Janet Liu
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJanet Liu is an Assistant Professor and computational linguist with eight years of experience spanning academia and industry, recently transitioning from a postdoc at LMU München to a faculty role at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her MS and is completing a PhD in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown, where she contributed extensively to corpus creation, annotation, and teaching across NLP and machine learning courses. Her research focuses on computational discourse, discourse signaling, relation classification, and computational semantics, blending corpus linguistics rigor with machine learning methods. Janet has also applied her research in industry settings at Spotify and Amazon, bringing practical experience in language technologies to her academic work. Notably, she combines deep annotation-driven expertise with hands-on system-focused research, making her particularly skilled at translating linguistic theory into reproducible computational resources and tools.
8 years of coding experience
Study Abroad, Linguistics, English, CS, Study Abroad, Linguistics, English, CS at Temple UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Linguistics at Georgetown UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English（Business Translation）, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English（Business Translation） at Capital University of Economics and Business
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
named-entity-recognition10
sequence-labeling10
acl10
word-embeddings10
language-processing10
simple-framework10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
nlp10
coreference9
pytorch9
lda9
corpus9
machine-learning9
gensim9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
janetlauyeung/broadway-data-analysis
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
janetlauyeung/LING-572-EMNLP
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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