My research statement (updated October 2024) is available here. A complete listing of my research is in my CV (see the bar above).

Selected Publications

2024

BordIRlines: A Dataset for Evaluating Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Bryan Li, Samar Haider, Fiona Luo, Adwait Agashe, Chris Callison-Burch
Workshop   NLP for Wikipedia Workshop @ EMNLP 2024.   Dataset

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 Findings of EMNLP 2023   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   The Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT) @ EACL 2023.   Code

2022

Word Alignment in the Era of Deep Learning: A Tutorial
Bryan Li
Preprint       arXiv

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   Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writing @ COLING   Code

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

2020

Exploring Content Selection in Summarization of Novel Chapters
Faisal Ladhak*, Bryan Li*, Yaser Al-Onaizan, and Kathleen McKeown
Conference The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)   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   The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW10) @ Interspeech

Acoustic and Lexical Sentiment Analysis for Customer Service Calls
Bryan Li, Andreas Stolcke, and Dimitrios Dimitriadis
Conference 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

* Equal contribution