Publications

Through the Lens of History: Methods for Analyzing Temporal Variation in Content and Framing of State-run Chinese Newspapers
Shijia Liu, David A. Smith. In the Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).

Tracing Accounts of Racial Terror in Historical Newspapers
Shijia Liu, David A. Smith. In New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data 2023 (TADA 2023).

Adapting Transformer Language Models for Predictive Typing in Brain-Computer Interfaces
Shijia Liu, David A. Smith. In arXiv (2023).

Detecting de minimis Code-Switching in Historical German Books
Shijia Liu, David A. Smith. In the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020).

Measuring the Similarity of Grammatical Gender Systems by Comparing Partitions
Arya D. McCarthy, Adina Williams, Shijia Liu, David Yarowsky and Ryan Cotterell. In the Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020).

On the Idiosyncrasies of the Mandarin Chinese Classifier System
Shijia Liu, Hongyuan Mei, Adina Williams and Ryan Cotterell. In the Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019).