Yang Xu : Publications

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)
pdf bib code

@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)
poster bib code

@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)
pdf bib code

@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)
pdf bib code

@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
pdf bib code

@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
pdf bib code

@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)
pdf bib code

@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
pdf bib

@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
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}
}