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2023. FACE: Evaluating Natural Language Generation with Fourier Analysis of Cross-Entropy
Zuhao Yang, Yingfang Yuan, Yang Xu, Shuo Zhan, Huajun Bai, Kefan Chen
NeurIPS 2023 (accepted, to appear)
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@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
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@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
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@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
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@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
(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, poster presentation 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
(CogSci 2019, abstract and 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
(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
(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. Linguistic alignment is attracted by signals of powerlessness, not true power
Yang Xu, David Reiter
(Submitted, under review)

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
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
In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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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
In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (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
In Proceedings of Proceedings of Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
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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
In Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction
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@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}
}