Yang Xu

Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada
  • University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Department, Pittsburgh, PA, USA


According to our database1, Yang Xu authored at least 65 papers between 2009 and 2024.

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2024
Toward Informal Language Processing: Knowledge of Slang in Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023
Predicting strategy choice in word formation: A case study of reuse and compounding.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Quantifying Bias in Library Classification Systems.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Quantifying informativeness of names in visual space.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Word sense extension.
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.
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.
Comput. Linguistics, 2022

The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development.
Cogn. Sci., 2022

Semantically Informed Slang Interpretation.
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.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Infinite mixture chaining: Efficient temporal construction of word meaning.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Word formation supports efficient communication: The case of compounds.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Evolution of moral semantics through metaphorization.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

The emergence of moral foundations in child language development.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Gender bias in grammatical gender systems across languages.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Communicative need modulates lexical precision across semantic domains: A domain-level account of efficient communication.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Neural reality of argument structure constructions.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

2021
A Computational Framework for Slang Generation.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Evolution of emotion semantics.
CoRR, 2021

What do writing features tell us about AI papers?
CoRR, 2021

Boosting predictabilities of agronomic traits in rice using bivariate genomic selection.
Briefings Bioinform., 2021

Extended application of genomic selection to screen multiomics data for prognostic signatures of prostate cancer.
Briefings Bioinform., 2021

Predicting emergent linguistic compositions through time: Syntactic frame extension via multimodal chaining.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

An unsupervised framework for tracing textual sources of moral change.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

Chaining and the formation of spatial semantic categories in childhood.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies.
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.
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.
CoRR, 2020

Contextualized moral inference.
CoRR, 2020

Inferring symmetry in natural language.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach.
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.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Prototype theory and emotion semantic change.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Emergence and Propagation of Online Slang.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Gender convergence in the expressions of love: A computational analysis of lyrics.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Typology of Polysemy: A Multilingual Distributional Framework.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Chaining and the process of scientific innovation.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Euphemism and Gender: A Computational Inquiry.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Chaining and historical adjective extension.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019
Text-based inference of moral sentiment change.
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.
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

A predictability-distinctiveness trade-off in the historical emergence of word forms.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Slang Generation as Categorization.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Rapid information gain explains cross-linguistic tendencies in numeral ordering.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Children's overextension as communication by multimodal chaining.
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.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Lexical evolution, cognition, and computation.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Stability in the temporal dynamics of word meanings.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017
Mental Algorithms in the Historical Emergence of Word Meanings.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016
Historical Semantic Chaining and Efficient Communication: The Case of Container Names.
Cogn. Sci., 2016

Evolution of polysemous word senses from metaphorical mappings.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Pragmatics of Spatial Language.
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.
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.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015
An adaptive cue combination model of spatial reorientation.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Semantic chaining and efficient communication: The case of container names.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

A Computational Evaluation of Two Laws of Semantic Change.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

The space of spatial relations: An extended stimulus set.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Tense systems across languages support efficient communication.
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.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2010
Inference and communication in the game of Password.
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.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2009

R/BHC: fast Bayesian hierarchical clustering for microarray data.
BMC Bioinform., 2009


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