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Chen Cecilia Liu

Postdoc@LTL, University of Cambridge

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Chen Cecilia Liu

Hihi 👋, I’m Cecilia. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at LTL at the University of Cambridge.

My research interests are:

  1. Cultural adaptation and alignment (for example: CLCA), particularly leveraging ideas from social learning or in multi-agent setups. Additionally, I am interested in cultural evaluations in situated social contexts.
  2. Efficient and low-resource methods for multilingual NLP (an example: FUN).
  3. Methods and analyses of models inspired by developmental psychology, neuroscience, or social psychology.
  4. Applications in education, healthcare, psychotherapy, and the creative industries, emphasizing multilinguality and cultural adaptation (an example: CultureCare).

I appreciate pure deep learning methods, but I’m equally drawn to ideas for NLP grounded in theories and insights from other disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology … maybe a bit too broad for my own good.

If you are interested in collaboration📜, feel free to contact me via email! Email: cl2002 (AT cam.ac.uk). For most up-to-date publication list, please see my Google Scholar page.

If you are a student at Cambridge and looking for a project, please see here.

Here are some of the works that I’ve done during my PhD, and I am still very interested in these ideas:

  • Cross-lingual generalization (e.g., plasticity, spurious correlations etc. P7, P9)
  • Culturally aware and adapted NLP (P8, P10)
  • Multimodality (P4, P6)

Previously, I was doing my PhD at TU Darmstadt (UKP Lab), Germany. Prior to returning to research, I spent nearly a decade in industry working in the field of NLP. Earlier, I studied at the University of Toronto (BASc and MASc, PSI Lab).