This page was last updated in August 2025. For a complete listing of my research, refer to my CV or Google Scholar (see the bar above).

My research statement is available here.

Selected Publications

2025

Know Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale
Bowen Jiang, Zhuoqun Hao, Young-Min Cho, Bryan Li, Sihao Chen, Yuan Yuan, Lyle Ungar, Camillo J. Taylor, and Dan Roth
Conference   COLM 2025

Multilingual Retrieval Augmented Generation for Culturally-Sensitive Tasks: A Benchmark for Cross-lingual Robustness
Bryan Li, Fiona Luo, Samar Haider, Adwait Agashe, Tammy Li, Runqi Liu, Muqing Miao, Shriya Ramakrishnan, Yuan Yuan, Chris Callison-Burch
Conference   ACL 2025 Findings   Code   Dataset

Exploring Political Attitudes under Selective Media Consumption with Large Language Models
Josh Nguyen*, Upasana Dutta*, Samar Haider*, Bryan Li*, Neil Fasching*, Duncan Watts
Conference   IC2S2 2025

Towards Practical and Knowledgeable LLMs for a Multilingual World: A Thesis Proposal
Bryan Li
Workshop   NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2025

Leveraging Domain Knowledge at Inference Time for LLM Translation: Retrieval versus Generation
Bryan Li, Jiaming Luo, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry
Workshop   Knowledge-NLP Workshop @ NAACL 2025

2024

Uncovering Differences in Persuasive Language in Russian versus English Wikipedia
Bryan Li, Aleksey Panasyuk, Chris Callison-Burch
Workshop   NLP for Wikipedia Workshop @ EMNLP 2024.   Code

Eliciting Better Multilingual Structured Reasoning from LLMs through Code
Bryan Li, Tamer Alkhouli, Daniele Bonadiman, Nikolaos Pappas, Saab Mansour
Conference ACL 2024   Code

This Land is {Your, My} Land: Evaluating Geopolitical Biases in Language Models through Territorial Disputes
Bryan Li, Samar Haider, Chris Callison-Burch
Conference NAACL 2024   Code   Dataset

2023

PAXQA: Generating Cross-lingual Question Answering Examples at Training Scale
Bryan Li, Chris Callison-Burch
Conference EMNLP 2023 Findings   Code

Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
Ajay Patel, Bryan Li, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Noah Constant, Colin Raffel, Chris Callison-Burch
Conference ICLR 2023.

Multilingual Bidirectional Unsupervised Translation Through Multilingual Finetuning and Back-Translation
Bryan Li, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Ajay Patel, Chris Callison-Burch
Workshop   LoResMT Workshop @ EACL 2023.   Code

2022

CreativeSumm: Shared Task on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writing
Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Simeng Han, Wojciech Kryscinski, Faisal Ladhak, Bryan Li, Kathleen McKeown, Dragomir Radev, Tianyi Zhang, Sam Wiseman
Workshop   Creative-Summ Workshop @ COLING   Code

CIS^2: A Simplified Commonsense Inference Evaluation for Story Prose
Bryan Li, Lara J. Martin, and Chris-Callison Burch
Workshop   CSRR Workshop @ ACL   Code

2020

Exploring Content Selection in Summarization of Novel Chapters
Faisal Ladhak*, Bryan Li*, Yaser Al-Onaizan, and Kathleen McKeown
Conference ACL 2020   Code

2019

Prosody Prediction from Syntactic, Lexical, and Word Embedding Features
Rose Sloan, Syed Akhtar, Bryan Li, Ritvik Shrivastava, Augustin Gravano and Julia Hirschberg
Workshop   SSW10 Workshop @ Interspeech

Acoustic and Lexical Sentiment Analysis for Customer Service Calls
Bryan Li, Andreas Stolcke, and Dimitrios Dimitriadis
Conference ICASSP 2019

* Equal contribution