Publications

2021

1. Yiyun Zhao , Jian Gang Ngui, Lucy Hall Hartley, Steven Bethard. Do pretrained transformers infer telicity like humans? In CoNLL 2021

2. Zhengzhong Liang, Yiyun Zhao, Mihai Surdeanu. Using the Hammer Only on Nails: A Hybrid Method for Evidence Retrieval for Question Answering In ECIR 2021

3. Egoitz Laparra, Xin Su, Yiyun Zhao , Ozlem Uzuner, Timothy Miller, Steven Bethard. SemEval-2021 Task 10: Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Semantic Processing In SemEval 2021

4. Xin Su, Yiyun Zhao , Steven Bethard. The University of Arizona at SemEval-2021 Task 10: Applying Self-training, Active Learning and Data Augmentation to Source-free Domain Adaptation In SemEval 2021

2020

1. Yiyun Zhao, Steven Bethard. How does BERT’s attention change when you fine-tune? An analysis methodology and a case study in negation scope in ACL'2020.

2. Yiyun Zhao, Masha Fedzechkina. Learners’ harmonic preferences are modulated by lexical retrieval difficulty in LSA'2020 Proceeding.

2019

1. Steven Bethard, Egoitz Laparra, Sophia Wang, Yiyun Zhao, Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Aaron Lien, Laura Lopez-Hoffman. Inferring missing metadata from environmental policy texts In Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop'2019.

Conference Presentations

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1. Yiyun Zhao, Charles Torres, Masha Fedzechkina (2021). Preferences for shorter dependencies in miniature language learning are modulated by the statistics of learners’ L1. The 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY).

2. Masha Fedzechkina, Charles Torres, Yiyun Zhao (2020). Dependency length minimization: an abstract bias or an input-driven preference? The 26th architectures and mechanisms for language processing conference (AMLaP).

3. Yiyun Zhao (2018). Synonyms are lost during cultural transmission without an explicit bias against synonyms. Workshop on Emergence of Universals at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.