Welcome!

Hello! I am a first-year PhD student in Linguistics at Yale University. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences (Linguistics concentration) from Wellesley College, where I was advised by Carolyn Anderson and Angela Carpenter. I am originally from Shanghai, China.

Publications

Xiaomeng Zhu and Robert Frank. LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition. arXiv preprint arXiv 2403.06301. [pdf]

Kiara Liu, Xiaomeng Zhu, and Carolyn Anderson. XiaoshuoNLP: An NLP Pipeline for Processing Chinese Literary Texts. Poster presented at TADA 2023.

Xiaomeng Zhu and Angela Carpenter. The Modified Mother Tongue: Examining Chinese Vowel Quality Shift in Chinese-Dominant Chinese-English Code-Switching Environments. Honors Thesis, Wellesley College. [pdf]

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in research at the intersection of Computer Science and Linguistics – applying computational methods to understand linguistic phenomena as well as building language models that have better natural language understanding abilities with the help of linguistic insights.

Teaching Assistantships

CS 240: Foundations of Computer Systems (Fall 2022, Spring 2022), Wellesley College
Instructor: Franklyn Turbak, Andrew Davis

CS 204: Introduction to Web Development (Fall 2020 Term 2), Wellesley College
Instructor: Scott Anderson

Last Updated: March 2024