Details about the topics here are available in my Google Scholar and ResearchGate page. For unpublished work, contact me for a copy: cong4 at purdue dot edu
LLMs interpretability
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- Pranav, A.; Cong, Y.; Chersoni, E., Hsu, Y-Y., and Lenci, A. (2024). "Comparing Static and Contextual Distributional Semantic Models on Intrinsic Tasks: An Evaluation on Mandarin Chinese Datasets". Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024
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- Cong, Y.; Chersoni, E., Hsu, Y-Y., and Blache, P. (2023). "Investigating the Effect of Discourse Connectives on Transformer Surprisal: Language Models Understand Connectives, Even So They Are Surprised". Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (pp. 222-232) [PDF]
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- Cong, Y.; Chersoni, E., Hsu, Y-Y., and Lenci, A. (2023). "Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal". Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023) (pp. 141-148) [PDF]
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- Cong, Y. (2022). "Pre-trained Language Models’ Interpretation of Evaluativity Implicature: Evidence from Gradable Adjectives Usage in Context". Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language (UnImplicit 2022) [PDF]
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- Pandia, L.; Cong, Y. and Ettinger, A. (2021). "Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives". Proceedings of the 2021 SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. [PDF]
NLP in medicine
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- Tang, SX.; Cong, Y.; Mercep, G..; Bhatti, M.; Serpe, G.; Gromova, V.; Berretta, S.; John, M.; Liberman, M.Y.; Sinvani, L.. (2023). "Characterizing and Detecting Delirium with Clinical and Computational measures of Speech and Language Disturbance". Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience [PDF]
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- Tang, SX.; Hänsel, K.; Cong, Y.; Nikzad, AH.; Mehta, A.; Cho, S.; Berretta, S.; Behbehani, L.; Pradhan, S.; John, M. and Liberman, MY.. (2022). "Latent Factors of Language Disturbance and Relationships to Quantitative Speech Features". Schizophrenia Bulletin [PDF]
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- Tang, SX.; Cong, Y.; Nikzad, AH.; Mehta, A.; Cho, S.; Hänsel, K.; Berretta, S.; Dhar, A.; Kane, JM. and Malhotra, A.. (2022). "Clinical and Computational Speech Measures are Associated with Social Cognition in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders". Schizophrenia research [PDF]
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- Nikzad, AH.; Cong, Y.; Berretta, S.; Hänsel, K.; Cho, S.; Pradhan, S.; Behbehani, L.; DeSouza, D.; Liberman, MY. and Tang, SX. (2022). "Who Does What to Whom? Graph Representations of Action-Predication in Speech Relate to Psychopathological Dimensions of Psychosis". Schizophrenia 8, 58 [PDF]
Language meaning and structure
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- Cong, Y. (2022). "Judge-Dependence in Quality Nouns: A Semantic Analysis of The Mandarin Chinese you NP Structure". Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:2 (2022), pp.167-216. [PDF] [What is it about?]
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- Cong, Y. and Ngonyani, D. (2022). Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Stative and Passive. on "Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African linguistics", Berlin: Language Science Press. [PDF]
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- Cong, Y. (2021). "Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of Adjective Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond". Doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University. [PDF]
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- Cong, Y.; Huang, C.-R.; and Wee, L.-H. (2015). Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-29) on "The invertible construction in Chinese", Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. [PDF]
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- Cong, Y. (2018). Proceedings of the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30) 2018:1 (pp 82-99) on "The Non-canonical argument realization of Chinese alternations", The Ohio State University. [PDF]
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- Cong, Y. and Buccola, B. (2021). Poster Presentation of The 45th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC-45) on ''Alternatives in non-scalar implicature: The case of Mandarin adjective constructions'', University of Pennsylvania. Poster is available here [URL]
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- Smith, K.; Ma, Y.; Cong, Y. and Beretta, A. (2019). Presentation of the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY-2019) on "Semantic attraction in sentence processing", University of Colorado Boulder. abstract
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- Parrish, A.; Kelley, P.; Smith, K.; Cong, Y. and Beretta, A. (2017). Presentation of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Annual Meeting on "Prosodic lengthening and boundary prediction in nominal compounds: An ERP study", at Maryland. abstract