Dr. Yang Liu

Associate Professor

Link to CV

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Purdue University, USA
• M.S., Tsinghua University, China
• B.S., Tsinghua University, China

Research Interests:

• Speech and natural language processing
• Social media language analysis
• Automatic summarization
• Emotion and affect modeling
• Speech and language disorder

Major Honors and Awards:

• NSF CAREER Award
• Air Force Young Investigator Program Award

Representative Publications:

• Deana Pennell and Yang Liu. Normalization of Informal Text. Computer Speech and Language, V28(1), pages 256-277, 2014.
• Fei Liu and Yang Liu. Towards Abstractive Speech Summarization: Exploring Unsupervised and Supervised Approaches for Spoken Utterance Compression. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, V21(7), Pages 1469-1480, 2013.
• Rui Xia and Yang Liu. Using Denoising Autoencoder for Emotion Recognition. Interspeech, 2013.
• Chen Li, Xian Qian, and Yang Liu. Using Supervised Bigram-based ILP for Extractive Summarization. ACL, 2013.
• Zhonghua Qu and Yang Liu. Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums. ACL, 2012.