2025. Identifying the Periodicity of Information in Natural Language
Yulin Ou, Yu Wang, Yang Xu, Hendrik Buschmeier
arXiv preprint
paper   bib   code

@article{ou2025periodicity,
 title = {Identifying the Periodicity of Information in Natural Language},
 author = {Ou, Yulin and Wang, Yu and Xu, Yang and Buschmeier, Hendrik},
 journal = {arXiv},
 year = {2025},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.27241},
}

2025. Teaching LLMs to Abstain via Fine-Grained Semantic Confidence Reward
Hao An, Yang Xu
arXiv preprint
paper   bib  

@article{an2025abstain,
 title = {Teaching LLMs to Abstain via Fine-Grained Semantic Confidence Reward},
 author = {An, Hao and Xu, Yang},
 journal = {arXiv},
 year = {2025},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.24020},
}

2025. Evaluating Text Generation Quality Using Spectral Distances of Surprisal
Zhichen Liu, Yongyuan Li, Yang Xu, Yu Wang, Yingfang Yuan and Zuhao Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
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@inproceedings{liu2025face2,
 title = {Evaluating Text Generation Quality Using Spectral Distances of Surprisal},
 author = {Liu, Zhichen and Li, Yongyuan and Xu, Yang and Wang, Yu and Yuan, Yingfang and Yang, Zuhao},
 booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025},
 year = {2025},
}

2025. ReChar: Revitalising Characters with Structure Preserved and User-Specified Aesthetic Enhancements
Zhongyu Yang, Junhao Song, Zhang Luo, Zuhao Yang, Yang Xu, Jingfen Lan, Yonghan Zhang, Wei Pang, Siyang Song, Yingfang Yuan
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Technical Communications
paper   bib   code

@inproceedings{10.1145/3757376.3771409,
 series = {SA Technical Communications '25},
 location = {},
 numpages = {5},
 articleno = {30},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Technical Communications},
 doi = {10.1145/3757376.3771409},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3757376.3771409},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
 isbn = {9798400721366},
 year = {2025},
 title = {ReChar: Revitalising Characters with Structure Preserved and User-Specified Aesthetic Enhancements},
 author = {Yang, Zhongyu and Song, Junhao and Luo, Zhang and Yang, Zuhao and Xu, Yang and Lan, Jingfen and Zhang, Yonghan and Pang, Wei and Song, Siyang and Yuan, Yingfang},
}

2025. Reasoning for Translation: Comparative Analysis of Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought Prompting for LLM Translation
Lam Nguyen, Yang Xu
ACL Student Research Workshop 2025 (Oral)
paper   bib  

@inproceedings{nguyen-xu-2025-reasoning,
 title = "Reasoning for Translation: Comparative Analysis of Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought Prompting for {LLM} Translation",
 author = "Nguyen, Lam and Xu, Yang",
 booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)",
 month = jul,
 year = "2025",
 address = "Vienna, Austria",
 publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
 url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw.17/",
 pages = "259--275",
}

2024. Detecting Subtle Differences between Human and Model Languages Using Spectrum of Relative Likelihood
Yang Xu, Yu Wang, Hao An, Zhichen Liu, and Yongyuan Li
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024)
paper   bib   code

@inproceedings{xu-etal-2024-detecting,
 title = {Detecting Subtle Differences between Human and Model Languages Using Spectrum of Relative Likelihood},
 author = {Xu, Yang and Wang, Yu and An, Hao and Liu, Zhichen and Li, Yongyuan},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
 year = {2024},
 address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.564},
 doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.564},
 pages = {10108--10121},
}

2024. How Much Does Nonverbal Communication Conform to Entropy Rate Constancy?: A Case Study on Listener Gaze in Interaction
Yu Wang, Yang Xu, Gabriel Skantze, Hendrik Buschmeier
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
paper   bib   code

@inproceedings{wang2024much,
 title = {How Much Does Nonverbal Communication Conform to Entropy Rate Constancy?: A Case Study on Listener Gaze in Interaction},
 author = {Wang, Yu and Xu, Yang and Skantze, Gabriel and Buschmeier, Hendrik},
 booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024},
 year = {2024},
}

2023. FACE: Evaluating Natural Language Generation with Fourier Analysis of Cross-Entropy
Zuhao Yang, Yingfang Yuan, Yang Xu, Shuo Zhan, Huajun Bai, Kefan Chen
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023)
paper   bib   code

