, Yang Xu, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Tense systems across languages support efficient communication.

Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Numeral systems across languages support efficient communication: From approximate numerosity to recursion.

Yang Xu, Terry Regier

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2010

Inference and communication in the game of Password.

Yang Xu, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010. Proceedings of a meeting held 6-9 December 2010, 2010

2009

Tree-Based Inference for Dirichlet Process Mixtures.

Yang Xu, Katherine A. Heller, Zoubin Ghahramani

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2009

R/BHC: fast Bayesian hierarchical clustering for microarray data.

Richard S. Savage, Katherine A. Heller, Yang Xu, Zoubin Ghahramani, William M. Truman, Murray Grant, Katherine J. Denby, David L. Wild

BMC Bioinform., 2009