@article{yang2024face,
 title = {Face: Evaluating natural language generation with fourier analysis of cross-entropy},
 author = {Yang, Zuhao and Yuan, Yingfang and Xu, Yang and Zhan, Shuo and Bai, Huajun and Chen, Kefan},
 journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
 volume = {36},
 year = {2024},
}

2023. Spontaneous gestures encoded by hand positions improve language models: An Information-Theoretic motivated study
Yang Xu, Yang Cheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
paper   bib   code

@inproceedings{xu-cheng-2023-spontaneous,
 title = {Spontaneous gestures encoded by hand positions improve language models: An Information-Theoretic motivated study},
 author = {Xu, Yang and Cheng, Yang},
 booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023},
 month = {jul},
 year = {2023},
 address = {Toronto, Canada},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.600},
 pages = {9409--9424},
}

2022. Gestures Are Used Rationally: Information Theoretic Evidence from Neural Sequential Models
Yang Xu, Yang Cheng, Riya Bhatia
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022)
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@inproceedings{xu2022gestures,
 title={Gestures Are Used Rationally: Information Theoretic Evidence from Neural Sequential Models},
 author={Xu, Yang and Cheng, Yang and Bhatia, Riya},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
 pages={134--140},
 year={2022}
}

2022. Hierarchical data visualization of experimental erythrocyte aggregation employing cross correlation and optical flow applications
Bruce I. Gaynes, Mark B. Shapiro, Abel Saju Augustine, Yang Xu, ..., Jie Xu
Microvascular Research
paper   bib

@article{GAYNES2022104386,
 title = {Hierarchical data visualization of experimental erythrocyte aggregation employing cross correlation and optical flow applications},
 journal = {Microvascular Research},
 pages = {104386},
 year = {2022},
 issn = {0026-2862},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mvr.2022.104386},
 author = {Bruce I. Gaynes and Mark B. Shapiro and Abel Saju Augustine and Yang Xu and Yang Lin and Parisa Mirbod and Robert Dieter and Yang Cheng and Mengren Wu and Harish Venkataraman and Yuan Gao and Plamen Petrov and Jie Xu},
}

2021. Historical changes in semantic weights of sub-word units
Yang Xu, Zheng-sheng Zhang
Computational Approaches to Semantic Change (Book Chapter)
pdf   bib

@incollection{xu2021book,
 title = {Historical changes in semantic weights of sub-word units},
 author = {Xu, Yang and Zhang, Zheng-sheng},
 booktitle = {Computational Approaches to Semantic Change},
 editor = {Jatowt, Adam and Tahmasebi, Nina and Xu, Yang and Borin, Lars},
 year = {2021},
 pages = {169--187},
 publisher = {Language Science Press}
}

2021. Global divergence and local convergence of utterance semantic representations in dialogue
Yang Xu
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2021)
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@article{xu2021global,
 title={Global divergence and local convergence of utterance semantic representations in dialogue},
 author={Xu, Yang},
 journal={Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics},
 volume={4},
 number={1},
 pages={116--124},
 year={2021}
}

2020. Which Sentence Embeddings and Which Layers Encode Syntactic Structure?
M. A. Kelly, Yang Xu, Jesús Calvillo, David Reiter
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020, full paper)
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@article{kelly2020sentence,
 title={Which Sentence Embeddings and Which Layers Encode Syntactic Structure?},
 author={Kelly, M Alex and Xu, Yang and Calvillo, Jes{\'u}s and Reitter, David},
 year={2020},
 publisher={PsyArXiv}
}

2019. Treat the Word As a Whole or Look Inside? Subword Embeddings Model Language Change and Typology
Yang Xu, Jiasheng Zhang, David Reiter
Workshop of LChange 2019 (colocated at ACL 2019)
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@article{xu2019lchange,
 title={Treat the Word As a Whole or Look Inside? Subword Embeddings Model Language Change and Typology},
 author={Xu, Yang and Zhang, Jiasheng and Reitter, David},
 journal={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change},
 volume={},
 number={},
 pages={},
 address={Florence, Italy},
 year={2019}
}

2019. Subword Embeddings Reveal Language Change
Yang Xu, Jeremy Cole, David Reiter
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019, poster presentation)
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@article{xu2019cogsciabs,
 title={},
 author={Xu, Yang and Zhang, Jiasheng and Reitter, David},
 journal={Proceedings of The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
 volume={},
 number={},
 pages={},
 address={Montreal, Canada},
 year={2019}
}

2019. Linguistic alignment is affected more by lexical surprisal rather than social power
Yang Xu, Jeremy Cole, David Reiter
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2019)
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@article{xu2019linguistic,
 title={Linguistic alignment is affected more by lexical surprisal rather than social power},
 author={Xu, Yang and Cole, Jeremy and Reitter, David},
 journal={Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics},
 volume={2},
 number={1},
 pages={349--352},
 year={2019}
}

2018. Not that much power: Linguistic alignment is influenced more by low-level linguistic features rather than social power
Yang Xu, Jeremy Cole, David Reiter
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018)
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@inproceedings{xu2018power,
 title={Not that much power: Linguistic alignment is influenced more by low-level linguistic features rather than social power},
 author={Xu, Yang and Cole, Jeremy and Reitter, David},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
 volume={1},
 pages={601--610},
 year={2018}
}

2018. Information density converges in dialogue: Towards an information-theoretic model
Yang Xu, David Reiter
Cognition (journal paper)
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@article{xu_reitter_2018_cognition,
 title = {Information density converges in dialogue: Towards an information-theoretic model},
 journal = {Cognition},
 volume = {170},
 pages = {147--163},
 year = {2018},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.09.018},
 url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027717302615},
 author = {Xu, Yang and Reitter, David}
}

2017. Spectral analysis of information density in dialogue predicts collaborative task performance
Yang Xu, David Reiter
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017)
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@inproceedings{xu_reitter_2017_spectral,
 title={Spectral Analysis of Information Density in Dialogue Predicts Collaborative Task Performance},
 author={Xu, Yang and Reitter, David},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
 pages={623--633},
 year={2017},
 address={Vancouver, Canada}
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

2016. Entropy converges between dialogue participants: Explanations from an information-theoretic perspective
Yang Xu, David Reitter
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016)
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@InProceedings{xu_reitter2016entropy,
 author = {Xu, Yang and Reitter, David},
 title = {Entropy converges between dialogue participants: Explanations from an information-theoretic perspective},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th {Annual} {Meeting} of the {Association} for {Computational} {Linguistics} ({Volume} 1: {Long} {Papers})},
 year = {2016},
 address = {Berlin, Germany},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 pages = {537--546},
 url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P16-1051}
}

2016. Convergence of syntactic complexity in conversation
Yang Xu, David Reiter
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016, short paper)
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@InProceedings{xu_reitter2016complexity,
 author = {Xu, Yang and Reitter, David},
 title = {Convergence of Syntactic Complexity in Conversation},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th {Annual} {Meeting} of the {Association} for {Computational} {Linguistics} ({Volume} 2: {Short} {Papers})},
 year = {2016},
 address = {Berlin, Germany},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 pages = {443--448},
 url = {http://anthology.aclweb.org/P16-2072}
}

2015. An evaluation and comparison of linguistic alignment measures
Yang Xu, David Reiter
Proceedings of Proceedings of Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2015, colocated at NAACL 2015)
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@InProceedings{xu_reitter2015evaluation,
 title={An evaluation and comparison of linguistic alignment measures},
 author={Xu, Yang and Reitter, David},
 journal={Proceedings of Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics},
 pages={58--67},
 year={2015},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 address = {Denver, CO}
}

2015. Error-correction and aggregation in crowd-sourcing of geopolitical incident information
Alexander G. Ororbia II, Yang Xu, David Reiter
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction (SBP 2015)
pdf   bib

@incollection{ororbia_ii_error-correction_2015,
 series = {Lecture {Notes} in {Computer} {Science}},
 title = {Error-correction and aggregation in crowd-sourcing of geopolitical incident information},
 volume = {9021},
 url = {http://www.david-reitter.com/pub/ororbia2015crowd.pdf},
 booktitle = {Social {Computing}, {Behavioral} {Modeling} and {Prediction}},
 publisher = {Springer},
 author = {Ororbia II, Alexander G. and Xu, Yang and D'Orazio, Vito and Reitter, David},
 editor = {Agarwal, Nitin and Xu, Kevin and Osgood, Nathaniel},
 year = {2015},
 note = {10.1007/978-3-319-16268-3 47},
 pages = {381--387}
}